Yearly Archives: 2011

This Week On The Fallon Forum: Ed Is Out And On The Air

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Trish Nelson

Monday – Thursday from 7:00-800 pm, join us for the fusion of politics and civility at 98.3 WOW-FM and on-line at 983wowfm.com.  Call (515) 312-0983 or (866) 908-TALK to participate in the conversation.  If you miss the show, you can … Continue reading →

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Occupy Iowa Update: Thirty Arrested In Des Moines By State Troopers

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Trish Nelson

Video below – Reports of dogs, pepper spray, 50-60 law enforcement officers Seems  that arresting people, bringing dogs, using pepper spray on a bunch of Iowans [pepper spray reportedly just used on one person] peacefully assembled is a gross overreaction … Continue reading →

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Ground-Zero Mosque And Other Things

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Dave Bradley

Weekly Observations for the first week of October 2011. An Islamic Cultural Center aka “the Ground Zero Mosque” opened last week amid almost no noise. Named “Park51” the opening featured a photo exhibit of 160 photos of immigrant children in … Continue reading →

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Occupy Iowa Livestreaming From Des Moines Today

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Trish Nelson

Occupy Iowa has a livestream set up.   http://www.livestream.com/desmoineslive/ Today at 12:00pm – Sunday, October 9, 2011 at noon East 7th and Locust in the newly dubbed “People’s Park” on the west side of the state capitol building Des Moines http://g.co/maps/hftpc

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Sunday Funday – So You Think You Know Wall Street?

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Dave Bradley

Wall Street is always in the news. Sometimes, it is the main focus of the news as it has been quite recently. But for most of us Wall Street is more of a concept and not an actual place. Here … Continue reading →

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Liz Mathis Needs Our Help Now

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Dave Bradley

October 8th, 2011 Friends, I’m Liz Mathis. On September 28th, I accepted the Democratic nomination for the Senate District 18 Special Election. I’m running for the Senate because I believe I can make a difference. We need more growth opportunities … Continue reading →

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Occupy Wall Street: Is It A Movement?

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Dave Bradley

These are heady days for those who are invested in any way in Occupy Wall Street. This action seems to be growing at its original site on Wall Street and there are sympathy actions happening around the country. Right now … Continue reading →

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Occupy Iowa City: Video Of Human Microphone At College Green Park

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Trish Nelson

The crowd started out small and just kept growing.  We estimated a  couple of hundred people were there when we left.  Watch and listen to the human microphone communication system.  Signals for orderly process and participation were explained. Watch the … Continue reading →

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This Week On Ring Of Fire Radio: Congressman Bruce Braley

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Trish Nelson

Unfortunately, Iowans won’t be able to hear our own congressman Bruce Braley on this amazing radio program over the publicly owned airwaves because Iowa commercial radio stations only allow one kind of talk – conservative – but thanks to the … Continue reading →

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Occupy Iowa Weekend Events

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Trish Nelson

 Updated: Occupy Iowa events October 7-15 For Facebook and Twitter links go to:  blogforiowa.com/occupy Friday, Saturday, Sunday events Iowa City – Fri, Oct 7.  College Green Park, downtown Iowa City, 6pm. Mason City – Sat, Oct 8.  Central Park, downtown … Continue reading →

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