Thursday, October 19, 2006, 7:00pm
Cedar Rapids City Hall
50 Second Avenue Bridge, Cedar Rapids
For all that care about preventing the contamination of the Cedar River
(the source of drinking water for Cedar Rapids!!!)

A hearing on whether to dump more pollution into the Cedar River is scheduled for 7:00 pm on Thursday October 19th at the Cedar Rapids City Hall, 50 Second Avenue Bridge, in the 4th floor Council Chambers. The Linn Greens are helping to rally the public to voice their opposition.

The Cedar Rapids Wastewater Treatment Plant is requesting permission to increase the amount of pollution it dumps into the Cedar River.

The proposed permit would allow substantial increases in permit limits without complying with anti-degradation or anti-backsliding requirements of the Clean Water Act. These increases are proposed without explanation as to why they are necessary or whether alternatives are available. The proposed effluent limits would allow the City of Cedar Rapids to legally discharge concentrations of ammonia over twenty-five times greater than normally contained in untreated domestic sewage and the proposed daily cyanide discharge limit is nearly four times greater than the amount allowed in the previous permit.

Increased pollution discharge limits are especially objectionable because the Cedar River is considered an impaired waterway downstream from the Cedar Rapids facility

See http://www.votewendy.org/CedarRapidsWastewater.doc for more details.

For more information, call #319-360-5119

Friday, October 13, 2006, 7:00pm
Cedar Rapids Peace Center
1029 3rd Street SE, Cedar Rapids
Free Admission & Discussion

The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war.

Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed, and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so.

For more information, call John at #319-247-2612
or go to http://iraqforsale.org/