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Human Trafficking Forum and Post Card Writing
Friday, February 2nd at 2:00 pm
Rogalski Center
St. Ambrose University
(on the corner of Lombard and Scott)
518 W Locust ST
Davenport, IA (map)
Civil Rights Forum
Hear about the state of human trafficking in Iowa and about the ask to Iowa legislators for $5 million to be earmarked to support victims of human trafficking. We will end the session by writing postcards to our Iowa State legislators.
Allison Ambrose
St. Ambrose University
(on the corner of Lombard and Scott)
518 W Locust ST
Davenport, IA (map)
Civil Rights Forum
Hear about the state of human trafficking in Iowa and about the ask to Iowa legislators for $5 million to be earmarked to support victims of human trafficking. We will end the session by writing postcards to our Iowa State legislators.
Allison Ambrose
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Rewiring America
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Susan Leuthauser
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Project Renewal youth to show I Am the Future
Wednesday, January 31st at 4:00 pm
We were thrilled to have four of the youth from Project Renewal attend our showing of I Am the Future: Standing on the Shoulders of the Past at the Figge Art Museum earlier this month.
A few years ago Project Renewal in Davenport was a recipient of the Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justice that we help administer. As a reminder, "Project Renewal provides educational, recreational and social activities for children during the school year and summer in a safe, loving environment."
After our showing Ann Schwickerath from Project Renewal reached out to PACG to ask if their youth could show our film at an upcoming event of their own. This idea came from the youth who attended the evening at the Figge! And those same kids want to emcee and lead their own discussion about issues raised.
Of course we loved this idea! Please attend if you are available. Our little video is really getting around and we could not be more proud.
Glenda Guster
A few years ago Project Renewal in Davenport was a recipient of the Dick Fallow Endowment for Social Justice that we help administer. As a reminder, "Project Renewal provides educational, recreational and social activities for children during the school year and summer in a safe, loving environment."
After our showing Ann Schwickerath from Project Renewal reached out to PACG to ask if their youth could show our film at an upcoming event of their own. This idea came from the youth who attended the evening at the Figge! And those same kids want to emcee and lead their own discussion about issues raised.
Of course we loved this idea! Please attend if you are available. Our little video is really getting around and we could not be more proud.
Glenda Guster
Watch Rustin on Netflix
No Hate In Our States
Rustin is the true story of charismatic civil rights activist Bayard Rustin who had a falling out with some in the movement because he was a gay man. He went on to organize the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom which we at PACG have been talking about in conjunction with our I Am the Future film. Take the time to watch this film and see what happened behind the scenes to make that important march a reality. (Update: Colman Domingo has been nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Bayard Rustin. This is only the second time that an openly gay man has earned the nomination for playing a gay character.)
Post Card Party: Support Human Trafficking Survivors
Saturday, January 27th at 9:30 am
The Brewed Book
1524 N. Harrison
Davenport, IA (map)
Civil Rights Forum
Come to advocate for the survivors of human trafficking by writing postcards to your legislators! Between 9:30 and 11:00 am, the Civil Rights Forum will have the materials needed for you to express your opinion to your Iowa state legislators on the proposed $5 Million ask to go to organizations across the state that support these survivors. For more information, see the Network Against Human Trafficking and Slavery link here. Your first cup of coffee will be compliments of PACG! Hope to see you there!
In addition, PACG will support a similar initiative on Friday, February 2nd from 2:00 - 3:00 pm at St. Ambrose University. Look for details in next week's Progressive Action Update (PAU).
Allison Ambrose
1524 N. Harrison
Davenport, IA (map)
Civil Rights Forum
Come to advocate for the survivors of human trafficking by writing postcards to your legislators! Between 9:30 and 11:00 am, the Civil Rights Forum will have the materials needed for you to express your opinion to your Iowa state legislators on the proposed $5 Million ask to go to organizations across the state that support these survivors. For more information, see the Network Against Human Trafficking and Slavery link here. Your first cup of coffee will be compliments of PACG! Hope to see you there!
In addition, PACG will support a similar initiative on Friday, February 2nd from 2:00 - 3:00 pm at St. Ambrose University. Look for details in next week's Progressive Action Update (PAU).
Allison Ambrose
I Am the Future showing at the Figge - After Action Report
PACG Board
On Thursday, January 11, 2024, over 80 people braved the cold evening to see our civil rights film I Am the Future: Standing on the Shoulders of the Past and to hear our Legacy Panel. The Figge Art Museum in Davenport was the perfect host for our event!
We were honored to have MacArthur Cotton from Kosciusko, Mississippi, a veteran of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, as our guest. He was one of the young organizers to help with the Freedom Riders campaign in 1961. Avery Pearl, Assistant Director of TMBC at the Lincoln Center and our young film star Abdur Howard, who stepped in to fill in for Aubrey Barnes, were also part of our Legacy panel. We were so proud to have such a diverse group across multiple generations to discuss civil rights!
Allison Ambrose did a wonderful job as facilitator for the panel discussion and question and answers. Each of our younger panelists did a great job of suggesting how to get young people involved in civil rights issues and voting. Mr. Cotton made the point that what they did in the 1960s to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 won’t work today. But our country is faced with some of the same threats to our democracy as the 60s and those will affect us all. Today we need to empower people to vote at every level of government, treat each other with respect and work together for change. What a great lead off for the Dr. Martin Luther King celebrations in the following days.
Read all about our I Am the Future film stars here. Read the details of our Legacy Panel here.
We were also happy to have youth from Project Renewal and the Youth Advocate Program (YAP) of the NAACP Davenport.
