{"id":39753,"date":"2025-02-23T14:17:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T22:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=39753"},"modified":"2025-02-23T14:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T22:17:54","slug":"pda-sunday-progressive-town-hall-february-23-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/pda-sunday-progressive-town-hall-february-23-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"PDA Sunday Progressive Town Hall, February 23, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PDA Sunday Progressive Town Hall, February 23, 2025\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zK3VcLivg-k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PDAMERICA  \u2022 Started streaming 76 minutes ago While it feels like all of American society is under siege from Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE and the Trump Administration, there is no doubt which workers are on the front lines, more than any other \u2013 it\u2019s the excellent people who have devoted their lives to serving the public as federal employees. This Sunday, we are honored to be joined by Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest Federal employee union representing 800,000 Federal and DC government workers. Now is the moment when all good people of conscience must stand in solidarity with AFGE to defend government workers. In the course of Sunday\u2019s Town Hall, we will learn from President Kelley how PDA members and all of our allies can best support the AFGE, and send a message to Musk and Trump that the people united can never be defeated. Then we\u2019ll be joined by Sheriff Dustin Heuerman from Champaign County, Illinois, who will explain how local law enforcement, ided by state law, endeavors to ensure fair treatment of undocumented immigrants. Also, the Rural-Urban Bridge Initiative\u2019s Anthony Flaccavento, who is the co-author of the Rural New Deal with PDA, will join us for an update on how progressives can defend rural and small-town America from the devastation of the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PDAMERICA \u2022 Started streaming 76 minutes ago While it feels like all of American society is under siege from Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE and the Trump Administration, there is no doubt which workers are on the front lines, more than any other \u2013 it\u2019s the excellent people who have devoted their&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/pda-sunday-progressive-town-hall-february-23-2025\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39754,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39753\/revisions\/39754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}