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

Changing Systems, Changing Ourselves Webinar - Civil Rights Forum

1/15/2020

Changing Systems, Changing Ourselves Webinar - Update
Tuesday, January 28th at 7:00 pm

At home or at
the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Quad Cities
3704 Eastern Av, Davenport (map)

Civil Rights Forum

The PACG Civil Rights Forum invites you to sign up for a five-session monthly online series on immigration and race sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, Church World Service, Freedom for Immigrants, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, and the Unitarian Universalist Association. The sessions are the fourth Tuesday of the month, usually from 7 - 8:30 pm central time.

Although you can sign up as an individual, there will be a group showing at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Quad Cities in the Board room to facilitate discussion after the webinars.

The January 28th session explores "anti-racist practice, to reflect on how to show up consciously to work alongside those most impacted by injustice, with caucus groups for people of color and white people."

For more information and to register, sign up at the American Friends Service Committee website.

Alta Price
PACG Civil Rights Forum Co-Facilitator

Green Drinks for January

1/9/2020

Green Drinks - Tuesday, January 7th at 5:00 pm

2232 18th Street, Rock Island, IL (map)

Environmental Forum

Our first Green Drinks of the year will be on Tuesday, Jan 7th at Huckleberry's in Rock Island from 5 pm to 7 pm. Sarah Gardner from the QC Regional Bi-Sate Commission will share with us information on Electric Vehicles.

Huckleberry's Great Pizza and Calzones will host our monthly meetings at the same time of 5-7 pm on the first Tuesday of every month.

Join with other like-minded people in the area to discuss issues involving the environment. Come to network, socialize, and learn, all while having drinks!

Green Drinks - After Action Report

12/14/2019

Green Drinks - After Action Report
Monday, December 2nd at 5:00 pm

Huckleberry's, Rock Island

Environmental

Green Drinks met in November with a presentation from Lori McCollum about the climate crisis that included a slide presentation from the Climate Reality Training she attended last summer. This presentation is available to any group or organization upon request.

Amy Kay, from the Public Works Department in Davenport discussed their sustainability projects. It was very interesting, and will hopefully lead to collaboration and expansion of their sustainability projects.

The December meeting kicked off our new day and location. We will be meeting in 2020 at Huckleberries in Rock Island on the first Tuesday of each month from 5-7 pm in their overflow room. This allows a quieter and larger space for speakers and networking. Upcoming speakers include: January - Sarah Gardner from BiState Regional Planning on Electric Vehicles; February - Deb Heitman from the Davenport Schools on their Green Ribbon Award; and March - Pete Vogel from QC Food Rescue to discuss their work to reduce food waste and help those who are food insecure. We hope to see you all there.

Lori McCollum

After Action Report - Scott County Legislative Forum

12/13/2019

Scott County Legislative Forum A Great Success - After Action Report

Fairmount Street Library, Davenport

PACG, Quad Cities Interfaith, NAACP Davenport Branch

We had a packed room at our Scott County Legislative Forum on Tuesday, December 3rd. We invited all Scott County State Legislators and are grateful to Rep. Monica Kurth, Sen. Jim Lykam, Rep. Phyllis Thede, and Rep. Cindy Winkler for attending and answering constituents' questions.

You can see photos on our Facebook page.

Julie Ross

Green Drinks QC - New Location and Day

11/19/2019

Green Drinks QC - New Location and Day
First Tuesdays of the Month from 5:00 to 7:00 pm

Huckleberry's
223 18th ST
Rock Island, IL (map)

Environmental Forum

We are happy to announce that, beginning in December of 2019, Green Drinks - QC will meet at a new location and day of the month.

Huckleberry's Great Pizza and Calzones will host our monthly meetings at the same time of 5-7 pm on the first Tuesday of every month.

Join with other like-minded people in the area to discuss issues involving the environment. Come to network, socialize, and learn, all while having drinks!

August & September Green Drinks - After Action Report

10/17/2019

Green Drinks for August and September - After Action Report

Environmental Forum - Green Drinks!

August

Our August Green Drinks included an excellent presentation on Rain Gardens by Andy Parer, and we learned about how to choose native plants that have more extensive root systems to absorb rain and groundwater. Some of these plants are available each spring from local county conservation programs, as well as local gardening shops or online. In the city of Rock Island, you can receive financial support for putting in a rain garden, and then have your sewer fees reduced quarterly because you will have less run off.

