Date: 8/31/2022
Subject: LWVMC: Archive Weekly Update for June 2
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.

Membership Dues Increase July 1

A dues increase was approved at the LWVMC Annual Meeting on May 24. The increase (see chart below) will take effect July 1, the start of our new fiscal year. The dues were increased by $5 for Individual memberships, and by $10 for Household, Centennial and Sustaining membership levels. The student and Open Door dues stayed the same. It has been several years since our dues were increased. LWVMC passes along $62 of each Individual, Centennial and Sustaining membership to the state and national leagues, and $32 to LWVUS (but nothing to LWVWI) for each Open Door membership. The $5 student dues remain with the local league. If you have not yet renewed your membership for 2022-2023, now is a good time!

Category	Amount
Individual	$75
Household Additional person	$120
Centennial	$180
Sustaining	$110
Honorary/Lifetime	-
Student	$5
Open Door	=>$5
Associate (non-voting)	-

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.

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

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.

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 volunteers 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. We are also looking for one volunteer to do a shift from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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 to the Members Portal on the website. Thank you!

Juneteenth Day Sign Up

LWMC had a table staffed by Diane Steigerwald at the Love Where You Live Kick-Off Event in Lincoln Park Saturday, May 14. Attendees were very interested in discussing voter participation as most are community activists. They loved the buttons and information on fall elections. Diane Steigerwald spoke to about 30 people, developed a new contact, and received a request for a LWVMC presentation at a Residents for Change meeting.

Rally Against Gun Violence

LWVMC Voter Services provided a voter registration table at the May 25 Rally Against Gun Violence. Wednesday's event was organized by the MPS social workers union and teachers union, Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association, and featured speakers from multiple area groups, including Mothers Against Gun Violence, Mom's Demand Action, MPS' Department of Black and Latino Male Achievement, and 414Life, a violence interruption team.

While about a month of planning went into the rally, it came just a day after a shooter killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

Left image: US Representative Gwen Moore stopped by our table to offer encouragement to the League for our work. Pictured with Representative Moore are League Members Donna Spars (left) and JoAnn Walsh.

League Cafe continues its discussion of Nikole Hannah Jones’s “The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story” on Friday, June 17, from 9:30 a.m - 11 a.m. Join here.

We are splitting the book into sections to facilitate manageable discussions. We will discuss Chapters 5, 8, 9 and 10 at the Friday, June 17 meeting.

Peruse educational resources from the Pulitzer Center here or watch a C-Span interview with author Nikole Hannah-Jones and Steven Hahn, New York University history professor.

Tuesday, June 7

6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Centennial Hall 733 N. Eighth St.

Milwaukee author and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consultant Deanna Singh in conversation about her new book, Actions Speak Louder, a guide to creating inclusive workplaces. Singh is the author of American Girl's A Smart Girl's Guide: Race & Inclusion. She has been recognized by the Milwaukee Business Journal as one of the community's most influential 40 Under 40 Leaders, the State of Wisconsin as a Woman Who Inspires, and by Forbes as an African American Woman Everyone Should Know.

Registration required.

Actions Speak Louder is available at Milwaukee Public Library.

Celebrate African-American Music Appreciation Month

Songs That Get Us Through

Wednesday, June 8 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 pm

Virtual

Milwaukee Public Library presents Songs That Get Us Through. Join Steve Burks for a conversation and celebration of Black music. Burks is a vocalist, keyboardist, arranger, DJ, and music educator. This program will focus on the resilience of African Americans as expressed through classic songs from various genres. Register here. Find out more about African-American Music Appreciation Month here.

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