Community Events
The following events are being offered by progressive groups in our local area.
Our Lady of the Prairie Online Retreat - Telling Our Stories of Derecho
Tuesday, January 12th at 6:30 pm
Our Lady of the Prairie
Iowa experienced a once-in-a-lifetime weather phenomenon on August 10, 2020. The derecho left nearly every person in eastern Iowa with a story. The clean-up is still proceeding. The trees cannot be healed; the buildings can be repaired. But what about the emotions of those whose favorite tree, place of shelter, source of income was destroyed? How do they heal? One way is to share those stories. Farmer Dennis Campbell will share his story with us and then you will be invited to share your own derecho story. By sharing our stories, we will participate in the healing of hearts and minds that were shredded by those incredible winds. Leaders: Dianne Prichard and Dennis Campbell.
Register for the Telling Our Stories of Derecho retreat
There is no fee for this CHM Community Outreach Event.
Please register and we will send an email with a zoom link to join.
www.theprairieretreat.org
Claudia Scharf
563-336-8414
Iowa experienced a once-in-a-lifetime weather phenomenon on August 10, 2020. The derecho left nearly every person in eastern Iowa with a story. The clean-up is still proceeding. The trees cannot be healed; the buildings can be repaired. But what about the emotions of those whose favorite tree, place of shelter, source of income was destroyed? How do they heal? One way is to share those stories. Farmer Dennis Campbell will share his story with us and then you will be invited to share your own derecho story. By sharing our stories, we will participate in the healing of hearts and minds that were shredded by those incredible winds. Leaders: Dianne Prichard and Dennis Campbell.
Register for the Telling Our Stories of Derecho retreat
There is no fee for this CHM Community Outreach Event.
Please register and we will send an email with a zoom link to join.
www.theprairieretreat.org
Claudia Scharf
563-336-8414
Public Legislative Forum via Zoom
Saturday, January 23rd at 10:30 am
American Association of University Women
The public is invited to a series of legislative forums featuring QC Iowa state legislators on the following dates. All sessions are on Saturdays from 10:30 to noon:
January 23rd: https://isea.zoom.us/j/94955763960, Meeting ID: 949 5576 3960.
February 20th: https://isea.zoom.us/j/99820540552, Meeting ID: 998 2054 0552.
March 27th: https://isea.zoom.us/j/98117286171, Meeting ID: 981 1728 6171.
April 17th: https://isea.zoom.us/j/95934500614, Meeting ID: 959 3450 0614.
Lori McCollum
The public is invited to a series of legislative forums featuring QC Iowa state legislators on the following dates. All sessions are on Saturdays from 10:30 to noon:
January 23rd: https://isea.zoom.us/j/94955763960, Meeting ID: 949 5576 3960.
February 20th: https://isea.zoom.us/j/99820540552, Meeting ID: 998 2054 0552.
March 27th: https://isea.zoom.us/j/98117286171, Meeting ID: 981 1728 6171.
April 17th: https://isea.zoom.us/j/95934500614, Meeting ID: 959 3450 0614.
Lori McCollum
Faith, Farms, and Climate: Iowa Farmers Helping Solve Our Climate Crisis
Wednesday, January 27th at 9:30 am - Online Retreat
Our Lady of the Prairie
During this community outreach event Matt Russell, executive director of Iowa Interfaith Power and Light and a 5th generation Iowa farmer, will lead farmers and farmland owners in a discussion about how Iowa farms can provide solutions to our most important environmental challenges. Farmer innovation around clean energy, reduced tillage, growing a wider variety of crops, growing something all year, such as cover crops, and integrating livestock into cropping systems are vital to the next agricultural revolution. Leader: Matt Russell.
Register for the Faith, Farms, and Climate retreat
There is no fee for this CHM Community Outreach Event.
Please register and we will send an email with a zoom link to join.
www.theprairieretreat.org
Claudia Scharf
563-336-8414
During this community outreach event Matt Russell, executive director of Iowa Interfaith Power and Light and a 5th generation Iowa farmer, will lead farmers and farmland owners in a discussion about how Iowa farms can provide solutions to our most important environmental challenges. Farmer innovation around clean energy, reduced tillage, growing a wider variety of crops, growing something all year, such as cover crops, and integrating livestock into cropping systems are vital to the next agricultural revolution. Leader: Matt Russell.
Register for the Faith, Farms, and Climate retreat
There is no fee for this CHM Community Outreach Event.
Please register and we will send an email with a zoom link to join.
www.theprairieretreat.org
Claudia Scharf
563-336-8414
Human Health and Ocean Pollution via Zoom
Wednesday, January 27th at 5:00 pm
Plastic Pollution Coalition
This organization provides Zoom webinars on various plastic pollution issues. On January 27th from 5 to 6:00 pm Dr. Phil Lanigran will be presenting this webinar on the impact of plastic pollution in our oceans on human health.
Register at https://bit.ly/33GgC7N
Lori McCollum
This organization provides Zoom webinars on various plastic pollution issues. On January 27th from 5 to 6:00 pm Dr. Phil Lanigran will be presenting this webinar on the impact of plastic pollution in our oceans on human health.
Register at https://bit.ly/33GgC7N
Lori McCollum
Eight Civil Rights and Labor Organizations File CASPA Complaint Against Iowa OSHA
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting, in partnership with several other Iowa organizations, filed a Complaint Against State Plan Administration with the Federal Occupational Safety & Health Administration this past Friday, documenting the failures of Iowa OSHA to enforce workplace safety laws during the COVID-19 pandemic. Iowa is one of a few dozen states that administer their own OSHA program, versus having the Federal government do so. As has been documented in our complaint, officials from Iowa OSHA are violating their own policies, state law and federal statutes in how they are administering Iowa's state OSHA program. Understanding that worker safety is community safety, Iowa OSHA's failure to keep workers safe is yet another contributing factor to the explosion of coronavirus infection rates across Iowa.
Read more here:
www.aclu-ia.org/en/press-releases/eight-iowa-organizations-file-federal-complaint-against-iowa-osha-failing-protect
Dylan Parker
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting, in partnership with several other Iowa organizations, filed a Complaint Against State Plan Administration with the Federal Occupational Safety & Health Administration this past Friday, documenting the failures of Iowa OSHA to enforce workplace safety laws during the COVID-19 pandemic. Iowa is one of a few dozen states that administer their own OSHA program, versus having the Federal government do so. As has been documented in our complaint, officials from Iowa OSHA are violating their own policies, state law and federal statutes in how they are administering Iowa's state OSHA program. Understanding that worker safety is community safety, Iowa OSHA's failure to keep workers safe is yet another contributing factor to the explosion of coronavirus infection rates across Iowa.
Read more here:
www.aclu-ia.org/en/press-releases/eight-iowa-organizations-file-federal-complaint-against-iowa-osha-failing-protect
Dylan Parker