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

Third Informed Voters Town Hall on Civil Rights

9/16/2020

Third Informed Voters Town Hall via Zoom
Tuesday, September 29th from 6:00 to 7:00 pm

Civil Rights Forum

The NAACP Davenport Branch, the PACG Civil Rights Forum and other organizations listed below are sponsoring the Third Informed Voters Town Hall on Tuesday, September 29th from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. This is our "Civil Rights and Juvenile Justice Town Hall." We have questions for candidates about reducing the number of juvenile detainees in our community.

This webinar is limited to the first 100 people who register. Contact PACGoffice@gmail.com with questions.

Click the image below or use this link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IQT9lq8XR8qLSmApsW39Ww

8th Annual Picnic and Pie Auction

9/16/2020

PACG's 8th Annual Picnic and Pie Auction via Zoom
Sunday, October 4th from 4:00 to 5:30 pm

Join your PACG friends to celebrate our 15th Anniversary at the 8th Annual PACG Picnic and Pie Auction! We will have a virtual picnic but real enchiladas! With music, a raffle and pies, this promises to be a uniquely memorable event! We will have more details in next week's WEU.

Allison Ambrose

21-Day Equity Challenge September and October Sessions

9/8/2020

21-Day Equity Challenge
September and October Sessions
Tuesday, September 15th Deadline for the Second Session

Civil Rights Forum

The Civil Rights Forum would like to thank the United Way of the Quad Cities for bringing the 21-Day Equity Challenge to our community. Many of us have participated in the first session and have found it rewarding. We encourage all members of PACG to take advantage of this opportunity!

Join the United Way and our partners in the community as we learn to change our habits to imagine and build a more equitable Quad Cities with the 21-Day Equity Challenge.

Sign up at https://www.unitedwayqc.org/21-day-equity-challenge for one of the next two sessions. You will receive an email every day with suggestions for readings, podcasts, videos, observations and ways to form and deepen community connections and understanding.

Listen, learn, reflect and act to help us live our lives Stronger Together through these challenges that can be done individually, with friends and family, or organization-wide.

Participants will be invited to the Quad Cities Equity Summit in October. Registration closes for the second challenge on September 15th!

Alta Price

Y15K Initiative Fully Funded!

9/8/2020

Y15K Initiative Fully Funded!

Message from the President

We are excited to announce that our Y15K fundraiser honoring our 15th Anniversary has achieved its goal! We will have more details about our success in next week's WEU. Thank you all for your continued support as we work for the common good of all in the Quad Cities!

Allison Ambrose

Save the Date - 8th Annual Picnic and Pie Auction

9/8/2020

PACG's Annual Picnic and
Pie Auction via Zoom - Save the Date!
Sunday, October 4th from 4:00 to 5:30 pm

A Message from the President

Join your PACG friends to celebrate our 15th Anniversary at the 8th Annual PACG Picnic and Pie Auction! We will have a virtual picnic but real enchiladas! With music, a raffle and pies, this promises to be a uniquely memorable event! Look for details in next week's WEU!

Allison Ambrose

2020 Anual Picnic and Pie Auction Date Change!

8/25/2020

PACG's Annual Picnic and Pie Auction
via Zoom
Date Change!

Due to the unique nature of our first ever virtual picnic and pie auction, the picnic committee needs more time to plan for a truly memorable event! New date will be announced soon!

Allison Ambrose

Second Informed Voter Series

8/20/2020

Informed Voter Series: 19th Amendment Centennial & Social Security Town Hall
Tuesday, August 18th at 5:00 pm

Online

Voting

RSVP for the virtual town hall meeting August 18th at 5:00pm to discuss Social Security, economic justice for women, and the importance of voting at the second event in our Informed Voter Series.

The meeting coincides with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote.

The Davenport-Bettendorf American Association of University Women, Iowa Alliance for Retired Americans, Quad Cities Chapter: National Organization for Women, Progressive Action for the Common Good, and Iowa Lower Drug Prices Now are partnering to bring you this program in the Informed Voter Series.

We have invited U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, and her opponent, Democratic candidate Theresa Greenfield, to join the meeting, as well as Rita Hart and Marionette Miller-Meeks, both candidates for the 2nd Iowa Congressional District seat being vacated by Democrat Dave Loebsack.

Roxanna Moritz, Scott County Auditor, will be in attendance to speak about voting by mail and important election dates.

Registration is Required! Please visit https://docs.google.com/forms/19thAmendment&SocialSecurityTownHall/Registration

Allison Ambrose

Save the Date - PACG Picnic and Pie Auction

8/20/2020

PACG's Annual Picnic and Pie Auction via Zoom
Sunday, September 20th at 3:00 - 4:30 pm

Save The Date

PACG's annual picnic is on! We will celebrate the success of the Y15K Fundraiser, have socialization time, and hold our traditional pie auction virtually.

Sound fun and unique? You bet! Look for details to come!

Allison Ambrose

"Come Hell or High Water" - Viewing and Discussion

7/28/2020

Come Hell or High Water - The Battle for Turkey Creek
Wednesday, August 5th at 7:00 pm

Online Viewing and Discussion

Environmental Forum

Learn about the unjust impact of climate change on Turkey Creek, a historic black community in coastal Mississippi.

Join us for a viewing of this award-winning film online anytime between August 2nd and August 4th. Then join the filmmakers at 7 pm on Wednesday, August 5th for a discussion on the disproportionate impacts of climate change on communities of color.

Visit InterFaith Power and Light for more information and a preview of the film.

Login is limited to 150 viewers. Please contact Lori McCollum to register. You’ll be sent a link and password to view the film, and access the webinar.

The event host is Interfaith Power and Light and is sponsored by UUCQC and PACG.

Lori McCollum

Informed Voter Series Town Hall

7/28/2020

Informed Voter Series: Medicare Anniversary Town Hall
via Zoom
Thursday, July 30th at 4:00 pm

Voter Information

Medicare was signed into law on July 30, 1965. We will be celebrating the anniversary of Medicare with a town hall. We have invited both Senator Joni Ernst and Senatorial Democratic Candidate Theresa Greenfield to attend and address voters' concerns about Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, prescription drug policies and health care.

Theresa Greenfield has accepted our invitation and will be present to discuss her health care policies. Senator Joni Ernst has not yet responded to our request.

The Iowa Alliance for Retired Americans, American Association of University Women, Americans for Democratic Action Iowa, Iowa Lower Drug Prices Now, National Organization for Women, Progressive Action for the Common Good, and Iowa Citizen Action Network are partnering to bring you this Informed Voter Series.

An RSVP to this event is required.

Allison Ambrose, President