ISP Event in West Branch After DFA Meeting
By ISP
Greetings!
I hope this finds you well! You are invited to a Sensible Iowans & I-RENEW Ice Cream Social and Educational Meet and Greet. This event is *free* and open to the public! We will be dishing out free Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, watching clips from “Why We Fight” and “Kilowatt Ours,” and having a short discussion and bird dog training. The event is Saturday, June 9th from 3 to 5 pm at the Hoover House in West Branch.
If you have questions or need directions, call me at 319-541-1684.
Thanks!
Susan
ICE CREAM SOCIAL
Educational Meet & Greet
Saturday,June 9th 3-5 pm
Hoover House, 102 W. Main St. West Branch
Join us for an afternoon of ice cream, movies and discussion. Sensible Iowans will be dishing up *free* Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Clips will be shown from “Why We Fight” by Eugene Jarecki and “Kilowatt Ours” by Jeff Barrie. We will follow up the films with discussion on getting involved including Birddog Training.
This event is free and open to anyone.
RSVP to Susan at
(319)541- 1684 or susan_junis@caucus4priorities.org
Sponsored by Sensible Iowans and IRENEW!
Susan Junis
Iowans for Sensible Priorities
Johnson, Linn, Iowa, Jones, Cedar County Field Organizer
(319) 541-1684
susan_junis@caucus4priorities.org
www.caucus4priorities.org
Iowans For Sensible Priorities is a non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)3 organization in Iowa dedicated to educating the public about the inequities of our current federal budget. We aim to redirect 15% of the Pentagon’s discretionary budget away from obsolete Cold War weapons towards unmet social needs including education, healthcare, job training, alternative energy development, world hunger, and deficit reduction.
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ISP Event in West Branch After DFA Meeting
by
Sam Garchik
on Fri 08 Jun 2007 09:38 PM CDT
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