Category: Environment - PACG - Progressive Action for the Common Good

Go Plastic Free in July - What You Can Do Now

7/2/2025

Be part of the solution - Plastic Free July

Environmental Forum

Plastic Free Foundation

Join the Plastic Free July Movement. Be part of the solution to beat plastic pollution. Here are some tips and ideas to reduce plastic waste. Take a look at this link to learn what you can do!

Susan Leuthauser (she/her)

July 2025 Green Drinks-RI WER Tour PACG Events

6/27/2025

July Green Drinks - Tour Rock Island's West End Revitalization
Thursday, July 10th at 5:00 pm

Martin Luther King Center parking lot
630 9th Street
Rock Island IL (map)Environmental Forum

The Rock Island West End Revitalization (WER) initiative has made significant strides to grow this historical neighborhood. Improvements made to Rauch Family Park and Franklin Field made these sites more user friendly to the community. Avery Pearl, WER Coordinator will lead us on a tour of these areas.

The tour will begin from the Martin Luther King Center Parking Lot. We will be driving to some of the sites. Bring a friend.

Susan Leuthauser (she/her)

June 2025 Green Drinks - Sustainable Farming PACG Event

5/27/2025

June Green Drinks - Sustainable Farming
Thursday, June 19th at 5:00 pm

Friends of MLK Interpretive Center
501 N Brady Street
Davenport, IA (map)

Environmental Forum

A sixth-generation farmer, Todd continues his family's 160-year-old legacy, growing corn and soybeans on Western Family Farms, the oldest Black-owned farm in Iowa. Todd will explain how modern, sustainable, and equitable practices are incorporated into their farming activities.

Susan Leuthauser (she/her)

Plastic Pollution - After Action Report

5/6/2025

Plastic Pollution - After Action Report

Lori McCollum provided a presentation to the Adult Religious Education class at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Bettendorf on Monday evening about the hazards of Plastic Pollution. Approximately 20 congregants attended the presentation. Handouts were provided.

Lori McCollum

Get free seeds at the Seed Library - Of Interest to Our Community

5/6/2025

Davenport Seed Library

Davenport Public Library
Main Library
321 Main Street
Davenport, IA (map)

Davenport Public Library

Davenport Seed Library provides free seeds to residents to promote lifelong learning and encourage stewardship of natural resources. It is available during open hours for patrons of all ages! Supplies and varieties vary, but the collection usually includes vegetables, flowers, microgreens, and herbs. Seeds are available while supplies last.

There is no cost to borrow seeds. There is a limit of five (5) seed packets per month per household. You are not required to return any saved seeds to the library, but may if you wish! We may accept donated seeds but prefer clean, open-pollinated, or heirloom seeds. Please share your gardening success when using seeds from the Seed Library! Add #dplseeds and tag @davenportlibrary wherever you post!

For more resources on starting, growing, and harvesting vegetables and flowers in your own backyard, visit the Seed Library Growing Companion LibGuide.

Davenport Public Library
563-326-7832

The Reality of Project 2025-Of Interest to Our Community

4/29/2025

The Reality of Project 2025

Red Wine and Blue

A grassroots organization Red Wine & Blue has been keeping track of the implementation of 2025 projects. They also provide recommendations on how we can fight back. For more information go here,

You can contact them or subscribe to their email update here,

Red Wine & Blue

Earth Day at the Farmers Market - PACG Event

4/14/2025

Earth Day Every Day Celebration
Saturday, May 17th from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm

Freight House Farmers Market
421 W River Drive
Davenport, IA (map)

Environmental Forum

Join us to celebrate Earth Day Every Day. Find out what local environmental groups are doing. Meet with like-minded folks and make new friends.

Susan Leuthauser (she/her)

Celebrate Earth Month in April - What You Can Do Now

4/7/2025

Celebrate Earth Month every April - Take action to save the planet

Environmental Forum

It's up to us to protect our planet. We all need to do our part. It's not too late to start. Take action today and every day.

We will be celebrating Earth Day at the Farmers Market in Davenport, IA on Saturday, May 17th from 9 am to 1 pm so mark your calendars and join us then.

Susan Leuthauser (she/her)

Hands Off rally has huge turnout - After Action Report

4/5/2025

Hands Off! An estimated 2000 Quad Cities activists fight back

Mass Mobilization on Saturday, April 5th

PACG joined thousands of protesters at the "Hands Off!" Rally at Friends of MLK Park and Interpretive Center in Davenport, IA, on Saturday April 5th from 11 am to 1:00 pm. This is one of many such events held across the country opposing the actions taken by the president and his staff on human rights, employment, civil rights, immigration, education, the environment, and many other issues that affect the daily lives of all Americans. On this chilly morning, concerned citizens with signs and voices filled the park to listen to speakers and to rally the traffic on both sides of Brady Street from the bottom of the hill to the top. Cars driving by honked their support of the event. We are making an impact!

Twelve hundred rallies were organized by Indivisible and other groups, and every state in the union had at least one rally. We published this post about the plans for the Davenport rally earlier this week.

Here's the first bit of press about our rally: Hands Off rally draws big crowd in Davenport by Ed Tibbetts.

We are also using two videos by Stella Roeser. Here is the crowd driving up Brady. Here is a walking view of some of the crowd.

The images below were from Stella and Kyle Roeser and Ann McCluskey. Thank you!

Hands Off Mobilization - Action Alert

4/1/2025

Hands Off! Quad Cities Fights Back Action Alert!
Saturday, April 5th at 11:00 am

MLK Interpretive Center
501 Brady St
Davenport, IA (map)

Indivisible QC POP People Over Politics (East Moline)

PACG encourages everyone to participate in this nation-wide April 5th Hands Off! protest. The East Moline Indivisible chapter, QC POP People Over Politics, is organizing the Quad Cities peaceful protest rally. You can find them at the Indivisible home page by scrolling down to Find A Group and searching for Indivisible QC POP People over Politics.

Make a Hands Off sign and come to the rally!

Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. Quad Cities is fighting back!

They're taking everything they can get their hands on - our health care, our data, our jobs, our services - and daring the world to stop them. This is a crisis, and the time to act is now.

🚨 On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the streets to fight back with a clear message: Hands off! 🚨

Where: Friends of MLK Park and Interpretive Center, 501 Brady St, Davenport, IA

When: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. April 5, 2025

This mass mobilization day is our message to the world that we do not consent to the destruction of our government and our economy for the benefit of Trump and his billionaire allies. Alongside Americans across the country, we are marching, rallying, and protesting to demand a stop the chaos and build an opposition movement against the looting of our country.

A core principle behind all Hands Off! events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.

This is the link for downloadable signs: handsoff2025.com There are signs in both English and Spanish. We encourage you to bring a sign but you do not have to.

This rally is for both Congressional District #17 for Illinois and District #1 for Iowa.

Alta Price (she/her)