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League of the United States Deputy Director Zaida Arguedas speaks at Seattle University School of Law forum
Date: September 14, 2009
Location: Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington
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Reform Groups Praise President’s First Hundred Days
Reform Groups Strongly Praise President Obama’s Government Integrity Reform Measures during First Hundred Days
Statement Issued by Common Cause, Democracy 21, League of Women Voters, Public Citizen and U.S. PIRG
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Observing Your Government in Action Guide
This is an easy-to-read "how to" resource guide on organizing and conducting observer corps programs. Building on its decades of experience in empowering citizens to monitor local governmental meetings through these programs, the League has compiled best practices about starting and maintaining an observer program.
Publication No. 2080
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Looking for Sunshine: Protecting Your Right to Know
The League of Women Voters Education Fund has created this Resource Guide to assist Leagues in dealing with this era of increasingly difficult public access to government information. This guide provides an overview of the most significant federal and state laws—those that protect and those that restrict public access to government information. It also suggests various ways that Leagues can become more active in this area, and identifies other national and state organizations involved in these issues.
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Citizens Building Communities: The ABCs of Public Dialogue
This new LWVEF booklet is a first-of-its-kind, designed to share some of the basic principles involved in public dialogue processes and to acquaint the reader with what is needed to organize various types of gatherings, from small- and large-group interactions to online formats. Included are some basic planning questions as well as resources to help the reader conduct citizen engagement through dialogue at the community level.
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Local Voices: Citizen Conversations on Civil Liberties and Secure Communities
In 2005, with generous funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the LWVEF launched "Local Voices: Citizen Conversations on Civil Liberties and Secure Communities." This project had three main components: public deliberations in ten communities across the country, focus groups and quantitative public opinion research to explore attitudes and values toward homeland security and civil liberties. The findings the Local Voices project are chronicled in this report.
