Category: Holiday Party

Annual Holiday Party 2022 - Saturday, December 3rd

11/2/2022

Join us for our Annual Holiday Party!
Saturday, December 3rd from 5:30 to 8:00 pm

German American Heritage Center
712 W 2nd Street
Davenport, Iowa 52802 (map)

A Message from the Board

Join us at the German American Heritage Center for a meal and help us celebrate another year of PACG's activism!

Although this event is free, we need you to register here.

The main course will be catered. Please bring a side dish or dessert to share.

We also ask that, if possible, you bring your own dishware, silverware and reusable napkin. This follows our PACG environmental principle of sustainability.

We will present the annual Dick Fallow Social Justice Grant Award to a worthy, local recipient.

Optional Holiday Gift: Every year we also ask for gently used books for the library for Cobblestone residents, either adult or children's books. They do not need to be wrapped.

If you’re one of our many new members this year, come find out how much fun we progressives have in the holiday season!

Contact our Office Manager with any questions.

PACG Holiday Party Committee

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2020 Year-End Summary

12/9/2020

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PACG 2020 Year-End Summary

A Message from the President

PACG wishes all of its many members a Happy Holiday and Peace in the New Year!

Our Board of Directors took the time to share a personal message to each of you. View that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82wmSk7vLfQ.

This has been a challenging year for us all. Thanks to dedicated volunteers, our generous donors and a little creative thinking, PACG has adapted to organizing and working for social justice during the pandemic. Our PACG Board and Forums have met via Zoom throughout these last 9 months. PACG bought a corporate Zoom license and we decided to share it with other social action agencies in the Quad Cities area. This new format has taught us a lot about how to set up successful and secure Zoom meetings. We made our voice stronger and were able to reach a broader progressive audience. We collaborated with partner agencies: Quad Cities Interfaith, Sisters of St. Francis (in Clinton), the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), One Human Family, Catalyst Kitchen, United Way, Augustana College, St. Ambrose University, Wapsi River Center, Western Illinois University, Iowa Interfaith Power and Light, Our Lady of the Prairie and Quad Cities Interfaith.

The PACG Board and our groups have continued to be active. The Civil Rights Forum, Environmental Forum, and Health Care Reform Forum and Book Club have met with regularity during a very unusual time.

The PACG Civil Rights Forum began the year working for restorative justice by meeting with those involved with the anti-immigration rally at the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church. Members also met with Iowa US Senate candidate, Theresa Greenfield, to deliver the message, “Children do not belong in detention camps.” In May PACG signed on to a Protect Iowa Workers statement and joined a broad coalition of Iowans to protect the safety of Iowa’s workers during the global pandemic. The Forum is also active in the Juvenile Justice Coalition of the Quad Cities.

The PACG Environmental Forum screened the film, From Paris to Pittsburgh, at Augustana College in Rock Island. In March they promoted the “Plant 1000 Trees” event. They co-sponsored a virtual screening of the film The Story of Plastics at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the QC. The forum assembled a panel of sponsors including Rock Island Soil and Conservation District and Niabi Zoo to discuss the film after the showing.

Because of the pandemic, the forum reconfigured its Earth Day Celebrations.

In May, they set up a voter information table each Saturday at the Freight House Farmer’s Market.
They prompted the cities of Davenport, Bettendorf, Rock Island and East Moline to proclaim July as “Earth Month.”
They celebrated Earth Day at the Farmer’s Market. Many vendors participated in this physically distant, outdoor event.

They hosted the Citizen’s Climate Lobby via Zoom. Donald Addu presented a discussion, “The Environmental Voter: A Path to a Just and Stable Climate.” Over 40 people attended this virtual event.

Throughout the year, the PACG Health Care Reform Forum members have been writing letters to the editor that have been published in the Quad City Times. They also continued to promote Affordable Care Act education and enrollment.

The PACG Book Club continues to meet monthly with a focus on racial justice. Topics for 2021 will be expanding to include books on how the environment and health care play a role in racial inequality. The Book Club has gone international with one member zooming in from Canada!

The Dick Fallow Endowment continued its association with PACG. At the Holiday Party in December of 2019, PACG awarded the Dick Fallow Social Justice Endowment Grant to Project Renew. In February of 2020 one of our founding members, Kriss Wells passed away. PACG made a donation to the Endowment to honor him.

The PACG Board ended 2019 with a Holiday Party. Over 70 PACG members gathered in person at the German American Heritage Museum to award the Dick Fallow Award, review 2019 and eat food catered by Maria from Catalyst Kitchen.

During this election year of 2020, the Board encouraged members to submit platform planks for the Iowa Caucuses and also co-sponsored nonpartisan caucus trainings with the AAUW, QCAIR, and Alliance for Retired Americans. We also co-sponsored three virtual Informed Voter Town Halls. After the election PACG also co-sponsored a “Count Every Vote” virtual rally.

In commemoration of Black History Month in February, PACG members donated $2,200 to purchase an information kiosk at the Friends of Martin Luther King Interpretive Center in Davenport.

In May PACG co-hosted the Covid-19 Victims Remembrance Day.

Inspired by the Black Lives Matter Movement, PACG began holding weekly “Racial Equality Now” demonstrations at John Deere Rd and 16th St. in Moline at 11:30 am. Each Saturday since then, supporters stand at this busy intersection holding BLM signs and encouraging drivers to honk in support.

To celebrate our 15th Anniversary, PACG began a fundraiser to collect funds for our Y15K Initiative. PACG matched pledges up to $7500. Our members helped us raise another $12500. We distributed over $20,000 to specially chosen organizations that serve those in our community especially hard hit by the pandemic:

QCAIR (for immigrants)
Heart of Hope Ministries (food distribution in Rock Island)
Cobblestone Place (low-income housing which gives PACG very affordable office space)
Catalyst Kitchen (in conjunction with Black Hawk College to provide food service certification).

PACG celebrated its 15th Anniversary with a Virtual Picnic and Pie Auction. We raised over $500 from our pie auction! Maria at Catalyst Kitchen provided Enchilada dinners. We were able to have a feast and support a minority-owned small business.

In December we have been busy helping to co-sponsor the “What is the White Power Movement and Why Should You Care?” webinar organized by our friends at One Human Family Quad Cities.

We are forgoing our annual holiday party due to the pandemic, but we will continue our work undaunted! We have composed a little summary of our activities over this past year and I’d like to share it with you below.

Allison Ambrose

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PACG Holiday Party - After Action Report

12/14/2019

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PACG Holiday Party Was A Great Success! - After Action Report
Friday, December 6th at 5:30 pm

German American Heritage Center
712 W 2nd St, Davenport

Thank you to all of the seventy plus people who attended PACG's Annual Holiday Party. We had a great group of people sharing great conversation and fantastic food provided by Maria Lopez.

We also presented the Dick Fallow Social Justice Endowment Grant to Project Renew, an extremely worthy local organization that Dick would have loved. We feel very fortunate to be part of such a fine community.

There are lots more photographs of the event on PACG's Facebook page: facebook.com/PACG-holidayimages.

Thanks again to the PACG Holiday Party Committee - especially to Ann McCluskey - for all the hard work!

Julie Ross

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Annual Holiday Party - Thursday, December 5th at 5:30 pm

11/12/2019

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Join Us for the PACG Annual Holiday Party
Thursday, December 5th at 5:30 pm

German American Heritage Center
712 W. 2nd St., Davenport, IA (map)

PACG Board

Please register now to join us at the German American Heritage Center for a meal and celebration of another year of PACG. This is a free event to thank and celebrate with our supporters. Maria from Cafe Mundo will be catering the main entrees. You may have heard of the amazing tamales Maria has been selling to cover her treatment for her second battle with leukemia. She has agreed to cater our event with her delicious tamales and sides. Both meat and vegetarian options are available.

Please bring a side dish or dessert to share.

Optional Holiday Gift: We are asking for gently used books for the library for Cobblestone residents, either adult or children's books. They do not need to be wrapped. We will collect them in a box to donate to Cobblestone.

We will again present the annual Dick Fallow Social Justice Grant Award to a worthy local recipient.

Please join us again this year for food, fun and festivities. If you’re one of our many new members this year, come find out how much fun we progressives can have in the holiday season!

There is parking in the rear of the building or across the alley as well as on 2nd or 3rd Streets - but not on Gaines.

Ann McCluskey
mccluskeyam@gmail.com

Julie Myerson Ross, PACG Office Manager
pacgoffice@gmail.com

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Holiday Party Was Another Success!

12/17/2018

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2018 PACG Holiday Party - After Action Report

Over 70 people sat down to a potluck dinner on December 6th at the Progressive Action for the Common Good (PACG) Holiday Party at Cobblestone Place in Davenport. More than 26 PACG memberships were renewed or started and many more friendships were formed or deepened during our annual dinner.

The PACG Holiday Dinner is also the platform to announce The Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justices annual grant awards. The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Quad-Cities and the Teamsters Community Action Network (TeamCan) both received awards to support their work in the QC Community.

The Reverend Jay Wolin of the UU Congregation of the QC accepted the award for the Sanctuary Team and said that they will use their award to hold events to educate the public about immigration policy and the Sanctuary Movement.

Jesse Case, President of the TeamCan Network, accepted their award. TeamCan will use their award to broaden their networks to distribute locally grown organic food to people in eastern Iowa who are food insecure.

The Dick Fallow Endowment was established in 2013 to carry on the life work of Richard E. Fallow, local activist and union member. Each year, the Endowment issues grants to organizations that fulfill his mission by working in the areas of labor / economic justice, environment / sustainability and/or democracy/ human rights.

Greg Coleridge, Outreach Director of Move to Amend, also talked about amending our Constitution to establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. He encouraged all those who attended to sign a petition reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.

The PACG Holiday Committee thanks you for coming and for celebrating another busy year:
Allison Ambrose, Margie Mejia Caraballo, Susan Meenan, Janice Williams, Caryn Unsicker, and Ann McCluskey.

If you have not done so already please sign up here for the PACG weekly email update to keep on top of our activities for 2019.

Happy Holidays and may you all have a busy 2019 fighting for social justice.

Ann McCluskey
mccluskeyam@gmail.com

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Register NOW for Our Upcoming Annual Holiday Party!

11/10/2018

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Annual PACG Holiday Party/Potluck - Thursday, December 6th 5:30 pm

Cobblestone Place
1212 W. 3rd St., Davenport (map)

Hi Folks!
Our annual PACG Holiday Party/Potluck will be on Thursday, December 6th, from 5:30 to 8 pm in the 1st floor Community Room at Cobblestone Place.

We promised you more information this week, so here it is!

We are having Fresh Deli cater the entrees: beef pot roast; chicken and rice casserole; and vegetarian polenta. We will provide coffee, iced tea and water. You can bring a salad, hors d’oeuvres, or dessert to share if you like. There is no admission charge - this is PACG's holiday gift to you, our members and supporters.

A $10 annual membership renewal form will be available if you want to renew your membership to PACG. And if you have them, please bring gently used books for the adults and/or children who are residents of Cobblestone Place in lieu of food pantry donations this year.

You'll get to watch us award this year's Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justice Grant to a worthy local recipient (or two), and you'll get to catch up on everything with old and new progressive friends!

So please follow this link to register for the holiday fun! This will help us know how much food to order. We look forward to seeing you on the 6th!

Sincerely,

Your PACG Holiday Party Committee
Allison Ambrose, Ann McCluskey, Caryn Unsicker
ibcaryn@yahoo.com

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Annual Holiday Party 2022 - Saturday, December 3rd

Join us for our Annual Holiday Party!
Saturday, December 3rd from 5:30 to 8:00 pm

2020 Year-End Summary

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Annual PACG Holiday Party/Potluck - Thursday, December 6th 5:30 pm

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Annual Holiday Party 2022 - Saturday, December 3rd

Join us for our Annual Holiday Party!​Saturday, December 3rd from 5:30 to 8:00 pm

2020 Year-End Summary

PACG 2020 Year-End Summary

PACG Holiday Party - After Action Report

PACG Holiday Party Was A Great Success! - After Action Report Friday, December 6th at 5:30 pm

Annual Holiday Party - Thursday, December 5th at 5:30 pm

Join Us for the PACG Annual Holiday PartyThursday, December 5th at 5:30 pm

Holiday Party Was Another Success!

2018 PACG Holiday Party - After Action Report

Register NOW for Our Upcoming Annual Holiday Party!

Annual PACG Holiday Party/Potluck - Thursday, December 6th 5:30 pm

Archives

Categories

Join us for our Annual Holiday Party!
Saturday, December 3rd from 5:30 to 8:00 pm

PACG Holiday Party Was A Great Success! - After Action Report
Friday, December 6th at 5:30 pm

Join Us for the PACG Annual Holiday Party
Thursday, December 5th at 5:30 pm