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PACG First Annual Picnic  and Pie Auction - PACG Events

9/17/2013

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1st Annual PACG Picnic 
Saturday, September 21st 1pm - 4pm 
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Rock Island's Sunset Park and Marina
31st Avenue and the Mississippi 
Rock Island IL


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If you would like to support what we do, please   

Feed your body and your mind at PACG's First Annual Picnic! 
 
There is still time to volunteer to help set up, clean up, cook, bake a pie, run errands, donate a door prize or help phone bank, please call: 
Bill Sherwood at 563-271-0234 
 
Tickets are now on sale for what, we hope, will be a long line of annual picnics for PACG members and supporters. This gives us an opportunity to see old friends, meet new ones, and celebrate our accomplishments and maybe learn a little something.  
 
Along with the usual picnic goodies, we will have a pie auction, music, and five exceptional speakers. So come help us build the organization! 
 
Tickets are available from any board member or call Bill Sherwood at 563-271-0234
 
Confirmed Speakers: 
 
Doctor Tom Carpenter 
Tom is Head of The School of Education at St. Ambrose University as well as an Itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Tom's award-winning PhD. dissertation is "Labor Conflict in the Mining Industry of the Coeur D'Alenes, 1892 and 1899." Tom has taught in schools from Harlem to South Central Los Angeles and brings a fiery passion for social justice. 
 
Senator Rob Hogg  
Rob's recently released book, "America's Climate Century: What Climate Change Means for America in the 21st Century and What Americans Can Do About It," stands as testament to his long-standing commitment to restoring clean water and air to both Iowans and the world. Rob is a lawyer who has served in the Iowa legislature since 2003 where he has become one of Iowa's leading voices on climate change. 
 
Mayor Bill Gluba of Davenport  
Bill Gluba requires little introduction to Quad Citians who are very used to seeing him show up, when asked, to express his growing consternation over the injustices in this country. Gluba is a contemporary knight, cross-onshield, always ready to lend his sword to those in need. Recently Bill gave a particularly impassioned speech to those gathered to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington we have asked him to reprise that speech for our picnic. 
 
Karen Metcalf  
PACG's own Karen Metcalf returned home to Iowa after living for 20 years in England and in Canada while her husband, Dr. Peter Metcalf, completed his training and practice. Her exposure to the health care systems in these countries, from the inside, led her to begin advocating for reform in this country. As our very capable facilitator of the Health Care Forum, she has developed a high level of expertise on reform and the Affordable Care Act. 
 
Doctor Christopher M Whitt  
Chris is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Augustana College in Rock Island. After arriving at Augustana in 2007, Chris became principal founder and faculty member of the Augustana African Studies Program. His doctoral research was titled "The Impact of the Racial Wealth Gap in Black Political Participation." Currently Chris is working on a book project on the roots, realities, and legacies of inequalities in American politics and government. 
 
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PACG History - "A Promise Called Iowa" screening

8/2/2013

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PACG History - "A Promise Called Iowa" Screening
Friday, August 2nd, 2013 at 7 pm

UUCQC
3707 Eastern AV 
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Davenport, IA

Community Event


A Promise Called Iowa, a film produced by Friends of IPTV in 2007, will be shown in the sanctuary of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Quad Cities, 3707 Eastern Ave. Davenport at 7 PM on August 2nd.

Please download the flyer for the film and share or post it wherever you believe it will be noticed.

Discussion to follow at 8 PM led by Robin Clark-Bennett of the U. of I. Labor Center and Amy Rowell Director of World Relief in Moline.

This film is a good reminder of what we did to help when we all pulled together and so many of our churches helped. I've now watched it three times and haven't tired of it.  

In 1975, Governor Robert D. Ray opened Iowa's doors to people fleeing from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The effort to resettle these refugees came down to one family, one church, one community at a time. This program is the moving story of how Southeast Asian refugees became Iowans, and it retraces their journey from Indochina to Iowa.

Governor Ray's humanitarian response started Iowa down a road it is still travelling today. Iowa was the only state with a state government entity certified by the U.S. State Department to resettle refugees: the Bureau of Refugee Services. Iowa was the only place where state government, along with the private resettlement agencies, welcomes the dispossessed.

