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!​
Below are the Programs for the local, state and national Leagues, adopted by the membership at the LWVPA Annual Meeting and by member delegates at the state and national conventions.

LWVPA Local Program: 2021-22

Program Areas of Emphasis:
In addition to continued support of the program of “Making Democracy Work” we will also work on
  • Affordable Housing and Homelessness
  • Civics Education
  • Climate Change
  • Local Campaign Finance Reform

NOTES:
1. Our local program will also include the Responsible Gun Ownership Committee’s ongoing efforts to have Palo Alto adopt and implement a safe storage of firearms ordinance.
 
2. ALL our work should be viewed through two lenses: racial justice and fair COVID recovery. Thus, 
our Equal Justice committee will proceed, and each issue committee will continue to consider racial justice, equity and fair COVID recovery in what they do. 

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: 2021-2023

Issues for Education and Advocacy:
  • Making Democracy Work in California, including Civic Education
  • Climate Change and Sustainability, including a focus on Water Resources
  • Housing and Homelessness 
  • Criminal Justice Reform 

Descriptions of these Issues for Emphasis, and details on our current work related to them, are provided on pp. 29-33 of the Convention Workbook.

​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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