Women for Peace—Iowa: Events

Alternative Book Discussion Group
Thursday, March 11th
7pm
Wendy's
1316 1st Ave NE, Cedar Rapids
(One block north of Coe College)
The Alternative Discussion Group will be discussing Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel—Chapter 2.
E-mail Dr. Bob <dr_pac-man[at]mchsi.com> for more information.
Potluck dinner and movie, "Rendition"
March 12th
Paul Engle Center, 1600 4th Ave SE
Potluck at 6:30, movie at 8pm
A high-paid, young professional, father and husband, and 20-year resident of the US, Egptian Anwar el Ibrahami on a business trip is asked to come with 2 security guards, overpowered, hooded and chained, and after a brief ( but still reasonably civil) interrogation is to be rendered! His is a story of pain and torture. It's one of several story lines. One follows his wife's attempts to get information. One follows the bureaucrats behind the rendition. Another story deals with the family of the man who leads the interrogation of Anwar el Ibrahimi. Though the more famous actors like Reese Witherspoon (as the distraught pregnant wife) Jake Gyllenhaal (as the CIA rookie forced to watch the interrogation in Northern Africa) and Meryl Streep (as CIA hotshot Corine Whitman), it is really the lesser known actors that carry the story and give it its heart, especially the actor playing the unfortunate Mr, el Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally). Also Israeli actor Yigal Naor was very impressive as the part worried family-man and part extremely cruel chief of torture.
Winner Mill Valley Film Festival Award: Best Narrative Feature
For information, contact:
John Shumaker
Arts Cinema - Free Friday Night Flicks
(319) 247-2612
WFPI General Membership Meeting
Paul Street (Iowa City Activist and Author) to speak:
"Building the Left in the Age of Obama"
Tuesday, March 23 - 7pm
Mount Mercy College
Busse Library Viewing Room (lower level)
Business meeting to discuss future events including possible movies such as these movies:
- "Investigation of a Flame" about the Cantonsville 9
- "Franz Jägerstätter" - A Man of Conscience DVD - Narrated by Martin Sheen, this documentary chronicles the life of a German Catholic who was killed for his conscientious objection to service in the Nazi army.
- "Common Man" - Uncommon Vision DVD - Biography of Cesar Chavez, narrated by Martin Sheen. 45 min.
Vigil every Friday until the wars are over.
4:30 to 5:30 pm
1st Avenue & 1st Street NE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Across from the Federal Building at the Tree of Five Seasons
March 19th this year will be a Friday, the day we vigil on the corner of 1st and 1st downtown. March19/20 is the anniversary of the start of the invasion and ongoing violent occupation of Iraq. Seven years of a most outrageously unjustified war that Americans will be paying for in national debt and restraints upon the social safety net for longer than the veterans will live, if such a debt-ridden and morally adrift nation survives that long itself. Of course, the costs in dollars are nothing to the costs in lives, but with 45,000 Americans each year dying who would live if we have a universal health care system, this war is killing far from those hot Iraqi sands. Please make a special effort to join us on March 19th to protest America's habit of war-making! Bring your own sign or hold one of ours. 4:30-5:30, First Avenue and First Street NE, Cedar Rapids. Spread the word!
Contact Dr. Bob at 319-360-5119 for more information.


Events:
	Alternative Book Discussion Group Thursday, March 11th 7pm Wendy's 1316 1st Ave NE, Cedar Rapids (One block north of Coe College) The Alternative Discussion Group will be discussing Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel—Chapter 2. E-mail Dr. Bob <dr_pac-man[at]mchsi.com> for more information. Potluck dinner and movie, "Rendition" March 12th Paul Engle Center, 1600 4th Ave SE Potluck at 6:30, movie at 8pm A high-paid, young professional, father and husband, and 20-year resident of the US, Egptian Anwar el Ibrahami on a business trip is asked to come with 2 security guards, overpowered, hooded and chained, and after a brief ( but still reasonably civil) interrogation is to be rendered! His is a story of pain and torture. It's one of several story lines. One follows his wife's attempts to get information. One follows the bureaucrats behind the rendition. Another story deals with the family of the man who leads the interrogation of Anwar el Ibrahimi. Though the more famous actors like Reese Witherspoon (as the distraught pregnant wife) Jake Gyllenhaal (as the CIA rookie forced to watch the interrogation in Northern Africa) and Meryl Streep (as CIA hotshot Corine Whitman), it is really the lesser known actors that carry the story and give it its heart, especially the actor playing the unfortunate Mr, el Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally). Also Israeli actor Yigal Naor was very impressive as the part worried family-man and part extremely cruel chief of torture. Winner Mill Valley Film Festival Award: Best Narrative Feature For information, contact: John Shumaker Arts Cinema - Free Friday Night Flicks (319) 247-2612 WFPI General Membership Meeting Paul Street (Iowa City Activist and Author) to speak: "Building the Left in the Age of Obama" Tuesday, March 23 - 7pm Mount Mercy College Busse Library Viewing Room (lower level) Business meeting to discuss future events including possible movies such as these movies: "Investigation of a Flame" about the Cantonsville 9 "Franz Jägerstätter" - A Man of Conscience DVD - Narrated by Martin Sheen, this documentary chronicles the life of a German Catholic who was killed for his conscientious objection to service in the Nazi army. "Common Man" - Uncommon Vision DVD - Biography of Cesar Chavez, narrated by Martin Sheen. 45 min. Vigil every Friday until the wars are over. 4:30 to 5:30 pm 1st Avenue & 1st Street NE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Across from the Federal Building at the Tree of Five Seasons March 19th this year will be a Friday, the day we vigil on the corner of 1st and 1st downtown. March19/20 is the anniversary of the start of the invasion and ongoing violent occupation of Iraq. Seven years of a most outrageously unjustified war that Americans will be paying for in national debt and restraints upon the social safety net for longer than the veterans will live, if such a debt-ridden and morally adrift nation survives that long itself. Of course, the costs in dollars are nothing to the costs in lives, but with 45,000 Americans each year dying who would live if we have a universal health care system, this war is killing far from those hot Iraqi sands. Please make a special effort to join us on March 19th to protest America's habit of war-making! Bring your own sign or hold one of ours. 4:30-5:30, First Avenue and First Street NE, Cedar Rapids. Spread the word! Contact Dr. Bob at 319-360-5119 for more information.

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