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Celebrating Voters & Pride with Cyndi Lauper (Blog)

6/26/2024

The League started Pride month by participating in the West Hollywood Pride, WEHO, with the icon Cyndi Lauper, encouraging parade attendees to make a plan to vote using VOTE411.org.

Voting Local Matters: Why Vote for Park Board? (Blog)

10/13/2023

Parks provide a place to stay active, gather with loved ones, and spend time in nature, improving our quality of life. Those serving on your local park board are vital to preserving the parkland and…

Local League of Women Voters celebrating 90 years of advocacy (News Clips)

3/8/2023

This story originally aired on WKBN. In this week’s segment with WKBN Community Affairs Director Dee Crawford, Crawford sits down with Leah Sakacs, president of the League of Women Voters of Greater…

A cleaner campaign: Central Florida volunteers push for more plastic political sign recycling (News Clips)

11/21/2022

This story was originally published by Spectrum News. When Kay Hudson looks at campaign signs, she sees clutter. With Election Day over, the League of Women Voters volunteer has a new task —…

LWVUS Urges Congress to Protect Dreamers (Legal Document)

11/18/2022

Senate and House leadership announced that protecting Dreamers is a high priority in the remaining time of the 117th Congress, leading the League to urge Congress to follow through and pass a bill.…

Latina Activist You Should Know: Jamie Sarai Margolin (Blog)

10/6/2022

Most of us know or have heard of the Latino trailblazers like Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Sylva Rivera – but we sometimes forget to highlight the youth activists who are currently fighting for…

What You Need to Know About Kansas's Vote on Abortion Rights (Blog)

7/25/2022

On Aug. 2, 2022, Kansas will be the first state in the nation to vote on the issue of abortion since the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24. The League of Women…

Arab American Women in Democracy You Should Know (Blog)

4/26/2022

April is Arab American Heritage Month! We’re highlighting Arab American women who've helped shaped American democracy.

Fighting for Equity On the Ice (Blog)

8/30/2021

Figure skating has a long way to go to fully reckon with the intertwined ways that patriarchy, homophobia, and racism occur and the resulting harms done to athletes, from Olympic stars down to kids…

Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month with Team LWV! (Blog)

5/24/2021

We're excited to highlight some of the accomplishments, advice, and experiences of our fellow Leaguers who identify as members of the AAPI community. As you'll see, each of these five people has…