[Texgreen] Fw: Note from Iowa writer
Steve Rossignol
stever@moment.net
Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:11:48 -0600
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0045_01C6FB31.E16834F0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
----- Original Message -----=20
From: Mike Palecek=20
To: sptx@moment.net=20
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 1:09 AM
Subject: Note from Iowa writer
Novelist booking venues for spring '07 book tour
Former U.S. political prisoner, candidate, reporter
Hello =97 I am organizing a book tour for the spring, to promote a =
novel now being sent our for review, and to be released next year.
Would you like to talk about sheduling an event with your =
organization?
=97 Mike Palecek
"The American Dream" is published by CWG press.
__________________________________________________
About me, my previous books: www.iowapeace.com
=97 http://howlingdogpress.com/bigfoot.htm
=97 =
http://interventionmag.com/cms/index.php?name=3DNews&file=3Darticle&sid=3D=
1290
=97 Appeared on Arts Magazine on WBAI radio, New York City.
The interview ran Tuesday, Aug. 1 at 2 pm. Palecek appeared following =
Oliver Stone.
Talked about "Terror Nation".
["Looking For Bigfoot" was named to January Magazine's "Best of 2005" =
list.]
_____________________________
My books:
*Killing George Bush, Publish America
* Joe Coffee's Revolution, Badger Books
* Twins, Badger Books
* The Last Liberal Outlaw, New Leaf
* Looking For Bigfoot, Howling Dog Press
* Terror Nation, Mainstay Press
* The American Dream, CWG Press [Spring '07]
Non-fiction
Prophets Without Honor, Algora Publishing
Mike Palecek, former federal prisoner for peace, small-town newspaper =
reporter, editor, publisher, and the Iowa Democratic Party nominee for =
Congress, Fifth District, 2000.
=95Attended Catholic seminary 1979, St. John Vianney, on campus of =
College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.
=95 Left seminary 1980 to go to New York City and volunteer at =
Catholic Worker, on Bowery
=95 Other stuff
=95 1980s the Paleceks lived in a resistance community in north Omaha. =
Mike was arrested several times at Offutt Air Force base, served five =
jail terms: ten days, thirty days, fifty days, six months, six months. =
Served time at Douglas County Jail [Omaha], Sarpy County [Papillion, =
Nebr.], Lancaster County [Lincoln, Nebr.], Pottawatamie County [Council =
Bluffs, Iowa], Metropolitan Correctional Center [Chicago], Terre Haute =
Penitentiary [Terre Haute, Indiana], Leavenworth Penitentiary =
[Leavenworth, Kansas], El Reno Federal Correctional Institution [El =
Reno, Oklahoma], Midland, Texas city jail, La Tuna FCI [El Paso, Texas].
=95 Mike became clinically depressed his last time in jail =97 the =
six-month stint in the Council Bluffs jail, perhaps post-traumatic =
stress from previous jail time, combined with missing his two-year-old =
son. He left the life of civil disobedience and went into journalism, =
working at small newspapers in Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa and =
receiving various writing and photography awards.
=95 While working at a weekly newspaper in the Nebraska Sandhills he =
wrote a column against the first Gulf War: =93I don=92t support the =
troops=94. His column was cancelled, the family was threatened, they =
left to find their own paper to operate.
=95 The tiny newspaper Ruth and Mike ran in the early =9190s in =
southeast Minnesota won the Newspaper of the Year Award from the =
Minnesota Newspaper Association. The paper went out of business later =
that year.
=95 Mike worked as a reporter, editor and publisher at the Ainsworth =
[Neb.] Star-Journal, Byron [MN] Review, Cherokee [IA] Daily Times, and =
the N=92West Iowa Review. He also wrote for the Sioux Falls Argus =
Leader, Rochester Post-Bulletin, Norfolk Daily News and The National =
Catholic Reporter
=95 Mike ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000 and won the =
nomination of the Iowa Democratic Party for the Fifth District. He =
walked from his home in Sheldon to the IRS office in Sioux City [one =
week walk] to turn in a crossed-out tax form saying he would not pay for =
war, as part of his campaign. [In a previous run as a write-in candidate =
he walked from the Air National Guard Base in Sioux City to the base in =
Fort Dodge to protest Clinton=92s bombing of Yugoslavia.]
=95 He received over 65,000 votes in a conservative district on an =
anti-prison, anti-military, pro-Hispanic immigration platform.
=95 Palecek left newspaper work in 1997 to concentrate on novels.
