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Mobilize to Protect Privacy and Choice! Join a Pro-choice Community Action Team!

by Linda Thieman on Mon 01 Aug 2005 04:00 PM CDT

Mobilize to Protect Privacy and Choice! Join a Pro-choice Community Action Team!

Protect Privacy - Take the Next Step!

Are you ready to mobilize?

Are you a pro-choice activist who is actively engaged in the politics surrounding privacy and choice?

Do you want to help educate and increase the pro-choice voice in your community?

Mobilizing to protect the right to privacy is at the center of Planned Parenthood's work to secure reproductive health care rights in Iowa. Pro-Choice Community Action Teams (P-CATs) will become community leaders in protecting this right!

P-CAT activities could include:

•public visibility events
•activist recruitment and organization
•letter-writing campaigns to legislators and media
•house parties
•phonebanking
•tabling at events
•Lobby Day
•media monitoring

To JOIN PPGI's Pro-choice Community Action Team, call 515-280-7004, ext. 117, for more details on how you can help.

You can sign up for Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa Action Network here.

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"Bush's Brain" Now Available on DVD

by Trish Nelson on Mon 01 Aug 2005 11:00 AM CDT

"Bush's Brain" Now Available on DVD

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"BUSH'S BRAIN" is a haunting, chilling DVD that details the immoral, unethical, scurrilous "win at all costs" tactics of Karl Rove, AKA Bush's Brain. Based on the best-selling book by journalists James Moore and Wayne Slater, the documentary captures the essential evil of the man who packaged and strategized Bush's march to the White House.

Rove is like a piranha. His existence appears driven only by a desire to eat the opposition alive. It is not clear he has any core ideology, other than bullying, lying, and using any means necessary to win. The man who wrapped Bush in "compassionate conservatism" is neither compassionate nor conservative. He is just treacherous, unethical, duplicitous, and manipulative.

"Bush's Brain" is an essential DVD for those who want to know what makes the deceitful "image machine" behind Bush tick. You could call Rove "Dr. Evil," but there's nothing to laugh about, because it's not Mike Meyers behind Mini-Me Bush.

To order this DVD from Buzzflash (for a $21 donation), click here.

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U of Iowa Prof Optimistic About Labor Schism

by Linda Thieman on Mon 01 Aug 2005 04:00 AM CDT

U of Iowa Prof Optimistic About Labor Schism

by Jeff Charis-Carlson, Iowa City Press-Citizen

Shelton Stromquist, professor of history at the University of Iowa, talks labor.

In the current [labor] schism there has been a lot of debate over how effective the [AFL-CIO] federation has been politically. But, from the point of view of the Democratic Party, the AFL-CIO and its local manifestations in labor councils have been very important in terms of directing funds or getting out the vote.

So, federations are a kind of mixed bag. I don't think that one should invest too much significance in the current schism, although it does seem to be the beginning of what could be a significant structural change in the federation. How much this change will affect local labor bodies and individual unions remains to be seen.

...Schisms in the labor movement are not a new thing; they have had a long and, in some respects, honorable history. They appear when the movement - embodied by an existing federation - is in some crisis and in need of reform. They breathe new life and new energy into the movement, and they almost always lead to reunification on a new basis....

In the current situation, we'll have to see how the ambitious agenda of [the newly-formed federation] Change to Win plays out, but providing that the new organizing does not turn to the raiding of existing unions, I think there is some reason to be hopeful that a stronger and more vital labor movement may emerge and eventually find a basis for reunification.

(Click here to read the complete interview.)

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