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Call your Senators!
Posted on January 16, 2022 in League News | comments
Call 1.833.345.2551 or the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121. On Tuesday, Senators will begin debating The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act. We must now keep the pressure on by calling our senators at 1-833-345-255...
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January 6th Vigils Draw Hundreds of Thousands
Posted on January 10, 2022 in League News | comments
League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville (LWVBAE) members and supporters joined hundreds of thousands across the country on January 6, 2022 – during a critical month of organizing for American democra...
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INDEPENDENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION Presentation January 3, 2022
Posted on January 9, 2022 in League News | comments
I’ve been asked to briefly describe the work of Berkeley’s Independent Redistricting Commission and its progress to date. First, let me give you a little history of what we lovingly call the “IRC”...
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Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Breakfast 2022
Posted on January 3, 2022 in League News | comments
Join (virtually) the 2022 MLK Breakfast Monday, January 17, 2022, 9 am – 10:30 am Health, Equity, and Justice is the theme for this year’s Annual Breakfast. Building Trust & Community is a prerequisite in...
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Bay Area Board Briefs 12-13-21
Posted on December 29, 2021 in League News | comments
Board Meeting of December 13, 2021 • The Bay Area League continues to seek a Communications Director to coordinate the Board’s communications tasks. The Nominations Committee chair, Ann Draper, would welcome sugg...
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Board Supports Updating LWVUS Healthcare Position
Posted on December 28, 2021 in League News | comments
On December 6, 2021, LWVBAE voted to support adding the LWV-NYS proposal to the agenda for the 2022 LWVUS convention. The proposal would update the LWVUS national healthcare policy position, which was adopted in 1993. Th...
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January 6 Vigil for Democracy
Posted on December 20, 2021 in League News | comments
TIME Thursday, January 6, 2022 6:30 – 7:30pm PST LOCATION Virtual event About this event It’s been nearly one year since armed right-wing militants attacked our Capitol and tried to overturn the results of the 2020 e...
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3 Videos on the Environment
Posted on December 20, 2021 in League News | comments
Three videos from our Environmental Concerns Speaker Series Biochar: Building Healthy Soils Redirecting Carbon Raymond Baltar, Sonoma Biochar Project Director, November 8, 2021. Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss C...
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American Democracy in Crisis
Posted on December 13, 2021 in League News | comments
American democracy is in crisis. Barton Gellman goes in-depth in this special edition of The Atlantic that raises the alarm, describing in painstaking detail the authoritarian shift in our politics and the dismantling of...
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Alameda County Redistricting Meeting 12/2
Posted on December 13, 2021 in League News | comments
The last meeting held by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors (BOS) regarding modification of redistricting maps based on the recent Census, was Thursday December 2, 2021. The Agenda called for a presentation of...
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