Siouxland Peace Coalition

Monthly Meetings:

Clare House, 1918 Douglas St., Sioux City.

Saturday, 10:00AM - 11:30AM

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Summer meetings:

* Saturday, July 11, 10-1 -- Gleeson Room, Aalfs Public Library, Sioux City. Meeting, lunch, "Cuba Caravan" presentation

* Saturday, August 11, 10-2 -- Meeting & Picnic at home of Rita and Doug Swan, 1930 Delaware Ave, Bronson, IA. RSVP (712) 948-3295 or childinc@netins.net .

Monthly events and demonstrations as announced

Your input is welcome -
in person or by email.

Rita Swan, convener
childinc@netins.net

Gerald Iversen, spokesperson/website
GeraldIversen@yahoo.com

Click NEWS above for. . .
*National Religious Campaign Against Torture
*Postville Raid Remembered
*Anna Baltzer, author of “Witness In Palestine,” LIFE in PALESTINE: Eye-Witness Stories and Photos
*Step into the Promised Land: Unpacking Israel and Palestine (panel)
*The Palestinian Perspective (editorial)
*Marian Klostermann Gives First-Hand Testimony on Nonviolence Training in the Middle East
*MLK Service Project
*Human Rights Award
*2008 Demonstrations

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July 11, Sat. noon – Pastors for Peace “Cuba Caravan,” lunch and presentation. Gleeson Room, Aalfs Public Library, 6th & Pierce, Sioux City. Contact Gerald at 712/274-2549.

Jim Bouman

I am a 66 year old retired Juvenile Probation Officer, with a decade of working as a technical writer and editor (when social work got to be too much ;and I burned out). My retirement job is High School Debate Coach and Debate Tournament Judge. I developed an intense interest in the Cuban Revolution as a high school student, being particularly struck be the reporting on Fidel Castro's visit to New York and the United Nations in 1960. When I read that he had skipped staying at a midtown hotel in favor of lodgings at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem, I suspected that this was not going to be a business-as-usual revolution in the Caribbean. My passable, pidgin Spanish I learned from two Marielisto Cubans who settled in our city in 1980. My wife and I sponsored two men--a 22 year old and his step father. They have been lifelong friends, living in our small city twenty miles west of Milwaukee.

I got interested in IFCO in 2005, and signed on a caravanista for the 2006 trip. I drove a truck from the midwest to McAllen--eleven stops, then joined the others in the crossing and eight day visit to Cuba.

I immediately connect with the philosophy of Pastors for Peace: community organization, non-violent resistance to unjust laws, carefully undertaken civil disobedience, building people-to-people relationships, and sharing our time and material goods with those who lead lives of considerable deprivation due to the unjust policies of the US Government vis a vis the Cuban people.

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Statement of Purpose:

The purpose of the Siouxland Peace Coalition is to unite all Siouxlanders to advocate for Peace, to express our opposition to the death and destruction of war, and to support conflict resolution through Just, Equitable and Peaceful means.

We do not engage in partisan politics, although it is our duty to publicly oppose policies of death and destruction and publicly support policies of Peace and Justice.

We shall use all, and only, peaceful, non-violent, methods of promoting and seeking our goal of Peace and Justice throughout the world.