Date: 8/31/2022
Subject: LWVMC: Archive Weekly Update for July 28
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.

Join the Coffee for our Cause Sales Force

LWVMC’s fourth annual coffee sale will begin in early September. The fundraising sale will end in early November, and the coffee will be delivered in late November in time for the holidays.

Join the Sales Force Team to help LWVMC raise some much-needed revenue. Each sales force team member is asked to sell at least 10 pounds of coffee in their personal network of family, friends, and associates. Email Mary Sussman at m.sussman@lwvmilwaukee.org to sign up.

The League has lots of important information for citizens about voting and elections. Please share widely! You can simply forward the weekly Updates or direct your friends to the resources on our website, or to myvote.wi.gov and VOTE411.org so they are prepared to be informed voters for the August 9 Primary Election and the November 8 General Election. The answer to many of our nation’s problems? Boost voter turnout!

LWVMC Kickoff

Thursday, August 25

5 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Summit Place

6737 W Washington St.

West Allis

Are You Ready to Vote on August 9?

In 2020 Wisconsin primary election turnout was 21%.

Can we do better this year?

The Wisconsin partisan primary election is on August 9.

Takes time to study the candidates? Vote411.org can help with that. The League of Women Voters provides all candidates the opportunity to answer the most pressing questions in their communities, in their own words. Go online to Vote411.org and type in your address. You will see responses to League questions from candidates running for office in the August 9 partisan primary election.

Spread the word about Vote411.org to your neighbors, family, friends, and colleagues. If you are on Facebook, share the posts about Vote411.org with your Facebook friends.

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.

Tuesday, August 2

5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m

Wauwatosa Public Library

7235 W. North Avenue - Firefly Room

Tuesday, September 6

5p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

MPL Mitchell Street Branch

906 W. Historic Mitchell St

Questions regarding this announcement please email training@lwvmilwaukee.org.

Training Registration

Fund Development and a Fun Night!

Do you want to have a fun evening while doing a great service for LWVMC?

We have an opportunity for a fundraising event cosponsored by the Greendale Community Theater. The Greendale Community Theater is committed to community support and thus picks nonprofits such as LWVMC to support at each of its performances. To date they have raised nearly $60,000 for various community organizations.

This year they are performing Mary Poppins which has a musical number about women’s suffrage. The Greendale Theater thought linking the LWVMC and supporting us at its performance was a good match.

So we need volunteers to be at each of the evening performances on July 28, 29 and the matinee on July 30 and the evening performances on August 4, 5 and the matinee on August 6. We will have a table at each performance and will answer questions and have materials for distribution but as it is in the moratorium period we will not be registering people to vote. We will have a vessel for donations at our information table. The theater is at the Greendale High School and has 800 seats.

We are asking for 2 volunteers for each performance, each volunteer will receive 2 tickets so that you can bring someone with you to enjoy the performance.

Greendale Community Theatre Volunteer Sign Up

The LWV Bumper Magnets and Yard Signs Available!

We are now offering bumper magnets to those that want them.

They are too heavy and oddly shaped to mail. If you want one or both of these please complete the order form below and we will be in touch with you. We also have three yard signs (18"x24") to choose from:

Vote From Home
VOTE/VOTA
WI Election Workers/Thank You Election Workers

They will be distributed on a first come first serve basis. Limited quantities available.

Bumper Magnet & Yard Sign Order Form

Change of venue from what was previously announced.

League Cafe will meet in person on July 29 at 10:00 a.m. at East Library, 2320 N. Cramer Street in the large conference room. Masks are required.

Please join the group for a continuing discussion of "The 1619 Project" by Nikole Hannah-Jones, with a focus of Chapters 9-12. There is metered parking on North Ave., two hour parking on the side streets around the library and a small parking lot behind the library that has free parking for a few cars. The library is ADA compliant.

Natural Resources Committee Meeting

Wednesday, August 17

6 p.m.

Hubbard Park Beer Garden

3565 N. Morris Blvd.

Shorewood

Please join us! Over dinner, we’ll pursue our regular agenda as well as begin to plan for the Public Issues Forum on climate change that we will host in November.

Now is also the time to begin to read Vaclav Smil’s, "How the World Really Works", which we will discuss in September.

Please RSVP to Carol Diggelman at 414-232-3739 or Ann Batiza 414-238-3903, although an RSVP is not required.

Invite Your Friends and LWV Members to Join Our Lunch and Learn

We listen and reflect, and follow the lead of Black and Brown Women on important issues impacting our lives.

We meet virtually at noon on the third Tuesday of every month.

Tuesday, August 16
Tuesday, September 20
Tuesday, October 18

We encourage you to save this monthly link: https://zoom.us/j/96398188822?pwd=UEpMaDc4azFVV0lFOTNFRXpIcmFXQT09

Passcode: league

Text Pat McFarland with your suggestions and questions at 414-630-1978.

July is Disability Pride Month

Disability Pride Month is celebrating its 32nd year after the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed on July 26, 1990. The ADA prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities. Disability Pride Month is a time to recognize and celebrate how disability is a natural part of human diversity in which people living with disabilities can take pride.

Ann Magill, a disabled woman, created the disability flag. Each of its elements symbolizes a different part of the disability community.

The Black Field represents the disabled people who have lost their lives due not only to their illness, but also to negligence, suicide and eugenics. Each color on the flag represents a different aspect of disability or impairment. Each of its elements symbolizes a different part of the disability community.

Red: physical disabilities
Yellow: cognitive and intellectual disabilities
White: invisible and undiagnosed disabilities
Blue: mental illness
Green: sensory perception disabilities

Check out these resources on the LWVWI website.

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