Ann McCluskey, PACG Treasurer reported, "I asked people what they thought about the event as they walked out. To a person, they were moved by it. It was a special night."
PACG Board Member Loxi Hopkins said, "People I talked to thought it was amazing. I felt sure the whole line of people sitting in front of me were principles or teachers. People spent a lot of time at the displays."
Reflecting on the event over the past few days, attendee (and mother of Legacy Panel member Abdur Howard), Daneca Walker said, "The response to a question directed to the Legacy Panel pointed out that activism needs to start with the young people. We can’t allow the normalization of unfair and inequitable treatment. We must teach our children to guard against this. Inequitable treatment begins to desensitize them to the issue of humans being treated humanly. Larger cities have more opportunities for the exposure. In smaller areas like ours the opportunities exist, one just has to be more intentional in their search. As adults, we move about this unforgiving world praying that each of our interactions are genuine and filled with positivity, but we are also smart enough to know that that notion isn’t realistic. Children interact with adults believing that whether the interaction was good or bad it must be okay because they are adults. The trust factor plays such a huge role. Diversity, equity, equality and inclusion are terms that young people can easily comprehend as individual terms, but society has difficulty understanding them collectively as they apply to humanity. They all equate to activism and civil rights - to Human Rights."
Thank you to our committee members Allison Ambrose, Ann McCluskey, Caryn Unsicker, Loxi Hopkins, Susan Leuthauser, Rael Slavensky, and Alta Price. PJ Slobojan for helped with registration and Jeannie Price worked on our graphics. Thanks to Rael and Glenda for the pictures.
Thanks to our co-sponsors Figge Art Museum, WQPT-Quad Cities PBS and WVIK-Quad Cities NPR. Our event was also made possible by the generosity of the following organizations, individual and anonymous donors:
100 Black Men of the Quad Cities, ASWAS, Inc, Diocese of Davenport, Friends of MLK Interpretive Center, Iowa State Representative Ken Croken, Metrocom NAACP #4019, Northwest Bank and Trust, One Human Family-QCA, Quad Cities Interfaith, Tracy and Ben Singleton and Smart Lexus of the Quad Cities.
Glenda Guster
On Thursday, January 11, 2024, over 80 people braved the cold evening to see our civil rights film I Am the Future: Standing on the Shoulders of the Past and to hear our Legacy Panel. The Figge Art Museum in Davenport was the perfect host for our event!
We were honored to have MacArthur Cotton from Kosciusko, Mississippi, a veteran of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, as our guest. He was one of the young organizers to help with the Freedom Riders campaign in 1961. Avery Pearl, Assistant Director of TMBC at the Lincoln Center and our young film star Abdur Howard, who stepped in to fill in for Aubrey Barnes, were also part of our Legacy panel. We were so proud to have such a diverse group across multiple generations to discuss civil rights!
Allison Ambrose did a wonderful job as facilitator for the panel discussion and question and answers. Each of our younger panelists did a great job of suggesting how to get young people involved in civil rights issues and voting. Mr. Cotton made the point that what they did in the 1960s to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 won’t work today. But our country is faced with some of the same threats to our democracy as the 60s and those will affect us all. Today we need to empower people to vote at every level of government, treat each other with respect and work together for change. What a great lead off for the Dr. Martin Luther King celebrations in the following days.
Read all about our I Am the Future film stars here. Read the details of our Legacy Panel here.
We were also happy to have youth from Project Renewal and the Youth Advocate Program (YAP) of the NAACP Davenport.
Ann McCluskey, PACG Treasurer reported, "I asked people what they thought about the event as they walked out. To a person, they were moved by it. It was a special night."
PACG Board Member Loxi Hopkins said, "People I talked to thought it was amazing. I felt sure the whole line of people sitting in front of me were principles or teachers. People spent a lot of time at the displays."
Reflecting on the event over the past few days, attendee (and mother of Legacy Panel member Abdur Howard), Daneca Walker said, "The response to a question directed to the Legacy Panel pointed out that activism needs to start with the young people. We can’t allow the normalization of unfair and inequitable treatment. We must teach our children to guard against this. Inequitable treatment begins to desensitize them to the issue of humans being treated humanly. Larger cities have more opportunities for the exposure. In smaller areas like ours the opportunities exist, one just has to be more intentional in their search. As adults, we move about this unforgiving world praying that each of our interactions are genuine and filled with positivity, but we are also smart enough to know that that notion isn’t realistic. Children interact with adults believing that whether the interaction was good or bad it must be okay because they are adults. The trust factor plays such a huge role. Diversity, equity, equality and inclusion are terms that young people can easily comprehend as individual terms, but society has difficulty understanding them collectively as they apply to humanity. They all equate to activism and civil rights - to Human Rights."
Thank you to our committee members Allison Ambrose, Ann McCluskey, Caryn Unsicker, Loxi Hopkins, Susan Leuthauser, Rael Slavensky, and Alta Price. PJ Slobojan for helped with registration and Jeannie Price worked on our graphics. Thanks to Rael and Glenda for the pictures.
Thanks to our co-sponsors Figge Art Museum, WQPT-Quad Cities PBS and WVIK-Quad Cities NPR. Our event was also made possible by the generosity of the following organizations, individual and anonymous donors:
100 Black Men of the Quad Cities, ASWAS, Inc, Diocese of Davenport, Friends of MLK Interpretive Center, Iowa State Representative Ken Croken, Metrocom NAACP #4019, Northwest Bank and Trust, One Human Family-QCA, Quad Cities Interfaith, Tracy and Ben Singleton and Smart Lexus of the Quad Cities.
Glenda Guster