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Author Archives: Trish Nelson
Come to a Community Reading of MLK Speeches In Iowa City
Sharing for Ed Flaherty, Veterans for Peace Dear Friends, Hope you can join us on the afternoon of April 4th. Martin Luther King’s words live, and these two speeches are electric. A Community Reading of Martin Luther King’s “Beyond Vietnam: … Continue reading
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Tagged Martin Luther King assassination, MLK
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Iowa House District 1 Race Upgraded To “Leans Democratic”
From our inbox. A note from J.D. Scholten – There have been a lot of “firsts” for me this month. First, I decided to throw my hat in the ring for Iowa’s State House, to represent my home town of … Continue reading
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Tagged Iowa Democrats 2022, J.D. Scholten, Sioux City
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Austin Frerick Asks Us To Imagine A New Vision For Agriculture
Austin Frerick is running for Iowa Senate in district 37. This was in an email asking for volunteers first and if you can’t volunteer a campaign donation. But what I appreciate about Austin is when he asks you for something … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin Frerick for SD37, big ag in Iowa, Iowa Democrats 2022
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Narrative Creep In Ukraine Coverage
“They are trapped in a business model that creates news as narratives. It’s one thing to tell stories. It’s another thing to direct them and start to try to shape them.” – Jon Stewart
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Tagged cable news, Jon Stewart, media reform, Print media
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Iowa Millionaires The Big Tax Cut Winners Over Middle Class
Iowa Senate Democrats on FB: Sen. Pam Jochum of Dubuque was on Iowa Press this weekend, pointing out that the math doesn’t add up for hard-working Iowans Iowa’s 3,400 millionaires will see on average about $62,000 a year cut in … Continue reading
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Tagged Iowa Senate Democrats, Iowa Tax policy
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Why Republicans Avoid Town Hall Meetings
Constituent 1: Grassley 0. Thank you, ISL for capturing this conversation. Whoever that individual is, he represents Iowa values far better than our senator. It’s nice to see some folks in the room without gray hair.
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Tagged Chuck Grassley town halls, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Scotus
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Putin’s War Leading To Electric Car Surge
Europe is moving more quickly than the U.S. The time is now.
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Tagged Electric cars, Putin's war
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Must See: The Dead Malls Video Series
This is not a typical BFIA post. It’s not about politics. But the video really spoke to me as a reflection of our shallow, wasteful, disposable, unsustainable, American culture. Google dead malls and you will get image after scary image … Continue reading
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Tagged corporate America, Dead malls, Eighties culture
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Election Expert: Machine Counted Paper Ballots Plus Post-Election Audits Is Best
“The combination of machine-counted paper ballots with rigorous post-election audits is far more likely to give us a trustworthy vote count than the complete abandonment of machine-counted ballots.” Guest column published in the Des Moines Register by Douglas W. Jones … Continue reading
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Tagged Count the votes, Election audits, election fraud, election stealing, Recounts, voting
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Urgent Action Alert From Friends Of The Earth
The USDA has continued a dangerous Trump-era program that will allow a number of pork processing plants to increase their “line” or “processing” speeds. This means more animals will be slaughtered and prepared for human consumption per minute — at … Continue reading
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Tagged animal cruelty, Animal welfare, Big Agribusiness, hog confinement, line speeds in slaughterhouses, pork processing
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