[Pacg] Check Out what's on the PACG Calendar: Sept 10 - 16th

[Carolina 1961]

 *Check Out what's on the PACG Calendar!*
*Week of September 10th -- September 16th*

*Monday, September 10th*

*AFSCME Local 988* employed by the City of Rock Island invite you to join
them for an informational picket and rally .
5:30pm-7pm
Rock Island City Hall
3rd Ave and 15th Street
AFSCME Local 988 employees have been working without a contract since March
and fighting off major concessions. Please bring as many of your fellow
union members and family as you can to this action to show your support!

*Tuesday, September 11th:*
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***PACG Women's Issues Forum / QC-NOW*

*Monthly meeting,*  * 6:30pm,** Butterworth Center,*

*1105 8th Avenue, Moline, IL*

*Carol Brown - qcnow at mchsi.com *

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*Code Blue – Demand health care for all NOW *

Code Blue is a new NOW campaign to focus on a movement towards a National
Health Care System for all.   To prepare for the September meeting, please
log on to NOW's website www.now.org and click onto the Code Blue campaign.


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*PACG Peace Forum* meeting is at 6:45 at the *Metro Comm Church, 30th and
Harrison in Davenport*. This is an important planning meeting to finalize
plans for ACT for Peace Week-End (next week).....current activities
planned... we need everyone's help and participation. Contact Cathy if you
can help cbarts4 at aol.com.


*World Peace Walk - QC Labrynth Project*
Join us for our monthly World Peace Walk at the QCLP headquarters in the *Union
Arcade Building, Mezzanine Level, 111 E. Third Street in downtown Davenport.
* This walk will feature the 7- circuit Santa Rosa Labyrinth, created by
Labyrinth Enterprises. Feel the love as you walk through this beautiful work
of art!

Families are welcome to walk between 6 and 7 p.m. Adults are also welcome
during this time if they are not disturbed by playful activity on or around
the labyrinth. And for those who prefer a quieter environment, we have
designated the hours of 7 to 9 p.m. as Contemplative Time. Continuous
5-minute introductions are available for first-time walkers.

*Richard Shindell In Concert:*
*Tuesday, September 11 at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Church, Davenport *
*3707 Eastern Avenue, 563-359-0816 *

Shindell is touring to support his album of cover songs called South of
Delia. *THe USA TODAY recently gave this album 4 stars out of 4 and said
about this album:*  The expatriate folk singer gives voice to a dozen songs
narrated by the displaced and the uprooted, or those just overtaken by
wanderlust. Shindell does amazing things with Peter Gabriel's Mercy Street
and The Band's Acadian Driftwood, but some of his most insightful
performances come with older or lesser-known material, including Argentine
folk rocker Leon Gieco's Solo le Pido a Dios (I Only Ask of God) and
Scottish singer Harry Robertson's The Humpback Whale.

*Tickets are $15 per person, *
*$8 for students.*
For more information, contact:  Rev. Roger Butts at 563-508-0209 or
 revrogerb at msn.com
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*Wednesday, September 12th:*
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*Foreign Policy Forum on Poverty*
The United Nations Association of Iowa and friends, including the Sisters of
St. Francis, Clinton, who sit in the UNA-IOWA Board, are sponsoring a series
of foreign policy forums across the state -one in each Congressional
District.

FIRST DISTRICT -- Sept. 12th
*Davenport Fairmont Branch Library*
3000 N. Fairmount Street, Davenport,  563.326.7893

*Co-Sponsors:* St. Ambrose University &  Sisters of St. Francis, Clinton

*Presentation in Davenport:* Kathleen McQuillen will review U.S. foreign
policy on the topic of poverty and hunger and then open it up for audience
discussion.  There will be two or three rounds narrowing the topic with
questions posed for the audience.

*Taping:*  We will tape the program and also have a transcription.

*End Product:*  The end product will be a publication that will include
pictures and quotes from Iowans discussing the issue. It will be sent to our
congressional representatives.
*Free and open to the public*


Townhall with Senator Barack Obama
 Please join Senator Barack Obama for a Town Hall Meeting this Wednesday,
September 12th.  The event will take place at the LeClaire Park Bandshell in
Davenport and is free and open to the public.  Doors open at 5:30 p.m.  If
you are able to join us or have any questions, please call the Obama for
America Davenport office at 563-445-6774 or email kharris at barackobama.com ,
so we know to expect you.


*Thursday, September 13th:*
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DFA-QC and the PACG Peace Forum
Tell the Truth Media Rally

4:30-6pm
QC Radio Group
3535 E Kimberly, Davenport, 52807
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We will be asking WIC Talk Radio 1420 to Tell the Truth about the failed
Bush surge in Iraq.  Signs will be provided for this event. Madelaine
Albright is expected to be in Davenport - the time of her visit as not yet
been ascertained and consequently may affect the time of our rally since
this is a press event. Please check the PACG calendar on Wednesday, Sept
12th, for the final update on the time of the rally. For more information
contact Alta Price at 563-332-5051.

*Weekly Peace Vigil -  **Peace forum activists will be folding into
the above Tell The Truth Media Rally* unless the time for the rally change.
Please check the PACG calendar for updates on Wednesday Sept 12th. Our
weekly Peace vigils are always *4:30pm to 5:30pm* - In front of the Texas
Road House restaurant in Davenport, Corner of E 53rd and Corporate Row Dr
(across from cinemas).

*Friday, September 14th:*

*Physicians for Social Responsibility Conference:*
*Health Consequences of Global Warming
Examining the Links; Breaking the Chains*

3 Day Conference - Friday afternoon September 14 through Sunday noon
September 16, 2007
Hotel Vetro Conference Center, 201 S Linn Street, Iowa City, IA This
conference jointly sponsored by:
The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Intended Audience:
Academicians, professionals, and students in the health
sciences, law, environmental science and engineering, as well
as environmental activists, from around the country and region
are invited to participate in this unique and exciting event.

For further details and conference brochure and registration form:
http://www.iowa-psr.org/
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*Saturday, September 15th:*
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*Weekly peace Vigil*
Join PACG Peace Forum Activists and other concerned citizens as we stand for
peace and strive to help bring an end to the war! *11am - Noon* -
Corner of 16th
St and John Deere Rd in Moline (in front of Best Buy, across form South Park
Mall).

*Child Abuse Awarenesss Concert
*4:30 pm doors, concert begins at 5 pm
Suggested donation: $10 at the door

River Music Experience and *"Grandparents & Others United for Positive
Change" *host this very special concert event to increase awareness on child
abuse in our society today.  The theme for the evening is, "There is more to
life than this and it is love. Someday I will find it." This unique concert
will feature live performance of original songs by various local musicians,
in an effort to shine a light on the issue of child abuse, or simply to
glorify the life of a child.

Photography and film images will be projected on large screens, and used as
visual imagery during the concert. Songs which compliment these images will
be focused on the problems of child abuse and neglect.  Proceeds from the
concert will benefit the Child Protection Center, Family Resources, and Life
at Night.  We encourage everyone to be a part of this special evening, and
contribute to this worthy cause on behalf of children who suffer abuse.

*Sunday, September 16th:*

*PACG Young Leaders Forum*
4pm - St Ambrose University
(Building and Room Number forthcoming...)
Everyone welcome! Currently planning our big *Back-To-School Bash and Young
Leaders Conference* which will be at Scott Community College on *September
29th*.
We need lots of volunteers to help plan and promote this event help! *For
more information, call Caroline at 563-676-7580.*
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