| AmiraThePoet has curated and performed original spoken word pieces at various corporate and nonprofit events across Milwaukee and beyond. Her poetry serves as both a medium for creative expression and a tool for community engagement, aligning with her mission to inspire, educate, and uplift through the art of spoken word. Amira’s dedication to community service and the arts reflects her passion for fostering positive change and building solidarity within her community.
We are pleased to announce Amira will present an original poem at our Annual Meeting on May 31.
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Saturday, May 31
Do you, or someone you know, have a business that would like to get exposure within the League? Consider donating something, like an item(s) or a certificate for a meal, service, class, etc., to the Annual Meeting Auction. Obviously, proceeds go to a very worthy cause and members learn more about what you have to offer. Win, win!
Contact Liz Harris-Hodge if you have questions or would like to donate items for the auction at eharrisce@aol.com. | |
ReproWarriors to be Highlighted at the
LWVWI Annual Meeting on June 6-7!
 
As ReproWarriors, we believe personal empowerment and collective action results in deep societal transformation. Through education and bold, art-driven activism, we energize our communities to take action when it matters most.
Join the Reproductive Rights Team engaging attendees in creating the “WI Garland of Choice” at the ballroom entrance. We will also be taking photos and making “tassels” as take-aways. If you would like to join the fun for 30 minutes, contact g.sklodowska@lwvmilwaukee.org. |  |
LWV Milwaukee County is a co-host for this TIMELY training
June 8th from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Greendale Community Church, 6015 Clover Ln, Greendale
Bystander Intervention Training Facilitated by Stephanie Roades, SURJ MIlwaukee
Link to facebook event
Now more than ever, it’s going to take community to keep each other safe. No one is born with the skills needed to intervene in public instances of interpersonal violence and harassment. It takes lifelong learning and practice to keep the tools in your harm reduction toolbox sharp.
Bystander Intervention training will focus on ways to intervene when you're a bystander to racist, sexist, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic, anti-Trans, or other forms of interpersonal violence, all while considering the safety of all parties. This workshop includes a learning segment of tips and strategies, how to document, knowing your rights as an intervener, and practice scenarios.
Join us! Free and open to the public. No registration necessary.
Showing Up For Racial Justice-Milwaukee is a Southeastern Wisconsin network of groups and individuals undertaking the work of challenging and dismantling racism by calling in our fellow white people to learn, build relationships, organize, mobilize and act against white supremacy with passion and accountability.
Hosted by: Franklin LOC, Greendale Community Church, League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County, SURJ MKE and ACTive Bystander WI
For more information, contact Donna Spars at d.spars@lwvmilwaukee.org. |  | |
Continue to Fight Back!
June 14th from Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Specific Location will be Revealed When Application is Approved
NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked down on free speech, detained people for their political views, threatened to deport American citizens, and defied the courts. The flag doesn’t belong to Donald Trump. It belongs to us. We’re not watching history happen. We’re making it.
On June 14th, we’re showing up everywhere he isn’t—to say no thrones, no crowns, no kings. Check out nokings.org for more information.
Event Itinerary:
- 12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. Assemble, Protest Chants, Make Noise
- 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Speakers (Will be updated)
- 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. March (Tentative)
A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.
For more information or to make plans to assemble together, contact Donna Spars at d.spars@lwvmilwaukee.org. | |
You’re invited …
Protest Poster-making Party!
Are you fed up and can’t take it anymore? Do you want to get out and march, but can’t because of work schedule or physical limitations? This is your opportunity to let your feelings be known. Bring your outrage – we’ll supply the rest.
Join us for a protest poster-making party:
Tuesday, June 10th, 4:30 - 6:30 pm
Summit Place, Room 2212 (LWVMC office)
6737 W. Washington St., West Allis | |
Save the Date
Milwaukee Pride Parade - Sunday, June 8, Noon
Because Our Values Include Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion!
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Engaging Youth
 
Colleen Golomski, Kimberley Fein, & Gail Sklodowska attended a lovely gala to mingle with and support young women and girls. WGIRLS hosted the event on behalf of Purpose Driven Sisters with a goal of raising $15,000. Fun was had, contacts were made and collaboration meetings are scheduled with these two wonderful organizations.
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The LWVMC Annual Spring Appeal is Underway!
With your generous support, we now have an Endowment Fund with the Greater Milwaukee Committee to help secure our financial future. This accomplishment capped a year of accomplishments that empowered voters and defended democracy.
You recently received a letter from Nancy Maloney about the 2025 Spring Appeal. Click here for a copy of the letter. As we move ahead during 2025 and into 2026, our work will continue without regard to political partisanship. While your valuable volunteer time is free, materials, support, and expenses to maintain LWVMC as a nonprofit business all come at a cost.