Robin Clark-Bennett is from the U. of Iowa Labor Center, which conducts educational programming for Iowa's organized workforce. Since the Labor Center's founding in 1951, thousands of Iowa union members have participated in Labor Center classes on practical industrial relations, law. The Labor Center also conducts applied research and provides 
information on labor and workplace issues to faculty, students, and the public.

Robin Clark-Bennett, Labor Educator Robin Clark-Bennett joined the Labor Center as a Labor Educator in June, 2008. Prior to this appointment, she worked with the Labor Center from 2002-2004 on the Child Labor Public Education Project. Robin began her work with the labor movement as a summer intern with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) in New York City in 1992 and 1993. Since 1994, she has worked with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU; the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE), the Service Employees’ International Union (SEIU), and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).

Robin holds a B.A. from Yale University where she studied history, with an emphasis on U.S. labor history in the twentieth century. She is a member of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 716 and currently serves as a member on the United Association for Labor Education's Immigration and Globalization Working Group.

Amy Rowell is the Director of World Relief in Moine, Il. World Relief Moline is a not-for-profit agency providing services to refugees and immigrants in Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa. World Relief’s mission is to serve vulnerable populations in and through partnership with local churches, agencies, and the community-at-large. Our programs provide financial, emotional, cultural, and spiritual support to refugees – victims of war and persecution around the world – who are being placed in the Quad Cities.

Elaine Kresse
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PACG History - Taking Back the Message on Social Security

7/25/2013

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PACG History - Taking Back the Message on Social Security
​After Action Report

PACG Community Networking 
with Iowa Alliance for Retired Americans


Close to forty people attended the presentation by Alex Lawson, the Executive
Director of Social Security Works, at the PACG Community Networking last Thursday.

Midge Slater, the Field Organizer for Iowa Alliance for Retired Americans, introduced
Alex and his topic: Taking Back the Message on Social Security. He gave a fresh and
very informative talk on how Americans can defend Social Security by going on the
offense both in the language we use to discuss it and the facts we can use to dispel the
myths created by those who would destroy it.

The talk was followed by several very 
good questions and comments from the audience, which included Mayor Bill Gluba and representatives from Senator Harkins’ and Congresswoman Cheri Bustos’ offices.

Next month, we will have a great presentation by ICCI with more information to
follow.

Caryn Unsicker,
Board President
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PACG History - Climate Bus in town

7/23/2013

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PACG History - Climate Bus in town!
​Monday, July 29th

Fresh Deli
Freight House Farmers' Market
421 W River DR
Davenport, IA 

Climate Action Campaign and PACG Environmental Forum

The Climate Action Campaign is sponsoring the "I Will Act on Climate Change" bus tour.  The bus is touring the country and will be in the Quad Cities on Monday, July 29th, at 3pm in the parking lot by Fresh Deli in the Davenport Freight House (421 W. River Drive). 

Mayor Bill Gluba will introduce some national speakers along with Father Bud Grant, Sister Cathleen Real, and others with  expertise on how climate change is affecting us locally.  

 Please attend this important climate action event to learn more about how climate change is affecting us  both globally and right here in the Quad Cities.    

Questions?  Contact Brad Anderson with OFA brad@linkstrategies.com.

​Caryn Unsicker

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PACG History - Printed Newsletter May 2013

5/1/2013

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PACG History - Printed Newsletter from May, 2013

PROGRESSIVE ACTION FOR THE COMMON GOOD 
QC citizens working together promote progressive values since January since 2005.  
Non-profit, non-partisan, diverse citizen action for the common good.  
Be the change you want to see in the world... 
Equality. Justice. Peace.
1212 W. 3rd St, Suite 3D, Davenport, IA 52802 
www.qcprogressiveaction.org  

EVENTS AND ACTIONS

Social Justice Movie Night Line-Up: 

Upcoming Area Events: 
3rd Friday of the month 6:30pm
Cobblestone Place  
1212 W. 3rd St, Davenport, IA 
Popcorn & lemonade provided 


May 17, 2013 
The Invisible War 
Group discussion after film  showings—Please join us! 
The Invisible War, a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America’s  most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film  paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem—today, a female soldier in combat  zones is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. Twenty per cent of all active-duty female soldiers are sexually assaulted. 

