by Sulma Arias | Dec 22, 2024 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Health, Protest
In the coming year, we'll have to make unprecedented choices, as a nation and in every community, about who we want to be. SUPPORT OUR WORK ESPAÑOL It’s been quite a year. From the election to weather extremes and the pent-up outrage we saw after the violent murder of...
by Sulma Arias | Sep 22, 2024 | Democracy, Election, Featured
JOIN OUR TEAM SPANISH Together, we have the power to turn back the rising tide of hatred and division with a renewed sense of our shared humanity to create the country we need. Together, we can win. “We are the Organizing Revival!” These words rang in my ears over the...
by Sulma Arias | Aug 18, 2024 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
JOIN OUR TEAM SPANISH “Power concedes nothing without a demand.” These words of Frederick Douglass are among the first lessons I learned as a young organizer, and I find them always to be true. This insight - that the vision for a better future starts with us, and if...
by Sulma Arias | Jun 23, 2024 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
SUPPORT OUR WORK ESPAÑOL To perfect our democracy, we must defend it. It all begins with our votes. This week, I watched my daughter, Genesis Mercado-Arias, address more than a hundred immigrants who had just become United States citizens in Kansas City. She had been...
by Sulma Arias | Feb 19, 2024 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Democracy dies when we give up freedoms, thinking they are a small price to pay. That's why we need to defend our right to vote and defeat authoritarian leaders everywhere. SUPPORT OUR WORK SPANISH I recently returned to El Salvador for the first time in many years. I...
by Sulma Arias | Jan 14, 2024 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
SUPPORT OUR WORK ESPANOL The holidays are a joyous time at our house in Wichita. My husband Reuben and I share a big, blended family of five kids, now in their twenties and early thirties. One of my daughters lives in a small town with her husband, and through her...
