This holiday season, RuralOrganizing.org launched a digital campaign to fight back against the Trump Administration's changes to SNAP. To date, nearly 80,000 people have taken action in our campaign—and were just getting started. [...]
Advocates for small towns and rural communities are demanding that U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary, Sonny Perdue stop the implementation of the recently announced changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) canceling work-requirement waivers for hundreds of thousands of participants. [...]
We believe that we must honor ALL farmers and farm workers who feed America by creating a way for undocumented agricultural workers to apply for citizenship. [...]
Che Apalache, a four-man string band based in Buenos Aires, Argentina with members from Argentina, Mexico and the United States was featured on Telemundo this weekend. [...]
Since the election of Donald Trump, I’ve read every post-mortem report I can find on rural voters in the 2016 election. Inevitably—almost without fail—every analysis misses the complexities and nuances that I saw on the ground in my town of Larchwood, Iowa—a town of 800 people in the rural northwest corner of the state. [...]