Wednesday was a difficult day for The American Independent News Network, which is the larger entity that operates The Iowa Independent. Our chief executive and founder announced two of our sister sites would close and their content would be moved to The American Independent.
A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
A 35-year-old Iowa grassroots organization will be featured tonight on the final broadcast of Bill Moyers Journal.
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement will be the focus on a 20-minute segment during the national show, which will look at the power of organized people standing up to corporate power. Interviews with current CCI activists as well as archived footage will be shown.
Bill Moyers Journal is a nationally broadcast, weekly public affairs series that features interviews and news analysis on a wide range of subjects. Tonight will be the show’s final broadcast following decades of success.
The Iowa group works on a multitude of issues at a state and national level. It currently has more than 3,000 members, who live in 97 of Iowa’s 99 counties. Recently the group helped organize a town hall meeting in advance of the first joint U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Justice hearing on consolidation in the agriculture industry, and marched in Kansas City to call for financial reform.
CCI continues to speak out on agricultural and environmental issues, housing and financial safety, immigrant rights and workers’ justice, voter-owned elections and other neighborhood-based concerns. The group was given a four-star rating for three consecutive years by Charity Navigator, and was the recipient of the Nation magazine’s 2009 “Most Valuable Grassroots Advocacy Group of the Year” award.
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