Current Priority Issues (Program)

In League, Program means the issues that we choose for concerted study, education and action at local, state and national levels. Program can include both education and action.

The Program Planning process is part of what makes the League a grassroots organization; each League member has the opportunity to influence the selection of issues where the local, state, and national League will focus time, talent and money.

What IS Program Planning? Learn about it here!​
Here are the Programs for the local, state and national Leagues, adopted locally by the membership at the Annual Meeting and by member delegates at the state and national conventions:

LWVPA Local Program: 2020-21

Program Areas of Emphasis:
  • Affordable housing, with attention to the unhoused and the impacts of housing (and employment) on transportation
  • Climate action, with continued education and action on local issues, including food production
  • Local campaign finance regulation; support for spending limits
  • Civics education in the schools and the community
  • Systemic racism, with education and action on its many manifestations (added by the Board)

View our Current Issue Team Chairs or Join a Team if you would like to participate in our action, advocacy and education on these issues.

LWVC State Program: 2019-21

Issues for Education and Advocacy in 2019-21:
  • Making Democracy Work in California
  • Schools & Communities First Campaign
  • Climate Change
  • Housing and Homelessness
  • Criminal Justice Reform

Program item approved at LWVC Convention 2019: 
  • LWVC update of the PreK-12 Education position to include charter schools’ accountability.

New positions adopted by concurrence at LWVC Convention 2019:
  • Criminal Justice
  • Electoral Process (replaces the current position on Election Systems).
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LWVC Legislative Priorities
  • Making Democracy Work in California: voting rights, voter protection and service, election reform, money in politics, redistricting, 2020 census, climate change
  • Housing / Homelessness: housing supply (availability and affordability), homelessness
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​Read more at the League of Women Voters of California at www.lwvc.org

LWVUS National Program: 2020-2022

The National Program for the League of Women Voters of the United States. Work is managed by the League of Women Voters of the US Board of Directors and national staff. ​

Current Priorities: CAMPAIGN FOR MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK®
  • Voting Rights (protecting the right to vote, opposing voter suppression and voter mobilization)
  • Improving Elections (election reform, increase voters’ access to the polls, expansion of early voting, online/automatic voter registration, advocacy for the National Popular Vote Compact)
  • Campaign Finance Reform/Money in Politics (limit SuperPACs and secret donors to protect representative democracy, voters’ right to know) and
  • Redistricting (oppose partisan and racial gerrymandering that strips rights away from voters, promote fair districting)
  • National Popular Vote Compact (advocate for)

Continued work on urgent issues:
  • Climate Change
  • Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
  • Health Care
  • Gun Safety
  • Immigration
  • Abolition of the Electoral College

Read more at the League of Women Voters at www.lwv.org.

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