May 17th, 2013, 5:30—8pm  
National Women’s Health Week:  Keep a Healthy Beat!
The Center, Brady & 14th St, Davenport Dinner and speaker, Sponsored by United  Neighbors. Contact Karen Metcalf for tickets.

June 21, 2013 
War On Whistleblowers 
The government is supposed to serve the public's best interests. But this is not always the  case. When scientific research is altered or suppressed, when government contractors waste  millions of taxpayer dollars, or when national security documents are falsified, government  employees who witness these acts should be free to blow the whistle on others without fear  of retribution. 

July 19, 2013 
Shadows of Liberty 
Shadows of Liberty reveals the extraordinary truth behind the news media: censorship,  cover-ups and corporate control. Filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay takes a journey  through the darker corridors of the US media, where global conglomerates call the shots.  For decades, their overwhelming influence has distorted news journalism and compromised  its values. 

June 8, 2013, 8am-1pm 
QC Hempfest 2013 
Various hemp products, educational literature,  live music, film Viewing of: “The Hempsters” at  Fresh Deli. Farmer’s Market—Davenport. Call  Dan DeShane 

June 15, 2013, 8am-3pm 
Radish Healthy Living Fair 
Stop by the PACG table and say hello! Farmer’s Market—Davenport, IA 

June 14 & 15, 2013 
I-Renew Energy Expo
Join I-Renew in Celebrating 21 Years of Renewable Energy Edu cation at this family-friendly FREE  
event at the Figge Museum on the Riverfront. This 21st Expo will pack a punch with a member and exhibitor reception and key note kickoff on Friday night followed by a full day of educational  
activities and exhibits all day long on Saturday! This year’s cosponsors, the Advanced Technology Environmental and Educa tion Center (ATEEC) and Eastern Iowa Community College  (EICC) will add an extra surge of energy with a specialized  youth program in their Interactive Learning, plus much more! 

    
PACG Strategic Planning Sessions— Moving Ahead... 
During the past 2 week-ends in April, PACG board  members and leaders participated in a strategic plan ning session with the assistance of Quad City Leader ship Consulting. These sessions helped us come to a  consensus on how to move forward as we meet the  needs of the organization while continuing to em power people to create a just, compassionate and  sustainable community. As a result, we are focusing  on 3 areas over the next 12 months; membership, in creasing visibility and finances/fundraising. We will be  calling on many of you —If you would like to work on  any of these new committees, call PACG at 563-676- 7580 today.  

More information on our Strategic Plan outcomes will  be posted on our website very soon—be sure to  check it out at: www.qcprogressiveaction.org 


PACG Community Garden in its 4th year! 
If you live in the neighborhood of East Davenport and would like to join our garden community, call PACG at 563-676-7580 today! We will be breaking ground very soon. 10’ X 10’ plots are $10. Reserve yours now! 
1212 W. 3rd St, Suite 3D  
Davenport, IA 52804  
(563) 676-7580  


PACG FORUMS
  
Corporate Reform  
Meeting times vary  
Call Caroline Vernon  
563-676-7580 
    
Environmental /Sustainable  Energy  
Meeting times vary  
Email Molly Regan  
mjregan@mchsi.com or 
Cliff Day bigorca@mchsi.com   
  
Health Care Reform  
First Tuesday of month 6:30pm St John’s Lutheran Rock Island, IL  
Call Karen Metcalf 563--355-0093 
  
Local Foods Initiative  

Second Wednesday every  even numbered month  Next meeting in June. 2013 6:30pm, Fresh Deli 
Davenport Freight House 
Call Mitch at 563-505-3799 
  
Peace & Justice Forum  Weekly Peace Vigil  
Every Saturday 11am to  Noon in Moline  
Corner of 16th St &  
John Deere Rd  

