Category: One Human Family - PACG - Progressive Action for the Common Good

"Fight Injustice in Iowa" campaign goes live in August

8/14/2022

"Fight Injustice in Iowa" - OHF QCA billboard campaign goes live in August

One Human Family QCA

Our “Fight Injustice in Iowa” billboard campaign will soon be in place!

Here are the locations and dates of posting for our billboards:

2814 State Street, Bettendorf (map) – August 15
400 West 2nd Street, Davenport (map) – August 15
53rd Street east of Brady, Davenport (map) -September 12
621 East Kimberly, Davenport (map) – September 19

We do not as of now know which signs will be up at which locations. But as of tomorrow, you can start checking them!

Rabbi Henry Jay Karp
One Human Family QCA

We Will Not Go Back! rally for Choice - After Action Report

6/27/2022

We Will Not Go Back! rally - After Action Report
Sunday, June 26th in Davenport

PACG Women's Equity Forum and other groups

Sponsored by:
QC-National Organization for Women, PACG Women's Equity Forum, One Human Family-QC, Iowa Women United and others

We Will Not Go Back! the Davenport rally for Choice, attracted a huge crowd of members of our community who feel that the recent shameful ruling from the Supreme Court on abortion access is a devastating setback to anyone who can get pregnant - women and nonbinary individuals. We listened to speakers and then protested peacefully by walking around Vander Veer Park. Here's a link to the Quad-City Times report from the event, along with their pictures.

Women and nonbinary people around the U.S. awoke late last week to the news that they have less reproductive freedom than their mothers did. A person's right to make her/their own decisions regarding pregnancy has been either taken away or is in grave danger of being abolished.

PACG has always had the ability to organize new issue forums to work on critical problems that arise in our communities and country. These Board of Directors-approved groups can be created and mobilized to address areas of interest and urgent need. This flexibility is part of the reason that PACG continues to be so successful - we meet the needs and demands put upon us. We can focus our outrage and frustration into positive action. We are better and stronger together!

PACG is proud that our new Women's Equity Forum was a sponsor of this rally - it was our first event! And we haven't really had a regular meeting yet!

Join our forum by contacting me (click on my name below for my email box). Our first meeting will be on Tuesday, July 19th at 7:00 pm at the Bettendorf Library. We have work to do! Let's go!

Alta Price

"Iowa Is Better Than This!" - PACG Event

2/8/2022

"Iowa Is Better Than This! Lamenting Iowa's Discriminatory Legislation"
A Free Hybrid Webinar
Wednesday, February 16th at 5:00 pm

In Person and Via Zoom

One Human Family, PACG and Other Organizations

Over the past year, the Iowa Legislature has considered and/or passed legislation that does not represent "Iowa Nice" values. We need to be heard as we Lament these actions!

Join us in this statewide Lamentation so our legislators know that these policies are not acceptable in a state that cares for all people. Let your voice be heard! We have options for online participation (via Zoom) and in-person sites across the state.

We lament the past to serve as a warning for the future!

For more information, go to OneHumanFamilyQCA.org. Read their statement on the PACG blog here.

Online Zoom Registration here.

In-Person Registration here.

Allison Ambrose

Spread the Relief Campaign News Release - What You Can Do Now

3/29/2021

Spread the Relief Campaign News Release

One Human Family of the QCA

News Release:
From: One Human Family of the Quad-Cities Area
Event: Spreading the good of the stimulus dollars
Contact: Connie Lannan, 309-945-5152
Rabbi Henry Karp, 563-505-8823

Organizations join forces to help stimulus dollars go even further through the ‘Spread the Relief’ campaign

On March 11, President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan, which is offering $1.9 trillion in coronavirus (COVID-19) relief funding, including direct payments of up to $1,400 to individuals who make up to $75,000 annually. One Human Family of the QCA, the Immigration Office of the Diocese of Davenport, Metrocom NAACP, Progressive Action for the Common Good and Quad Cities Interfaith would like to make those stimulus dollars benefit those most in need with their “Spread the Relief” campaign.

“The goal of the campaign is to call upon our neighbors in the greater Quad-City area whose income and financial security have not been negatively impacted, but who will be receiving stimulus checks from the federal government, to consider donating all or part of their stimulus funds to programs and agencies that are providing assistance to those most seriously affected by the pandemic,” says Rabbi Henry Karp, co-founder of One Human Family.

This team effort is aimed at shining a light on and providing funds to area agencies and programs that have been offering the following types of help:

Food assistance
Housing assistance
Health care

“Food, shelter and health care are fundamental to the well-being of every individual. The pandemic has devastated all three of these areas. So many in our region have suffered job loss, food insecurity and the loss of their health insurance. By teaming with agencies that provide these types of assistance, we hope those who have been spared these hardships will be able to pay it forward and help those who have been so severely impacted during this time,” says Allison Ambrose, Ph.D., president of Progressive Action for the Common Good.

“We have done our best to organize a list of some of the more well-known agencies and programs that are assisting people in the greater Quad-City area in these three areas of concern,” Rabbi Karp says. “We have included contact information for the agencies we have listed. We may have missed some organizations, but this is a starting point. Our goal is to help those in the most need.”

