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What You Can Do Now - Call Congress About Impeachment Inquiry

10/9/2019

What You Can Do Now - Call Your Member of Congress About
the Impeachment Inquiry

A Message from the President

Considering the turmoil facing our democracy at this confusing time, we encourage all PACG members to call the offices of their Members of Congress daily to voice their opinions about the impeachment inquiry.
Tell your friends and voting-age family members to contact their representatives.

This is very simple but has enormous impact. Each call takes one or two minutes. You either speak to a staffer or leave a message. State your name, address and your message. Be brief, respectful and stay on point. It's also a good idea to thank the staffer - if you speak to one - for doing their job during this stressful time. If your Member is Congress is pursuing this situation to your satisfaction, tell them you are grateful for their diligence and hard work. If they are not, give them input.

Iowa Senators
Chuck Grassley - Davenport Office: 563-322-4331
WA DC Office: 202-224-3744

Joni Ernst - Davenport Office: 563-322-0677
WA DC Office: 202-224-3254

Illinois Senators
Dick Durbin - Rock Island: 309-786-5173
WA DC Office: 202-224-2152

Tammy Duckworth - Rock Island: 309-606-7060
WA DC Office: 202-224-2854

Your voice matters between elections - make it heard. Take 4 minutes out of your day to help make the change that you want to see. Put these numbers in your phone's Contacts and call daily. You will feel empowered.

Allison Ambrose

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What You Can Do Now - Call Your Senators and Tell Them #NoKavanaugh

10/1/2018

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What You Can Do Now - Call Your Senators and Tell Them #NoKavanaugh

Anyone who watched Dr. Christine Ford’s testimony on Thursday and the yelling, self-pitying, lying testimony of Brett Kavanaugh knows that Kavanaugh assaulted Dr. Ford when she was 15-years-old. Senators Grassley and Ernst know that as well. They intend to vote for Kavanaugh anyway.

We are asking you to call your Senators’ offices every day next week. Also, look for local #NoKavanaugh rallies that will come up on short notice by following our Progressive Action for the Common Good Facebook page.

Call your Senators and ask them to vote No on Kavanaugh, or to explain their Yes vote to you.

In Iowa:
Senator Grassley: 563-322-4331
Senator Ernst: 563-322-0677

In Illinois:
Senator Durbin: 309-786-5173
Senator Duckworth: 309-606-7060

Background information and talking points:

Senator Grassley has taken most of the heat on Kavanaugh. Let’s turn our attention to Senator Ernst. According to this article in the Des Moines Register, Senator Ernst expressed support for Kavanaugh on Friday, telling him:

“I would say to him, stay strong, I would say, continue on with the push forward and I would also say, 'God keep you and bless you,' because I do know how painful this process can be," she said.

This is the same Senator Ernst who has a section on Combating Sexual Assault on her website. There she writes:

Sexual assault is a horrendous crime, and we must work to ensure there is zero tolerance for it in our society. We won’t tolerate it in gyms, we won’t tolerate it on college campuses, and we won’t tolerate it in the military. Period. Additionally, we must develop and enforce policies to prevent sexual assault from happening in the first place.

Senator Ernst should update her website to clarify that she doesn’t actually have zero tolerance for sexual assault. It is okay for a Republican partisan hack that wants to be on the Supreme Court to sexually assault women. And from her past support of candidate Trump we know that a Republican nominee for President will also have Senator Ernst’s support, even if he sexually assaults women.

Call your Senators and ask them to justify their votes. Do they think Dr. Ford is lying? Do they think she is telling the truth, but they are okay with putting a sexual predator (and mean drunk) on the Supreme Court?

If you live in Illinois, call Senator Durbin and thank him for everything he has done to lift up the voices of Kavanaugh’s victims and keep this partisan hack off the Supreme Court. Call Senator Duckworth and ask her to vote against Kavanaugh.

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What You Can Do Now: Local Actions to Reunite Families

6/22/2018

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What You Can Do Now: Local Actions to Reunite Families

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 at Daily Kos: The Immigration Law No One is Talking About.

Actions you can take:

Attend a Rally or Prayer Vigil.

