Happy Thursday! Here's this week's Update for League of Women Voters Milwaukee County (LWVMC) news, information and events. | Start your day with a cup of delicious Colectivo coffee or cocoa from the LWVMC. You can even enjoy your beverage from an LWV mug featuring Lady Liberty!
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Save the Date: Nov. 13 Forum on Reproductive Rights
Join us for a discussion with experts on the medical and legal aspects of reproductive health care. In this first in a series of forums, we will examine some of the facts and myths around this complicated, and often contentious, topic in order to work toward effective public policy.
More details coming. Register here. | LWVMC Book Drive on Saturday, October 28 | | If You Are Downsizing or Simplifying, You Can Help Support the League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County…
JUST BRING YOUR GENTLY USED BOOKS, CDS AND DVDS to the Visitor’s Parking Lot at 6737 W. Washington St., West Allis on Saturday, October 28 from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
We will also be accepting non-perishable food donations for the Hunger Task Force. Especially needed items include: healthy breakfast grains (whole grain/sugar-free cereals, oatmeal); canned veggies (no salt added); canned fruits (no sugar added/in their natural juices); and peanut butter. In the event of rain, LWVMC volunteers will be located in the Atrium, just inside the Visitor’s Entrance. | $ Money Matters $
Fund Development Idea-Generation Meeting
WHAT?
We invite you to join fellow LWVMC members at a meeting to generate ideas for finding potential new donors, creating new fund-raising projects, cultivating potential donors, and thanking donors.
WHY?
Let’s ramp up our fund development efforts to increase our capacity for taking on more "get out the vote" projects and for registering voters during 2024 leading up to the elections in November.
WHEN?
Attend either of the following meetings:
Wednesday, October 25 from 6:30 until 8:00 p.m. or
Monday, October 30 from 1:00 until 2:30 p.m.
Both meetings will be held at the LWVMC office at Summit Place. If you can’t attend either meeting, let me know and we can talk by phone.
QUESTIONS?
Contact Mary Voelker via email at m.voelker@lwvmilwaukee.org or by phone at 414-259-1788. |  |  |  |
2024 Elections are around the corner!!
Can you be a Community Volunteer?
The Spring Voter Guide will cover races in 59 municipalities and school districts in Milwaukee and Waukesha County. We need a community volunteer for each municipality and school district to:
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Contact the city, village, town, or school district clerk in November and confirm with him/her their willingness to help us and which offices are up for election in Spring 2024; then report this information to the Vote411 Voter Guide Team.
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Share with us any key issues in the municipality or school district that could help the VOTE411 team create questions important to the constituents.
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In early January, the day after the candidate filing deadline, get the candidate names and contact information from the clerk, and pass that information on to us. The timing here is critical so the Vote411 team can quickly invite the candidates to participate in the online Spring Voter Guide by answering the questions we have posed to the candidates and then publish their answers in Vote411.org.
Interested? To volunteer, please contact Sarajane Kennedy (Milwaukee County) or Ellen Trytek (Waukesha County) at voterguide@lwvmilwaukee.org. |  | |
Friday, October 27 | 10:00 a.m.
East Branch Library, 2320 N Cramer St, Milwaukee
We will be discussing, “A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom” by Brittany K. Barnett. Everyone is invited whether or not you have had a chance to read the book! Please join us! | LWVMC Natural Resources Committee Meeting on October 18, 2023
MEETING CHANGE! WE WILL MEET ON ZOOM. TOPIC REMAINS THE SAME
Carol Diggelman will lead a discussion of Chapter 2 (Understanding Food Production), in Vaclav Smil’s How the World Really Works. Smil addresses the energy required to produce three foods—bread, chicken and tomatoes.
Louise will lead a brief discussion on food waste initiatives of the Milwaukee City County Climate & Equity Plan. An agenda for the NR Committee will be sent later.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME, BUT PLEASE RSVP to Carol Diggelman diggelmanbc@att.net, Louise Petering l.petering14@att.net or Ann Batiza annwisc@gmail.com. |  | Women in Waiting: Challenges, Delays, and Resilience of Women at the Border
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 7:00 – 8:15 p.m.
Jewish Museum Milwaukee, 1360 N Prospect Avenue
Museum Members $5 | Nonmembers $10
Register Here.
Women from around the world seek refuge in the United States to escape persecution in their home countries. But the journey to asylum is also fraught with challenges: many women experience extreme violence in transit, have to navigate cultural differences in border towns, and are forced to make difficult decisions for the future of their children and families.
Learn more about the complex social, political, and physical obstacles these women face when seeking safety for their families and themselves from Erin M. Barbato, Director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. | The Death of Public School with Cara Fitzpatrick | | October 20, 12:15 p.m. Virtual only.
In person registration is full.
Access livestream here at 12:15 pm.
Marquette University Law School presents an “On the Issues” program featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning education journalist Cara Fitzpatrick, who takes up the rise of the school choice movement across the United States. Her new book, The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War over Education in America, goes back to the beginning of advocacy for school vouchers and charter schools and chronicles the path to today. Milwaukee, home to the first urban voucher program in the United States, is a major focus of the book. Fitzpatrick won a Pulitzer Prize in 2016 for a series of stories she wrote about school segregation in Florida. She is now an editor for Chalkbeat, a national online education reporting organization. Fitzpatrick will talk with Alan J. Borsuk, senior fellow in law and public policy at Marquette Law School. | | | Banned Book Club:
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
Tuesday, October 24, 7:00-8:00 PM
Jewish Community Center, 6255 N. Santa Monica Blvd, Whitefish Bay 1M55 Reading Room
Presented by the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center’s Tapestry Arts & Ideas in partnership with Jewish Museum Milwaukee
Jewish Museum Members $10 | JCC Members $10 | Nonmembers $12
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Next up: Thursday, November 9 | And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell & Henry Cole
Why are so many states and school districts banning books? Read and discuss books that are currently being banned across the country, and explore the history of suppressing ideas. Register Here.
| Amazing Faiths Dinner Dialogue
Wednesday, October 25, 6:00-8:00 P.M.,
Christ Church UCC, 915 E. Oklahoma Ave., Milwaukee
People of all faiths and no faith, all spiritualities and theologies gather in small groups to share a meal and participate in a moderated discussion using a proven model, evoking deep exchanges about lived experiences and the role of faith and/or spirituality in their lives. Through exploration and dialogue, participants learn about the beliefs and traditions of others within an atmosphere of respect and understanding, and are empowered to stand as witnesses for tolerance and inclusion.
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