Date: 8/31/2022
Subject: LWVMC: Archive Weekly Update for May 19
From: League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County

Happy Thursday,

Here's this week's Update for League of Women Voters Milwaukee County (LWVMC) news, information and events.

Please greet your fellow League members and their guests at the Wisconsin Club, 5:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. on May 24 at 900 W. Wisconsin Avenue.

Those attending in person will enjoy former Broadway singer Susan Varela, accompanied by Donna Kummer and introduced by Susan Holmes, co-author of the musical and lyrics for Victory for Victoria about the first woman to run for President (in 1972), Victoria Woodhull.

Pictured: Soloist Susan Varela

After drinks on the balcony and dinner in the ballroom, please join us either in person or by Zoom for our LWVMC Annual Meeting at 7:15 p.m., where members will vote on the budget, slate, program priorities and proposed dues increase. We are delighted to welcome nonmembers to join in both the dinner and meeting, but only members will be able to vote at the meeting.

Although registration for the dinner is closed, registration for the meeting is open until 6 p.m. on May 24. PLEASE NOTE THAT REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE OVER AN HOUR BEFORE THE ZOOM MEETING ACTUALLY BEGINS. If joining by Zoom, please come online by 7 p.m.

Valet parking available.

We hope to see you there!

Review theAnnual Report Packet

This November, local elections include races for the:

Clerk of Circuit Court for Milwaukee County
Clerk of Circuit Court for Waukesha County
Milwaukee County Sheriff
Waukesha County Sheriff
City of Milwaukee Alderpersons for Districts 2 and 3

What do you know about the County offices?

Can you name the responsibilities of the Clerk of Circuit Court and the Sheriff? Before considering candidates, we should understand the responsibilities of the offices.

What do you need to know about the County offices?

We are interested in your questions about these offices. Write to the Vote411 Team at voterguide@lwvmilwaukee.org.

In future Updates, we will:

Alert you to the national and state races in the August Primary and the November General elections
Ask for your help promoting the 2022 Fall Voter Guide to educate voters about the candidates running for the local offices

Get ready to help people register to vote! Learn how to register people to vote using MyVote.wi.gov. Learn how to acquire and what is acceptable photo ID for voting in Wisconsin.

Registration required.

Thursday, May 26

10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Zoom Meeting - A link will be sent to you if you register for the meeting

Saturday, June 4

10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Zoom Meeting - A link will be sent to you if you register for the meeting

Training Registration

On Sunday, June 19 join us for the celebration of 2022 Juneteenth Day.

This year we are tabling with Clean Slate. Clean State is a staffing organization that helps people with a criminal record find jobs partially through assisting with expunging their records.

The location is to be confirmed but we will be approximately on the corner of Burleigh and Dr. Martin Luther King Drive.

We are looking for two League members to be 1st Shift and 2nd Shift event coordinators. They would be responsible for setting up or packing up the table, signing in the volunteers, providing brief instructions to the volunteers and gathering information on the people registered.

Voter Services is now using our website to announce all of our volunteering opportunities. If you are interested in volunteering we encourage you to go to lwvmilwaukee.org website and click the volunteering tab to see all of the current volunteer opportunities. Click on the opportunity you are interested in and follow the prompts.

To volunteer for this opportunity you must be a member and signed in.

Juneteenth Day Sign Up

Looking for opportunities to volunteer?

Wondering how to find out about them and how to submit your name?

We are pleased that Club Express provides us an efficient, up-to-date way to see available volunteer opportunities to help with “one-time” events as well as to make longer term commitments. Check out the postings and sign up for those that interest you. Go to the LWVMC website (https://www.lwvmilwaukee.org) and click on the Volunteering tab at the top. If something interests you, select it to sign up. You will be contacted soon.

A couple of caveats:

The website is still “under construction” so not all opportunities are posted.
Continue to watch the Update. On-going positions like committee memberships are listed as occurring all year - we had to do this to make the system work. Once you are contacted, you will find out about specific meetings and dates.

Please get in the habit of visiting the Volunteering tab on our website and know that more and more opportunities will be added.

Join the League at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 7 to learn more about the National Popular Vote!

In the first of four webinars, “The National Popular Vote: What, Why and How?," Eileen Reavey from National Popular Vote will teach us just that--the what, why and how of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. There will be time at the end to take audience questions.

Eileen co-founded the grassroots advocacy group campaigning for Oregon to pass the National Popular Vote bill in 2016. She now works to apply those organizing lessons in other states as National Popular Vote’s National Grassroots Director.

Revisit the Anti-Chinese Riots that Happened in Milwaukee in the Late 1800s

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month is a time to celebrate but also a time to remember a dark episode in Milwaukee’s history. Listen to this WUWM All Things Considered episode with UW-Madison professor, Victor Jew, to learn more.

Plague at the Golden Gate

On Thursday, May 19, 6 p.m. CT, PBS American Experience offers an online preview and discussion of the film "Plague at the Golden Gate" as part of its collection: THE ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER EXPERIENCE

More than 100 years before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world and set off a wave of fear and anti-Asian sentiment, an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1900 unleashed a similar furor. "Plague at the Golden Gate" tells the gripping story.

The event will be streamed live on OVEE. Click here at the time of the event to join the screening.

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