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Environmental Concerns Speaker Series 9/25
Posted on September 2, 2025 in League News | comments
Monday, September 8, 2025, 7:30-9:00 pm UPDATE ON WHAT IS ORGANIC AND HOW HAS IT CHANGED Zoom link will be sent shortly before meeting. Our speaker will be Daniel McChesney-Young. Daniel McChesney-Young joined t...
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LWV California – No Position on Prop 50 (Mid-cycle Redistricting)
Posted on September 2, 2025 in League News | comments
The League of Women Voters of California will not take a position on Proposition 50. See An important Disclaimer Below. This statement explains our neutral position, provides context for that position, and shifts the foc...
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The Solano Avenue Stroll 2025
Posted on September 1, 2025 in League News | comments
September 14th 2025 10am – 5:00pm. The second Sunday in September A mile of entertainers, music, shops, crafters, food booths & family fun on Solano Avenue in Berkeley/Albany. Since 1974 Solano Avenue and the t...
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Vote16 National Convening
Posted on September 1, 2025 in League News | comments
UCLA hosted this year’s Vote16 National Convening. The energy was high as hundreds of young changemakers, civic engagement leaders, policy advocates, and elected officials gathered, the largest convening thus far. Thei...
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Lateefah Simon Inspires the Crowd
Posted on August 25, 2025 in League News | comments
At 6 p.m. on a work night, the Albany High School Little Theater saw more intergenerational mixing than it had in years. More than 200 people – parents, seniors, and teenage students alike – flocked to see Congresspe...
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Rally Against Rising Authoritarianism and for Working Families this Labor Day!
Posted on August 19, 2025 in League News | comments
Labor and community organizations are planning more than a barbecue on Labor Day this year because we have to peacefully unite to stop the authoritarian takeover. Billionaire authoritarians and other anti-democracy actor...
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Trump’s Federalizing DC Is a Dangerous March Toward Military State
Posted on August 18, 2025 in League News | comments
WASHINGTON – The League of Women Voters and the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia issued the following joint statement in response to President Trump deploying the National Guard to Washington, DC, and...
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It’s Our Job to Fight for John Lewis’ America
Posted on August 18, 2025 in League News | comments
Throughout his lifetime, John Lewis was a stalwart warrior for the promise of American Democracy. As a young man, he joined his mentor, Martin Luther King, Jr., in the fight for civil rights. He organized countless march...
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The Right to Contraception and Why We Need to Protect It
Posted on August 16, 2025 in League News | comments
The right to contraception is currently protected in the United States by a combination of federal court cases and state legislation. Tens of millions of women and other people of reproductive age rely on contraception t...
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What is the “One Big Beautiful Bill” and Its Impact?
Posted on August 16, 2025 in League News | comments
On July 4th, the President signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), a nearly 1,000-page bill that changes federal spending levels by stripping tens of millions of our most vulnerable neighbors of their heal...
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