You can also follow along with us over on johnedwards.com/iowa - which is Iowa Information Central! We've still got 2 days in Iowa, then next week the bus tour turns east and heads into the Granite State!
Here are the videos titles (in order from top row, reading left to right):
1. John Edwards - Fighting For One America Iowa Tour Kickoff
2. John Edwards - Ice Cream in Perry, Iowa
3. John Edwards - Very Serious Business
4. John Edwards - Football Break During Iowa Bus Tour
5. John Edwards - Fighting for One America - Veterans & Iraq
6. Fighting for One America - Opportunity & Globalization
7. Fighting for One America - Q&A: Job Hunting
8. Fighting for One America - Q&A: Contractors in Iraq
9. Fighting for One America - Q&A: Character & Integrity
10. Fighting for One America - Strengthening Rural America
11. Fighting for One America - Work & Responsibility
12. Fighting for One America - Economic Inequality
13. Fighting for One America - Iowa Federation of Labor
14. Fighting for One America - Rewarding Work
15. Fighting for One America - SCHIP Reauthorization
16. Fighting for One America - Iowa State Fair Soapbox
17. Fighting for One America - Dean Pro
18. Fighting for One America - Health Care
George Stern, the National Director for One Corps, sent this message out to One Corps members nationwide. I wanted to make sure you saw it. If you haven't already signed up for a One Corps chapter, just click here to find one near you!
When John Edwards says he wants to fight global warming, he doesn't stop there.
Last month, he laid out a bold and detailed energy plan that the League of Conservation Voters called, the Link "most comprehensive global warming plan of any presidential candidate to date" and announced that he would make his entire campaign carbon neutral.
Tomorrow, he's even taking it one step further and he's counting on all of us to join him.
Tomorrow, Saturday, April 14th, John Edwards will be rallying with environmental activists at a Step It Up event in Fort Myers, Florida and speaking to the crowd about his plan to halt global warming. While it may be difficult for most of you to join John at the same rally, we all can join with him, and thousands of others nationwide, at one of the over 1300 events happening across the country. (Follow this link to find and join a Step it Up! rally in your area.
These Step It Up events are part of a national effort by environmental groups to tell Congress that it's time to take action on climate change and cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050.But of course, John's asking us to go even one step further. Not only does he want us to rally around a plan for the future, he thinks it's critical that we take action now in our own communities. So it's important that we attend these Step It Up rallies on Saturday both to add our voice to the national call, and to invite folks we meet to join us the following weekend as part of our Earth Day "Reduce Your Carbon" efforts.
Our plan for Earth Day is simple, but powerful: We'll gather in public places or at local Earth Day events and hand out information to folks in our community about how to calculate and reduce their own personal carbon "footprint." We'll be collecting pledges from people agreeing to take specific action to reduce carbon emissions, ranging from changing light bulbs to adjusting driving habits. These are small actions, easy enough for any one of us to do. But they add up, and if we combine all our efforts nationwide we can take a giant step forward.So, please visit our Global Warming Action page to:
Sign up to attend your local April 14th Step It Up rally to advocate for future change Sign up to host a local "Reduce Your Carbon" outreach event on April 22nd (Earth Day) to take action now.At our Global Warming Action page you can also find downloadable fliers and sign up sheets that you can use at the Step It Up rally to recruit other environmental activists for your local John Edwards "Reduce Your Carbon" event on the 22nd.
As John always says, "Tomorrow Begins Today." We can't wait for Congress or our next President to begin taking action to stop global warming. We have to start now.
Together we can achieve energy independence, stop global warming, and create a new energy economy.
Yesterday John Edwards' alarm went off at 3 a.m. as he woke up to "walk a day" in the shoes of SEIU member Elaine Ellis, a health care worker at the Sharon Neuman Nursing Home in New York.
It's a little after 5:30 a.m. and John Edwards is sitting down to have breakfast. There are no newspapers to be read, no campaign schedules to go through, but there is an agenda.
Edwards is seated beside Elaine Ellis in her small New Rochelle, N.Y. apartment and the two of them are about to leave for work. Ellis earns $14 an hour as a nurse aide. It is not long before the two are in Ellis' car on their way to a nursing home in Mamaroneck, N.Y.
By 6:30 a.m. the presidential candidate is shaving 83-year-old Irving Zywotow 's face. It's a role normally held by Ellis, but on this day, it's Edwards' job...
..."When I was in college in South Carolina I lived with my grandmother and my grandfather was in a rest home and we would go over and take care of him," said Edwards. He said he often helped with shaving, showering and changing clothes. Now, he's doing it all again on the campaign trail.
Check out this video SEIU put together, featuring Elaine Ellis and John Edwards recapping their experiences for the day.
Mr. Bush tells journalists he has been reading prodigiously, 53 books so far this year, with three bios of George Washington, two of Lincoln and one of Mao. He seems more attuned to his place in history and yet he doesn’t really seem to get that his presidency will be defined by rushing into one place too fast and not rushing into another fast enough.
He has let Dick Cheney and Rummy launch Category 5 attacks on critics of the war. Darth Vader reiterated his nutty pre-emption policy, and Rummy compared critics of Iraq to Chamberlains who appeased Hitler, noting that “once again we face similar challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism.”
Somebody needs to corner the defense chief and explain that it’s not that we don’t want to fight terrorism, it’s that we want to do it efficiently and effectively. Why is it necessary to scare the country, make false connections between an ill-conceived war and fighting terror, and demonize critics with outrageously careless historical references to Hitler and fascism?
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