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Next election: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 (California Primary)
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League News We've Moved! Our new office is located in the Ecology Center building at 2530 San Pablo Avenue. We are in Suite F. Our phone number is unchanged, but we no longer have a fax line. Keep on the lookout for the notice of our office warming party sometime early in the new year. League Newsletter The February 2012 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. Christina Romer's Luncheon Talk Our 12th Annual Luncheon speaker, Christina Romer, has kindly posted an online written version of the talk she presented, and given us permission to link to it so that anybody who missed it, or would like to review it, may read the linked file. To do so, click here. Suffrage Centennial Proclamation On March 8, 2011, the Berkeley City Council proclaimed March Women's History Month in honor of the centennial of women's suffrage in CA. View the proclamation. Annual Meeting 2011 Journalist Peter Schrag spoke on How We Made the Mess, and How We Might Fix It!. You may listen to an MP3 audio recording of his talk (58 minutes) by clicking on this link. To read about the meeting as a whole, click on this link. Health Care Discussion Our League Health Care Committee made a public presentation titled, Where Are We Now? What Do We Need? on April 27 at the North Berkeley Senior Center. If you were unable to make the event, you may see the slide presentation by clicking on this link. Open Government Statement The following memo was presented at the
February 15, 2011 meeting of the Berkeley City Council.
Read
the memo. You will find a link to the proposed ordinance at:
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Content 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 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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Barbara Babcock, Stanford Law Professor Emerta and author of "Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Carol Foltz”, will speak on Carol Foltz at the Berkeley History Center on Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 2 pm. This young woman, a single mother of five authored the Women’s Vote Amendment that California men approved October 10, 1911. The Berkeley History Center is located at 1931 Center, Berkeley. The Rules Have Changed! Read the LWVC's explanation of the changes we'll see as we tackle the Primary Ballot for June 2012. http://cavotes.org/sites/default/files/jobs/The Rules Have Changed 2.pdf The Secretary of State has posted the 2012 Presidential Primary Ballot Calendar http://cavotes.org/announcement/2011/oct/june-2012-presidential-primary-election-calendar On Sunday, October 30, 2011, the LWVBAE turned 100!!! 2011 also marked the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the state's women gaining the right to vote. To learn more about these remarkable events, you may visit the “Berkeley Women Vote” exhibit: Berkeley Women Vote: Celebrating California Suffrage 1911-2011, continues through March at
the Berkeley Historical
Center in the Veterans Building, Free. Wheelchair accessible.
Resources to study the suffrage
campaign are available at The Bancroft Library's Suffrage Centennial Exhibit, California Women and the Vote, is now online. View it here: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/suffrage/index.html Our Mission
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Voters Take Note Berkeley Voters Ranked Choice Voting has come to Berkeley for some city offices. Learn more from the Registrar of Voters web site at http://www.co.alameda.ca.us/rov/rcv/faq.htm Several explanatory videos can be viewed at http://www.co.alameda.ca.us/rov/videos.htm
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