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Thursday, December 23
Iowa School Board Overturns Committee Recommendation, Bans Book; Anti-bullying Workshop in Ames in January (GLBT)
by
Trish Nelson
on Thu 23 Dec 2004 08:31 AM CST
 Iowa School Board Overturns Committee Recommendation, Bans Book (GLBT)
The North Scott Press
by Bill Tubbs
The
United Methodist Church defrocked the Rev. Irene Elizabeth Stroud
on a 7-6 vote for being honest about her sexual orientation....The
church's decision appears to be, at best, an effort to achieve unity by
sacrificing reality and truth.
[That] very week, the networks, who flooded the airwaves all fall with half-truths
disguised as political ads, rejected as "too controversial" a 30-second
commercial of the United Church of Christ which showed a bouncer
standing guard outside a church and choosing whom to allow into
services. Among those rejected are people of color and a same-sex
couple.
Just when you think all the issues are national, the school board of
the Pleasant Valley [Iowa] School District sent shudders through
academia with a 4-3 vote to overturn a committee's recommendation that
it is OK to continue using the book, "The Misfits" by James Howe, in an
elementary classroom. Parents protested when they learned that Linda
Goetz, a sixth-grade teacher at Bridgeview Elementary in LeClaire, was
reading the book aloud in an effort to curb name-calling. Their
objection? One of the characters is gay.
(click here to read the entire story)
Iowa Department of Education Hosts Conference on Bullying and Harassment
"Bullying in Our Schools: Power and Empowerment"
The GLBT Youth in Iowa Schools Task Force is one of several
sponsors of this conference which will take place on Thursday,
January 27, 2005, at the Scheman Conference Center in Ames.
This conference is designed to help school teams (including youth and
community) create plans to prevent bullying and harassment
against all students, including those that are gay, lesbian, bisexual,
and transgender (GLBT).
Sessions will help team members learn what works, how to
effectively intervene when bullying happens, and how to recognize the
many forms that bullying can take. A special strand is being
offered for middle school and high school youth team members, in addition to a strand to address bullying/harassment against
diverse populations (GLBT students, students of color, students
with disabilities, religious minorities).
Click here for more information and to register your team
Brad Clark
Project Director,
GLBT Youth in Iowa Schools Task Force
PO Box 1797
Des Moines, IA 50306-1797
Contact Brad here:
Send an e-mail
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Friday, December 3
ICLU Files Freedom of Information Act Against FBI
by
Linda Thieman
on Fri 03 Dec 2004 04:28 AM CST
 ICLU Files Freedom of Information Act Against FBI
Iowa Civil Liberties Union
ACLU Launches Nationwide Effort to Expose Illegal FBI Spying on Political and Religious Groups
In Iowa, ICLU seeks disclosure of surveillance records of both federal and state law enforcement
DES MOINES - Citing evidence that the FBI and local police are illegally spying on political, environmental and faith-based groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and its affiliates today filed multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests around the country to uncover who is being investigated and why.
"The FBI is wasting its time and our tax dollars spying on groups that criticize the government, like the Quakers in Colorado or Catholic Peace Ministries in Iowa," said ACLU Associate Legal Director Ann Beeson. "Do Americans really want to return to the days when peaceful critics become the subject of government investigations?"
Ben Stone, executive director of the Iowa Civil Liberties Union, which is among the state affiliates participating in the effort, said that the ICLU is involved because of what the U.S. Attorney's office did to Des Moines peace activists in February of this year.
"Ten months ago, citizens subpoenaed by the government courageously stood in the public square in an effort to convey to the world that they would not be intimidated," Stone said. "In the face of their resistance, the U.S. Attorney backed down. The ICLU's filing today of FOIA, privacy act, and open records requests on behalf of our clients represents the next step in our struggle to defend the right of free speech against government intimidation," he added.
The requests were filed by the national ACLU as well as its affiliates in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, and Oregon. The national ACLU FOIA names the central FBI agency as well as bureaus in New York, Washington, D.C., California, Michigan, Virginia, and Massachusetts. Additional ACLU affiliates are expected to file another round of FOIA requests in early 2005.
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