For those of you interested in the farm bill and clean elections:

 

YOU ARE INVITED TO

 

MAKE THE CONNECTIONS

 

THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2007

6:30 – 8:30pm

State Historical Museum

Atrium

(600 East Locust – street parking & garage at E. Grand and Penn.)

 

Policies defined this summer in the 2007 Farm Bill create the food and agriculture

landscape of Iowa and the entire country.  All VOICES need to be heard & represented.

 

Denise O’Brien, farm organizer and 2006 candidate for Iowa’s Secretary of Agriculture,

talks about the road map for agriculture.  What’s in the Farm Bill?  What makes effective

food policy?  How do we insure the Farm Bill meets our food and agricultural needs?

             

Every year our elected officials create, evaluate and pass laws that impact every aspect

of all our lives.  All VOICES need to be heard & represented.

 

Pam Jochum, State Representative from District 27 in Dubuque, talks about VOICE (Voter

Owned Iowa Clean Elections) legislation, HR 805.  How do we take big money out of

politics?  Can publicly financed campaigns work?  How do we insure that legislation is evaluated according to the best interest of all Iowan’s? 

 

SPONSORS INCLUDE – Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom (WILPF), The League

of Women Voters, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Progressive Coalition of Central Iowa (PCCI), Oxfam, Iowa Farmers Union, Iowa Citizen

Action Network (ICAN) & Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI).