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Look What We Did! 20th Anniversary Gala 2025

10/20/2025

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20th Anniversary Gala Documents
Sunday, October 19, 2025

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We had such a great time at our 20th Anniversary Gala on October 19, 2025! Thank you for joining us. This blog post is a compilation of a lot of the things you saw at our event. We are excited to share them with you!

We ask that you keep PACG cofounder, Cath Bolkcom, in your thoughts and prayers as a family medical emergency prevented her from being with us.

James Lee, our first PACG employee, had a last-minute change of plans which prevented him from joining us.

​We want to acknowledge Shanda Burrage for the lovely table decorations. Caroline Vernon painted small decorative rocks that adorned every table.

Thank you to Taylor and Dakota Vernon for being our photographers. We will have images on this page once those are available. Look for all of your friends and favorite moments.

Social Hour Slideshow

Here's the Social Hour slideshow that also played during dinner. It covers events and actions over our twenty year history.
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Gala Program Booklet
Here's our lovely Gala Program Booklet, which we consider a memory book of our 20 years.
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Program Slideshow

Our program slideshow may be viewed as a video on your favorite video player.​ It's also now available on our YouTube channel here.

Speaker Presentations

Alta Price, Cofounder

Click on the link on her name above to open a blog post of her presentation.
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Ed Tibbetts

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I Am the Future Video

We apologize for the technical issues that did not allow us to play this video. It is linked in the heading above.
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We are so proud of our video and grateful for the generosity of WQPT who upgraded it to a much more professional format. View our latest version of I Am the Future: Standing on the Shoulders of the Past here. Read our blog post about this effort here.

Various Blog Posts

We have numerous blog posts about our past events and actions on the website. Use the search bar at the top of every page to find something of interest. But here are some of our favorites:

How PACG began...by Cath Bolkcom

PACG's First Event

PACG's First Action

Past Issue Forums

First PACG Employees


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Here are some of our images from the Gala. We will add more once they are named and cropped for better viewing.
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PACG History - Social Justice Movie Nights

9/15/2025

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PACG Social Justice Movie Nights 2005 to 2012

Caroline Vernon offered PACG's Social Justice Movie Night for seven years. Dave and Carol Brown offered their own equipment and technical expertise.

These showings happened the third Friday of the month and included lemonade and popcorn! Sometimes a specific issue forums hosted one of these events. Caroline would send an email with a flyer to our community email list. Here's an example of one of those emails: Good Grew Tired of Us.

The movies are listed here:

Collapse 03/16/2012
Independent American reporter Michael Ruppert is the subject of this documentary, which looks at how the ex-police officer managed to predict the massive Wall Street crash of 2008 years before it happened.

Koch Brothers Exposed 04/21/2012
A hard-hitting investigation of Charles and David Koch, two of the world's richest and most powerful men, and how their billions and influence have changed the landscape of America.

Truck Farm (Local Foods Forum) 7/15/11 
Truck Farm tells the story of a new generation of quirky urban farmers. Using green roof technology and heirloom seeds, filmmaker Ian Cheney

What's the Matter with Kansas? 4/15/11
Shows how Kansas transformed from an outpost of radicalism to a bastion of
conservatism. Unforgettable characters and their stories shed new light on our nation's
political divide.

Gasland (Environmental Forum) 04/17/11 
Exposing the risks of fracking -- the controversial drilling technique also known as hydraulic fracturing.

Countdown to Zero 7/21/11
In recognition of the passing of the Start Treaty, this compelling documentary is timely.
The START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) refers to a series of agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union, and later Russia, to reduce the number of strategic nuclear weapons. The original START I treaty was signed in 1991 and led to significant dismantling of strategic nuclear weapons. The most recent of these treaties is the New START Treaty, signed in 2010.

A Sea Change 09/17/11
Sea Change follows the journey of retired history teacher Sven Huseby on his quest to
discover what is happening to the world’s oceans. After reading Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The
Darkening Sea,” Sven becomes obsessed with the rising acidity of the oceans and what this “sea change” bodes for humankind.

Capitalism: A Love Affair 07/16/10
Michael Moore examines the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans. But this time the culprit is much bigger than General Motors, and the crime scene is far wider than Flint, Michigan.

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin 06/18/10
"The unknown hero of the civil rights movement" Bayard Rustin was an American political activist and prominent leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Rustin was the principal organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.

Seneca Falls (QC NOW/Women’s Issues Forum) 03/19/2010 
a life-changing journey with nine high school girls and a lone 10-year old boy bound for the birthplace of women’s rights in America. Part teenage road trip, part shocking history lesson, the film is, above all, an awakening of young hearts and minds.

Food, Inc (Local Foods Initiative) 02/19/2010 
Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.

Battle in Seattle 11/20/09
The historic 1999 Seattle protest victory of people power over corporate rule, QCFL and
PACG is joining house parties across the country the week of November 15th. Battle in
Seattle starring Charlize Theron, Andre 3000, Woody Harrelson and more.

Fresh the Movie (Local Foods Initiative) 09/18/2009 
Fresh celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-
inventing our food system.

The Future of Food (Local Foods Initiative) 05/22/2009 
An in-depth look at the controversy over genetically modified food.

The World According to Monsanto 03/20/2009
As the world leader in genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and one of the most
controversial corporations in industrial history, this empire has created some of the most toxic products ever sold, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the herbicide Agent Orange. Based on a painstaking investigation into the company's history.

Flow  01/16/2009
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.

Obsession (Reclaiming Moral Values Forum) 11/18/2008 
This film grossly misrepresents Islam and Muslims in America. In response, this free
community event will intersperse clips from the video "Obsession" with discussion about peaceful and factual responses to bigotry and stereotyping about Muslims and others.

Iron Jawed Angels (QC-NOW/Women’s Issues Forum) 10/17/2008 
2nd showing – Back by popular demand
The struggle of suffragists who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The film
shows how activists broke from the mainstream women's-rights movement and created a more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries of political protest to secure women's voting rights in 1920.

Life and Death 09/19/2008
takes a hard look at how globalization, deregulation, and World Bank Loans, despite
promises of economic development, are actually crippling developing nations,
saddling them with enormous debt.
The Business of Being Born 08/15/2008 Women’s Issues Forum
Director Abby Epstein's controversial documentary takes a hard look at America's
maternity care system, juxtaposing hospital deliveries against the growing popularity of at-home, natural births.

​The Business of Being Born 8/15/2008
A documentary that explores the childbirth experience in the US, including the dysfunctions of the healthcare system that relies heavily on medications and medical interventions, as opposed to the view that it is a natural process.

God Grew Tired of Us 07/18/2008
After raising themselves in the desert along with thousands of other parentless "lost boys," Sudanese refugees John, Daniel and Panther have found their way to America, where they experience electricity, running water and supermarkets for the first time.

For the Bible Tells Me So (Reclaiming Moral Values Forum) 06/20/2008  
Through the experiences of five very normal, very Christian, very American families we
discover how insightful people of faith handle the realization of having a gay child. Informed by such respected voices as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Harvard's Peter Gomes, OrthodoxRabbi Steve Greenberg and Reverend Jimmy Creech, offering healing, clarity and understanding to anyone caught in the crosshairs of scripture and sexual identity.

No End in Sight: The Occupation of Iraq (Peace and Justice Forum) 03/21/2008 
A critical analysis of the United States' occupation of Iraq following the 2003 invasion. The film argues that the disastrous handling of the occupation was a result of incompetence and a series of grave policy mistakes made by the Bush administration.

The Narrow Path (Reclaiming Moral Values Forum) 11/16/2007 
Following in the footsteps of the great apostles of nonviolence - Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Oscar Romero - John Dear, SJ presents in The Narrow Path the challenging message of Jesus in a fresh way, speaking with new force and vision of God's plea for peace.

Shocking and Awful: A grassroots response to War and Occupation 08/17/07
Shocking and awful is the way many people view the current situation in Iraq and the
United States. The war takes its toll on Iraqi civilians, international aid workers, journalists and US troops.

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
07/20/2007
War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of
government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war
after another from Vietnam to Iraq.

Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers 10/19/2006
Private contractors making millions as a result of Pentagon contracts to perform
interrogations. Many soldiers are featured speaking out about the effect that these private mercenaries are having on their jobs and morale. Mercernaries are also featured speaking to the lack of security provided by the private companies that hire them.

Why We Fight 05/18/2007
The film describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial
complex while concentrating on wars led by the United States over the last fifty years
particularly on the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

When I Came Home 03/16/07
A film about homeless veterans in America: from those who served in Vietnam to those
returning from the current war in Iraq.

The War Tapes - footage filmed by actual soldiers in Iraq February 2007
Filmmaker Deborah Scranton provides three U.S. soldiers with cameras so they can
document their experiences during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The Power of Forgiveness (Reclaiming Moral Values / QCUU) 03/24/2007 
Researchers examining the psychological and physical effects of forgiveness on individuals and within relationships under a wide variety of conditions, ranging from petty insults to sexual assault. Clinicians have developed interventions that guide people through a process that allows them to forgive transgressions and get on with their lives.

The Road to Guantanamo 01/19/2007
The film tells the story of Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul (the 'Tipton Three');
three young British men from Tipton in the West Midlands who were captured by the
Northern Alliance in Afghanistan in 2001 and detained as "enemy combatants" at
Guantánamo Bay, without charge or legal representation, for nearly three years.

The Ground Truth - The Human Cost of War 11/17/2006
Our soldiers' perspective of the Iraq War, and how they are being treated upon returning home. It goes beyond the war stories to look underneath our American tradition of going to war and then abandoning the warrior.

30 Days 09/17/2006
Frank George, who legally immigrated with his family from Cuba to the US when he was 7 years old, has staunch illegal immigration views. He believes the US military should man all borders and is a member of the Minutemen, a volunteer group that patrols the country's borders. For 30 days, Frank lived with a family of mixed status who fled their native Mexico in 1995. He shared a one-bedroom apartment with Rigorberto and Patty Gonzales and their five children. Two of the children were born in the US and are American citizens. Their parents and siblings are illegal immigrants.

The Revolution Will Not be Televised 08/18/2006
Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11th, 2002, when Chavez was forcibly removed from office by members of the military and the national chamber of commerce. They were also present 48 hours later, when, remarkably, millions of Venezuelans took to the streets, and by teaming up with loyal military officers, returned Chavez to power.

The Big Buy: Tom Delay's Stolen Congress 07/21/2006
The film is a warning about how easy it is for American democracy to be hijacked by a
combination of relentless ambition and corporate millions. It makes the case that DeLay built a "custom-made Congress" that is still providing votes for his agenda.

A Day Without A Mexican 06/16/2006
Beginning in 1994 with California’s Prop 187 the filmmakers intended to give form to a
strong sentiment of discomfort we perceived in the Latino immigrant community but which up to now has had no clear shape, no loud voice. We believe that immigration reform is the civil rights struggle of our time. It is a struggle that affects all of us with its impact on the economic, social and cultural fabric of our society.

Thirst 05/19/2006
This documentary draws attention to the fact that global corporations are rapidly buying up local water supplies - Communities suddenly lose control of their most precious resource. This is a piercing look at the conflict between public stewardship and private profit.

Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices (Corporate Reform Forum) 11/18/2005 
The controversial retail giant Walmart faces the scrutiny of filmmaker Robert Greenwald in this documentary showcasing the adverse effects the behemoth inflicts on communities and individuals.

Iron Jawed Angels (Women’s Issues Forum/QC NOW) 08/26/2005  
The struggle of suffragists who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. The film
shows how activists broke from the mainstream women's-rights movement and created a  more radical wing, daring to push the boundaries of political protest to secure women's voting rights in 1920.

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How PACG began by Cath Bolkcom

7/1/2025

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How PACG began...

By Cath Bolkcom

An important moment in my life as a community organizer was the Pleasant Valley School Board's decision to limit the use of young author James Howe’s well-known book The Misfits  because one of the young people in the book was gay. I didn’t imagine that this could actually happen in November 2004 in Iowa. I went to the board meeting, where in fact it did happen, and I decided at that moment that I could help the affected teachers and the parents appeal this decision to the Iowa Department of Education. 
 
We filed an appeal and proved our case very effectively in an administrative hearing. The board did not rule in our favor, but we felt that we had accomplished virtually all we had set out to do by changing the minds and hearts of people in the community. There were waiting lists at libraries to borrow the book and bookstores to buy it. We got a grant to buy 100 copies and donated them to local schools and libraries. Eventually, we brought award-winning and best-selling author James Howe to town. Three hundred people attended his presentation at North High School in Davenport to learn how we can better support gay youth.
A result of this dispute was the organizing of what would become Progressive Action for the Common Good (PACG).
 
George Bush had been reelected president in November of 2004, which was frustrating and of grave concern. The Misfits book suppression at Pleasant Valley High School came right on the heels of his election. The effort to ban a book that featured a gay child made it clear that the religious right had successfully organized to elect people with fundamentalist religious views to all levels of government, including our school boards. 
 
It became obvious to me that progressives had been out-organized and that we needed to do something about it. I set out to create a coalition of progressives in the QC to remedy this. The first person I met with was Roger Butts, then minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Davenport. I hoped he might be able to offer financial support. He could not, but what he did offer was more essential: his own participation and, very importantly, a place for our new community to gather and plan our activism. I invited people with whom I had worked in the MoveOn GOTV (Get Out the Vote) effort and people I knew from 30 years of working and organizing in the QC to the first meeting.  Everyone invited was also asked to reach out to progressives they knew and encourage them to get involved. In January of 2005 we began meeting weekly. Email and the US Postal Service were the only tools available to reach out to folks in volume. We began with an effort at each meeting to have attendees send personal letters through the mail to at least 10 people they knew and to ask those ten people to reach out to ten more people.

I was amazed by the response at the early meetings. We started with one meeting a week at noon and quickly added a second meeting in the evening for working folks. We chose the name for the fledgling group in a group meeting. I wanted the words “progressive,” “common good” and “action” to be included in our name. It was a lot, but we made it work!!

We decided to hold the first PACG Summit to launch our organization in April and draw people in to begin to identify the issues they wanted to address. On April 16, 2005, 450 people attended this gathering at Augustana College! This was an amazing turnout given the short time frame for planning. It demonstrated the concern people felt in the wake of the 2004 election. Folks came committed to work on a variety of issues - civil rights, equal rights, protecting Social Security, economic justice, women’s issues, racial healing, healthcare, the environment and sustainability, corporate reform, poverty and housing, peace and justice and more. (Other topics around which forums would eventually be organized included immigration, election reform, youth leaders and others).

We came up with the idea of Issue Forums, which has continued to be an important part of the present day success of PACG. I knew from my organizing experience that we could not support work on a variety of issues without staff, but we did not have money. We suggested that anyone willing to work on a particular issue  could establish a forum as long as they would take responsibility to chair it and build it. We knew that individuals would not want to (or be able to) work on every issue, or even agree with all of the intentions of the forums. The idea was that we could work on our biggest concerns and then come together as a larger organization to effect change.
 
Here’s how the current PACG website explains Issue Forums:
PACG is a multi-issue organization built around our Issue Forums. As progressives, we all care about many different issues. Those who feel more strongly about a given issue can join others to work specifically on that issue as a core member of an Issue Forum. Members of an Issue Forum meet to plan events and actions. Issue Forums reach out to other PACG members to take action or attend events the core members of the Issue Forum have planned. That way PACG members can help promote causes they care about, even if they can't attend regular meetings to work on that issue.
 
With many incredible colleagues who came to the table from January to April of 2005, we began to build an organization that could work effectively across a dozen issue groups to effect change and to apply political power.

At the time of the first PACG Summit, we had not yet incorporated but at the April Summit people were giving money to me to support our efforts. With help from Rich Hendricks, who was a lawyer in a previous life, we organized our first PACG Board of Directors. Among the very early leaders were Alta Price, Roger Butts, Ron Quay, Rich Hendricks, Lisa Killinger, Joyce (Basler) Chamberlin, Karen Metcalf, Dick Fallow, Rick Schloemer, Caryn Unsicker, John and Kathy Bowman, James Lee, Molly Regan, Caroline Vernon, Kriss Wells, John Downing, Rachel Griffiths, Dave and Carol Brown, Chris Dunn, Linda Pratt, Cliff Day, Beth Wehrman, Len and Connie Sauer-Adams, Joyce Wiley, Tom Benge, Julie Ross, Ann Berger, Shirley Johnson,  Dr. John Hoffman, Carol West, Sally Paustian,  Maria Mejia-Caballo, Olenka, Maria Cummings, and Karl Rhomberg. There are certainly others whose names I have not included. Dr. Alta Price, Bill and Maria Bribriesco, Catherine Wiedeman, Michael Liebbe, Martha Easter-Wells, and Dr. Walter Neiswanger were incredibly generous early financial donors.
 