Social Justice Movie Night 
3rd Friday of month 6:30pm 
Cobblestone Place,  1212 W. 3rd St, Davenport, IA 
Call Caroline 563-676-7580   

  
Women’s Issues / QC-NOW 
Meeting times vary  

Call Carol Brown 563-359-9226  
PACG Community  Networking Night.  4th Thurs/mo 
6:00—7:30pm 
May 23rd Speaker:  Dan DeShane  
Industrial Hemp  Cobblestone Place 1212 W. 3rd St, Davenport  Everyone welcome!  Call PACG 563-676-7580  for more information 
  

“Honoring Those Who Go Before Us—Dick Fallow” 
by Caroline Vernon
See also, Blog for Iowa - https://blogforiowa.com/2013/04/21/dick-fallow-dies/

Leader, Mentor, Activist & Friend  
August 23, 1920 — April 13, 2013 

It was 2005 during the worst years of the Iraq War when Dick Fallow sauntered up to our Peace vigil and asked if we had an extra sign. I was to learn as he stood there with us on the hottest days of summer and during the  coldest blizzards that he was a virtual walking encyclopedia about the his tory of the peace movement, the labor movement, civil rights, and all other  progressive struggles in America – because he had been a part of them! I  always wished I had recorded his stories because they were so rich in history  and in the dynamic sort of integrity with which he helped shape it.  

Dick talked of his early days as a union organizer and he continued the  good fight for ordinary people over the greed of corporate America and  that of politicians from both parties who favor the military industrial complex  over human values. He was big on getting the money out of politics. He  hated unjust and unnecessary wars. He fought for things that strengthened  the commonality in all of us against those forces and institutions that would  divide us.  

There isn’t room here for all the wonderful things Dick Fallow was and did.  You can learn more about all that by going to the link below, a loving and  informative tribute to Dick written by Caroline Vernon. All I know is that I  count myself darned lucky to have called him a friend. We will miss that  wonderful advice of his on important issues that always seemed to shed just  the right light on a cause or an action. And we’ll miss the weight of his ex perience and the tirelessness of his efforts. But most of all, I think we’ll miss  the great big, delightful, laugh of a man enjoying living life to its fullest and  the gleam in his eye when he spoke of things close to his heart. May his  spirit live on in those of us who loved him and may we continue his work for  all things good and just. 

  

PACG cannot do the important work on issues you care about without your continued  financial support. Please consider making a contribution TODAY!  
Yes! I will support the work of PACG in the community!  
 Name(s): _______________________________________________________________________________  Address: _______________________________________________________________________________  City: _____________________________________ State: _________ Zip Code: _____________________  Email(s): ______________________________________________ Phone: ___________________________  
 Enclosed, please find my pledge in the amount of $ ________ to be paid: _____Monthly ____ Qtrly ____ Annually  Or my one time donation in the amount of $________ enclosed. Thanks for all you do!  Make checks out to PACG and mail to: PACG, 1212 W. 3rd St, Suite 3D, Davenport, IA 52804  
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PACG History - Community Event - January, 2013 Inauguration Ball

12/14/2012

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Inauguration Ball - January 21, 2013
​PACG History

YOU ARE INVITED!

Yes, once again we will have an Inaugural Ball in the Quad Cities to celebrate our President and the role that Community Organizing played in his re-election. (please excuse duplicates) 
Share with friends!!

This is a positive, non-partisan event…any proceeds will go to Winnie’s Place, the homeless shelter for women run by Churches United. You can also support the event by buying a sponsorship which will help keep the ticket price as affordable as we can…see the attached Sponsorship leaflet for details.

Quad Cities Inaugural Ball  Monday  January 21 , 2013 
6:00 PM- midnight
River Center in Davenport


Buffet Dinner at 7 PM (Beef and Veggie Lasagna) , Dessert, Soda and Beer, Champagne Pour, Cash Bar, Live Music and Dancing  

2 bands: Anthony Catalfano and Friends, and The Funktastic Five!! 

We will be dressing up!!!  Dressy attire encouraged, but NOT required.
 
