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Covid-19 Vaccine Resources for Rural Communities

Looking for ways to encourage Covid-19 vaccinations in your community?

The Rural Assembly has partnered with other organizations to produce and share a collection of resources that address vaccine hesitancy, share facts, and help more rural Americans to become vaccinated for Covid-19.

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Tweets from our Neighbors

Rural Coverage of COVID-19 from the Daily Yonder

  • Commentary: A History of Sovereignty Ill-Considered

    There’s an old saying that goes, “justice delayed is justice denied” and perhaps no group understands that better than the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, of which I am a proud citizen.  And if I could use one word to sum up the Lumbee story, it would be resistance.  Resistance to colonization, resistance to the The post Commentary: A History of Sovereignty Ill-Considered appeared first on The Daily Yonder.

  • Commentary: The Salton Sea’s Weirdness Is What’s Appealing

    Fascinating and fetid, the Salton Sea in southern California lures me back, every year.  Driving south from Utah, I take bits of historic Highway 66 and then skirt Joshua Tree National Park to cruise through little known Box Canyon to Mecca, California. When the landscape opens up, I see the beautiful wreck of the Salton The post Commentary: The Salton Sea’s Weirdness Is What’s Appealing appeared first on The Daily Yonder.

  • Commentary: Somewhere in Rural America There is a Solution

    Somewhere in rural America there are answers and solutions to the challenges and opportunities facing other communities. Unfortunately, we do a horrible job exchanging this knowledge between innovators and solution creators with those in search for answers to their development questions.  Over the past 50 years I have worked throughout North America and in nearly The post Commentary: Somewhere in Rural America There is a Solution appeared first on The Daily Yonder.