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Six Important Progressive Actions In Iowa This Week
From CCI:
Dept. of Natural Resources factory farm hearings, Des Moines and Iowa City
Last Thursday, we scored a victory when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported that our Iowa DNR is lacking in enforcement and regulation of factory farms and must make improvements. Now’s the time to deliver that message to the DNR and tell them to crack down on factory farms.
Tuesday, July 17 9 am, Des Moines – Help us tell the Environmental Protection Commission to stop a Poweshiek Co. factory farm expansion permit. Meet at the Iowa CCI office, we’ll carpool together.
Wednesday, July 18 1 pm, Iowa City – Tell the DNR to dump the Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI) attempt at watering down important water quality protections. Kirkwood Community College, 1816 Lower Muscatine Road, Iowa City.
“Fire Rastetter” meetings in Ames, Cedar Falls and Iowa City
Tuesday, July 17 7 pm, Cedar Falls – Cedar Falls Rec. Center, 110 E. 13th St
Wednesday, July 18 7 pm, Iowa City – Old Brick, 26 E. Market St
Thursday, July 19 7 pm, Ames – Unitarian Fellowship, 1015 N. Hyland
We’ll discuss AgriSol Energy’s Tanzania project, Iowa State’s involvement in the project, Regent Bruce Rastetter’s conflict of interest, and the next big steps in getting Rastetter off the Board of Regents.
And, we’ll be joined by our friends from Food and Water Watch, who recently released a report titled “Public Research, Private Gain”. They will talk about how the AgriSol Tanzania project figures into the larger picture of increasing corporate control of our land grant universities.
Payday loan ordinance hearing, Iowa City
The Iowa City Zoning and Planning Commission will vote on the tough new local ordinance we’ve been pushing to crack down on predatory payday lending. Thursday, July 19 6:30 pm Iowa City City Hall, 410 E Washington.
As you can see it’s a busy week ahead. I hope you can join us. For more information or to let us know you’ll be at one of the events above please reply to this email or give us a call at 515-282-0484.
Thanks again for a memorable weekend and for all you do,
Katie Bryan
Communications Director
Tags: AgriSol Energy, DNR, factory farms, Fire Rastetter, Food and Water Watch, Iowa CCI, predatory lending | 
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What Iowans Are Missing: This Week On Ring Of Fire Radio
Unfortunately, Iowans won’t be able to hear this amazing radio program over the publicly owned airwaves because Iowa commercial radio stations only allow one kind of talk – conservative – but thanks to the free and open internet, we can still get it online. Check out this incredible line-up of guests and topics on Ring of Fire this weekend. Listen online Saturdays at 2 pm our time and rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 7 pm Central or subscribe to the podcast.
This week on Ring of Fire hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder:
- Best-selling author and consultant Cliff Schecter will be here to tell us about the upcoming onslaught of negative ads that conservative Super PACs are planning against President Obama.
- Attorney James Kauffman will tell us how the Republicans are trying to convince us that if we aren’t nice to the rich people, they’ll leave America.
- Journalist Josh Eidelson will be here to tell us why Republican politicians are now trying to distance themselves from Scott Walker.
- And attorney Jim Magazine will tell us about the predatory lending practices of the student loan industry, and why the federal government has finally decided to take legal action against them.
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Tags: Cliff Schecter, conservative Super PACs, James Kauffman, Jim Magazine, Josh Eidelson, Jr., predatory lending, RFK, Ring of Fire Radio, Scott Walker | No Comments »
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