The issue forums met independently, scheduling their regular meetings and developing their own agendas and action plans (see my list below of the first active forums). The larger community gathered once a month for a Council meeting to hear reports from the forums and make plans for PACG as a whole.

What is incredible and very unusual for a truly grassroots organization is that PACG is still alive and well 20 years later! And that is due to leadership that has stayed active and true for all these years. I am not one of those people (I realized that I like to start things). I honor the folks that were at the table at the very beginning and are still at it these years later. There is a natural ebb and flow to grass roots organizing. It’s very difficult to sustain over time, particularly without full-time paid staff. PACG has defied the odds by working so effectively on so many issues for two decades.

 
Here are my recollections of the first regular forums we established:

The Reclaiming Moral Values Forum
Rev. Ron Quay had moved from New Jersey to the Quad Cities to take the Churches United Executive Director job. He was one of our early leaders and board members. He and James Lee led the Reclaiming Moral Values form to address the fallacy that the Religious Right had a corner on what “moral values” or “family values” were.
Ron Quay and Roger Butts worked with the other progressive clergy to address any issue that came up in the community about which one would hope to hear from faith leaders. We did some amazing interfaith organizing with Rabbi Karp, Dr. Lisa Killinger, a leader in the Muslim community, and Rev. Rich Hendricks from the Metropolitan Community Church and a leader in the LGBTQ+ community. They organized a quick and public response to every issue, problem or crisis which happened in the world for years. Muslims and Jews along with all kinds of people gathered together at the Mosque for the first time in QC history.

The Civil Rights Forum
Rich Hendricks and I co-led the PACG Civil Rights Forum. We were keenly focused on racial healing and marriage equality. We organized political and community support for marriage equality for 5 years and were delighted when the Iowa Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, one of only three states to do so (the other two being on opposite coasts, Washington and Vermont). Rich and I were also very fortunate to be wedding officiants at this time and involved in some of the marriage ceremonies of the thousands of couples who traveled to Iowa to be legally wed.
 
One of the coolest events I was involved in was “Hands Across the Table for Racial Healing” a potluck to bring together Quad Citians to share their heritage, the food of their country of origin, and to share stories of their family’s immigration story. Though we only had 40 RSVP’s, Rich Hendricks and his helpers from MCCQC confidently set up for 300 guests and the tables were full! Eleven different languages were spoken by the guests.
 
The Peace and Justice Forum:
The peace work that we did opposing the Iraq war in the early days of PACG was really important. Our colleague Caryn Unsicker deserves most of the credit. I tried to infuse the effort with an ethic of love and nonviolence rather than anger and hate. One of the marches we did through Davenport was on a very cold winter day, intentionally in silence. Someone walked along with us and beat a drum solemnly. This didn’t end the war, of course, but it was a strong demonstration that unless we act in the strength of peace and love, nothing changes. We also worked to reclaim the US flag from the right. Caryn, as the mother of a service member in Iraq, was a powerful and passionate activist and leader to end the war. This included leading bi-weekly anti-war protests in the QC for many years. Caryn also traveled to Texas to attend a 26-day protest outside Pres. Bush’s ranch in Texas in August, 2005. This protest was organized by Cindy Sheehan, an Iraq War Gold Star mom, who then led a nationwide protest in DC.  A bus trip to the Sept 24th DC protest was our first action event organized by PACG. 

