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  • Iowa VA Workers Protest Privatization Attempts, Fight For Fair Contracts

    July 25, 2019

    Unionized VA workers walked out of the VA Hospital in Des Moines with picket signs Wednesday afternoon to protest the federal government’s attempt to privatize veteran healthcare services and to fight for fair contracts. More than 50 people, including hospital workers, retired workers, members of the Iowa Federation of Labor and presidential campaigns staffers chanted.…

    Iowa VA Workers Protest Privatization Attempts, Fight For Fair Contracts
  • The Climate Activists Organizing Iowa For Pete Buttigieg

    January 14, 2020

    Tucked away in the bright front room of an Iowa City ranch home on a recent Sunday afternoon, Pete Buttigieg field organizer Ruby Goldberg seamlessly demonstrated a mock door-knocking simulation and casually rambled off persuasive canvassing skills at the precinct’s last field meeting before caucus day. “I thought that was a really good example of…

    The Climate Activists Organizing Iowa For Pete Buttigieg
  • Basketball, Bowling And A Bus Tour With Andrew Yang

    December 12, 2019

    Andrew Yang recently kicked off his 23rd trip to Iowa as a presidential candidate with great news. He had made the December debate stage. “Just an hour ago, I became the seventh person to qualify for the December debates,” said Yang, a New York entrepreneur, Tuesday evening in Des Moines before jumping on his brand…

    Basketball, Bowling And A Bus Tour With Andrew Yang
  • In Iowa, Democrats Pitch Plans To Get People Working Again

    July 18, 2019

    Democrats are doing more on the campaign trail than just bashing President Donald Trump. While national pundits fret over how engaging Trump on racism could mean the party doesn’t talk enough about bread-and-butter issues with voters, Democratic presidential candidates seem to have no problem doing both here. From a proposal to appoint a director of…

    In Iowa, Democrats Pitch Plans To Get People Working Again
  • How Sanders’ Iowa Grassroots Army Is Converting Family, Friends

    January 10, 2020

    As Bernie Sanders’ campaign entered the new year, they touted a host of impressive field numbers: 200,000 doors knocked in Iowa in 2019, with 4 million attempted voter contacts. That’s for a state with around 3 million people. And in conversations with Sanders volunteers at events around the state, many talk about how they work…

    How Sanders’ Iowa Grassroots Army Is Converting Family, Friends
  • How Sanders’ Iowa Grassroots Army Is Converting Family, Friends

    January 10, 2020

    As Bernie Sanders’ campaign entered the new year, they touted a host of impressive field numbers: 200,000 doors knocked in Iowa in 2019, with 4 million attempted voter contacts. That’s for a state with around 3 million people. And in conversations with Sanders volunteers at events around the state, many talk about how they work…

    How Sanders’ Iowa Grassroots Army Is Converting Family, Friends
  • How Sanders’ Iowa Grassroots Army Is Converting Family, Friends

    January 10, 2020

    As Bernie Sanders’ campaign entered the new year, they touted a host of impressive field numbers: 200,000 doors knocked in Iowa in 2019, with 4 million attempted voter contacts. That’s for a state with around 3 million people. And in conversations with Sanders volunteers at events around the state, many talk about how they work…

    How Sanders’ Iowa Grassroots Army Is Converting Family, Friends
  • Bernie Sanders Marches With Striking McDonald’s Workers To Dem Event

    June 9, 2019

    Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders marched with a crowd of hundreds to the Iowa Hall of Fame event in Cedar Rapids Sunday afternoon with striking McDonald’s workers from Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. The workers were demanding the right to unionize so they can raise their pay, end sexual harassment and workplace violence. Chants of "This…

    Bernie Sanders Marches With Striking McDonald’s Workers To Dem Event
  • “Champions For The Poor”: Iowa’s Lee Dems Leaders Back Castro

    December 3, 2019

    Guest op-ed from Mary Jo Riesberg and Vernon Windsor, chair/vice chair of the Lee County Democrats Mary Jo Riesberg My faith is the driving force in my life. It is my guide on how I should treat others, especially the vulnerable, poor, and marginalized. I don’t discuss my faith with everyone and tend to be…

    “Champions For The Poor”: Iowa’s Lee Dems Leaders Back Castro
  • In Sanders, Supporters See A Candidate “Fighting For Workers”

    October 27, 2019

    Sen. Bernie Sanders made it clear he’s fighting for working people during his recent two-day swing through Iowa. He pushed his strong union ties, the fight for a $15 per hour minimum wage and efforts to make health care a human right. This trip was his first back on the campaign trail in Iowa since…

    In Sanders, Supporters See A Candidate “Fighting For Workers”
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