Category: Environmental Forum

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)

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Plastic Pollution - After Action Report

5/6/2025

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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

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Know your protest rights - Of Interest to Our Community

5/6/2025

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Know your protest rights

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)

The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the exercise of speech rights. Make sure you’re prepared by brushing up on your rights before heading out into the streets.

Are you going to continue to protest to stand up for your values? Are you organizing the protest or just planning to attend? What can you take pictures of when you are there? What if the police approach you during the protest? Know your rights! Read the article here.

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Separation of church and state - Of Interest to Our Community

5/6/2025

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Is Iowa saying bye-bye to the separation of church and state?

Bleeding Heartland

PACG's dear friend and co-founder of One Human Family-QCA, Rabbi Henry Karp, wrote this article for Bleeding Heartland. It's an important read.

As an Iowan, a Jew, and a rabbi who has served the Quad Cities Jewish community for nearly 40 years, I was beside myself when I read Dr. Thomas Lecaque’s guest column in Iowa Starting Line about the school chaplain bill moving through the Iowa legislature. Having made its way through the House and the Senate Education Committee, it is now eligible for floor debate in the Senate.

House File 884 is an offense of the highest degree to every non-Christian faith community in our state. It empowers school districts to hire chaplains “to provide support, services, and programs as assigned by the board of directors of the school district.”

If that sounds innocuous, think again, for the Senate Education Committee has already rejected an amendment that would restrict school chaplains from proselytizing students. So much for religious neutrality in our schools!

Such neutrality is dead when these school chaplains have been given the go-ahead to use their positions to promote their faith among the students. It should go without saying that doing so makes every non-Christian student in Iowa’s public schools—Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Shinto, Sikhs, Atheists, and so on—vulnerable to the evangelizing efforts of these chaplains. That is simply not acceptable. Read the article here.

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The Reality of Project 2025-Of Interest to Our Community

4/29/2025

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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

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Earth Day at the Farmers Market - PACG Event

4/14/2025

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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)

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Celebrate Earth Month in April - What You Can Do Now

4/7/2025

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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)

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Hands Off rally has huge turnout - After Action Report

4/5/2025

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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!

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Hands Off Mobilization - Action Alert

4/1/2025

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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)

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Save the Milan Bottoms - Action Alert!

3/31/2025

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Save the Milan Bottoms! Action Alert!
Monday, April 14th at 5:30 pm

Rock Island City Hall
1528 3rd Ave
Rock Island, IL (map)

Save Milan Bottoms and PACG Environmental Forum

Despite large public outcry, Rock Island City Council is moving forward with plans to develop a truck stop and marijuana dispensary near the Milan Bottoms. The wetlands at Milan Bottoms is the largest bald eagle roost in the lower 48 states and is also home to other various endangered species. Building close to this natural environment will be ecologically devastating.

Please come to the Rock Island City Council meeting on April 14th to show opposition to the proposed development. Bringing signs and making a public comment to the council are encouraged!

If you have not already signed the Protect Milan Bottoms - The Quad Cities' Largest Intact Natural Area petition, please do so now. We have over 3000 signatures but would like the City Council to know that Quad Citians care about this issue! We cannot take our eagles for granted!

Thank you for caring about wildlife.

Tabitha

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June 2025 Green Drinks - Sustainable Farming PACG Event

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

Plastic Pollution - After Action Report

Plastic Pollution - After Action Report

Know your protest rights - Of Interest to Our Community

Know your protest rights

Separation of church and state - Of Interest to Our Community

Is Iowa saying bye-bye to the separation of church and state?

The Reality of Project 2025-Of Interest to Our Community

The Reality of Project 2025

Earth Day at the Farmers Market - PACG Event

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

Celebrate Earth Month in April - What You Can Do Now

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

Hands Off rally has huge turnout - After Action Report

Hands Off! An estimated 2000 Quad Cities activists fight back

Hands Off Mobilization - Action Alert

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

Save the Milan Bottoms - Action Alert!

Save the Milan Bottoms! Action Alert!
Monday, April 14th at 5:30 pm

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

Plastic Pollution - After Action Report

Know your protest rights

Is Iowa saying bye-bye to the separation of church and state?

The Reality of Project 2025

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

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

Hands Off! An estimated 2000 Quad Cities activists fight back

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

Save the Milan Bottoms! Action Alert!Monday, April 14th at 5:30 pm

Archives

Categories

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

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

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

Save the Milan Bottoms! Action Alert!
Monday, April 14th at 5:30 pm