CONSIDERING CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
  THE IOWA OCCUPATION PROJECT

IOWA CITY
Thursday, July 5, 2007
    Peace Iowa Center
    Old Brick Community Center, first floor common room
    26 E. Market St., Iowa city

    A press conference, public lecture, and nonviolent civil disobedience training seminar
    will take place Thursday July 5 at the Iowa City Peace Center.  

    4-6 pm.  Civil Disobedience Training will be from 4-6 p.m. and will be led by Jeff
    Leys, a coordinator with Voices for Creative Nonviolence.  Anyone who may consider
    civil disobedience in the future or wants to support those who engage in civil
    disobedience are strongly encouraged to take the training.

    If you are planning to risk arrest on Friday, you MUST attend this training.

    Public Lecture at 7 pm. Jeff Leys  will give a speech titled "Never Ending Funding
    for Never Ending War."


CEDAR RAPIDS
Friday, July 6, 2007
Linn County Courthouse

    On Friday, July 6, 9:00 a.m., the eleven people who were arrested in Cedar Rapids in
    February will be sentenced in the Linn County Courthouse.

    The Occupation Project  commences immediately following sentencing.  After a brief
    rally, peacemakers willing to risk arrest and their supporters will nonviolently occupy the
    Cedar Rapids offices of both Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Tom Harkin (D-IA).

    In the interests of communication, dialogue, and negotiation, the Iowa Occupation
    Project has contacted the offices of both Senators regarding this direct action. We have
    given them a deadline of July 4th to publicly pledge to de-fund the war, or face an
    occupation.



                               Friday Schedule

    The Schedule for the day  is as follows.  Please be flexible as circumstances
    beyond anyone's control may change things.

    9 a.m. - Sentencing of the CR 11 at 9 a.m. at the Linn Co. Court House in Cedar Rapids.

    Noon - Lunch

    1 p.m. to 1: 30 p.m. - Support Rally and Send Off To Grassley and Harkin's CR Offices.

    Place: The Tree of the Five Seasons, 1St Ave and 1st St NE in down town
    Cedar Rapids, IA

    Rally Co-Sponsors: The Iowa Occupation Project, Women for Peace Iowa, the
    Linn County Green Party, Iowans For Peace, Des Moines based Catholic Peace
    Ministry, Des Moines Catholic Worker, Iowa Peace Network, School For Moral
    Courage in Iowa City, University of Iowa Anti-war Committee and the UNI Campus
    Antiwar Network.

    1:30pm to -? Immediately after rally.  Dual visits of Senators Grassley and Harkin's
    CR Offices demanding no more funding of the Iraq War. Both Grassley and Harkin's CR
    Offuces are a couple of blocks from the Rally site. We want to visit both Iowa Senators
    offices in Cedar Rapids since both recently voted for the continued funding of war with
    out an exit plan. We expect these visitations may last until the end of the work day and
    lead to possible arrest for some.

    Anyone who is considering risking arrest MUST attend the nonviolence training
    session the night before in Iowa City.

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    Q: Why sit-in at Grassley and Harkin's office?  A: The occupations are a political
    consequence for the senators' pro-war votes last May when they gave Bush a blank
    check to continue the war.  The Iowa Occupation Project is demanding that the
    senators publicly pledge to de-fund the war the next time and each time a vote comes to
    the floor.
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