Ball Tickets: $40 per person. (Reduced prices for students)

Ticketing will be via email ....you will not get a paper ticket. See attached leaflet for info.

EMAIL FOR INFO Chair Lou Ann Goral at  qcobamaball@gmail.com

You must pay for tickets to secure your place!! Send a check with  the attached Invite form.

 We sold out last year so buy early. Get together with friends and buy a table of eight. We will work to seat you with friends. There will be several tables for "Cool People" for men/women who come alone.... and note on the form that you wanted to be seated at one of those tables :)

Email for info....qcobamaball@gmail.com
Send form from the invite which is attached with your check.

​Thanks, 

Cathy Bolkcom
Wedding Officiant
Life Rituals
www.facebook.com/liferituals
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PACG History - Visits to Senators' Offices regarding Pentagon budget

12/10/2012

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Office Visits to Sens. Durbin and Harkin regarding Pentagon spending

Friends Committee on National Legislation

Dear Friends, 

Congressional leaders are deciding this month whether or not to delay or replace significant budget cuts before they start going into effect in January 2013. 

A more fair and just solution is simple: instead of balancing the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable, restore lost tax revenue from the wealthiest and keep cuts to planned Pentagon growth at at $1 trillion.

As Senate Majority Whip and a member of the bipartisan “gang of eight," Illinois Senator Durbin is one of the most influential decision makers on this issue. When a deal on the budget is reached, Senator Durbin is sure to be in the room. During this critical time, we need to encourage him to protect human needs and look to savings in the Pentagon instead.  

Sen. Harkin is also influential as the Chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. In his report he points out the impacts of budget cuts in current law on human needs programs. Already, he states, "the economic effects of cuts to nondefense programs could be worse than cuts to Pentagon spending."

A group of us will be visiting Sen. Durbin's and Sen. Harkin's local offices soon. Please let us know if you might be interested in joining!

If you would like to take additional action, you can send a short personalized letter to the editor mentioning your Senators' names using this online tool. You can also fax a letter (sample and fact sheet attached) to Sen. Durbin's office at  (202) 228-0400 care of Nathan Sandals and Rob Leonard (staff on budget and military issues) or to Sen. Harkin's office at (202) 224-9369 care of Richard Bender and Joseph Jones. 

The fact sheets I handed out and more can be found here  under "for the wonks" and "see the action center." Remember, you don't have to be an expert on the facts to be effective at grassroots lobbying. Speaking about who you are and why an issue matters to you personally is the most important part. (The second most important is asking questions and keeping in touch.)

My understanding was that you would collect signatures on the sign-ons and then request the visit/call with Sen. Durbin's office. Please feel free to give me a call if I can be of assistance with this process. 

I look forward to being in touch!

For Peace with Justice, 

Katherine Philipson
Campaigns Network Building Associate 
Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL)

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PACG History - Corporate Reform Forum

12/4/2012

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PACG History - Corporate Reform Forum Training

PACG Corporate Reform Forum

The Corporate Reform Forum was active in the 2010s after the SCOTUS Citizen's United ruling regarding campaign finance and free speech. This is the type of training the forum offered.
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Caroline Vernon
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PACG History - Weekly Email from February, 2011

2/7/2011

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 Weekly Update - February 7, 2011

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are 
doing the impossible." ~ St. Francis of Assisi



FORUM UPDATES / EVENTS
  
CIVIL RIGHTS FORUM:
Rich Hendricks
richdhendricks@msn.com


From friends: a lesbian QC couple who have raised two wonderful daughters....we must ALL speak up for justice where ever we are.

Dear Friends, 
We would love it if you would follow the link below and watch the video of a very brave and impressive young man facing the Iowa legislature just before they vote on a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage in Iowa.  Perhaps you have already seen it, as I know that many folks are watching it as a result of Facebook sharing.