September

Our September Green Drinks included a presentation by Dr. Cheryl True about Plant Based Diets. Dr. True discussed general ways to improve your lifestyle, but focused on plant based diets, which not only decrease health problems but help the environment. Even if you don't want to go completely vegetarian, you can go to meatless Mondays or reduce the size of your meat servings and increasing the vegetables and fruits on your plate.
An additional bonus is that each month a few staff from local presidential campaigns come by. They offer up current information about policies their respective candidates endorse.

Check out www.greendrinks.org/IA/QuadCities for more details about our group. We meet at Fresh Deli from 5-7 pm on the last Thursday of each month. We will take November and December off due to the holidays. We hope to see you on October 31st.

Lori McCollum

UPDATE - Race: Are We So Different Tour and Discussion

4/8/2019

Sign up for the “Race: Are We So Different?” Tour and Discussion - Update

Tuesday, April 23rd at 4:00 pm (full)
Monday, May 13th at 4:00 pm (new)

Putnam Museum
1717 W 12th St, Davenport, IA (map)

Civil Rights Forum

The Civil Rights Forum is arranging two tours followed by a guided discussion of Race: Are We So Different? at the Putnam Museum. Only 15 people can attend each discussion, and you MUST register to attend. Our April 23rd tour is full.

To register for the May 13th event, click here.

Attendees must pay their own admission to the Putnam, but PACG will pay the fee for the guided discussion.

Alta Price

Green Drinks Quad Cities in the Quad-City Times

3/22/2019

Environmental Forum's Green Drinks-Quad Cities in Local Press

Enviro-minded people invited to new group
from the Quad-City Times - March 20, 2019
Alma Gaul agaul@qctimes.com

Quad-Citians interested in the environment and conservation are invited to meet like-minded people Thursday, March 28, at the Fresh Deli restaurant at the Freight House, 421 W. River Drive, Davenport.

The gathering from 5-7 p.m. will be the first meeting of a group called Green Drinks Quad-Cities, a local affiliate of an international organization that was formed in London in 1989 and now has groups in 500 cities.

The purpose of Green Drinks is for people to get together, talk, exchange ideas about environmental issues, maybe even have fun and make new friends, said organizer Lori O'Dell McCollum, of Rock Island, representing Progressive Action for the Common Good, a Quad-City group that promotes community betterment and progressive values.

The Green Drinks group will meet the last Thursday of every month and is open to anyone.

While there are lots of environmental/conservation groups in the Quad-Cities, "most people don't know each other," McCollum said. "It will be a loosely formed networking group; it doesn't have a specific agenda," she said of Green Drinks. "We'll just wait and see what people want to do. A few groups are structured and have speakers. Every group seems to do something different."

To spread the word, McCollum is contacting a wide swath of entities in the public, private, nonprofit and educational sectors. This includes Sierra Club, Partners of Scott County Watersheds, Audubon Society, Earth Keepers, Niabi Zoo, Food Rescue, university Extension services, state departments of natural resources, The Nature Conservancy, Living Lands & Waters, Nahant Marsh, area colleges and others.

In Iowa, there are Green Drinks groups in Des Moines, Iowa City, Ames and elsewhere; in Illinois, groups have organized in the Chicago area as well as Peoria.

For more information, go to greendrinks.org, or email to McCollum at lori_mccollum@sbcglobal.net or Susan Leuthauser at swleuthauser@gmail.com.

Read the Article Online here

Join us for Green Drinks!

2/6/2019

PACG Presents GREEN DRINKS Quad Cities

Thursday, February 28th from 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Fresh Deli
421 W River Dr
Davenport (map)

Get together with like minded people to talk about issues involving the environment. Come to network, socialize, and great discussions all while having drinks!

We will meet the last Thursday of the month from 5:00 - 7:00pm.

Networking Night - PACG Event

7/21/2013

PACG Community Networking Night
Thursday, July 25th 6:00pm

Cobblestone Place - Community Room
1212 W. 3rd St, Davenport

Alex Lawson from Social Security Works will be presenting "Taking Back The Message". Social Security represents the best of American values - reward for hard work, honoring our parents and caring for our neighbors. We don't need cuts, we need to strengthen Social Security.

Alex Lawson is the Executive Director of Social Security Works, the convening member of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition- a coalition made up of over 340 national and state organizations representing over 50 million Americans.

For more information:
StrengthenSocialSecurity.org

Sponsored by:

Iowa Alliance for Retired Americans
Contact Midge Slater at 515-262-9571
Please bring light snack food to share!