We are counting on your generosity in asking that you please make a gift for on-going operations, for the endowment fund, or for both. Our goal is to raise $10,000 from this 2025 Spring Appeal. Please give what you can that is aligned with your personal budget and know that we appreciate your continued support.
You can donate by check made payable to League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County and mailed to the League office at 6737 West Washington Avenue, Suite 2218, West Allis, WI 53214. Or you can donate by credit card at www.lwvmilwaukee.org/Donate. |  | NOW IS THE TIME……
Today we introduce Theodora Winton Youmans in our series on suffragists. Theodora Winton Youmans (1863-1932), a Wisconsin native, was a journalist and women’s rights activist. She advocated for suffrage in the state, convincing Wisconsin club women to support suffrage, and later worked on a national level to win suffrage in 1919, when she led the effort to make Wisconsin the first state to ratify the 19th Amendment. She later founded the Wisconsin chapter of League of Women Voters.
Theodora Youmans was a prominent journalist and joined the Waukesha Freeman in the 1880s. She became the associate editor and later the editor after her husband died. She lobbied for “school suffrage” for women in 1900 as the president of the Wisconsin Federation of Women’s Clubs (WFWC). In 1911 she declared herself a suffragist and led publicity for the new Political Equality League.
She traveled to New York City where she met suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt, who was also from Wisconsin. Catt convinced her that their best option was to try to force a federal amendment. After the Nineteenth Amendment passed Congress in 1919, Youmans led lobbying to win Wisconsin’s historic first ratification of the Amendment.
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The quality of the air we breathe is directly linked to how much energy humans use and the fuels used to provide that energy. ACT NOW to support clean air. Follow this link: lung.org/sota to access the American Lung Association latest report on Wisconsin’s air quality, then act to improve Wisconsin’s F grade and protect our air quality. Enter your ZIP code and click on the “sign the petition” box to let your US Senator and your House Representative know you want them to act to improve air quality. Learn more--attend our June 21 program on Data Centers.
SAVE THE DATE – June 21, Saturday 10am -noon, Place and format TBA
Data Centers: Your Rising Energy Bill & Declining Health
The event features:
· Dave Petering, Distinguished Professor Emeritus UW-Milwaukee on data centers and options for meeting their energy “demands”
· Tom Content, Executive Director Citizens Utility Board on protecting small users from assuming the cost for data centers’ energy “demands”
· Antonio Butts, Exec. Director of Walnut Way, on the disproportionate impact on health and energy affordability for low-income families
· Health Care professional from Healthy Climate WI on the present and future health impacts of greenhouse gases
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The Count Is In
VOTE411 was used in Milwaukee and Waukesha County almost 10,700 times during the spring election in 1025. This is more voters than used the LWV online voter guide in 2023, a comparable election year. Thank you to all voters who used the guide to educate themselves on the views of the candidates running for office. A huge thank you to all LWVMC members who encouraged usage of VOTE411 to their family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues. Together we can make the LWV VOTE411 online voter guide a true help to all voters before going to the polls! |  | |
Sen. Ron Johnson Speaker at Newsmaker Luncheon
Sen. Ron Johnson will be the guest speaker at a Newsmaker luncheon set for Wednesday, May 28 hosted by the Milwaukee Press Club and WisPolitics.com.
Johnson will speak briefly and then take questions from a panel of journalists as well as questions from the audience. The luncheon will run from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at the Newsroom Pub, 137 E. Wells St. in Milwaukee.
The press club’s Newsmaker Luncheons are held to inform the public about the people and issues that affect individuals and communities in Milwaukee and Wisconsin. The cost to attend is $30 for MPC members, $35 for non-members and $25 for students. Lunch is included. Registration deadline is Friday, May 23. Seating is limited. Advanced registration and payment are required and may be done online at http://www.milwaukeepressclub.org. |  | Friday, May 30th at 10:00 a.m.
East Side Library
League Café, the book and discussion club of the League of Women Voters of
Milwaukee County meets this month on May 30 (due to Memorial Day week-end) at
10:00 a.m. at the East Side Library. We alternate between “general discussion” and a
specific book. This month we are discussing the book, “How the Word is Passed: A
Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America” by Clint Smith . Even if you
haven’t read the book, our discussions are usually lively and interesting. We have
chosen books now through Sept. See schedule below:
May: Discussing the book “How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery in America “ by Clint Smith
June: General discussion
July: Discussing the book “Demystifying Disability” by Emily Ladau
Aug: General Discussion
Sept: Discussing the book “After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America” by Jessica Goudeau |  |
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