Native Youth Run to Stop Pipeline
Dear Friends, Yesterday, I learned from sources in southeast Iowa that pipeline construction has started in Lee and Jefferson counties. This is a sad moment for Iowa. But after the Iowa Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Weekly Updates
A Fourth-of-July Stand Against Injustice
Dear Friends, I sound like a one-trick pony lately, but that’s how serious is this fight against the Bakken Pipeline. Led by farmers, landowners, tribal communities, environmentalists and a dedicated Continue Reading →
Stopping Eminent Domain Abuse
Dear Friends, When I spoke at the Rockefeller Fund Conference on Pipelines and Eminent Domain last week, I emphasized that if we’re going to argue against the abuse of eminent Continue Reading →
Letter to Sanders on Urgency of Climate
Bernie: Mobilizing Against Climate Catastrophe Is Your Greatest Opportunity for Heroism Yet Senator Sanders, The movement you have inspired for economic, social, and environmental transformation could not have arrived at Continue Reading →
Down to the wire in Bakken fight
Dear Friends, I hate being confined, trapped, imprisoned. I’d rather beat myself to a pulp walking across continents than spend time behind bars. But the hour has come in the fight Continue Reading →
Pipeline Fighters Needed on Monday!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sunday, June 5, 2016 Contact: Ed Fallon, Bold Iowa ed@boldiowa.org, (515) 238-6404 Adam Mason, Iowa CCI adam@iowacci.org, (515) 282-0484 “BROKEN HEARTLAND” RALLY OPPOSES PIPELINE Des Moines, IA – With the Continue Reading →
Endorsements
Dear Friends, Due to multitudinous requests for more detail about the candidates I’m endorsing . . . . PRESIDENT: BERNIE SANDERS – This is relevant if you live in California, Montana, New Continue Reading →
Hold Exxon accountable for climate change coverup
Dear Friends, A year ago today, I was arrested by my friends with the Iowa State Patrol because Governor Branstad refused to hear the stories of landowners I’d met during my 400-mile Continue Reading →
Running for their lives
Dear Friends, It was a great honor to be invited to speak in Omaha last week at the conclusion of “Run For Your Life,” a 500-mile relay organized by tribal Continue Reading →
Bold Iowa Blasts Dakota Access For Attempting to Bypass Corps
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 5, 2016 Contact: Ed Fallon, 515-238-6404, ed@boldiowa.org Bold Iowa Blasts Dakota Access For Attempting to Bypass Corps Des Moines — In response to a request made this morning by Dakota Continue Reading →