However, what many people don't know about this issue is that, should this amendment go to the people of Iowa and be adopted by our state, it will not only ban gay marriage but gay unions or partnerships of any kind - the amendment is worded so that the ONLY legal relationship recognized by the state would be marriage between one man and one woman.  
So not only would you/your gay and lesbian friends be denied the right to marry (depending on your sexual orientation, of course! :-), but also the possibility of future domestic partnerships/civil unions in the state of Iowa would be gone. As your friends, we ask that you speak out about this issue - we don't want to live in a time period when, for the first time in history, the state of Iowa would actively deny through our Constitution the civil rights of its citizens.  Thanks for getting the word out!
​

Shelley and Sylvi

http://www.good.is/post/people-are-awesome-watch-this-guy-speak-truth-to-power-about-his-lesbian-moms/
 

CREATIVE LEADERS FORUM:
Steve Drucker
sdrucker@frontiernet.net

Report from Last meeting:
 
Some PACG Idea-Makers have a Dream of producing the first-ever Celebration of the 222nd anniversary of the U.S. Constitution, presenting it as a legacy for ALL citizens (not just the right-wing) and a LIVING document that changes with time to expand liberties.  March 4th is the day the Constitution was finalized, but we will celebrate it on March 5, a Saturday, to make it easier for kids, families, and most working folks to attend.  We envision an inter-generational, multi-cultural event.
     
We are working to set a location, contact American History teachers for junior and senior high, contact media, and invite a family that has been naturalized as citizens.  There are 8 other tasks for which we need your time, talent, and/or treasure.  Will you help us with one?

1.  Write lesson plan suggestions for identified teachers to study the document and assign kids to come up with creative ways to express the balance of rights, responsibilities, freedom and limitations.  
2.  Borrow a large American flag and return it.  
3.  Make a big poster of the Preamble which the assembled group will read aloud together.  
4.  Set up and clean up the site.    
5.  Design flier to go to parents of identified classes, as well as to other identified participants.  
6.  Provide appropriate live music.  
7.  Provide pizzas and juice for participants.  
8.  Find a young woman to portray Veiled Justice, the statue atop the Supreme Court building, and help her create an appropriate costume (Caryn Unsicker has a set of scales she will lend). 
 
As our first adventure with this event, we are imagining it with a limited number of participants.  If it works well, next year we may open it to the public.
 
It is time progressives reclaim this document and not allow the radical right to "own" it.  We are also looking for a Constitutional scholar or attorney to teach a class on understanding the Constitution as a living document and to alert us to the areas where conservatives are trying to manipulate the meaning.  If you know someone with that knowledge and skill, please let us know.
 
How would you like to be involved in this historic Q-C event (maybe the first in the country?)  Email me sdrucker@frontiernet.net.  TOGETHER WE CAN CREATE THIS NEW ADVENTURE.  Steve Drucker
 
    
 
ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM:
Molly Regan
mjregan@mchsi.com
 
I-RENEW 
For a listing of their workshop schedule, click here. 
 
  
Health Care Reform:
Karen Metcalf
karencadfael@aol.com
 
Health Care Briefs on the New Law:   
WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?  AND FOR OTHERS?
 
Cost Sharing.  The new Health Care Affordability Act aims to provide adequate affordable health insurance for all Americans.  Like any insurance it depends on many insured people paying premiums into a pool of money that will cover unexpected and expensive costs due to accident or illness.  We buy insurance on our homes and cars and hope we never need it, but we know it will protect us if we do.  We all need health insurance because we never know if or when an accident or illness may require expensive, life saving care.  That is why the new law requires everyone to buy insurance, and will help pay the premiums for those who can't afford the full cost themselves.
                                    --from Faithful Reform in Health Care (www.faithfulreform.org)
 
These brief summaries of benefits in the new health care law were prepared by Progressive Action for the Common Good of the Quad Cities,  based on research by Faithful Reform in Health Care which represents many churches and other faith communities. (See the list of members on their website.)  Faithful Reform seeks to speak the "whole truth" about health care issues instead of the many half truths that abound.  If you, or someone you know, has had a personal experience with this or another benefit of the new law, please share it with  the Health Care Reform Forum of PACG (karencadfael@aol.com).
 


LOCAL FOODS FORUM:
Rachel Griffiths
rgriffiths@qconline.com

This forum meets this Wednesday, February 9th, 6:30pm at Antonella's restaurant, 112 W. 3rd St, Davenport.

