The People Have Spoken - Quad Cities Peace March on Saturday

By Cathy Bolkcom, Progressive Action for the Common Good

Mark your calendars and please circulate!

Concerned citizens from all around the Quad Cities will be coming together to engage in a Peace March in solidarity with the National March in Washington DC.

The purpose of which is to remind our elected officials that the majority of Americans want the US out of Iraq and to encourage them to do everything within their power to bring our troops home and end this war.

We will be gathering at Third Missionary Baptist Church at 14th & Main at noon and the march will commence at 1pm. We will walk in silent reverence in honor of the dead and in gratitude to the sacrifices made by our troops (to a drum beat) reflecting 3 waves of a uniform message:

Citizens at the front of the march will carry signs that say "The People Have Spoken", the second group will carry signs that say, "No More Troops," and the 3rd group will carry signs that say, "End the War Now." We will end up at Congressman Braley's Davenport office(about a 16 blockwalk downhill) where we will read a "citizens declaration" to all of our elected officials (Durbin, Obama, Hare, Grassley, Harkin, and Braley). We will be making arrangements to leave cars downtown and run people upthe hill...so there will be car parking at the beginning and at the endof the march so that people can get a ride back up to their cars at the endof the march.

We are still working on some of the logistics of this event (stay tuned), but could use your help making signs that reflect theabove messages. Some folks have volunteered to start working on them fromhome and we will be making more during the PACG Council meeting the previous Thursday (Jan 25th, 6:30pm at the Unitarian church). Please join us! We will need to make a lot of signs as we hope to have hundreds of citizensparticipate. Meanwhile, please spread the word far and wide!

If you have any questions and/or can volunteer to donate poster board (1/2 size), markers, and your time, please contact Caroline at 563-676-7580, carolina1961@gmail.com. Also, please let me know if you can start making sign from home.

Thanks for all you do!

Thanks,

Cathy Bolkcom
Progressive Action for the Common Good
hm 563-289-4155

www.qcprogressiveaction.org