Archive for July 5, 2011
Iowa Progressive Radio: This Week On The Fallon Forum
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Dear Friends,
Rekha Basu is my guest on tonight's Fallon Forum, Tuesday July 5. In a column she wrote last week – A right to video games, but not food or shelter? – Rekha poses a pointed question about our national priorities in light of the US Supreme Court's ruling on violent video games: “Maybe only in America can children have a constitutional right to have violent video games but not a home or food.”
At 7:00 on Wednesday, Healthy for Life's Jake Velie joins me (look for full details about that conversation tomorrow on the Fallon Forum's Facebook page). At 7:30 on Wednesday, I'll talk about the latest breaking angle on climate change, i.e., temporary bouts of global cooling, which some say are due to sulfur emissions from China's coal-burning binge.
Thursday, we talk with Nathan Runkle with Mercy for Animals about a graphic video showing animal cruelty in an Iowa Select hog confinement. (And folks, be warned. Take the word “graphic” seriously. I've got a strong stomach and found the video hard to watch.) Of course, videos such as this would be illegal if the Iowa Legislature had its way this past session. My question is, what don't the folks in charge of Iowa Select want the public to know? Also on Thursday, Adam Mason with Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI) discusses CAFOs and the upcoming CCI convention.
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Mother Earth Is Calling
The following is a poem by our friend Martha Schut
Calling
She wept for years,
for a long time quietly
in barely a whisper
It seems that only some heard
the pitch of her voice
as a dog hears a whistle or
a deer the smallest crack of a twig underfoot
Perhaps it was because years ago she complained
so softly as she concentrated to right herself into balance
She is louder now;
forces threaten her very existence
Some hear her and feel wrenched
Others continue their day as if little has happened
Still others new to her don’t know what she was like before
Everything is different
Surely all can hear her wail
At first it was a leaf turned,
a stream over its banks
then a tree pulled from its roots
How her struggles have changed
Here in this county just yesterday
after a beautiful sunny June morning
a semi was overturned
a building roof blown off
And the levees broke in the
western part of the state
- Cheating Determines Iowa’s Elections, Schultz Implies
- Cownie Unconvincing
- Too Many Little Elections?
- Like Iowa, Like Armenia
- Who Can Vote?
- Schultz Vindicated: Voter Fraud Proven!
- Schultz Raises Dead Voter Scare Again
- Repubs Stage Crime at NH Polls
- Wondering About GOP Caucus Count
- Judge Fires Voting Machine Investigators
