Category Archives: Calls to Action

Big Media Has Big Plans for Privatizing the Internet

Posted on February 6, 2006 by Trish Nelson

  Big Media Has Big Plans for Privatizing the Internet The Nation   by Jeff Chester   The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet … Continue reading →

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Where Has Health Freedom Gone in Iowa? WHO Radio, Feb. 7

Posted on February 6, 2006 by bfialindathieman

  Where Has Health Freedom Gone in Iowa?  WHO Radio, Feb. 7 Iowa Health Freedom on Jan Mickelson Show  Feb. 7 WHO Talk Radio with Jan Mickelson.  Channel AM 1040. Feb. 7, Tues.  10:00 AM.    Where has Health Freedom … Continue reading →

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EPA SAYS ALL IS FORGIVEN FOR SOME ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIORS’ AIR POLLUTION SINS

Posted on February 5, 2006 by bfiamollyreagan

EPA SAYS ALL IS FORGIVEN FOR SOME ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIORS' AIR POLLUTION SINS This week's IOWA Public TV program “Market To Market” just reported: “In what's being hailed as a major step forward, the US Environmental Protection Agency kicked off … Continue reading →

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Reprocessing Is Not the “Solution” to the Nuclear Waste Problem

Posted on February 1, 2006 by bfiacarolinevernon

  Reprocessing Is Not the “Solution”
to the Nuclear Waste Problem

Nuclear Information and Resource Service

This program is central to the Bush administration’s efforts to jump-start the moribund nuclear power industry.

Statement of Mary Olson, NIRS Campaign to Stop Reprocessing. Director of NIRS southeast office:

“[George W.] Bush’s misguided obsession with nuclear power has reached a critical and dangerous juncture. The administration has been desperate to find a nuclear waste solution in order to resuscitate the moribund and unpopular nuclear power industry by moving forward quickly on the scientifically-flawed Yucca Mountain waste dump in Nevada. Instead it has found itself spinning its wheels in the mire of Yucca Mountain’s geologic instability and the scandal of covering up these data. Faced with an industry impatient to move its on-site waste, the administration is now clutching at a new nuclear straw.”

“Its latest scheme is reprocessing of irradiated commercial fuel, one of the dirtiest and most proliferation-vulnerable processes in the nuclear fuel chain. Abandoned in this country for more than 30 years, countries where it has been done – including Britain, France and Russia – are now reaping its hideous environmental legacy of contamination and disease.”

“The price tag in dollars – as well as in health impacts – will be enormous if this country is allowed to venture back down the reprocessing road. The only U.S. commercial reprocessing site ever to operate – in West Valley, New York – is projected to cost more than $5 billion to clean up despite reprocessing only a fraction of the waste sent there between 1966 and 1972. Now Congress has awarded the U.S. Department of Energy $50 million of our money to set this debacle in motion once again although the totals are likely to reach the hundreds of billions of dollars.”

“The existing nuclear reactors around the globe are already sitting-duck terrorist targets. Separating plutonium from nuclear power waste fuel – as reprocessing does – simply sets up new and inviting opportunities for terrorists to seize fissile, bomb-capable materials.  Support for a reprocessing program makes a mockery of statements coming out of this administration that protecting the American people from terrorism is paramount.  Instead, it will put more Americans in harm’s way.”

Reprocessing Is Not the “Solution” to the Nuclear Waste Problem

The Radioactive Waste Burden

Splitting atoms to make electricity has created an enormous problem: waste containing 95% of the toxic radioactivity produced during the Atomic Age. Nuclear weapons production, industrial activity, research and medicine combined, create only 5% of this problem.
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Blog for Iowa Joins PETA in Demanding Patty Judge Return Slaughterhouse Donation

Posted on February 1, 2006 by bfialindathieman

Blog for Iowa Joins PETA in Demanding Patty Judge Return Slaughterhouse Donation Secretary of Agriculture Judge Accepted Donation from Owner of Slaughterhouse Under Federal Investigation Today, Blog for Iowa joins People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in calling … Continue reading →

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YOU Can Bring Air America Radio to Iowa!

Posted on January 30, 2006 by Trish Nelson

  YOU Can Bring Air America Radio to Iowa! Air America Radio is coming to Iowa!  Well, that is, if you follow this easy recipe.  There are just a few ingredients you need to bring progressive talk radio to your … Continue reading →

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Call Harkin and Urge Him to Support a Filibuster

Posted on January 29, 2006 by bfialindathieman

Call Harkin and Urge Him to Support a Filibuster Mike Ganzeveld from the Green Tea Blog posted this in the Blog for Iowa comments yesterday: Tom Harkin is on the fence right now trying to decided whether or not he … Continue reading →

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U of Iowa Students/Faculty Dismayed by Regents’ Power Grab; Event on Monday

Posted on January 28, 2006 by bfialindathieman

U of Iowa Students/Faculty Dismayed by Regents' Power Grab by Linda Thieman Iowa City faculty/staff/student event planned for this Monday, January 30, at 3:30pm, Terrace Room (Room 166) of the Iowa Memorial Union to share their commitment to self-determination With … Continue reading →

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Legislation to Deregulate Cable TV, Reduce Consumer Rights, and Eliminate Free Access

Posted on January 25, 2006 by Trish Nelson

Action Alert:  Stop Legislation to Deregulate Cable TV, Reduce Consumer Rights, and Eliminate Free Access Contributed by Drew Shaffer, Cable TV Administrator There are lobbying efforts in many state legislatures and in Congress right now that intend to completely deregulate … Continue reading →

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A ‘True Revolution of Values’

Posted on January 19, 2006 by bfiacarolinevernon

A 'True Revolution of Values' By Michael Eric Dyson http://www.beliefnet.com  Martin Luther King, Jr., warned America about the danger of unquestioning national pride. How far have we come?  Michael Eric Dyson, best-selling author, ordained Baptist minister, and professor of religion … Continue reading →

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