The Cuba Caravan dinner will be a potluck, without admission (or live music), but with donations encouraged. A percentage of donations (20%) will go to Iowa City flood relief. The speaker will be Jim Bauman, who is traveling across the country raising awareness about the U.S. embargo of Cuba, and who will travel to Cuba in July.

Attenders are invited to bring any of the following items, to be delivered to the Cuban people by the Cuba Caravan, in an act of civil disobedience to the immoral and absurd U.S. embargo of Cuba:

Box of crayons
Pens, pencils
Notebooks
Bars of soap
Toothbrush (must be in original packaging)
Prenatal or children's vitamins (MUST be sealed in original packaging, with expiration date after Feb 2009)

About the speaker, Caravaner Jim Bouman:

Jim Bouman is a 64 year old retired Juvenile Probation Officer who developed an interest in the Cuban Revolution as a high school student. He learned "passable pidgin Spanish" from two Marielisto Cubans he and his wife sponsored in 1980, who settled in his small city twenty miles west of Milwaukee. Jim participated in the 2006 Cuba Caravan, driving a truck from the midwest to Texas, eleven stops, then joining the other branches of the Caravan in the U.S.-Mexican border crossing and eight day visit to Cuba.

Jim explains, "I immediately connect with the philosophy of Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan: 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."

For those who cannot attend the event, but who would like to contribute to sending school and medical supplies to Cuba, please WRITE CHECKS TO PASTORS FOR PEACE (memo: Cuba Caravan) and mail to:
PEACE Iowa
Old Brick
26 E. Market St.
Iowa City, IA 52245
(319) 354-1925

For more information, call Andy at 358-0828.

Sponsored by PEACE Iowa and the Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee

Due to popular demand, PEACE Iowa is offering an expanded version of the Gandhi workshop we offered in April ...

Participants in this workshop will explore nonviolence as Gandhi understood and practiced it. They will be encouraged to consider how the practice of Gandhian nonviolence could change their ways of responding to the difficulties and conflicts of everyday life. Through experiential activities, participants will apply Gandhi's philosophy to personal life and political activism. The workshop is designed for adults and high school students. If you would like to attend (or might attend) this workshop, PLEASE E-MAIL PEACE Iowa <INFO@PEACEIowa.org>. An estimate of the number of attenders will help PEACE Iowa organize this event.

About the facilitator:

Working with the Gandhi Peace Foundation in New Delhi, Chris Klug has travelled to India more than a dozen times since 1983, leading groups to learn about Gandhi and nonviolence. He also has extensive experience with conflict resolution and violence prevention, including directing peace centers in Virginia and South Dakota. Chris is currently a grief counselor at Iowa City Hospice, and teaches Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction through the Department of Psychiatry at UIHC.

Contact: PEACE Iowa
Old Brick
26 E. Market St.
Iowa City, IA 52245
(319) 354-1925

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