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Group shows movies to teach consumers
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BY DYLAN SANDS dsands@kansan.com
Care to enter The Meatrix? Want to meet Frankensteer? Liberty Hall will give students the chance do both while digesting some food for thought Thursday.
Sustainable Table, a group dedicated to teaching consumers about sustainable food, is stopping in Lawrence as part of "The Eat Well Guided Tour of America." The group will join Local Burger and Films for Action to present Rural Route Film Festival's "Go Organizable" film series.
The series consists of four short films: "The Meatatrix," "Frankensteer,"
"Back to the Land... Again and Good Stewards." The documentaries deal with issues ranging from the grisly side of big farms to community agriculture. Local Burger will serve free organic and locally farmed food at the event.
According to Sustainable Table's Web site, sustainable agriculture is a movement involving raising food in a way that is not only healthy for the consumer, but also respectful to the animals. It also involves finding ways to benefit rural farmers and minimizing harm to the environment.
Hillary Brown, manager of Local Burger, said she thought everyone should be involved in the organic
"You can't just keep taking from the earth. You have to give something back to it," Brown said. "It has everything to do with our immediate future and future generations."
Simran Sethi, Lacy Haynes Professional Chair at the School of Journalism and host of Sundance Channel's "The Green," will speak at the event.
"It is key for people to understand the connection between what they eat and where their food comes from." Sethi said.
food movement.
Sethi cited recent product recalls from China as one reason why people need to learn about locally made
"This is a matter of national security," she said.
foods.
Amy Harris, Overland Park senior, said she felt it was important for students to understand sustainable farming to help the environment.
"A lot of people haven't been educated on the little changes that can make a big difference," Harris said. "If students make those changes, it could create a domino effect throughout the world."
The Go Organic! film series will start at 7 p.m. Thursday at Liberty Hall. Admission is $5.
- Edited by Luke Morris
Go Organic! film series
When: 7 p.m. Thursday.
What: Four short documentary films about organic food and sustainable farming.
Where: Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St.
Who: Sponsored by Sustainable Table, Films for Action and Local Burger.
IRAQ
Bush encourages government to improve
BY DEB RIECHMANN ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONTEBELLO, Quebec
President Bush offered a tepid endorsement of the Iraqi government on Tuesday, yet brushed off a Democratic senator's call for the ouster of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Bush acknowledged his frustration with Iraqi leaders' inability to bridge political divisions, but he said only the Iraqi people can decide whether to sideline the troubled prime minister.
"Clearly, the Iraq government's got to do more," Bush said at the close of a two-day North American summit with the leaders of Mexico and Canada.
The Sept. 15 deadline for Bush's next progress report to Congress is
ress on the ground, and as they take the initiative from the enemy, they have a question: Will their elected leaders in Washington pull the rug out from under them just as they are gaining momentum and chang-
fast approaching, leaving the president little time to show that his U.S. troop buildup is succeeding in providing the enhanced security the Iraqi leaders need to forge a unified wav forward.
In a speech Wednesday to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City, Mo., Bush will argue that the troop buildup is helping bring former Sunni insurgents into the fight against al-Qaida and clearing
"Clearly, the Iraqi government's got to do more."
terrorists out of heavily populated areas.
"Our troops are seeing this prog.
Senate Armed Services Committee, said there is broad frustration with inaction from Iraq's central governing the dynamic on the ground in Iraq?" Bush says in his prepared remarks. The White House released excerpts of the speech Tuesday evening.
On Monday,
Sen, Carl Levin,
D-Mich., chairman of the
ment. Levin, who recently returned from Iraq, urged the Iraqi Parliament to oust al-Maliki and replace his government with one that is less sectarian and more unifying.
And Sen. John Warner, R-Va., a former Armed Services Committee chairman and an influential voice on military affairs, joined with Levin in issuing a statement saying that while Bush's military buildup in Iraq had "produced some credible and positive results," the political outlook was dim.
