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Texas Civic Groups File Lawsuit Against State of Texas Over Anti-Voter Bill, SB1 | League of Women Voters
LWV of Texas filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas, challenging Senate Bill 1, an omnibus anti-voter bill expected to be signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott.
Monitor Notes: Recall, Veggies, Wildfire and Transit - Bay Area Monitor
News around the Bay Area for the week of 9/1/21.
Join the LWV West Contra Costa County and LWV Diablo Valley as we partner with our Contra Costa Library to present an important safety information: Fire season is upon us and everybody needs to know how to “Be Prepared!” Hear from Con Fire, the Insurance industry, PG&E and others to get critical information. Bring your questions!!!
https://ccclib.bibliocommons.com/events/610583113495192a0017d7e1
Fire season is upon us and everybody needs to know how to “Be Prepared!” Hear from Con Fire, the Insurance industry, PG&E and others to get critical information. Bring your questions!!!Register for the Zoom webinar with your email on this page. Information on how to access the Zoom webinar will ...
Join in today for this Town Hall Meeting. Dr. Romero will present findings from her latest paper. Today at 1:30 pm, pst. Free to the public!
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsd-6tqDwpE9C87OgtbY6
Let's get excited about Civic Participation!
The Marin County Elections Department in partnership with Marin Center for Independent Living is hosting a Zoom Town Hall Meeting. Wednesday, September 1, 2021, 1:30 - 3:00 pm, PST.
Exchange ideas, learn the latest election findings, hear about voter resources, and most of all, get excited about National Disability Voter Registration Week! Register now with this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsd-6tqDwpE9C87OgtbY6l3zZeHZqvjotX
#VotingInMarin
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Happy Women's Equality Day!
As we commemorate the adoption of the 19th Amendment, former LWV intern Nancy reflects on her contemporary heroes in the world of equality activism, from Gloria Anzaldúa to Kimberly Teehee.
https://bit.ly/3gAeQva
Monitor Notes: Air District, Bike Summit, ADUs, Bay Adapt - Bay Area Monitor
Welcome to Monitor Notes, a weekly roundup of news items, event announcements, and updates on past Bay Area Monitor articles. Air District Updates The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is forming the agency’s first Community Advisory Council and is accepting applications. The fifteen-sea...
The Air District is forming the agency’s first Community Advisory Council! This group will meet regularly to help develop and inform key initiatives like...
Exciting News!! House Democrats on Tuesday put forward a new proposal to update the landmark Voting Rights Act (HR 4), seeking against long odds to revive the civil rights-era legislation that once served as a barrier against discriminatory voting laws.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama, seeks to restore a key provision of the federal law that compelled states with a history of discrimination to undergo a federal review of changes to voting and elections. The Supreme Court set aside the formula that decided which jurisdictions were subject to the requirement in a 2013 decision and weakened the law further in a ruling this summer.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., pledged to move quickly and said Democrats plan to pass the bill when the House returns next week.
“With the attack on the franchise escalating and states beginning the process of redistricting, we must act,” Pelosi said in a statement.
The push comes at a time when a number of Republican-led states have passed laws tightening rules around voting, particularly mail ballots. Democrats have sounded the alarm about the new hurdles to voting, comparing the impact on minorities to the disenfranchisement of Jim Crow laws, but they have struggled to unite behind a strategy to overcome near-unanimous Republican opposition in the Senate.
The new House bill, known as H.R. 4, is named after Georgia congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, who died last year.
Sewell announced the introduction of the bill in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where Lewis was beaten during a civil rights march in 1965. The Voting Rights Act was signed into law a few months later.
“We’re not looking to punish or penalize anyone. This is about restoring equal access to the ballot box. It’s about ensuring that Americans know their vote counts and their vote will count at the ballot box,” Sewell said.
The Lewis bill outlines a new, expanded formula that the Department of Justice can use to identify discriminatory voting patterns in states and local jurisdictions. Those entities would then need to get DOJ approval before making further changes to elections. The bill also includes a provision designed to counter the summer’s Supreme Court ruling that made it harder to challenge potentially discriminatory voting changes.
Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., speaks during a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Democrats on Tuesday put forward a new proposal to update the landmark Voting Rights Act. The bill was introduced by Sewell.
