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

• Index

• Registrar of Voters Observations

• One Percent Manual Tally

• Counting Our Votes on Paper and Electronically, June 2007

• How Our Votes are Counted, October 2006

• Correspondence files

• County Leagues in the News

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

1. Urging the protection of Civil Liberties

2. 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:

• Choosing the President (May/June 2003)

• Race for the Nomination: In Search of Reform ( Acrobat PDF format file from the Sept/Oct 2003 issue)