Candlelight Vigil Across Nation
Organized by MoveOn.org in partnership with the Win Without War coalition
More than 1,000 U.S. soldiers have now been killed in Iraq. 1,000 of
our brothers, sisters, wives, husbands, moms, dads, sons, and daughters
have given their lives in service to our country.
To honor them and reflect on the loss of their lives, Americans everywhere are organizing candlelight vigils.
Please come to a vigil Tonight, Thursday evening, September 9th, at 8:00 P.M.
Click on the link below to find the location of a vigil in your area.
http://action.moveon.org/vigil/
(Check local times. The Ames vigil actually starts at 6:15pm.)
Fundraiser/Party for Molly Regan in Princeton, Iowa
Molly Regan is running for the Scott Soil and Water Conservation
Commission, and there's a fundraiser/party for her this Friday,
September 10th at Boll's Community Center, River Drive, Princeton, from
6-9pm. There will be food, music & entertainment. Also
Molly, Alta Price, and Alison Hart will be giving a tribute to our
women heroes/heroines.
New Book by Iowa's Mike Palecek is Out
The new book by Iowa author Mike Palecek is now available. “The Last Liberal Outlaw”
is a fictional yet powerful combination of elements: it's political,
anti-prison, and anti-Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and
American-type media.
The book is available through publisher New Leaf Books in Chicago.
“This hardhitting book is about a small town struggling economically.
The powers that be want the promises of privatization and 'prisons for
profit' as the solution. Mike Palecek addresses vividly the many issues
that small town USA faces these days, political shenanigans, power
brokering, violence, and the few who stand up for human rights. One of
the important facets the author addresses is the co-opting of the press
in this country, and how one journalists lives up to his ideals”.
– Dr. Eve Malo, University of Montana, Western
“Palecek is at his best when writing about small-town America … we
haven't had a writer like this since Kurt Vonnegut was at his peak.”
– Chuck Gregory, BlueEar.com, A Global Journalism Community
Palecek is an Iowa author, a former prisoner for peace, small-town
newspaper reporter, and an Iowa Democratic Party congressional nominee
in the 2000 election. He now writes, drives a bus and works at a group
home for disabled adults. He lives with his family in northwest Iowa.
Other books by Mike Palecek: Joe Coffee's Revolution, KGB, The Truth, Prophets Without Honor, Twins.
For more information: www.iowapeace.com
Burned by the Spotlight: A Q&A With Howard Dean
In this Columbia Journalism Review interview, Howard Dean opens up
about the role of the media in the Dean campaign and describes the view
from inside the media maelstrom.
Here's the link. I don't have the stomach to post an excerpt.
Whatever Happened to . . . ?
I saw this little tidbit on Boston.com.
The speculation about who may do what in a Kerry administration was far
less interesting that just this one paragraph. Heavy-duty Dean
supporters will see why:
'But
even the pros are not immune to getting seriously ahead of themselves
in a city where politics is about the only major industry experiencing
an uptick in employment numbers. At the Kennedy School, always a place
for Democratic administrations-in-waiting, the profs and lecturers are
feverishly cranking out Op-Eds, the wonky equivalent of a personal ad.
And think of Steve Grossman, a failed 2002 gubernatorial candidate, who
thought he'd backed a winner in becoming campaign chairman for Howard
Dean's presidential bid, only to see the former Vermont governor fade
out after “the scream,” whereupon Grossman jumped to Kerry. But . . .
too late. Having seen Grossman betray Dean, Kerry couldn't believe that
he would be treated any differently and has largely frozen Grossman out
of the campaign, granting him only a bit part shoring up Jewish support
nationally. “Grossman's not going anyplace,” says a Boston political
insider. “He pissed everybody off.”'
Well,
that is certainly an understatement. Not only did Grossman
betray, in an astonishing way timed to do as much damage as possible, a
most beloved man, but he betrayed a movement, as well. One thing I've
learned in the last five and a half months of Democracy for Iowa's
existence is that Dean supporters have very long memories. The
grassroots are a completely different kind of political animal, and I
might add a completely unpredictable kind of political animal, that I
don't think the pros have quite figured out yet.
Linda Thieman
Blog For Iowa 