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July 2025 Green Drinks-RI WER Tour PACG Events

6/27/2025

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July Green Drinks - Tour Rock Island's West End Revitalization
Thursday, July 10th at 5:00 pm

Martin Luther King Center parking lot
630 9th Street
Rock Island IL (map)Environmental Forum
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The Rock Island West End Revitalization (WER) initiative has made significant strides to grow this historical neighborhood. Improvements made to Rauch Family Park and Franklin Field made these sites more user friendly to the community. Avery Pearl, WER Coordinator will lead us on a tour of these areas.

The tour will begin from the Martin Luther King Center Parking Lot. We will be driving to some of the sites. Bring a friend.

Susan Leuthauser (she/her)
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Fashion and Our Environment - March Green Drinks PACG Event

2/19/2025

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March Green Drinks - Fashion and Our Environment
Thursday, March 6th at 5:00 pm via Zoom

Environmental Forum
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Join us on Thursday, March 6th for Green Drinks. Do you know that the fashion industry is the second most polluting industry after the oil industry? Come and find out how it impacts our environment and what you can do to make changes in your lifestyle to cut down on waste.

Please register for a Zoom link to join the meeting.

Susan Leuthauser (she/her)
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Green Drinks - January 2025 - PACG Event

12/18/2024

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January Green Drinks - Clean Energy District 101
Thursday, January 9th at 5:00 pm via Zoom

Environmental Forum
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Join us on Thursday, January 9th for our first Green Drinks of the year. Please note that, due to the holidays, we'll meet on the 9th instead of the 2nd for our January event.

Joleen Jansen from Clean Energy Districts of Iowa (CEDI) will discuss how locally-led and locally owned clean energy districts can help our community transition into a clean energy future.

Please register for a link to join the meeting.

Hope to see you there. Have a safe and happy holiday season.

Susan Leuthauser
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December Green Drinks - the Future of Climate Change - PACG Events

11/30/2024

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December Green Drinks - The Future of Climate Change - The Ground Game
Thursday, December 5th at 5:00 pm via Zoom

Environmental Forum
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Join us on Thursday December 5th at 5 pm for Green Drinks on Zoom. The old adage "Think Globally, Act Locally," has never been more timely, as climate action in coming years is likely to get less attention federally. Sarah Gardner, Climate Action Coordinator from the City of Iowa City will share updates from her office on programs engaging households and city departments, with thoughts on where we can go from here.f

Register to attend the event at: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/

Susan Leuthauser
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Register for our Annual Holiday Party! - Saturday December 5th 2024

11/5/2024

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Register for our Annual Holiday Party 2024
December 5th at 5:30 pm

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

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

We will present the annual Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justice award to a worthy, local recipient (or two). 

The main course will be catered, with vegan and gluten-free options. Please bring a salad, side dish or dessert to share.

Although this event is free, we need you to register so we can coordinate with our caterer. Talk to your friends, register them and bring them along!

Optional Holiday Gift: This year we are once again supporting Quad Cities Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees (QCAIR). Please bring a wrapped toy for a child 6 months to 12 years of age. Securely label your gift with the age (and gender, if appropriate) of the child.

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

There is extra parking available in the lot just east of the museum, where the YMCA used to be.

Please register here.

PACG Holiday Party Committee
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November 2024 Green Drinks - PACG Event

10/22/2024

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November Green Drinks - Native Roots and Natural Resources Cost Sharing Programs Thursday, November 7th at 5:00 pm via Zoom

Environmental Forum
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Join us on Thursday November 7th at 5 pm for Green Drinks. Amy Kay from the City of Davenport will explain the programs available to property owners that protect and encourage the adoption of native prairie plantings. These programs also help with storm-water management practices. We ask that you register for this event by scanning the bar code or use this registration link.

Susan Leuthauser
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October Green Drinks - Project 2025 and the environment - PACG Event

9/10/2024

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October Green Drinks - How will Project 2025 impact our environment?
Thursday, October 3rd at 5:00 pm via Zoom

Environmental Forum
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Please join us on Thursday, Oct 3rd, at 5 pm for our October Green Drinks. 

We'll have an overview on how the proposed changes described in the Project 2025 document Mandate for Leadership - The Conservative Promise, will impact our environment.

Please register for a link to attend the Zoom meeting at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoduGpqTIsH9fD6ssFCjEteY09ZHZ41w6m. You can also use the QR Code in the flyer to reach the registration site. 
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