ALEX BRANDON — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
Monitor Notes: Air District, Bike Summit, ADUs, Bay Adapt - Bay Area Monitor
Welcome to Monitor Notes, a weekly roundup of news items, event announcements, and updates on past Bay Area Monitor articles. Air District Updates The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is forming the agency’s first Community Advisory Council and is accepting applications. The fifteen-sea...
Monitor Notes: Air District, Bike Summit, ADUs, Bay Adapt - Bay Area Monitor
Welcome to Monitor Notes, a weekly roundup of news items, event announcements, and updates on past Bay Area Monitor articles. Air District Updates The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is forming the agency’s first Community Advisory Council and is accepting applications. The fifteen-sea...
Lifting As We Climb: LWVUS Cases in January - July 2021 | League of Women Voters
The mission of the League of Women Voters is to empower voters and defend democracy. In the first half of 2021, LWV has done just that through a variety of cases nationwide.
Is your League participating in Civic Health Month? LWVUS is a national sponsor for this nonpartisan awareness month dedicated to the important connections between health care, healthy communities, and civic participation. Learn more: https://www.civichealthmonth.org/
From grocery stores to transportation to affordable housing - our local elected officials make decisions everyday that affect the health and wellbeing of our communities. Civic Health Month helps to ensure that your colleagues and patients have a say in the decisions that impact their daily lives.
Monitor Notes: Plastic, Energy, Planning, and BART - Bay Area Monitor
Welcome to Monitor Notes, a weekly roundup of news items, event announcements, and updates on past Bay Area Monitor articles. Monitor Updates The Bay Area Monitor is returning to publishing long form journalism next week! It’s when the August print edition would be published anyway, but instead...
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The #2021CARecall will ask voters if they want to recall Governor Newsom (a.k.a. remove him from office). If 50% or more of voters vote NO, the governor would remain in office.
If more than 50% of voters vote YES, the governor would be removed from office and the person with the most votes would replace him.
Monitor Notes: BioBiz, Trails, Mobility, Sip Shop Celebrate, and Bats - Bay Area Monitor
Welcome to Monitor Notes, a weekly roundup of news items, event announcements, and updates on past Bay Area Monitor articles. Biomass Business This just in (yesterday): The Sonoma County Biomass Business Competition, aka BioBiz, has selected two business ventures to receive a sizable chunk of cha...
Today, the Air District Board of Directors voted to strengthen the Air District's refinery rule to reduce particulate matter emissions from petroleum refineries.
The rule is now the most health-protective and stringent regulation of its kind in the country: bit.ly/3zmV39D
"The Air District is committed to reducing air pollution exposure in impacted areas and these amendments are a necessary and critical step toward controlling the most significant air pollution health hazard in the Bay Area.” - Jack Broadbent, Air District executive officer
The League supports the good works by John Lewis and encourages our members to join the candlelight rally and vigil in Oakland - tonight.
Join us tonight for the Good Trouble Candlelight Vigil to honor the John Lewis & the work ahead. Sat. 7/17 - 8 pm - 1233 Preservation Park Way, Oakland, CA 94612, Entrance is on Martin Luther King between 12th St and 14th St.
Join dozens of activists tomorrow night in Oakland. Bring your tealight candles with homemade signs in support of the For the People Act, John Lewis Voting RIghts Act, and DC Statehood. 8pm, Sat., (7/17) - 1233 Preservation Park Way, Oakland, CA 94612, Entrance is on Martin Luther King between 12th St and 14th St.
Activists nationwide will host Good Trouble Vigils for Democracy at 8pm local time on Saturday, July 17. Find an event near you!
Thanks Virginia Kase Solomon for taking the lead.
We applaud President Biden for elevating the need for the For the People Act and we urge him to use the full weight of the presidency to see this bill become law.
Meet Mike Adamson the Monitor Project Manager. Pictured here at the LWV Bay Area board meeting giving an update on his plans for our regular eblast called "Monitor Notes".
The League is officially launching its new programmatic focus, Women Power Democracy, to advance a stronger, more representative system.
Its focuses include restoring trust in our electoral system, increasing voter registration, countering mis- and disinformation, protecting voting rights, and creating powered-powered electoral maps.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3xs20FS
Over the past year, anti-voter laws, gerrymandering, misinformation, and other threats to our democracy have out in droves. We are at a critical moment in our nation, where the very principles of fairness and equality are on the line.
