Upcoming Events/Highlights

May - Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Island (AANHPI) Month 
Read LWVUS blog: ​‘5 Must-Know AANHPI Women Who Shaped Democracy’.

For League of Women Voters members:
LWVUS STRUCTURE TRANSFORMATION PLAN
     May 25 @ 9 AM (Pacific) - General Information Session
     May 27 @ noon (Pacific) - General Information Session
     June 3 @ 3 PM (Pacific) - Office Hours

​Now through June 7 - VOTE!

​June 19 - Juneteenth

June 22 - Reversing Our Polarity: Moving from 'Us vs Them' to 'Me and You' - LWVs of Santa Clara County

June 23 - Housing, Race and Homelessness: Ending Poverty in the Bay Area - The Commonwealth Club of California (free online event)
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June 23 - The Missing Piece: How New Homes Can Help Save Our Schools from Declining Enrollment - SV@Home and Palo Alto Forward

June 23-26 - LWV National Convention, virtual and in Denver, CO
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Campaign Finance Reform UPDATE:
Our League gathered 519 signatures on a petition for a $500 cap on donations to City Council candidates!  The petition was presented to Council on May 16th. Click here for more information about this project. 

​Thank you to all who signed our petition, which read:   SAY YES TO $500 CAP on campaign donations for P.A. City Council Races!  It’s high time Palo Alto adopted reasonable limits on campaign donations for city council. Many small California cities (under 100,000 population) have imposed limits of $500 or less. Palo Alto should do the same. Without this cap, donors can give up to the statewide limit of $4900. Such a high limit creates a concern that candidates are being bought by wealthy interests; enables a small number of wealthy donors to bankroll a campaign; and pushes the cost of campaigns ever higher, discouraging ordinary citizens with good ideas from running for council. 

Speaker Series - Watch City Manager Ed Shikada's Progress Report on City Priorities. 

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League of Women Voters/National Institute for Civil Discourse (LWV/NICD) Network News - Latest edition

LWV/NICD Network Mission Statement: 
​The mission of the Civil Discourse Network is to promote and encourage “Urgent Positive Civic Engagement.”  We provide our network members with a home space for collaboration, support, and resource sharing which helps members to take positive actions in their communities and in their personal lives. Sharing ideas, resources, experiences and feedback will help each of us better our own efforts in our own lives to promote civil dialogue, reduce the spread of disinformation and build trust within our democracy. 
NICD = National Institute for Civil Discourse

​LWV/NICD has compiled this helpful list of organizations working to enhance dialog across political divides. 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), Equal Justice, and Civil Discourse 

The League of Women Voters at all levels views its work through a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lens. In addition, LWV Palo Alto has declared Racial Justice a priority. In this context, we offer a set of Racial Justice resource lists with links to materials in a wide variety of media, as well as links to other organizations with more resources. New addition: Encouraging parents to discuss racism

Book recommendation: Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho. It's written as a personal, accessible, yet very informative conversation with the reader.

The purpose of the League is to Make Democracy Work®.  We:

  • Register and educate voters through our work in VOTER SERVICES
  • Take Action based on our positions through ADVOCACY
  • Inform and educate the community on issues by League PROGRAMS