Beth Howard

Jan 14, 2025 | forwardky.com | Beth Howard

Originally published by Barn Raiser, your independent source for rural and small town news. I grew up in a small rural white community on a tobacco farm in Eastern Kentucky. My dad was a strip miner, my mom was a grocery store clerk and a factory worker. I am a proud Appalachian.

Dec 5, 2024 | peoplestribune.org | Beth Howard

The director of the Appalachia People’s Union on why the South is ready to stand up to TrumpEditor’s Note: This is the third article in a series of stories and interviews in which Barn Raiser asks rural organizers, elected office holders and political strategists what lessons are to be learned from the 2024 General Election. It is republished here with permission. I grew up in a small rural white community on a tobacco farm in Eastern Kentucky.

Nov 26, 2024 | barnraisingmedia.com | Winona LaDuke |Justin Perkins |Joel Bleifuss |Beth Howard

“Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind. Did you think the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time of such terrible danger? Know that you yourself are essential to this World.” —Chief Arvol Looking Horse, the 19th Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe These are complex times. Some of us would think of them as terrifying.

Nov 22, 2024 | znetwork.org | Beth Howard

I have been a grassroots community organizer in the South for nearly 20 years, a region with a long legacy of working-class movements. As the director of the Appalachia People’s Union, a project of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), the largest national group organizing white people for racial and economic justice, I have committed to doing what I can to organize my own people into multiracial movements.

Nov 17, 2024 | barnraisingmedia.com | Beth Howard |Joel Bleifuss |Justin Perkins |Paco Alvarez

This is the third article in a series of stories and interviews in which we ask rural organizers, elected office holders and political strategists what lessons are to be learned from the 2024 General Election. I grew up in a small rural white community on a tobacco farm in Eastern Kentucky. My dad was a strip miner, my mom was a grocery store clerk and a factory worker. I am a proud Appalachian.