Civil Rights Forum
Purpose: This forum educates the public, and participates in fun and interesting projects that advance
civil rights for all.
Forum Co-Facilitators: Margie Mejia-Caraballo and Alta Price (email Alta for questions or to get more involved. By clicking on Alta's name you will open up an email window on your computer or device that will allow you to send an email directly to her).
Meetings: Monthly on the second Monday, 5:00 - 6:00 pm, via Zoom. Email Alta for an email invitation to any specific meeting; please state the name and date of the meeting. For an email invitation to the Juvenile Justice Coalition meetings, email Mike Guster with the name and date of the meeting.
Facebook Group: For more PACG Book Club news, join our closed Civil Rights Forum Facebook Group.
civil rights for all.
Forum Co-Facilitators: Margie Mejia-Caraballo and Alta Price (email Alta for questions or to get more involved. By clicking on Alta's name you will open up an email window on your computer or device that will allow you to send an email directly to her).
Meetings: Monthly on the second Monday, 5:00 - 6:00 pm, via Zoom. Email Alta for an email invitation to any specific meeting; please state the name and date of the meeting. For an email invitation to the Juvenile Justice Coalition meetings, email Mike Guster with the name and date of the meeting.
Facebook Group: For more PACG Book Club news, join our closed Civil Rights Forum Facebook Group.
The Civil Rights Forum is honored to have been part of the reason that PACG recently received a sizable donation. Read more at our Blog post:
Cobham Mission Systems Donation.
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Civil Rights Forum Monthly Meeting via Zoom - Monday, November 9th at 5:00 pm
Civil Rights Forum
The Civil Rights Forum is doing a lot of work to support the Black Lives Matter movement in our community and in our country. Issues we have addressed recently include:
We invite you to attend our next monthly meeting. Click on my name to contact me for an invitation with the link to the Zoom meeting.
Alta Price
The Civil Rights Forum is doing a lot of work to support the Black Lives Matter movement in our community and in our country. Issues we have addressed recently include:
- Juvenile Justice Reform, including restorative justice practices (e.g., the Auto Theft Accountability Program), and support of efforts to build a Juvenile Assessment Center in our community.
- Starting programs in other QC towns to bring citizens and police departments together via regular meetings to decrease racial profiling, similar to the Davenport Citizens Advisory Panel, which has been collecting and analyzing data on the race of people stopped by the police for about ten years. This program has had a measurable effect on decreasing racial profiling by the police in Davenport and it needs to be brought to the rest of the Quad Cities.
- Supporting immigrants and refugees, including essential workers in meatpacking plants, and lobbying against locking children up in cages on our southern border.
- Our newest project, led by Davenport City Council member Pat Peacock, to "Ban the Box" in Davenport. This is an effort to remove the checkbox on hiring applications that asks if the applicant has a criminal record.
- Working to plan the third Informed Voters series of virtual town halls, together with NAACP - Davenport branch (and other sponsoring organizations). This event on Tuesday, September 29th at 6 pm invites Scott County Board of Supervisors candidates to discuss civil rights and juvenile justice issues. More information will follow in next week’s WEU.
- Weekly Racial Equality Now rallies, hosted by Caryn Unsicker.
We invite you to attend our next monthly meeting. Click on my name to contact me for an invitation with the link to the Zoom meeting.
Alta Price
Juvenile Justice Coalition Meeting via Zoom - Friday, October 16th at 4:00 pm
Juvenile Justice Coalition
The Juvenile Justice Coalition of the Quad Cities has been meeting via Zoom to work with area schools, law enforcement, elected officials, service providers and community activists to improve the lives of youth involved in the criminal justice system. We also want to help youth at risk of becoming involved in the criminal justice system.
Everyone is welcome to join our efforts. Contact Mike Guster for an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Michael Guster
The Juvenile Justice Coalition of the Quad Cities has been meeting via Zoom to work with area schools, law enforcement, elected officials, service providers and community activists to improve the lives of youth involved in the criminal justice system. We also want to help youth at risk of becoming involved in the criminal justice system.
Everyone is welcome to join our efforts. Contact Mike Guster for an invitation to the Zoom meeting.
Michael Guster