Thursday, July 12

Everything You Might Want to Know About the Iowa Occupation Project

Mona Shaw, one of the 20 people who occupied Chuck Grassley's office last week, and webmistress (I'm not sure that is politically correct, but if there are webmasters, surely there are webmisttresses) over at the School for Moral Courage has uploaded a web page for the Iowa Occupation Project. You can view at the link below.

http://www.schoolformoralcourage.com/iowaoccupationproject.html

P.S. The page can also has a link at the top of the School for Moral Courage home page at:

http://www.schoolformoralcourage.com/

Update:
Five people who were arrested on February 26 for occupying Senator Grassley's office in Des Moines were acquitted late yesterday when found not guilty by a jury in Polk County.

The five were

Kathleen McQuillen, Staff Person for th DM Regional based American Friends Service.

Dixie Webb, Catholic Just Faith and board member of the Des Moines based Catholic Peace Ministry.

Chet Quinn, Iowa Methodist Federation for Peace and Justice.

Brian Terrell, Maloy IA, Catholic Worker and Director of the Catholic Peace Ministry.

Elton Davis, former DM Catholic Worker and full time dad and peace activist.

A full press release sent by Catholic Peace Ministry as well as a photo of the five is available at this link.

http://www.schoolformoralcourage.com/desmoines5.html

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