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Mason City Globe Gazette
April 28, 2018
Groups such as the so-called Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement advocated law-breaking as a tactic. Two activists, including an ICCI member, admitted to engaging in arson to stop the pipeline, yet they have not been criminally charged to date. Meanwhile, these environmental protesters ironicallyÃâà...
Inequality.org
April 27, 2018
“We have the power,” added Cherie Mortice of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, “to stand up against the greedy financial giants and corporate elites who rig the economy for their own benefit.” Mortice happens to be absolutely right. Black holes in space may be too powerful to stop. But that doesn'tÃâà...
Mason City Globe Gazette
April 20, 2018
Groups such as the so-called Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement advocated law-breaking as a tactic. Two activists, including an ICCI member, admitted to engaging in arson to stop the pipeline, yet they have not been criminally charged to date. Meanwhile, these environmental protesters ironicallyÃâà...
Blog for Iowa (blog)
April 19, 2018
Earth Day 2018 action from Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI):. Join us Earth Day weekend to discuss climate and clean energy solutions we can achieve in our communities and throughout the state. Come hear from Chris Woolery, a clean energy leader in Kentucky. He coordinates the PayÃâà...
whotv.com
April 11, 2018
"It makes Iowa a really dangerous place for everyone, not just immigrants," said Madeline Cano, a Community Organizer with Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. "It forces our police to have to pick a side and to choose who they actually serve and we think immigration is the job of the federalÃâà...
KCCI Des Moines
March 29, 2018
"When you have an authority figure like your boss saying this is the way it is, and you have, this is the policy that we have in this place, you tend to believe the person in the authority position,” said Madeline Cano, with Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. Cano said one in three Iowans fall victim toÃâà...
KMAland
March 24, 2018
The council's directive said the city police department should not assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the performance of their duties, except in cases involving public safety. Berenice Nava Romero with Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement said the proposed legislation has Iowa'sÃâà...
WNAX
March 16, 2018
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement members are disappointed with state legislative passage of the egg choice bill. The measure requires grocery stores participating in the USDA's Women's, Infants and Children's program to offer conventional eggs for sale if they offer cage free eggs. ICCI Organizer Jess MazourÃâà...
KCRG
March 8, 2018
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) - Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund or CCI Action is creating a grass root effort to push for universal healthcare. Wednesday it invited community members to share their struggles with the current privatized system. “We are in a healthcare crisis inÃâà...
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
March 1, 2018
This ruling allows the lawsuit to move forward. It was filed last October by national and Iowa public interest and advocacy groups and journalists, including the ACLU of Iowa, Animal Legal Defense Fund, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, Bailing out Benji, Center for Food Safety and Public Justice.
KIOW
February 28, 2018
Recent application denials at the county level mean more Iowans see the need for a moratorium on new factory farms, according to Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. In 2017, Iowa's Department of Natural Resources approved 450 new or expanded hog factories. Jess Mazour, a farm andÃâà...
Public News Service
February 27, 2018
DES MOINES, Iowa — Recent application denials at the county level mean more Iowans see the need for a moratorium on new factory farms, according to Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. In 2017, Iowa's Department of Natural Resources approved 450 new or expanded hog factories.
Agri-Pulse
February 21, 2018
“I would say they're winning because of the money” they've invested in the political process, said Jess Mazour, farm and environment organizer at Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. “We are winning in the court of public opinion.” Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA) spokesman Ron BirkenholzÃâà...
whotv.com
February 18, 2018
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Congress paid tax cuts and Iowa's governor wants more of them, but some workers are rallying because they feel they're long overdue for a raise. Adam Mason, the state policy director for Iowa Citizens For Community Improvement, and Matt Everson, state director for the NationalÃâà...
whotv.com
February 12, 2018
The fast food industry is sitting on a pile of money and they are refusing to share any of that wealth that has been created by the productivity of their workers,” said Cherie Mortice, board president of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. Fast food workers and allies joined together at the McDonald's onÃâà...
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
February 8, 2018
At the news conference Thursday in Des Moines, Des Moines Water Works CEO Bill Stowe, Susan Heathcote, water program director for the Iowa Environmental Council, and Adam Mason, state policy director for Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, spoke about what they said is a need for largeÃâà...
Quad City Times
February 8, 2018
At the news conference Thursday in Des Moines, Des Moines Water Works CEO Bill Stowe, Iowa Environmental Council water program director Susan Heathcote, and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement state policy director Adam Mason spoke about what they said is a need for large companies toÃâà...
Quad City Times
September 28, 2017
Democrat Cathy Glasson of Coralville addresses members of the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund Thursday after CCI officials announced she had won the group's endorsement in the 2018 race for the Iowa Democratic Party's nomination for governor in the primary election next June.
Mason City Globe Gazette
December 31, 1999
Groups such as the so-called Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement advocated law-breaking as a tactic. Two activists, including an ICCI member, admitted to engaging in arson to stop the pipeline, yet they have not been criminally charged to date. Meanwhile, these environmental protesters ironicallyÃâà...
In These Times
December 31, 1999
DES MOINES, IOWA—Hugh Espey, executive director of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI), is wearing gray sweats and a hoodie and has the sleeves-rolled-up mix of grit and weariness of a man who's been doing social justice work in Iowa since the 1970s. He pounds the table as he talksÃâà...
Iowa State Daily
December 31, 1999
The monopoly energy utilities in Iowa are pushing legislation at the statehouse that would hurt ratepayers across the state. Senate File 2311, which has passed out of the Iowa Senate and could be voted on by the Iowa House any day, prioritizes monopoly utility profits and would lock in those profits at theÃâà...
KMAland
December 31, 1999
(Des Moines) -- Recent application denials at the county level mean more Iowans see the need for a moratorium on new factory farms, according to Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. In 2017, Iowa's Department of Natural Resources approved 450 new or expanded hog factories. Jess Mazour, aÃâà...
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