| Empowering Voters. Defending Democracy.
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy. | Piedmont Pool Town Hall
November 4th at 4pm
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The League of Women Voters will host a virtual town hall on Piedmont’s plans for the new community pool. In November 2020, Piedmont voters approved $19.5 million in General Obligation bonds to finance a new pool. The current pool closed indefinitely on September 8, 2020.
When: Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 4pm
Where: Zoom and YouTube (register for free to receive the Zoom link)
| | | The event will include brief presentations from the city’s team, followed by a moderated audience Q&A. Have a question about the pool project? Submit it here.
If you’re wondering what’s happening with the pool project, how the design and construction process will work, and how bond oversight will be handled, please join us to find out. | Doing Our Part: Bringing Affordable Housing to Piedmont
November 9th at 7pm
| A Community Workshop
Organized by the Piedmont Racial Equity Campaign
Co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Piedmont | | As Piedmont begins the state-mandated process of updating the city’s Housing Element and General Plan, the city has an unprecedented opportunity to build a more inclusive community and to redress racial segregation created from past policies. Join us for a participatory workshop to discuss how the city will meet its housing goals—especially the goal of creating affordable housing—and why it matters.
| | | LWV Bay Area Community Conversations | Environmental Justice
November 30th at noon
| | Discuss Environmental Justice with leaders from APEN-Asian Pacific Environmental Network, and BARHII-Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative. Examine the unjust and unavoidable disparities that impact communities of color, the elderly, children, those unable to afford food, quality shelter, fuels for cooling and transportation, or alternatives to contaminated drinking water. What are solutions and how can League members advocate in their communities?
| | | Upcoming Community Events
| Piedmont Community Pool Open House + Gallery Walk
November 2nd, 2021
| | This is the first in a series of three city workshops on the Piedmont Community Pool. Explore programming potential, project size and scope, timeline, and budget. You’ll be able to meet and engage Piedmont City Staff and the ELS Architecture and Urban Design team on a range of topics, issues, and concerns. This is also an opportunity to share your dreams, wishes and aspirations for the new Piedmont Community Pool.
Attend this open house to help prepare you for our LWVP Pool Town Hall.
- Workshop #1A – 1:00pm to 2:30pm
- Workshop #1B – 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Learn More & Register | | | | "Women Power Democracy"
Watch four powerful congresswomen discuss tangible ways that the League can promote democratic values in a panel moderated by Deborah Ann Turner, LWVUS President.
| | | | LWVUS at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland!
LWVUS is attending the United Nations Climate Conference (COP26) in Glasgow Scotland. Eleven local league members are excited to be representing the League. On Nov. 5, the League is co-sponsoring an event with McGill University and Human Rights Watch, entitled “Disability-Inclusive Climate Action: Challenges, Opportunities & Pathways.” The event will review the challenges, opportunities, and pathways for promoting disability-inclusive climate action at the international, national, and local levels and the role of disability rights in making climate mitigation and adaptation policies more effective, accessible, and equitable. Get daily updates @LWV_UN_Climate on Twitter.
| | | | Take Action: Tell the Senate to Support the Freedom to Vote Act!
The fight for voting rights has been a long and enduring battle. And the newly released Freedom to Vote Act is a transformative voting rights bill that will protect and expand the right to vote, decrease the influence of money in politics and curb partisan gerrymandering.
Contact Your Senators
| | | | Take Action: Tell Your Senators to Support the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
Since the Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder, rolled back key provisions of the VRA, the voting rights of millions have been threatened. These attacks have become more prevalent in the last few years, with the VRA being further comprised in the more recent Brnovich v. DNC. The new version of the JLVRAA will restore the VRA and put an end to discriminatory voting policies.
| | | LWVP Board Meeting
Wednesday, November 3rd at 7pm
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Our next Board meeting is Wednesday, November 3rd 7pm. Our board meetings are open to all League members. If you would like to learn more about the League or are interested in becoming more involved, we'd love for you to join us. Register on our website for the Zoom link.
| LWVP Coffee Hour
Wednesday, November 17th at 10am
| | Join us Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 10:00 a.m., for an informal conversation with other civic-minded individuals. Learn about our upcoming "Defending Democracy" speaker series, voter registration efforts and other ways you can get involved.
The Zoom room will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. You don't have to be a League member to join. Come for five minutes, the whole hour or anywhere in between. We hope to see you there! | | | Great Decisions 2022
8-Week Series Starting in January
| | Great Decisions is back! LWVP has been hosting Great Decisions discussion groups since 1991 with a short hiatus last year due to the pandemic.
Great Decisions is America's largest discussion program on world affairs with materials and resources produced by the Foreign Policy Association. The program model involves reading the Great Decisions Briefing Book, watching the DVD and meeting in a Discussion Group to discuss the most critical global issues facing America today. Each year, eight topics are chosen by a panel of experts. The grassroots, face-to-face model adopted by Great Decisions more than 50 years ago continues today, with tens of thousands of participants taking part in discussions nationwide annually.
Interested in joining the discussion this year? Fill out our interest survey.
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