Walk-ins are welcome for the business meeting, which begins at 1:30.
Please read through the annual meeting kit so you are prepared to vote on the slate of officers, the budget and our program priorities. Here is a COPY of the kit for your convenience.
If you'd like to attend the luncheon preceding the business meeting, please contact Mary Ellen Spicuzza to check seating availability: me.spicuzza@lwvmilwaukee.org | LWVWI Legislative Alerts
URGENT: Tell Your Senators to Vote No on Federal Medicaid Cuts!
Please call your Senators in Congress ASAP with the message of “Vote No” on the drastic cuts in the current proposed Budget Reconciliation Bill. The Senate can still make changes to avoid these catastrophic cuts. As it stands right now, this Bill will cut $715 Billion in health care spending over the next 10 years – that’s Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. 13.7 million people would lose health insurance. In addition, the proposal would cut $300 Billion nationwide in SNAP (Wisconsin calls it FoodShare) over the next decade. Two-thirds of the people who use SNAP/Foodshare in Wisconsin are also Medicaid participants. These cuts are being enacted in order to give tax breaks to those least in need.
CALL: (202) 224-3121, ask to be connected to YOUR Senators' offices.
Script for phone calls here
Want to know more about the LWVWI Legislative Committee?
Email lwvwisconsin@lwvwi.org or visit the Legislative Committee webpage.
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- Want to fight money in politics?
- Interested in our Criminal Justice System?
- Care about what is occurring with our neighboring Immigrants in WI?
- Want to fight for Reproductive Rights in WI for your daughters and granddaughters?
Tell us! Please take 5 min. to fill out one of our surveys below - the one that suits YOU. | | | Please fill out this survey if you're interested in increasing your volunteer time:
Please fill out this survey if you're NOT interested in volunteering OR already do at the time commitment you are comfortable with:
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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. |  |
Milwaukee Pride Parade
Sunday, June 8
Join us as we proudly march with our partner, Planned Parenthood for the 21st celebration of our inclusive community. More info on the parade is here. Contact Kaye Vance @ kvance@lwvmilwaukee.org to sign up OR to become a member of our new LGBTQ+ advocacy program.
Logistics:
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We will meet at 1:30pm at 2nd St in Walker’s Point
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Alternatively, we will gather at a Lower East-Side location and carpool or Uber as a group.
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Planned Parenthood will have a float and has graciously offered a seat on the float for anyone with mobility issues.
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PLEASE READ, THIS CONTAINS NEW INFORMATION
KEEP FIGHTING BACK!
No Kings Protest
Cathedral Square Park, 520 E. Wells, Milwaukee
Saturday, June 14, Noon - 2:00
Noon-1:00 Protest and Speakers (standing)
1:00-2:00 1.2 mile March ending back at the Park
Come for one or both
There are now over 1000 events planned across the United States on this day. Contact Donna Spars at d.spars@lwvmilwaukee.org for more information. Meet Donna at 11:45 in front of Belmont Tavern, 784 N. Jefferson to protest together. She’ll be holding the United States flag. Wear your LWV branded apparel if you have it. We’ll be protesting/marching with the League banner.
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.
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.
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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 (next to the LWVMC office)
6737 W. Washington St., West Allis | Comité por el Voto Latino at Kosciuszko Park | | Thanks to Zach of the Milwaukee County Parks Dept. for the invitation to host a voter education table at the Kosciuszko Community Center. LWVMC’s Comité por el Voto Latino volunteers reached approximately 40 adults, sharing information about the 2026 elections with them. We hope to return monthly. In addition, we connected with an excellent youth program and hope to collaborate with them in the future.
Pictured, from L to R: Eloisa Gomez, Maria Avila, Esperanza Gutierrez, Recreation Program Supervisor Zach, and Diane Steigerwald |  |
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 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper as the last in our series on suffragists. The ten suffragists written about during the last ten weeks were selected by the Fund Development Committee to be represented at the LWVMC Annual Meeting on Saturday, May 31.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911), influential author, abolitionist, and suffragist, advocated for African American women to be included in the fight for suffrage. She helped found the American Woman Suffrage Association and later cofounded the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.
|  | | When suffragists gathered in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, they advocated for the right of white women to vote. The participants were middle and upper-class white women, a group of white men supporters and one African American male — Frederick Douglass. No Black women attended the convention. None were invited. (Source: https://www.aclu.org/news/womens-rights/celebrate-womens-suffrage-dont-whitewash-movements-racism)
Some black activists found ways to insert their voices into the call to expand suffrage to all women. Frances E. W. Harper was one of them. She used a persistent rhetoric of inclusion. In 1866, Harper delivered her most famous speech, We Are All Bound Up Together. She emphasized the dual burden (race and sex) faced by Black women in America and argued that it was therefore doubly as important that African American women be included in the national suffrage movement. |  |  | |
ACT NOW to Support Clean Air
The quality of the air we breathe is directly linked to how much energy humans use and the fuels used to provide that energy. Follow this link - lung.org/sota - to access the American Lung Association's 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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East Side Library, 2320 N Cramer St, Milwaukee
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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The Count Is In
VOTE411 was used in Milwaukee and Waukesha County almost 10,700 times during the spring election in 2025. 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! |  | |
Women’s Fund of Greater Milwaukee Events
Women’s Fund Laundry Night
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 (Moved from Monday, due Memorial Day Holiday)
Boone & Crocket, 818 S. Water Street, Milwaukee, 7-9 pm
Pretentious Drinks without the pretentiousness.
The patriarchy continues to shape our world in complex and challenging ways, however, meaningful conversations have the power to ignite change. Join us for an evening of authentic conversations and meaningful connections. Topics vary and casually unfold into practical insights and strategies to drive progress. If you’re passionate about fostering gender equity, you are welcome. No fee; registration encouraged. Register here.
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Women's Night Pedal Power 2025
Monday, June 9, 2025 (Rain Day: Wednesday, June 11)
5:30 PM, Arrival | 6 - 7 PM, Ride
7:30 - 9 PM, Post Ride Social
Join us for an energizing evening on two wheels! We’re teaming up with Cadence for Women’s Night Pedal Power — a slow ride bike loop designed for all levels, all vibes, and all women. We've added a social too...so come for the whole experience or just your preferred part! Registration requested; no fee. More information here. |  |
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