Defending the Children Rally
            When: Saturday, June 23 at 1 pm
            Where: Faye’s Field, near the Bettendorf Public Library, 18th and Spruce Hills Drive
            Music by Laura Rodriguez. Bring signs (Where Are the Children?, etc.)

Prayer Vigil and Letter Writing Action Event
            When: Saturday, June 23 at 7 pm
            Where: First Presbyterian Church, 1702 Iowa St, Davenport
            Contact: styrt@fpcdavenport.org to read/lead

Keep Families Together Rally: Madres Unidas/Mothers United
            When: Saturday, June 30 at 11 am
            Where: Vander Veer Park, Davenport
            Register to attend here.

            We are collecting new or gently used children’s shoes to use during our action.
            We will then donate them. Through noon on Friday June 29 you can bring the shoes
            to Metropolitan Community Church, 2930 Locust St, Davenport. Please drop off
            during business hours.

Keep Families Together Rally
            When: Monday, July 2 at 5 pm
            Where: In front of Davenport offices of Senators Ernst and Grassley
            Hosted by: Quad Cities Interfaith

            We will be delivering a cage with stuffed animals to their offices, calling
on them to take a stand and release the 2,000 children in detention.

Call Congress to tell them:

You want the kidnapped children returned to their parents.
End the zero-tolerance policy that would lock up families indefinitely.
Bring back the Family Case Management Program that Trump ended in June 2017 which 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, PACG Board President

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What You Can Do Now - Call on Congress to End Family Separation

6/17/2018

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What You Can Do Now - Call on Congress to End Family Separation

A disturbing photo of a two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker .

The story in the Washington Post containing the above photo : ‘America is better than this’: What a doctor saw in a Texas shelter for migrant children.

Call Congress. Let them know you want the practice of family separation to end. Ask them to support bills that will help reunite children already taken from their parents and prohibit future removals. Those include the Senate's HELP Separated Children Act and Keep Families Together Act.

The American Civil Liberties Union offers a script for calling the Senate, although please feel free to use my outraged comments below if you prefer!

Iowa:

Senator Chuck Grassley (202) 224-3744
Senator Joni Ernst (202) 224-3254
Representative Dave Loebsack (202) 225-6576

Ask Senators Grassley and Ernst why they are not cosponsoring legislation to keep ICE from tearing children away from their parents and locking them up in detention centers, including “tent cities”. Do they approve of this Trump Administration practice? Do they agree with Attorney General Jeff Sessions that this response to immigrant parents and children seeking asylum is justified by the “Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13 to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order”?

Ask Representative Loebsack what the House is doing to end family separation.

Illinois:

Senator Tammy Duckworth (202) 224-2854
Senator Dick Durbin (202) 224-2152
Representative Cheri Bustos (202) 225-5905

Thank Senators Duckworth and Durbin, who are both cosponsors of the HELP Separated Children Act and Keep Families Together Act.

Ask Representative Bustos what the House is doing to end family separation.

Alta Price, PACG Civil Rights Forum

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What You Can Do Now - Call Congress About Impeachment Inquiry

What You Can Do Now - Call Your Member of Congress About
the Impeachment Inquiry

What You Can Do Now - Call Your Senators and Tell Them #NoKavanaugh

What You Can Do Now - Call Your Senators and Tell Them #NoKavanaugh

What You Can Do Now: Local Actions to Reunite Families

What You Can Do Now: Local Actions to Reunite Families

What You Can Do Now - Call on Congress to End Family Separation

What You Can Do Now - Call on Congress to End Family Separation

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What You Can Do Now - Call Congress About Impeachment Inquiry

What You Can Do Now - Call Your Member of Congress About​the Impeachment Inquiry

What You Can Do Now - Call Your Senators and Tell Them #NoKavanaugh

What You Can Do Now - Call Your Senators and Tell Them #NoKavanaugh

What You Can Do Now: Local Actions to Reunite Families

What You Can Do Now: Local Actions to Reunite Families

What You Can Do Now - Call on Congress to End Family Separation

What You Can Do Now - Call on Congress to End Family Separation

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What You Can Do Now - Call Your Member of Congress About
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