Everyone welcome! Please join us!

 
MEDIA REFORM FORUM:
Steve Drucker
sdrucker@frontiernet.net
 
Report from last meeting: 
    
Due to snow, our featured speaker, Dave Bradley from Iowa City, was not able to come.  He is an expert on getting started with LPFM (low-power local radio).  This is not just for technical people.  We all can play a part in making local progressive radio happen here - soon - in the Quad-Cities.  If you want to know how to make this go forward, come to Butterworth Center, crafts room downstairs, this Thursday at 6:30p.m.  Bring a sandwich if you like, but this is one tasty topic when you start thinking about the programming we'd like to create on our very own radio station!  Call Steve Drucker with questions 309-781-8004 or email sdrucker@frontiernet.net
 
 
PEACE AND JUSTICE FORUM:
Caryn Unsicker
ibcaryn@yahoo.com

Join our vigil for Peace -  Saturday, February 12th, from 11am to noon on the corner of JD Road and 16th Street by Southpark Mall in Moline.  We have extra signs and cold weather gear, including hand warmers, and we talk about everything under the sun! 
Hope to see you there!

 
 

SOCIAL SECURITY FORUM:
This Tuesday, February 8th, join us for an educational forum with the Alliance for Retired Americans:

Alliance for Retired Americans
Local District Union Office #431 at 1401 W 3rd St., Davenport  Phone is 323-3655 - Call for times
Lunch will be served
 
 

COMMUNITY EVENTS
  
Open Mic Coffee House

Hi Everybody,

Hope to see you at the coffeehouse this month. It's happening Friday February 11th from 7-10p at First Lutheran. As usual we will have refreshments, thank you Libby and Sara!

And all donations will benefit the St. Joe's Evening Meal. Bring your friends, a song to sing, a poem to read, or just bring your good ol' self. Call Wanda or Chris for any questions.

Til then,
Chris


Free program at the Canticle on Global Warming
Sunday, February 13th, 2-3pm
Home of the Sisters of St. Francis
841 13th Avenue North
Clinton
 
Find ways we can each reduce our carbon footprint
Third in a series on Sustainable Clinton
 
 
Film Series at The Canticle - 
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Join us Tuesday, February 8 for a free showing of
Blue Gold: World Water Wars.
Wars of the future will be fought over water as water - the source of human survival - enters the global marketplace and political arena. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor water management. Can the human race survive?
ShowTime:  6:30 P.M.
Refreshments & Discussion to follow. 


EVENTS/MEETINGS THIS WEEK:


Tuesday
February 8th
Alliance for 
Retired Americans
Guest SpeakerLocal District Union Office #431 at 1401 W 3rd St., Davenport  
Lunch will be served

Tuesday
February 8th
Film: Blue Gold: 
World Water Wars
6:30pm
The Canticle
841 13th Avenue North
Clinton

Wednesday
February 9th
Local Foods Forum
6:30pm
Antonella's Restaurant
112 W. 3rd St, Davenport

Friday  February 11th
Reclaiming Lincoln
11:00am
Blackhawk State Park
1510 46th Ave
Rock Island
  
Friday, February 11th
Open Mic Coffee House
7pm - 10pm
First Lutheran Church
Rock Island
   
Saturday
February 12th
PEACE VIGIL  11am - noon
Corner of 16th St & John Deere Rd, Moline

Sunday, 
February 13th, 
Program on Global Warming
2-3pm
Home of the Sisters of St. Francis
841 13th Avenue North
Clinton
 

Progressive Action for the Common Good

563-676-7580
PO Box 6521
Rock Island, IL 61201
www.qcprogressiveaction.org

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PACG History - Current Affairs Group from January, 2011

1/31/2011

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CURRENT AFFAIRS

Moderator: Steve Drucker

We are RECLAIMING THE U.S. CONSTITUTION by having the FIRST-EVER celebration of the ratification of the Constitution.  Mark your calendar for March 12, SAT., for multi-generational/cultural event. 

​We need lots of talents for this historic happening.  Call Steve.
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