Congressman Loebsack voted for another $59 billion to continue the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In a separate vote, he refused to withdraw US troops from Pakistan.

http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/111/house/2/474

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/democrats-split-on-war-spending-bill/?hp

http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/111/house/2/473

Haiti_Lecture_poster

Haiti: The Evolution of a Disaster, and Iowa’s Responses.

7:30pm, Thursday, July 22, 2010
Hiawatha Public Library Meeting Room
Lecture and discussion to follow.
Free and open to the public.

Our speaker:
Maureen McCue MD PhD
Global Health Studies
Center for Human Rights
UI International Programs
Coordinator Iowa Physicians for Social Responsibility
www.psr.org

Alternative Book Discussion Group
Thursday, July 29th
6-8 pm
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
410 Third Avenue SE, Cedar Rapids
(Across the street from Greene Square Park)

Book: Fire in the Lake by Frances Fitzgerald – Chapter 3

Bob will bring questions for discussion. We all lead hectic lives, and while it is strongly encouraged to read the chapter, it is not absolutely essential. You will be missing a lot,though, ince the questions are based on the chapter.

E-mail Bob for more information.

Thanks to Karl for setting up the venue at the Art Museum!

Alternative Book Discussion Group
Fire in the Lake by Frances Fitzgerald – Chapters 1 & 2

Thursday, July 8th
6-8 pm
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
410 Third Avenue SE, Cedar Rapids
(Across the street from Greene Square Park)

Karl will bring questions for discussion. While strongly encouraged, we all lead hectic lives, and so it is not absolutely essential to read the chapters.

E-mail Bob dr_pac-man@mchsi.com for more information.

Haiti: The Evolution of a Disaster, and Iowa’s Responses.

7:30pm, Thursday, July 22, 2010
Hiawatha Public Library Meeting Room
Lecture and discussion
Free and open to the public.

Our speaker:
Maureen McCue MD PhD
Global Health Studies
Center for Human Rights
UI International Programs
Coordinator Iowa Physicians for Social Responsibility
www.psr.org

Greens & Friends -

Wendy Barth (Cedar Rapids) and David Grimesy (Sioux City) have
expressed interest in running for Gov/Lt. Gov respectively. Along with
the opportunity to present a “green” platform to Iowa voters, this race
will help maintain Iowa Green Party’s ability to continue to have our name on Iowa voter registration forms. (We don’t need to get 2% from this race to
achieve anything, we just need to run statewide candidates within a
certain number of cycles.)

This means – yes – our favorite sport, collecting petition signatures!
Unless we find out before this weekend how the Socialists pulled off
their “convention” in 2008., we need to get 1500 (really, about 1800-)
signatures from eligible Iowa voters by teh end of July/early August.

To get started:

! – Some folks have expressed interest in petitioning at Iowa City
Jazz Fest this weekend. Those interested in petitioning at Jazz Fest
should meet this Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Java House (211 1/12 E.
Washington St). Bob Schultes and I will have petition forms and plan
to organize peititioners to fan out through the crowd as
systematically as possible, making one or two canvasses for maximum
efficiency and signature gathering.

If you’re interested, just show up at the Java House this Saturday at
4. If you can’t make that but want to help out, write to Wendy and.or
David at iagp-cochair@usa.net and rangerdave1973@gmail.com

If you need more information or directions to Java House, call me at 319) 337-7341;

Holly

hhart11@gmail.com
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Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate
personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person – David Cobb

I hope we shall . . . crush in its birth the aristocracy of our
moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government
to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country.
- Thomas Jefferson, 1816

Nothing we do changes the past. Everything we do changes the future.
- Joan Chittister