And we’re ready to defend them.
The League is officially launching its new programmatic focus, Women Power Democracy, to advance a stronger, more representative system.
Its focuses include restoring trust in our electoral system, increasing voter registration, countering mis- and disinformation, protecting voting rights, and creating powered-powered electoral maps.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3xs20FS
Mark your calendar: July 14th 10-12:30pm - LWVBA board meeting. Join us! write to [email protected] for Zoom link and board agenda.
Mark your calendar: July 14th 10-12:30pm - LWVBA board meeting. Join us! write to [email protected] for Zoom link and board agenda.
Happy #IndependenceDay! Celebrate our hard won freedoms by registering to vote: registertovote.ca.gov
Happy #IndependenceDay! Celebrate our hard won freedoms by registering to vote: registertovote.ca.gov
Note: our offices will be closed on July 5
#CAvotes #California #freedom
Message from Deborah Turner, LWV President: Most of you have heard me say that the League is where I get my endorphins. Well, after a riveting national Council meeting with state leaders over the last weekend, I am still riding high on the power of the League. More than 150 state Leaders joined staff and the national board virtually for four days of training, presentations, and networking. Read More: https://www.lwv.org/league-management/council-convention/2021-national-council-highlights?utm_source=LeagueUpdate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=070121
Message from Deborah Turner, LWV President: Most of you have heard me say that the League is where I get my endorphins. Well, after a riveting national Council meeting with state leaders over the last weekend, I am still riding high on the power of the League. More than 150 state Leaders joined staff and the national board virtually for four days of training, presentations, and networking. Read More: https://www.lwv.org/league-management/council-convention/2021-national-council-highlights?utm_source=LeagueUpdate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=070121
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On Juneteenth, we commemorate the end of chattel slavery in the US. This day reminds us of the brutality and injustice in our history and our responsibility to build a future of progress for all.
This year, we made Juneteenth a federal holiday, yet there are still many more milestones to reach. We must keep working to end the systemic racism that still stands in the way of true equality for Black Americans.
Monitor Notes: EV Education, Energy Discussion, Income Inequality, and Sea-Level Rise - Bay Area Monitor
Welcome to Monitor Notes, a weekly roundup of news items, event announcements, and updates on past Bay Area Monitor articles. EV Interest? Thinking about making the switch to an electric vehicle (EV)? Then join the League of Women Voters of California (LWVC) for “Drive Clean-a-Thon” events on...
Major LGBTQ+ Rights Cases Happening Now | League of Women Voters
In the past year, The League signed on to numerous amicus briefs to defend the LGBTQ+ community from the wave of attacks on their rights. Many of these cases could set a precedent for discrimination against both LGBTQ+ and other marginized groups.
Monitor Notes: Wildfire Resilience, Racism Discussion, Water Service, Park Survey, and VTA Appointment - Bay Area Monitor
Welcome to Monitor Notes, a weekly roundup of news items, event announcements, and updates on past Bay Area Monitor articles. Building Climate Resilience The League of Women Voters of North and Central San Mateo County and LWV South San Mateo County continue their climate resilience series on Jun...
Monitor Notes: Voting Rights, Plan Bay Area, Trails Survey, and Green Homes - Bay Area Monitor
Welcome to Monitor Notes, a weekly roundup of news items, event announcements, and updates on past Bay Area Monitor articles. Know Your Voting Rights Reform Take a mid-morning break today and zoom into the “Making Democracy Work” series with the League of Women Voters of Sonoma and Marin coun...
2021 Climate Change Risk & Resilience Forums: Countywide Wildfire Risk and Resilience
Join OneShoreline and the League of Women Voters for the next online forum in our series on climate risk and resilience. This forum will focus on the County'...
Scholars warn democracy is threatened, call for voting rights protections
A group of university professors and scholars on Tuesday signed onto a statement calling for increased federal voting protections, warning that U.S.
Kansas Civic Groups File Lawsuit Against Newly Enacted Voter Suppression Laws | League of Women Voters
Today, the League of Women Voters of Kansas filed a lawsuit challenging newly enacted voting laws in Kansas that will make it more difficult for Kansans to vote. House Bill 2183 and House Bill 2332 violate the Kansas Constitution by interfering with Kansans’ voting, due process and free speech and...
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