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Author Archives: Jeff Kisling
FCNL: Advocacy training on promoting legislation to safeguard the health and safety of our Native American siblings
I recently attended an excellent online (via ZOOM) presentation from the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) titled “advocacy training on promoting legislation to safeguard the health and safety of our Native American siblings” with Lacina Tangnaqudo Onco and Christine … Continue reading
Youth Climate Strike
What is education? How and where do our youth learn? What responsibility should youth have in the world today? I spent my High School years at Scattergood Friends (Quaker) School and Farm just east of West Branch, Iowa. The work … Continue reading
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Green New Deal vote is back on Senate schedule
The latest news about a Senate vote on the Green New Deal, S.Res.59, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), is that a vote is planned to take place in the next few weeks. Originally there had been a … Continue reading
“Normal’s Gone”
One tactic of the Sunrise Movement is to bring attention to the role of climate change when extreme weather events occur. These past few weeks have seen prolonged bitter cold, with many low temperature records broken over a wide area … Continue reading
Youth Climate Strike
The massive school strikes, where tens of thousands of students leave classes to demonstrate for action on the climate crisis in Europe and Australia, have not been widely reported in the United States. Here the Sunrise Movement has been demonstrating … Continue reading
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Sen. Grassley and “so-called” Green New Deal
Below is the response I got from Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley after I asked him to support the Green New Deal. In my letter I talked about the advantages the Green New Deal could bring to Iowa, including many jobs … Continue reading
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Sunrise Movement update 2/28/2019
So much is happening now with the Sunrise Movement that this is the second post about the online meeting last night. Last night’s meeting began with the panelists suggesting this might be a time to pull back a little and … Continue reading
30,000
Tonight I was glad to join the ZOOM online meeting for updates about the Sunrise Movement. Over 450 people were on the call. Over 30,000 have joined the Sunrise Movement in the past couple of weeks! Last week over 100 … Continue reading
Sunrise Movement call tonight
Many of you know I’ve had a life-long concern about care for our environment. After decades of unsuccessful attempts to get people to reduce their carbon footprint, I’m enthused to see, and be part of the Sunrise Movement. Our strategy … Continue reading
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Senator Ernst and Green New Deal
Yesterday Iowa Citizen for Community Improvement (ICCI) hosted a meeting with Senator Joni Ernst’s state director, Clarke Scanlon, to talk about the urgent need for a Green New Deal. A number of ICCI staff and members were at the event, … Continue reading
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 