Meetings: 6:30 PM, Thursdays, Northwestern Room, 3rd floor Iowa Memorial Union

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please email uiantiwar@riseup.net

Jesus Journalism in Occupied Palestine: A Report-Back from an International Solidarity Activist

Journalist and activist David Goodner spent three weeks in Palestine in December 2009, blogging about his experiences on fromporktopalestine. Join us to hear David's perspective on what he witnessed and did as an activist for the International Solidarity Movement (palsolidarity.org) a year after Israel's war on Gaza. Comments and questions from the audience will be accepted on cards to facilitate video recording of the event. Cosponsored with People for Justice in Palestine. Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please email uiantiwar@riseup.net.

Memories of a Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor II

Mr. Katsufumi Shintaku, Hiroshima Atomic bomb survivor, will speak to us from Hiroshima at a web conference presentation.

On August 6, 1945, Mr. Shintaku just returned from his night shift at Toyo Kogyo (currently Mazda Motor Corporation) when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. His house was 1.5 km from the epicenter. Mr. Steven Leeper, Chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, will also talk about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the call for disarmament. He is a well-known peace activist and the first American to head the foundation.

Event Time & Place
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
7:00-9:00 PM
Iowa City Public Library, Meeting Room A

This program is sponsored by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the University of Iowa Libraries

“Crisis in Haiti: Send Aid not Troops.”

The United States, has mobilized an arsenal of military hardware and personnel with at least 11,000 soldiers to militarily occupy Port-au-Prince and the rest of Haiti, adding to the 9,000-strong UN military force in the country.

But the Haitian people need humanitarian assistance – water, medicine, medical supplies, healthcare workers -- not a military arsenal.

Join us for a discussion of what we can do and raise funds to show our solidarity with the people of Haiti.

Building the Left in the Age of Obama

Guest Speaker Paul Street will be speaking on Building the Left in the Age of Obama. Sponsored by Iowa International Socialist Organization. For more info email iowaiso@yahoo.com

Paul Street is an activist, political commentator and author of Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11; Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the Post-Civil Rights Era; Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: a Living Black Chicago History; Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics and The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power.