Category: Civil Rights - PACG

Support the Transgender Community - Wednesday, Nov 7 at 7:00 pm

11/6/2018

Support the Transgender Community - Wednesday, Nov 7 at 7:00 pm

Civil Rights Forum
Metropolitan Community Church, 2930 W Locust St, Davenport, IA (maplink)

The Board of PACG voted to sponsor this rally in support of the Transgender Community. We encourage you to come and show your own support.

The Trump Administration is trying to erase transgender persons out of existence and deny them civil rights protections. Read more about the proposed changes at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Alta Price

November 2018 Immigration Meetings

10/28/2018

November 2018 Immigration Meetings

The PACG Civil Rights Forum is working on its own and in coalition with other community organizations on Immigration. Consider coming to one of these upcoming meetings on Immigration issues:

Nov 3 (Saturday), 9 am to noon at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the QC - Sanctuary 102 Presentation (contact sanctuary@uucqc.org for more information)
Nov 10 (Saturday), 10 am at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the QC - QC Sanctuary Coalition (contact John Dunsheath with questions)
Nov 10 (Saturday), 6 to 8 pm at First Baptist Church in Moline - Quad Cities Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees Citizenship Honors Dinner (free dinner) (contact QCAIR office at 563-594-0854)
Nov 11 (Sunday), 4 pm at Greatest Grains - PACG Civil Rights Forum (contact Alta Price with questions)
Nov 14 (Wednesday), 1:30 pm at the Diocese in Davenport - One Human Family Immigration Task Force (contact Sister Nancy Miller with questions)
Nov 19 (Monday), 6:30 pm at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Bettendorf - Quad Cities Interfaith Task Force Assembly (includes Immigration and Restorative Justice) (contact Quad Cities Interfaith with questions

Sanctuary 102: November 3, 2018

10/27/2018

Sanctuary 102 Presentation
Saturday, November 3 at 9 AM to noon
UUCQC, 3707 Eastern Ave, Davenport, IA (map link)

Click on the file below to download the flyer to invite your friends.

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Book Club News for October, November and December 2018

10/9/2018

October 23 (Tuesday) at 5:30 pm: International Women Authors Series with Mexican Author Valeria Luiselli

In my other book club I have very much enjoyed the Annual International Women Authors series. Consider attending the 12th Annual International Women Authors Series dinner on Tuesday, October 23, 5:30 pm with Mexican author Valeria Luiselli. The dinner is at the Radisson in downtown Davenport. The cost is $40 (less if you fill a whole table). You must register in advance, and they could sell out. Her books are short and you could probably get some of them read by October 23. Also, she wrote Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, a book of essays interviewing children fleeing violence in Central America that is very pertinent to the work we are doing on Immigration in the Civil Rights Forum.

Alta Price

**November 10 (Saturday) at 11:30 am: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas**

Read more about it at the author’s website. There is also a movie based on the book, so PACG will go to the movie as well (on a different date). Check back later for the location.

**December 1 (Saturday) at 11:30 am: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander**

Read more about it at the NewJimCrow.com website. We will be reading this with the folks in PACG’s new Issue Forum on Drug Policy. (Join the Drug Policy Facebook group or visit the Drug Policy section of our pacgqc.org website to get involved.) Check back later for the location.

Community Events: Quad Cities Interfaith October 2018 Task Force Assembly

10/9/2018

Join Quad Cities Interfaith
for our upcoming

Issues Task Force Assembly
October 22, 2018, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
St. Mary’s Parrish House, 516 Fillmore Street, Davenport (map link)

Issue Task Forces will be strategizing on advancing our campaigns for:
Immigrant Rights
Mass Incarceration/Restorative Justice
Additional issues as they emerge

Note from PACG:
Immigrant Rights will be of interest to our Civil Rights Forum
Mass Incarceration/Restorative Justice will be of interest to our Civil Rights Forum
and Drug Policy Forum

Contact Lead Organizer Aaron Wagner, QCI, at
641-990-4594, aaronwagnerqci@gmail.com, with
questions or input leading up the October 22nd meeting

