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Get an Easy A! - Of Interest to Our Community

5/9/2025

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Do ya wanna Easy A?

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Red Wine and Blue has created Easy A: Meaningful Actions in 5 Minutes or Less regarding the issues you care about.

Their most recent action is Spotting and Stopping Disinformation.

We all need accurate information to make informed decisions. We're exposed to information from various sources every day. Find out how you can spot and stop the spread of misinformation from this blog post.

Other topics offered include:
Modern Day Voter Suppression in America
The History of Voting Rights in America
The Right to Read
A New Era of Fighting Book Bans
The Costs of Conflicts

and much more!

Sign up for future Easy A's as they become available here.

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Know your protest rights - Of Interest to Our Community

5/6/2025

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Know your protest rights

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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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Get free seeds at the Seed Library - Of Interest to Our Community

5/6/2025

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Davenport Seed Library

Davenport Public Library
Main Library
321 Main Street
Davenport, IA (map)


Davenport Public Library


Davenport Seed Library provides free seeds to residents to promote lifelong learning and encourage stewardship of natural resources. It is available during open hours for patrons of all ages! Supplies and varieties vary, but the collection usually includes vegetables, flowers, microgreens, and herbs. Seeds are available while supplies last.

There is no cost to borrow seeds. There is a limit of five (5) seed packets per month per household. You are not required to return any saved seeds to the library, but may if you wish! We may accept donated seeds but prefer clean, open-pollinated, or heirloom seeds. Please share your gardening success when using seeds from the Seed Library! Add #dplseeds and tag @davenportlibrary wherever you post!

For more resources on starting, growing, and harvesting vegetables and flowers in your own backyard, visit the Seed Library Growing Companion LibGuide.

Davenport Public Library
563-326-7832 

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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

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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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Progressive calendars of events and actions in the QCA - What You Can Do Now

3/26/2025

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Progressive calendars in the QCA

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Want to explore more ways you can get involved in progressive actions and events in the QCA? We are collecting calendars for our Community Events page! They are posted  at the top of the website page, so if you are looking for information about a particular event, you will have to do some scrolling.

Here's the link for the PACG events calendar.

Our friends at One Human Family-QCA started the QC Activism calendar in 2024 and we have put it on our Community Events page. You may add events to this calendar here.

Activist Leslie DuPree, President of Quad Cities National Organization for Women (QC NOW), is single-handedly managing the QC Action Calendar as a Google Document. Her contact information is at the top of it.

Clock, Inc
is dedicated to creating a safe and supportive community center, offering vital resources, mental health programs, empowerment, and advocacy for the LGBT+ community to thrive without fear of discrimination. The Clock, Inc Events calendar is here.

MainStream, formerly known as The Real Mainstream, is a progressive, intersectional, LGBTQ+ affirming publication serving Illinois and Iowa, and available online and in print. They have a number of calendars for eastern Iowa and northwest Illinois, including a filter for adults-only and spiritual Sunday gatherings. The MainStream calendar for Quad Cities Events is here.

If you know of other groups in our area who are compiling calendar events and actions, please contact us at [email protected].


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International Migrants Day - Of Interest to Our Community

12/15/2024

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International Migrants Day
Wednesday, December 18th

The Civil Rights Forum has started a new initiative to recognize immigrants as our neighbors!  December 18th is International Migrants Day. We have submitted the following Letter to the Editor to our local papers:

International Migrants Day is December 18th

According to the United Nations website, on December 4, 2000, the General Assembly
of the United Nations, taking into account the large and increasing number of migrants
in the world, proclaimed December 18 to be International Migrants Day. On that day in
1990, the Assembly adopted the “International Convention on the Protection of the
Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.”

On International Migrants Day, we reflect on and celebrate the contributions of millions
of migrants worldwide. Migrants and displaced people represent some of the most
vulnerable and marginalized groups in society. Migrants have proven to be a source of
prosperity, innovation and sustainable development to the countries in which they
reside.

Locally, we recognize (im)migrants as our neighbors, especially when we hear their
personal stories, like Eduardo’s, a local nurse and cardiac sonographer. Eduardo
gained citizenship 30 years after crossing the border when he was 9. His parents made
the decision to cross the border to protect their family. A Mexican cartel had targeted
Eduardo’s father, who fought for better equality in the Mexican healthcare system. He
was very involved in social justice and publicly denounced the injustices and threats
brought on by the cartels, which exposed the family to danger. Once across the border,
Eduardo’s parents remained undocumented but worked hard to provide their two sons
with the American Dream, which Eduardo is happy to say he has been able to pursue. 

Today, let’s celebrate our (im)migrant neighbors!

Allison Ambrose
Davenport
(This was written on behalf of the Civil Rights Forum of Progressive Action for the
Common Good.)

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Davenport Rent Abatement Ordinance passes! - Of Interest to Our Community

11/30/2024

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Davenport Rent Abatement Ordinance Passed!

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We are thrilled to announce the passage of the Rent Abatement Ordinance, a monumental step forward for housing justice in our community. This victory is a testament to the power of collective action and the unwavering support of our community, allies, and leaders.

To every community member who attended meetings, shared their stories, signed petitions, and stood with us, we owe you our deepest gratitude. Your voices were heard loud and clear, and your courage has inspired meaningful change.
 
Thanks to your help the Davenport City Council passed the Rent Abatement Ordinance unanimously.

What is the Rent Abatement Ordinance?
A Rent Abatement Ordinance can allow the inspections department to temporarily relieve tenants of the duty to pay rent when there is a threat to life and safety. The goals of implementing the Rent Abatement include incentivizing tenants to report building issues promptly for repair, incentivizing owners and property managers to complete repairs promptly, and to preserve Davenport housing stock in safe and decent condition.

No one should be paying rent for an unsafe building!

Read the Ordinance in full at City of Davenport's website here.
 
Dennis Platt and Gavin Grassman, Co-Chairs
QCTA
[email protected]
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Sustainability Fest at St Ambrose University - Of Interest to Our Community

9/10/2024

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4th Annual Sustainability Fest
Friday, September 27th from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm

Rogalski Patio - Lower Level
St. Ambrose University
518 Locust ST
Davenport IA (map)


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St. Ambrose University is hosting our 4th Annual Sustainability Fest on Friday, September 27th from 11:30 am-1:30 pm on the patio of the Rogalski Center! This event is designed to highlight local organizations who are actively pursuing sustainability initiatives. In addition to educational and vendor tables from 30+ community partners and campus organizations, we will have a food truck serving lunch and snacks for purchase. This event also serves as a fundraiser for our campus sustainability efforts, supporting our student club Green Life. The Wednesday film screening of Common Ground is co-sponsored by the PACG Environmental Forum. Read more about that in our PACG blog post here.

See the flyer for all of the other exciting offerings during Sustainability Week!

Amy Blair, Professor

Biology Department
St. Ambrose University

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"How Pregnancy is Policed" - Of Interest to our Community

8/23/2024

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How Pregnancy is Policed: Your Questions Answered

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From Bolts: Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago, the legal risks that come from merely being pregnant have shot up in the United States.

Alongside the new bans on abortion, laws have popped up to encourage people to snitch on their neighbors and empower prosecutors to file criminal charges. So-called personhood laws are exposing more people to heightened punishment, plus endangering access to other procedures like IVF. The Republican Party has proposed scaling that up further by codifying ‘personhood’ at the federal level.

But pregnancy was policed long before the Dobbs decision came down. Even under Roe, many women faced arrest and prosecution due to allegations over how they handled their pregnancy.
Read this important article on the Bolts website here.

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