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This is the regular PR Team business meeting. Agenda items include News Literacy updates, PR at events and festivals, DEI and PR, social media outreach and much more. Please send any items for the agenda to Jorie, or reach out if you have questions.

On the Voting Rights Act anniversary, join members of the League of Women Voters and Leadership Conference for a virtual teach in about critical democracy legislation this summer. Specifically, we will cover the For the People Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and DC Statehood. Recess can wait: Our Summer of Democracy Teach-IN

Linda Thomas from the Voter Services Team in collaboration with the Civil Liberties Team will train us in voter registration. This does NOT commit you to doing voter registration but will enable you to be better informed about voting regulations. AND if you want to join in voter registration activities, you will be ready.
The goal is to get all of LWVLC trained in voter registration.
Send Jane Everham an email if you are interested and she will send you the zoom link. janeeverham@gmail.com

This team meets on the second Tuesday of the month. Non League members welcome, contact Linda Thomas.

In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider’s guide to the variety of ways today’s mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, it reveals that what most people think of as “the news” is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business.

In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider‘s guide to the variety of ways today‘s mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, it reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business.

In the Internet age, the press have mastered the art of monetizing anger, paranoia, and distrust. Taibbi, who has spent much of his career covering elections in which this kind of manipulative activity is most egregious, provides a rich taxonomic survey of American political journalism‘s dirty tricks.

Heading into a 2020 election season that promises to be a Great Giza Pyramid Complex of invective and digital ugliness, Hate Inc. will be an invaluable antidote to the hidden poisons dished up by those we rely on to tell us what is happening in the world.

Making Democracy Work is a nationwide League campaign that engages Leagues in advancing core democracy issues of: Voting Rights, Improving Elections, Campaign Finance Reform and Redistricting.

The Election Reform team advocates for the National Popular Vote, Alternative Voting Methods to plurality voting; open, honest and transparent elections; curbing the influence of soft and dark money in elections and call for the public funding of elections.

In a comprehensive approach, using League positions to advocate and take action, the Election Reform team works together toward the one common goal of making democracy work for all!

The Education Team will continue planning for its October General Meeting.

We will meet with Stephanie Madsen-Pixler, the Director of Community Based Services with Summitstone. In this role she supervises the Outreach Program and the Co-Responder program giving her "in the trenches" experience.

"This vibrant biography portrays the riveting charisma of the socialist activist Rose Pastor Stokes . . . Hochschild captures the improbability and idealism of both Pastor Stokes and her era, a time when it seemed that stark divisions of class, race, and gender might be erased, in an instant, by love."
––The New Yorker

The astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time

Rose Pastor arrived in New York City in 1903, a Jewish refugee from Russia. Two years later, she swept headlines when she married James Graham Phelps Stokes, scion of New York high society. Together, this unusual couple moved among the liveliest group of Socialist activists and dreamers this country has ever seen, including Emma Goldman, Eugene Debs, Margaret Sanger, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Rose stirred audiences to tears, led labor strikes, and distributed birth control information alongside the country’s earliest feminists. President Woodrow Wilson called her “one of the dangerous influences of the country.” Rebel Cinderella unearths the rich, overlooked life of a social justice campaigner truly ahead of her time.

As our country continues to struggle with finding sustainable solutions to a looming healthcare crisis, the Health Care Team is hard at work advocating for ideas that work.

You are invited to an Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social to kick off the Larimer League‘s 2021-2022 year. Learn more about our local league, the Teams and the many ways we volunteer for Advocacy, Education, and Support — while enjoying ice cream and a variety of toppings — and each other! This is a fun way to introduce our local League to your interested friends, so bring a guest or two. Registration is required for members and guests. The Pickle Jar will be out to gladly accept donations to support our education, advocacy, and support mission.

Making Democracy Work is a nationwide League campaign that engages Leagues in advancing core democracy issues of: Voting Rights, Improving Elections, Campaign Finance Reform and Redistricting.

The Election Reform team advocates for the National Popular Vote, Alternative Voting Methods to plurality voting; open, honest and transparent elections; curbing the influence of soft and dark money in elections and call for the public funding of elections.

In a comprehensive approach, using League positions to advocate and take action, the Election Reform team works together toward the one common goal of making democracy work for all!

All LWV members are invited to participate in the tour

In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.

Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their out-cast of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.

Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.

New members email Sue T. for Zoom link.
As our country continues to struggle with finding sustainable solutions to a looming healthcare crisis, the Health Care Team is hard at work advocating for ideas that work.

Making Democracy Work is a nationwide League campaign that engages Leagues in advancing core democracy issues of: Voting Rights, Improving Elections, Campaign Finance Reform and Redistricting.

The Election Reform team advocates for the National Popular Vote, Alternative Voting Methods to plurality voting; open, honest and transparent elections; curbing the influence of soft and dark money in elections and call for the public funding of elections.

In a comprehensive approach, using League positions to advocate and take action, the Election Reform team works together toward the one common goal of making democracy work for all!

Learn about and participate in an innovative way to teach history and democracy thru the Harvard Case Study Method. The case study is Women‘s Suffrage to the Equal Rights Amendment. The case study will be sent to those registered a few weeks before the event to prepare for your participation.

Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites, while highlighting the important leadership of Indigenous women in this centuries-long struggle. As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate incursions on their lands and offers new approaches to environmental justice activism and policy.

Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites, while highlighting the important leadership of Indigenous women in this centuries-long struggle. As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate incursions on their lands and offers new approaches to environmental justice activism and policy.

Throughout 2016, the Standing Rock protest put a national spotlight on Indigenous activists, but it also underscored how little Americans know about the longtime historical tensions between Native peoples and the mainstream environmental movement. Ultimately, she argues, modern environmentalists must look to the history of Indigenous resistance for wisdom and inspiration in our common fight for a just and sustainable future.

New members email Sue T. for Zoom link.
As our country continues to struggle with finding sustainable solutions to a looming healthcare crisis, the Health Care Team is hard at work advocating for ideas that work.

Making Democracy Work is a nationwide League campaign that engages Leagues in advancing core democracy issues of: Voting Rights, Improving Elections, Campaign Finance Reform and Redistricting.

The Election Reform team advocates for the National Popular Vote, Alternative Voting Methods to plurality voting; open, honest and transparent elections; curbing the influence of soft and dark money in elections and call for the public funding of elections.

In a comprehensive approach, using League positions to advocate and take action, the Election Reform team works together toward the one common goal of making democracy work for all!

This meeting is for all team leaders and second members of each team to follow up on the Program planning meeting in January.