CWA members lead the way in Iowa
CWA members and retirees were working the crowd at Senator Tom Harkin's annual Steak Fry in Indianola, Iowa earlier this month--a crowd that included Senators Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Joseph Biden, and Christopher Dodd, and Governor Bill Richardson, as well as 15,000 Iowans.
Speed Matters, CWA's project dedicated to expanding and accelerating the build out of high-speed internet access, was the topic of the day. Members and retirees worked the crowd, spreading the word about why the presidential candidates need to address our country's growing divide between those who have access to high-speed internet connections and those who do not.
Iowans understand this problem. Iowa is a rural state, and Americans living in rural areas are among those most often left behind. Eileen, an at-home accountant from Runnells, Iowa, knows firsthand the disadvantages of living in a community without high-speed internet:
"There are programs I try to download or update for my computer, and I cannot download a lot of updates because the connection doesn't stay strong enough… I don't feel as though it's right for other people to have [high-speed internet] services provided or available to them just because they live in a different area."
Check out what else Eileen had to say by watching her video. And learn more about CWA's Speed Matters project at www.speedmatters.org.
