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League News
Save the Date
Thursday, September 30, 2010. The
League's Fall General Meeting will be held at the Northbrae Community Church from 5:30 -
8:30 pm. See page one of the
September 2010
VOTER for more information on dinner and the Pros and Cons
discussion that will follow. Please phone the office (843-8824) to reserve your
place for dinner ($15 for a real treat).
Save the Date
Tuesday, October 5, 2010. The
League will hold a public session on the Pros and Cons of the Berkeley Downtown
Area Plan measure which appears on the November 2 ballot. The session will be
held at Berkeley City College, room 431, from 5-7pm. More detail coming
soon.
League Newsletter
The
September 2010
VOTER, the League's newsletter for members, is available for reading online.
(The online VOTER is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. If you are unable to view
it when you click on its link, please read this note.) We also
provide an archive of past VOTERs.
11th Annual Community Luncheon
Our
11th Annual Community Luncheon was held at Hs Lordships on the Berkeley Marina on August
19, 2010 from 11:30 am
through 1:30 pm. Click here to
view our Luncheon Album.
Happy Constitution Day
You may view our PDF slide show designed for use in
celebrating with students by clicking on
this link. If you prefer,
try this one that
aims for a bit more of an emotional connection.
10th Annual Community Luncheon
Our
10th Annual Community Luncheon was held at Hs Lordships on the Berkeley Marina on August 20, 2009 from 11:30 am
through 1:30 pm. Click here to
view our Luncheon Album.
LWVBAE Climate
Change Team Chairs Travel to Washington DC
In March 2009, LWVBAE Climate
Change Team chairs Linda Swift and Jan Blumenkrantz went to Washington to lobby
our representatives on behalf of the Earth's Climate. You may read a PDF copy of
their report by clicking
this link.
Climate Change Team
Our League has formed a Climate Change Team.
Find out what it is up to by clicking on this
link. The team meets on the third Wednesday of each month from 1:30 to 3:30 pm in the League
Office. They welcome all who are interested.
Alameda County Council
LWV
9th Annual Community Luncheon Photo Album
You may view our PDF Photo Album by clicking on
this link.
Edna Gellhorn
Edna Fischel Gellhorn, suffragist and one of the founders of
the League of Women Voters of the United States, can be heard speaking about the
suffrage movement and the founding of the LWV via two
links available on this web page.
8th Annual Community Luncheon
Our 8th Annual Community Luncheon was held on
Thursday, August 23, from 11:30
to 1:30 at Hs Lordships in the Berkeley Marina. The speaker was Daniel Kammen. You
may click
here to read more about him at his UC web site. If you have a fast
Internet connection, click on
this link to an Adobe Acrobat PDF file containing 17 photos taken at the
luncheon. The file will open in a standalone window. Close it once
you've finished viewing the pictures. If your computer will not open the file
after you click its link, save it to your hard drive (on a Windows system, right
click on the link then choose Save Target As; on a Mac, Option click then Save As),
then open the saved file with Acrobat Reader.
Letters from the LWVUS
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Urging the
protection of Civil Liberties
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Urging the
investigation of voting problems
Selecting the President
The LWVUS has posted
its position on
the method by which the President of the US is selected, and
its history on this topic. This is also the
subject of two recent articles in the National Voter:
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