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 →
Tag Archives: Bakken Oil Pipeline
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 →
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 →
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 →
Copters for Kids
Dear Friends, {Check out and “like” my Facebook Page for pics, videos and impressions of the presidential candidates . . . and for updates on my exploits with chickens and Continue Reading →
Could cheap gas kill the pipeline?
Dear Friends,
Dr. Charles Goldman makes his inaugural appearance on KDLF 1260 AM this week. I always enjoy co-hosting with Charles – especially when he’s wrong, i.e., when we disagree, as we do on at least one of this week’s topics.
Here’s the line-up:
Frank Cordaro talks about why the World Food Prize remains a target for activists opposed to genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and why some members of Occupy the World Food Prize got arrested again this year.
– Gas for $1.99 per gallon looks good to most Americans. But what are the broader political consequences? Does it mean increased carbon pollution as Americans drive more? Does it also mean Big Oil won’t be able to justify the cost of building new pipelines and extracting oil from tar sands?
– Has the insurance industry rigged the Affordable Care Act so that state cooperatives, such as Iowa’s CoOportunity Health, are guaranteed to fail? Bonus question: Has unlimited spending by health-care corporations on elections and lobbyists rendered Congress a wholly-owned or merely partially-owned subsidiary of the Drug-Insurance-Medical (DIM) Complex? Continue Reading →
Walking the (pipe)line
Dear Friends, I have one request of you this week: Please forward this message to at least one media contact and your personal and/or professional network. Help get the word Continue Reading →