Find the list of programs and agencies to which stimulus dollars can be donated on these websites:

One Human Family of the QCA (www.onehumanfamilyqca.org)
Immigration Office of the Diocese of Davenport (www.davenportdiocese.org)
Metrocom NAACP of Davenport (www.davenportnaacp.org)
Progressive Action for the Common Good (www.pacgqc.org)
Quad Cities Interfaith (www.qcinterfaith.org)

Please, do not send your donation checks to the sponsoring organizations listed above. Send them directly to the programs of your choice listed on the above-mentioned websites. Put “COVID Relief” in the memo line of your check.

Read our PACG blog post encouraging you to Join the Spread the Relief Campaign here.

Read more in our Spread the Relief Catalogue of agencies in need.

Allison Ambrose

Lights For Liberty Planning Meeting and Protest Save the Date

6/22/2019

Lights For Liberty Planning Meeting
Wednesday, June 26th at 1:00 pm and
Save the Date for the Protest Friday, July 12th

Planning Meeting Wednesday, June 26th at 1:00 pm at
Chancery of the Diocese of Davenport
780 W Central Park AV, Davenport, IA 52802 (map)
Civil Rights Forum and One Human Family QCA

Dear Friends of One Human Family QCA,

As you are probably aware, President Trump has announced that there will be a massive round-up of 2,000 immigrants next week. We are hearing terrible reports of the already existing horrendous, sub-human conditions in the immigrant detention centers; centers which are already brutally overcrowded and under-served.

A national organization called “Lights for Liberty” is calling for communities around the country to join them in holding an event called: “Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Detention Camps”. The event will take place on Friday, July 12. To find out more about the organization and their plans for this national vigil you can go to their website - https://www.lightsforliberty.org/

The ONE HUMAN FAMILY QCA IMMIGRATION TASK FORCE is taking the leadership in organizing a local vigil to be in cooperation and coordination with the national one. They will be holding a planning meeting for our local vigil on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 at 1:00 pm at the Diocese of Davenport, 780 W. Central Park Ave., Davenport 52804. They are asking that everyone who would be willing to share in planning this significant event join them for this meeting! If you are interested in participating in the planning but cannot attend this time around, let me know and I will make sure that you are placed on the Planning Committee’s email distribution list. If you cannot join us in the planning but would like to attend the vigil, let me know and I will make sure that you are kept up to date with the details.

What is happening in these detention camps is a stain on the soul of the United States of America! We cannot stand by silently and permit it to continue. In the words of the philosopher Edmund Burke, “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.” We must never forget that today’s current events are tomorrow’s history. When the history of these days are written, what will it have to say about the roles each of up played in creating that history.

Shalom / Salaam / Paz / Pax / Peace,

Rabbi Henry Jay Karp

Responding to the Many Faces of Hate Symposium - One Human Family

3/25/2019

"Responding to the Many Faces of Hate" Symposium - Saturday, April 13th from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm

Eastern Iowa Community College
101 W 3rd St
Davenport, IA 52810 (map)

PACG Civil Rights Forum

"Responding to the Many Faces of Hate" Symposium
The Civil Rights Forum is promoting this One Human Family QCA event. Please download the flyer below and share this event widely.

From the OHFQC website:
One Human Family has teamed up with some of the best voices in our area to present an action-oriented day of workshops on solutions in the areas of 1) race-based hate, 2) faith-based hate,
3) LGBTQ hate, and 4) immigration hate. Attendees choose 3 of the 4 sessions.

Keynote speaker is Sen. Zach Wahls.

Please be sure to register at this link. Tickets are $15 at the door, $10 in advance. Students $5.

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Immigration Meetings for February 2019

2/3/2019

Immigration Meetings for February 2019

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:

One Human Family Immigration Task Force - Wednesday, Feb 6th at 1:30 pm
Chancery of the Catholic Diocese of Davenport
780 W Central Park, Davenport (map)
Contact Sister Nancy Miller with questions.

QC Sanctuary Coalition - Saturday, Feb 9th from 10am - noon
the Benedictine Sisters of Saint Mary Monastery
2200 88th Ave, Rock Island (map)
Contact John Dunsheath with questions.

Quad Cities Interfaith - Tuesday, Feb 19th at 6:30 pm
Monthly Task Force Assembly
Church of Peace, 1114 12th St, Rock Island (map)
Contact Aaron Wagner with questions.

Alta Price

Civil Rights

12/3/2018

The Civil Rights Forum

The PACG Civil Rights Forum will not be meeting in December. However, at least some of the groups we are working with do have December meetings.

December 8th (Saturday) at 10:00 am at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the QC - QC Sanctuary Coalition (contact John Dunsheath with questions.)

December 12th (Wednesday) at 1:00 pm at the Chancery of the Diocese of Davenport (780 W Central Park, Davenport, IA) - One Human Family Immigration Task Force (contact Sister Nancy Miller with questions)

December 17th (Monday) at 6:30 pm at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Bettendorf - Quad Cities Interfaith Task Force Assembly (includes Immigration and Restorative Justice) (contact Aaron Wagner at Quad Cities Interfaith with questions)

Alta Price

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

October 2018 Immigration Meetings

10/3/2018

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)