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...