Donate to Shelley here. Why I’m marching: About me: Follow me on the March: Days Marching: September 1-8 Goal ($20 per day): $160 Amount donated: $135 Carol Kochheiser – $40 Mark Edwards – $50 Susan Franzen – $20 Mary Bennett – $25

Donate to Lyssa here. Why I’m marching: I’m providing the food for this march because conscious cuisine is central to moving beyond the climate crisis and getting people to question what’s in their food and where it comes from. About me: I run a food bus/truck called “Veggie Thumper.” I raise consciousness through food awareness by providing access to high-quality vegan and vegetarian cuisine. I’m an avid gardener and love to hula-hoop in the backyard in the middle of the night. Follow me on the March: Facebook Veggie Continue reading →

Donate to David here. Why I’m marching: I’ve never done a march. I’m usually talking and in meetings. But this march seems like a good way to get connected. The pipeline company acted like bullies. Letting them use eminent domain is contrary to what I think it should be used for. About me: I grew up in Des Moines and was gone for 15 years. I returned to see that the very same empty lots and boarded up homes that I grew up with were still in Continue reading →

Donate to Fintan here. Why I’m marching: During my time at Grinnell College in Iowa I began to understand the importance of preserving our environment. In 2016, I took a trip to Standing Rock with other Grinnell students and learned a lot from the people there about our responsibility of protecting our water and land. That’s why I created the video about the march, and that’s why I march. About me: I’m a filmmaker and graphic designer from Brooklyn, New York. I want to make the world Continue reading →

Donate to Kathy here. Why I’m marching: I lived on and owned land in Jasper County, Iowa, when the Dakota Access Pipeline came through. When I stood up to it, many of my neighbors thought I was nuts to fight it – to take arrest protesting it – telling me it was “a done deal.” Now, I am standing up for my friends and neighbors whose land was used and abused for a private company’s profit. About me: An Iowa native, I’m basically a “country girl” with Continue reading →

Donate to Sarah here. Why I’m marching: As a native to the “Heartland” of USA, I feel it important to do what I can to help restore and preserve the integrity of relationship to the water, land, air, and its communities. I feel strongly that the abuse of eminent domain must be stopped as not to further the destruction of those things we hold dear. In addition to spending quality time with our indigenous friends and meet more of my local Iowa neighbors, I look forward Continue reading →

Donate to Christine here. Why I’m marching: I am marching because no other landscape on Turtle Island has been more biologically altered than Iowa and, during this time of climate crisis, I want to convey profound and sustainable perspectives of Indigenous communities, cultures and relationships to the Earth, which is absolutely imperative to healing our Earth Mother. Recently, I created Seeding Sovereignty’s Land Decolonization Project with the intent on bringing a more cohesive Indigenous stand against Big-AG, CAFOs, DAPL and more. The desired impact is to Continue reading →

Donate to Shari here. Why I’m marching: I am marching because as a world we need to reduce our fossil fuel use to reduce the effects of climate change. Stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline would be a step in that direction. I have two children and trying to make the Earth as good as I can for them. About me: My great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents came from Czechoslovakia. I was born and raised on a century-old dairy farm in northeast Iowa. Growing up with farming put me in tune with Continue reading →

Donate to Ed here. Why I’m marching: A quote from Bill McKibben sums it up: “Very few people on earth ever get to say: ‘I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.’ If you’ll join this fight that’s what you’ll get to say.” The lawsuit filed by landowners and the Iowa Sierra Club against the misuse of eminent domain should be big news across Iowa. I march to raise awareness about this lawsuit and the climate crisis, and about the Continue reading →