Building Our Movement

Members of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement try to question U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) on his efforts to block a path to citizenship for 11 million immigrant workers.

Members of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, an affiliate of National People's Action and a strong CWA partner, were keeping track of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) as he was making the rounds among Republican political activists in Des Moines.

Demonstrators called out Cruz for his anti-immigrant votes and his efforts to block a path to citizenship for 11 million immigrant workers.

Iowa CCI focuses on many of the same issues important to CWA members: good jobs and a fair economy; protecting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; voting rights; immigration reform, fair tax policies, and more. Earlier this month, CWA President Larry Cohen addressed Iowa CCI delegates and had this op-ed published in The Des Moines Register.

"On these bigger issues we have to throw in together," he told convention goers. "We get off of defense onto offense. We get to fight for the American dream that we want, that our children think they have, the kind of Iowa, the kind of nation that's well within our grasp. If we can unite, if we can build this movement broader and deeper."

Watch his speech: