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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

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Sanctuary 102: November 3, 2018

10/27/2018

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

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October 2018 Immigration Meetings

10/3/2018

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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)

Alta Price

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Monarch Release and Immigration Celebration - Sunday, September 23, 2018

9/14/2018

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Monarch Release and Immigration Celebration - Organized by Quad Cities Interfaith

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

8/26/2018

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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.

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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 - Help Form a Community Sanctuary Coalition

5/27/2018

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What You Can Do Now - Help Form a Community Sanctuary Coalition

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Quad Cities (UUCQC) voted May 20 to be a Sanctuary church. The story was covered in the Quad City Times and there was local television coverage, including from WQAD.

The church would house immigrants facing a final notice of deportation for as long as it takes to get their appeal heard. This keeps families together as potential deportees would not be locked up in detention centers. Very detailed information about the Sanctuary Project is available at the UUCQC website.

The PACG Civil Rights Forum calls upon PACG members and other churches and community groups to step up and help form a community Sanctuary coalition to support and expand these efforts. Attend the weekly Sanctuary Task Force meeting on Tuesdays at 6:45 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Quad Cities, 3707 Eastern Ave, Davenport to offer your support.

Alta Price, PACG Civil Rights Forum

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What You Can Do Now - Rally at Grassley's Davenport Office to Keep Families Together

5/13/2018

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Rally at Senator Grassley's Davenport Office to Keep Families Together!

Join Quad Cities Interfaith (QCI) and allies at a peaceful demonstration at Grassley’s office to tell the Senator to take action to: “Keep Families Together!”

Monday, May 14th, 5:00 p.m., Senator Chuck Grassley’s Davenport office, 201 W 2nd St, Davenport, Iowa (we will rally out front of the building)

This week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced policy that the U.S. government would separate families detained at the U.S./Mexico border.
On Wednesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) collaborated with local police in a raid that led to the detention of 32 workers at a concrete factory in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Children of those detained are being cared for by neighbors; 32 families are without their primary bread winner. The raid has spread fear among our immigrant neighbors throughout the state, who fear their town could be next.

*This rally is held in solidarity with our friends at the Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa, at Grassley’s Cedar Rapids office, also May 14 at 5:00. Cedar Rapids is also the location of ICE’s local detention center. Please join us either in Cedar Rapids or Davenport.

Call QCI Organizer Aaron Wagner at 641-990-4594 with questions.

El tiempo por justicia es ahora (The time for justice is now)

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Minority Health Conference - April 21, 2018

4/8/2018

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Minority Health Conference on Saturday, April 21 at 10 am

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PACG is a co-sponsor of the Minority Health Conference. Please come yourself and invite friends in the immigrant, refugee, and minority communities. Adults can register at this www.eventbrite.com link. Use the brochure above to invite people.

There is a special track for youth. Youth can register at this www.eventbrite.com link. Download the flyer below at the link above.

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November 2018 Immigration Meetings

November 2018 Immigration Meetings

Sanctuary 102: November 3, 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.

October 2018 Immigration Meetings

October 2018 Immigration Meetings

Monarch Release and Immigration Celebration - Sunday, September 23, 2018

Monarch Release and Immigration Celebration - Organized by Quad Cities Interfaith

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

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

What You Can Do Now - Help Form a Community Sanctuary Coalition

What You Can Do Now - Help Form a Community Sanctuary Coalition

What You Can Do Now - Rally at Grassley's Davenport Office to Keep Families Together

Rally at Senator Grassley's Davenport Office to Keep Families Together!

Minority Health Conference - April 21, 2018

Minority Health Conference on Saturday, April 21 at 10 am

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Sanctuary 102 PresentationSaturday, November 3 at 9 AM to noonUUCQC, 3707 Eastern Ave, Davenport, IA (map link)Click on the file below to download the flyer to invite your friends.

October 2018 Immigration Meetings

Monarch Release and Immigration Celebration - Organized by Quad Cities Interfaith

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 - Help Form a Community Sanctuary Coalition

Rally at Senator Grassley's Davenport Office to Keep Families Together!

Minority Health Conference on Saturday, April 21 at 10 am

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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.