------=_NextPart_000_0045_01C6FB31.E16834F0
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman><?color><?param =
05C6,05C6,05C6><HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Dwindows-1252">
<META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=3DGENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----=20
<DIV style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A=20
title=3Dmpalecek@rconnect.com href=3D"mailto:mpalecek@rconnect.com">Mike =
Palecek</A>=20
</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=3Dsptx@moment.net=20
href=3D"mailto:sptx@moment.net">sptx@moment.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 29, 2006 1:09 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Note from Iowa writer</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE>Novelist booking venues for spring '07 book =
tour<?/color><?/fontfamily><?color><?param =
05C6,05C6,05C6><BR><B><?fontfamily><?param Times New =
Roman><?bigger><?bigger><?bigger><?bigger>Former=20
U.S. political prisoner, candidate, =
reporter<?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/fontfamily></B><?bigge=
r><?bigger><?bigger><?bigger><BR><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger>=
<BR><BR><B><?fontfamily><?param Times New =
Roman><?/fontfamily></B><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>Hello=20
=97 I am organizing a book tour for the spring, to promote a novel now =
being=20
sent our for review, and to be released next =
year.<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>Would =
you like=20
to talk about sheduling an event with your=20
organization?<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New =
Roman>=97=20
Mike=20
Palecek<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New =
Roman>"The=20
American Dream" is published by CWG =
press.<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New =
Roman>__________________________________________________<?/fontfamily><BR=
><BR><I><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>About=20
me, my previous books:<?/fontfamily></I><?fontfamily><?param Times New =
Roman>=20
www.iowapeace.com<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New =
Roman>=97=20
=
http://howlingdogpress.com/bigfoot.htm<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily>=
<?param Times New Roman>=97=20
=
http://interventionmag.com/cms/index.php?name=3DNews&file=3Darticle&a=
mp;sid=3D1290<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New =
Roman>=97=20
Appeared on <I>Arts Magazine</I> on WBAI radio, New York=20
City.<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>The =
interview=20
ran Tuesday, Aug. 1 at 2 pm. Palecek appeared following Oliver =
Stone.<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>Talked =
about=20
"Terror Nation".<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times =
New Roman>["Looking=20
For Bigfoot" was named to January Magazine's "Best of 2005" =
list.]<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New =
Roman>_____________________________<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?p=
aram Times New Roman>My=20
books:<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New =
Roman>*<B>Killing=20
George Bush</B>, Publish =
America<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>* =
<B>Joe=20
Coffee's Revolution</B>, Badger =
Books<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>*=20
<B>Twins</B>, Badger Books<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param =
Times New Roman>* <B>The Last=20
Liberal Outlaw</B>, New Leaf<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param =
Times New Roman>* <B>Looking=20
For Bigfoot</B>, Howling Dog =
Press<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>* =
<B>Terror=20
Nation</B>, Mainstay Press<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param =
Times New Roman>* <B>The=20
American Dream</B>, CWG Press [Spring =
'07]<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New =
Roman>Non-fiction<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><B><?fontfamily><?param Times New =
Roman>Prophets=20
Without Honor<?/fontfamily></B><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>, =
Algora=20
Publishing<?/fontfamily><BR><BR><BR><B><I><?fontfamily><?param Times =
New Roman>Mike=20
Palecek, former federal prisoner for =
peace<?/fontfamily></I></B><I><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>,=20
small-town newspaper reporter, editor, publisher, and the Iowa =
Democratic=20
Party nominee for Congress, Fifth District, =
2000.<?/fontfamily></I><BR><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New =
Roman>=95Attended=20
Catholic seminary 1979, St. John Vianney, on campus of College of St. =
Thomas,=20
St. Paul, Minnesota.<?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New =
Roman>=95=20
Left seminary 1980 to go to New York City and volunteer at Catholic =
Worker, on=20
Bowery<?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>=95 Other =
stuff<?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>=95 1980s =
the=20
Paleceks lived in a resistance community in north Omaha. Mike was =
arrested=20
several times at Offutt Air Force base, served five jail terms: ten =
days,=20
thirty days, fifty days, six months, six months. Served time at =
Douglas County=20
Jail [Omaha], Sarpy County [Papillion, Nebr.], Lancaster County =
[Lincoln,=20
Nebr.], Pottawatamie County [Council Bluffs, Iowa], Metropolitan =
Correctional=20
Center [Chicago], Terre Haute Penitentiary [Terre Haute, Indiana], =
Leavenworth=20
Penitentiary [Leavenworth, Kansas], El Reno Federal Correctional =
Institution=20
[El Reno, Oklahoma], Midland, Texas city jail, La Tuna FCI [El Paso, =
Texas].<?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>=95 Mike =
became=20
clinically depressed his last time in jail =97 the six-month stint in =
the=20
Council Bluffs jail, perhaps post-traumatic stress from previous jail =
time,=20
combined with missing his two-year-old son. He left the life of civil=20
disobedience and went into journalism, working at small newspapers in=20
Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa and receiving various writing and =
photography=20
awards.<?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>=95 =
While working=20
at a weekly newspaper in the Nebraska Sandhills he wrote a column =
against the=20
first Gulf War: =93I don=92t support the troops=94. His column was =
cancelled, the=20
family was threatened, they left to find their own paper to =
operate.<?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>=95 The =
tiny=20
newspaper Ruth and Mike ran in the early =9190s in southeast Minnesota =
won the=20
Newspaper of the Year Award from the Minnesota Newspaper Association. =
The=20
paper went out of business later that =
year.<?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>=95 Mike =
worked as a=20
reporter, editor and publisher at the Ainsworth [Neb.] Star-Journal, =
Byron=20
[MN] Review, Cherokee [IA] Daily Times, and the N=92West Iowa Review. =
He also=20
wrote for the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Rochester Post-Bulletin, =
Norfolk Daily=20
News and The National Catholic =
Reporter<?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>=95 Mike =
ran for=20
the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000 and won the nomination of =
the Iowa=20
Democratic Party for the Fifth District. He walked from his home in =
Sheldon to=20
the IRS office in Sioux City [one week walk] to turn in a crossed-out =
tax form=20
saying he would not pay for war, as part of his campaign. [In a =
previous run=20
as a write-in candidate he walked from the Air National Guard Base in =
Sioux=20
City to the base in Fort Dodge to protest Clinton=92s bombing of =
Yugoslavia.]<?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>=95 =
He=20
received over 65,000 votes in a conservative district on an =
anti-prison,=20
anti-military, pro-Hispanic immigration =
platform.<?/fontfamily><BR><?fontfamily><?param Times New Roman>=95 =
Palecek left=20
newspaper work in 1997 to concentrate on=20
novels.<?/fontfamily><BR><?/color><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
------=_NextPart_000_0045_01C6FB31.E16834F0--