by Nick Schutt | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog, Climate, Featured
My name is Nick Schutt. I’m a third-generation farmer from Hardin County, Iowa, and here’s why I support the Green New Deal. Factory farms and corporate agribusiness are bad for our planet, bad for our climate, bad for farmers, bad for rural communities, bad for all...
by Amy Traub | Apr 19, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Inequality
For many Americans, the words “bad credit” are like the sound of a closing door. That’s because there’s a deeply harmful, but seldom-spoken, truth about credit reporting: It ruins lives, and crushes hopes. When private companies gather data on our borrowing history...
by James Mumm | Apr 18, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Organizing, Philanthropy
Part feminist rallying cry, part anti-consumerist manifesto, the title of English punk band X-Ray Spex’s 1977 debut single, O Bondage Up Yours, describes how I now feel after reading three compelling recent books on philanthropy. As a longtime participant in...
by Naomi Runder | Apr 12, 2019 | Blog, Education, Election, Featured, I Speak, Protest
My name is Naomi Runder. I’m an organizer with Iowa Student Action and a student at Grinnell College. I never expected to be a student in Iowa. For a while, I wasn’t even sure whether I could be a student anywhere. As I was preparing to graduate high school in...
by Jawanza James Williams | Mar 29, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Housing, Protest
Did you ever hear about the time President Ford told New York City to “Drop Dead?” That was forty-four years ago - I wasn't even born yet - but I know exactly how New Yorkers felt then, because that’s EXACTLY how we feel now about Governor Cuomo's failure to address...
by Adrienne Evans | Feb 19, 2019 | Blog, Featured
This President’s Day, I stood with two hundred and fifty Idahoans on the steps of our State Capitol in Boise to protest our president’s demand to build a wall between the United States and the the world. We’re in a national emergency, he insists, one that can only be...
