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Find a legislative forum in your area
Throughout the session, usually on Saturdays, state legislators hold short meetings (or “coffees”) with constituents in their home districts. This is an important space to engage with your legislator face-to-face, raise up issues important to you, and call on them to stand on the side of the people.
read moreYour legislative forum toolkit!
Legislative forums are an important space to raise issues you care about and to engage your legislator face-to-face.
They're also a great place to start conversations and connect with more like-minded Iowans. Here's a toolkit to help build support for issues you care about.
You’re being heard on Medicaid – take action!
Tuesday at the Statehouse, your call to end Iowa's failed privatized Medicaid mess was heard loud and clear. In sit-down meetings, you shared your stories directly with lawmakers, the Governor's top policy staff, and the DHS Deputy Director. It was impactful.
How do we know? Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have said that something needs to be done ... because they're hearing from you!
Our take: Reynolds’ Water Quality bill
The Iowa House voted 59-41 to pass Senate File 512, a bill to fund unspecified, voluntary water quality measures with taxpayer money.
CCI Action members say this proposal robs Peter to pay Paul. Read why this bill is bad news and the one thing we're celebrating.
Stop the hate on the hill – Reject SF 481!
Last year our immigrant communities were attacked at the State House in conjunction with a larger national effort to purge our country of the feared "other". This year, we expect to see more hate on the hill.
SF 481 seeks localize federal immigration authority by forcing local law enforcement to do the job of Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE); it also targets public entities such as municipalities or counties who have taken a hard stance on immigration by speaking out in favor of protecting those communities; finally it threatens to cut funding from public entities that express support for immigrant communities.
The bill passed the Senate on a party-line vote and now sits in the House Public Safety Committee.
We're tired of these low-blow attacks on immigrants. We're fighting back! We have the power to stop SF 481.
Our big ideas to fight factory farms
On January 16, over 100 Iowans showed up at the capitol to lobby for a moratorium on factory farms until there are fewer than 100 polluted waterbodies.
CCI Action members joined the Iowa Alliance for Responsible Agriculture for a press conference where Senator Johnson and Representative Steckman announced their support for a moratorium and introduced a moratorium bill in each chamber.
Following the press conference, CCI Action members prepared for a series of meetings with key legislative leaders that have important roles to advance the moratorium bill.
Meet this champion for clean water
Clean water should be a right, not a fight! But with a Governor’s office that’s been up for sale to corporate agribusiness and big polluters, Iowans can’t take the quality of our water for granted anymore.
We need a Governor who is committed to putting our people, our planet, our quality of life, and our water above profits! That person is Cathy Glasson.
One simple way Kim Reynolds could improve the state in 2018 — and what we expect in the legislative session this year
It’s the second year of the two-year session and it’s an election year, meaning we expect a short, packed session. Here are the big issues we’ll weigh in on:
read more6 ways to plug into the movement right now
Another year is here, another world is possible.
We're set on making 2018 a People & Planet First movement building year – starting with the legislative session and going through the November elections (and beyond). Are you in?
Our important legislative lobby dates
We're set on making 2018 a People & Planet First movement building year -- starting with the legislative session and going through the November elections. Are you in?
Plug into the PEOPLE & PLANET FIRST movement and push for the Iowa WE want to see!