Bush spoke at a news conference in Montebello, Quebec, with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper before flying back to the United States to visit Minneapolis for a fundraiser and update about the Interstate 35W bridge collapse.
Petraeus and Ryan Crocker; the
U. S. ambassador to Iraq, are to report to Congress before Sept. 15 about the impact of the troop build-up that Bush ordered in January. Their report will provide the basis for Bush's decisions about the way forward in Iraq in terms of troop levels and tactics.
Over the past year, Bush has tempered his endorsement of al-Maliki. When they met in Jordan last November, the president called al-Maliki "the right guy for Iraq." Now, he continually prods al-Maliki to do more to forge political reconciliation before the temporary military buildup ends.
"I think there's a certain level of frustration with the leadership in general, inability to work — come together to get, for example, an oil revenue law passed or provincial elections," Bush said.
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Indian tribe promises protection Kaweahs allegedly sell memberships to illegal immigrant
LYNN BREZOSKY ASSOCIATED PRESS
HARLINGEN, Texas — An Indian tribe not recognized by the government sold memberships to illegal immigrants in a fraudulent scheme that promised protection from U.S. immigration laws, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott alleged Tuesday.
Abbott's office, which announced the Monday filing of a civil lawsuit against the Kawaeh Indian Nation Inc., of Wichita, Kan., said the group took up to $400 each from an unknown number of immigrants for the guarantee of a Social Security number and a "Certificate of Citizenship" card that brought protection from deportation proceedings.
The tribe told immigrants the card also would be good for U.S. citizenship if the Kawaeh nation gained federal recognition as an Indian tribe, Abbott said. The lawsuit seeks to stop what he alleges to be misleading recruitment and calls for a fine of up to $20,000 for each violation under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
"In reality, the card is legally ineffective and does not alter the purchaser's immigration status," Abbott said.
Abbott's lawsuit came amid reports that the tribe had complaints against
it from at least five states and was being investigated by a U.S. attorney in Kansas.
Last week,
the tribe's
secretary, a
woman from
El Salvador,
and her
Guatemalan
"I know a lot of it is a misunderstanding because we are not doing anything wrong."
Affairs denied the Kawaeh group recognition in 1985 because it was not a real tribe. A Kawaeh tribe did exist once, but is unrelated to the one that applied for recognition.
JENNIFER MIDDLEBROOK Tribe member
Immigration authorities have said becoming a member of a tribe gives no protection against deportation. A lawyer for the Washington-based National Congress of American Indians has called the Kaewahs "a total sham."
The federal Bureau of Indian
husband were charged in Wichita with federal immigration violations in what prosecutors called a multistate immigration scam.
Defendants in the Texas lawsuit
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The Kawhee Indian Nation said it was unaware of the lawsuit until contacted by The Associated Press at the tribe's Wichita headquarters. Webber's daughter, Jennifer Middlebrook, said her father does not take media calls.
tribe's membership benefits.
"I know a lot of it is a misunderstanding because we are not doing anything wrong," said Middlebrook, who also serves as the tribe's secretary of records. "Everything we are doing here is legal and to benefit everybody in the tribe."
She referred further comment to Manuel Urbina, the tribe's spokesman and high chief. He did not immediately return a phone message Tuesday.
In an interview Monday, before the Texas filing became public, Uriana said the tribe is not really telling illegal immigrants that they cannot be deported, but giving them identification and a certificate that they can show officials as proof they are members of the tribe.
"There is nothing to hide. ... I wouldn't be doing it if it was illegal," Urbina said.
Tipton's phone had been disconnected, and Ramirez did not immediately return a call for comment.
The lawsuit alleges Webber promotes himself as the titular head of the tribe and Tipton its ambassador to Texas. Ramirez held himself out as a pastor who promoted the tribe's membership benefits to illegal immigrants, temporary residents, and other non-U.S. citizens in the Rio Grande Valley and elsewhere in the state.
Abbott spokesman Tom Kelley said it was unclear how many violations there were in Texas or how many people had joined the tribe.
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