Events - Month View

Meet in person and get acquainted. Discuss the September DEI dialogue, and consider the rest of the year‘s possible dialogues and how to help teams meet DEI objectives.

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.