Thursday, February 7, 2013
Alec Johnson, who led CREDO's Take Down King campaign from Ames, was arrested recently in a protest of the Keystone Pipeline.
Alec Johnson, 60, who led the Take Down King campaign in Ames, during King's latest run for Congress, was arrested in a protest of the Keystone Pipeline outside a Houston office in January. See his arrest here. Sign up for the Ames Patch News. Johnson, of Ames, was charged with trespass on Jan. 7 and booked in the Harris County Jail. The Keystone XL Pipeline would connect oil sands in Alberta Canada to American refineries through Oklahoma. Construction of the pipeline would increase domestic oil production and job creation but it could also have a devastating impact on the environment including an increase of greenhouse gases, giving President Obama a difficult decision to make, according to an article on abcnews.com To learn more about …
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
King, who has made national headlines for comparing immigrants to dogs, during his Restoring American Dream tour will open his Ames campaign headquarters at 5 p.m. tonight.
Congressman Steve King's communication director said King was just trying to explain that immigrants came to the United States and made it great when he made a reference to puppies in a stump speech in Humboldt Monday. King, R-Kiron, plans to open his campaign headquarters in Ames 5 p.m. Wednesday at 711 E. Lincoln Way. He will face Ames Democrat Christie Vilsack for the new 4th Congressional District of Iowa. The opening is the last stop on King's Restoring American Dream tour that began Monday in Sac City. King made national headlines for comments at one stop where he seemed to compare immigrants to dogs. He made an analogy between picking dogs from of a litter of puppies and the immigrants who came to America, as first reported on Salon…
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Representatives of labor unions and other groups said they were protesting to expose Iowa Congressman Steve King's anti-middle class voting record and want the wealthy people and businesses to pay their fair share of taxes.
About 40 people protested outside the closed Iowa Workforce Development office in Ames Tuesday, Tax Day, saying that the wealthy and corporations needed to pay their fair share of taxes. Five people spoke before the crowd who applauded their speeches and booed when comments were made about Iowa Congressman Steve King, R-Kiron. Protesters said that King wanted to allow tax loopholes for the wealthy and cut social programs. One speech was briefly interrupted by a passing Union Pacific train which gave protesters time to chant “Pay Your Fair Share” and “Put People First.” The group was in favor of the Buffett Rule that would tax people with millionaire incomes at a rate of at least 30 percent. The group protested before the closed Iowa …
The rally begins at 11 a.m. and includes five speakers including ISU College Democrats President.
Representatives of labor unions and political actions groups plan to rally outside the shuttered Iowa Workforce Development office in Ames today to expose Iowa Congressman Steve King's “anti-middle class voting record,” organizers said. The rally begins at 11 a.m. King, R-Kiron, currently serves Iowa's 5th District and is running for the newly drawn 4th District which now includes Ames. King didn't have anything to do with closing the workforce development office at 122 Kellogg Ave. in Ames, but organizers said that King's vote for the Ryan budget bill, is analogous to Gov. Terry Branstad's decision to close 36 Iowa Workforce Development offices when Iowa's unemployment rate is the highest it's been since the Great Depression, said David…
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Students will ask new ISU President Steven Leath to shutdown the university's coal plant.
Iowa State University students began rallying against using the university's coal-fired power plant 9 a.m. this morning in front of Beardshear Hall. The rally was expected to include speeches by ISU's executive assistant to president, the Iowa Wind Energy Association executive director and the Physicians for Social Responsibility's former national president, as originally reported on KGAN. The report said that wind turbine models and a pile of coal were on display Wednesday to kick off the protest of the coal plant, which uses about 148,000 tons of coal a year. ActivUs, a student group that promotes environmental and social justice on campus, and ISU Beyond Coal organized the protest. ActivUs has protested the plant for the past few years …
Friday, October 21, 2011
Occupy Ames held a small rally at the corner of Grand Avenue and Fifth Street Friday Oct. 21. They plan another march at Lincoln Way and University Boulevard noon Saturday, Oct. 22.
One woman has ancestors who sought the right for women to vote. Others protested the Vietnam War in the 1960s. All believe that their voices can help make a change in the country's policies. OccupyAmes, an offshoot of the OccupyISU movement that began in Ames last week, held its first rally at Grand Avenue and Fifth Street Friday. Organizers plan to hold another rally at Stuart Smith Park at Lincoln Way and University Boulevard at noon Saturday. Friday, a group of about 28 people held up protest signs as vehicles drove by. Jeff Hall, 50, an Iowa State University librarian, said the rallies and marches would help raise awareness about the country's economic problems. “It's really about education and getting more people active. That's how …
Thursday, October 13, 2011
About 100 people gathered around the Iowa State University Campanile Thursday and marched through and around campus. They plan to continue meeting.
Call it: Occupy Anonymous. A group of about 100 people gathered around the Iowa State University Campanile Thursday took turns standing in the center of the crowd saying why they had joined the Occupy Wall Street movement. They didn't give their names, just descriptions. They were college students, professors, retired folks and researchers. They were upset about not being able to find a job, climate change, poor health care and wars. As they chanted their laments, the surrounding crowd repeated every word. Rebecca Pencook, an Iowa State senior studying accounting, made a sign with a friend consisting of pigs and green dollars. “I'm here because I feel strongly about the Occupy Wall Street Movement,” Pencook said. The Occupy movement has …
James H Jorgensen
7:17 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013
Thank goodness we have you to stand up for us, and sacrifice being arrested for your standing. Wish I could have been there to stand with you. Keep standing wirh us and be willing to get arrested again, Thank you. Jim Jorgensen more ›