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Next election: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 (California Primary)
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League News 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 |
On Sunday, October 30, 2011, the LWVBAE turned 100!!!
As part of our continuing celebration, join us
on April 18 at Berkeley
City College, This event will be free, open to all and wheelchair accessible. Ask questions and meet the past and present elected women for informal conversations at the closing reception. The schedule includes: a new film by Martha Wheelock, "California Women Win the Vote," a welcome by Berkeley City College President Betty Inclan; "Occupy the Voting Booth," a panel discussion from 1:45-3:30 pm on how to increase registration and voting among young people and under-represented groups. Speakers will include the presidents of the California League of Women Voters Jennifer Waggoner, and of the American Association of University Women, Gloria Taylor, and the Alameda County Deputy Registrar of Voters Cynthia Cornejo, as well as several students from the BCC Civic Engagement Club. View the flyer for this event by clicking here 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 |