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Dear Friends,

Well, you won’t have me to kick around for the next two weeks. I’m heading east to butt heads with Irene — Hurricane Irene that is. Coincidence, really, but maybe by the time you read this I’ll be helping with disaster relief in New England. Hopefully, Irene will prove to be mellower than anticipated.

Monday, Zach Bales-Henry fills in for me. Program content to be determined.

Tuesday, Jon Krieg of the American Friends Service Committee talks with Geral Blanchard, counselor, researcher and author of the new book Ancient Ways: Indigenous Healing Innovations for the 21st Century. Based in Des Moines, Geral also writes about the wisdom of indigenous peoples in Sacred Hoop and Sacred Fire magazine.

Wednesday, Charles Goldman fills in with State Senator Rob Hogg (D-Cedar Rapids) as his guest. Charles has this to say about the program: “Al Gore recently used a well known expletive to describe the media’s “fair and balanced” coverage of global climate change, and investigations of various climate-change-supporting scientists continue at the federal and red-state level. We’ll discuss what and who may be behind this effort to discredit these scientists.”

Thursday, Jeffrey Weiss of the Catholic Peace Ministry sits down with Dr. David Drake, a noted psychiatrist and often-published guest opinion writer in The Des Moines Register. David is also a Quaker who has traveled to several foreign countries, including Colombia and Iran, on diplomatic peace missions. Besides discussing David’s personal journey, he and Jeffrey will dig into the changing roles of men and women in American society, including questions such as:

“Why don’t young people want to get married?”
“How it is possible that more than half of marriages end in divorce?”
“Do women even need men anymore?”

So, tune in at 98.3 WOW-FM and online. You can download the Fallon Forum as a podcast, too.  And don’t forget to visit The Fallon Forum website at fallonforum.com.  Thanks!

Ed