October 2018 Immigration Meetings

10/3/2018

October 2018 Immigration Meetings

The PACG Civil Rights Forum is working on its own and also in coalition with other community organizations on Immigration. Consider coming to one of these upcoming meetings on Immigration issues:

Oct 13 (Saturday), 10 am at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the QC, 3707 Eastern Ave, Davenport - QC Sanctuary Coalition (contact John Dunsheath with questions)

Oct 14 (Sunday), 4 pm at Greatest Grains, 1600 N Harrison, Davenport - PACG Civil Rights Forum (contact Alta Price with questions)

Oct 22 (Monday), 6:30 pm at St. Mary’s Parish House, 516 Fillmore St, Davenport - Quad Cities Interfaith Task Force Assembly(includes Immigration and Restorative Justice) (contact Quad Cities Interfaith with questions)

Oct 24 (Wednesday), 1 pm at the Chancery of the Catholic Diocese of Davenport, 780 W Central Park, Davenport - One Human Family Immigration Task Force (contact Sister Nancy Miller with questions)

National Voter Registration Day - September 25, 2018

9/3/2018

National Voter Registration Day for the Iowa and Illinois Quad Cities

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PACG encourages its supporters to attend this local National Voter Registration Day event (click on the link to learn more about this worthy organization). Use the downloadable flyer above to invite your friends and neighbors.

National Voter Registration Day is a national holiday celebrating our democracy. It was first observed in 2012 and has been growing in popularity every year since. Held on the fourth Tuesday of September, National Voter Registration Day will be observed on Tuesday, September 25th this year. The holiday has been endorsed by the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS). It is further supported by the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED).

Working Together Online Fund Drive: Make America Progressive Again - Civil Rights - Juvenile Justice

8/26/2018

Jane Duax attended a PACG Civil Rights panel discussion at St. Ambrose on racial disparities in sentencing and mass incarceration. She was so impressed with the panel, she took the program from the event and started meeting individually with each panelist. Out of those efforts came the Juvenile Justice Working Group of Scott County. The group she founded - inspired by this PACG event - meets every other Friday to work on Juvenile Justice issues involving leaders and activists in the Quad Cities. Contact Jane to get involved.

Working Together Online Fund Drive: Make America Progressive Again - Civil Rights Forum and Immigration

8/26/2018

The PACG Civil Rights Forum tackles important current issues, including Immigration. We have worked in coalition with other groups in the community, including LULAC, Quad Cities Interfaith, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Quad Cities, the Quad Cities Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees, and One Human Family.

This video was taken by Alta Price in Iowa City after an Immigration Justice Summit at the University of Iowa Labor Center. Maria and Margie talk about our work on DACA and other immigration issues in coalition with other groups.

You can join the PACG Civil Rights Facebook group.

What You Can Do Now - Call Congress Now to Reunite Families!

7/3/2018

Civil Rights Forum

Despite Trump’s executive order, our country is still locking up children on our southern border, hopefully, without separating them from their parents. Families seeking asylum can be locked up indefinitely under this executive order. There is NO plan to reunite the kidnapped children with their parents, some of whom are in the process of being deported.

Read this information from the ACLU: Fact-Checking Family Separation

The way we treat refugees seeking asylum violates international law and treaties we have signed, as discussed in this diary atDaily Kos: The Immigration Law No One is Talking About.

Call Congress now!

Let them know you want the kidnapped children returned to their parents.

Ask them to end the zero-tolerance policy that would lock up families indefinitely.

Bring back the Family Case Management Program that Trump ended in June 2017which allowed families to be placed into a program, together, that connected them with a case manager and legal orientation that ensured they understood how to apply for asylum and attend immigration court proceedings. The program had a 99.6 percent appearance rate at immigration court hearings for those enrolled in the program.

Iowa:

Senator Chuck Grassley (202) 224-3744

Senator Joni Ernst (202) 224-3254

Rep. Dave Loebsack (202) 225-6576

Illinois:

Senator Tammy Duckworth (202) 224-2854

Senator Dick Durbin (202) 224-2152

Rep. Cheri Bustos (202) 225-5905

Alta Price