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July 24, 2017
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July 25, Young Readers Day for Summer
Achievement Academy at Crocker Farm School
July 26, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Young Readers Day at LWVA Book Sale, Fort River Elementary Gym
July 28-30, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., Book Sale at Fort River Elementary School Gym
July 29, 1-3 p.m., Pioneer Valley Women's March: Focus on Health care. Starts at Child's Park, Northampton; speeches at Pulaski Park
from 2. See below for more details
August 3, 1-3 p.m., LWVA Board Meeting at 16 Stagecoach Rd. Open to all members but please
email or call 253-7214 if planning to attend
August 4-6, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.,
Book Sale at Fort River Elementary School Gym
August 7, 9 a.m.- noon,
Remainders, open to non-profits, teachers and League members only
September 18, 3 p.m.,
LWVA book group will discuss
Nightingale by Kristen Hannah, at 197 Pondview Drive
September 23,
9 a.m.-4 p.m., Climate Change and the Growing Risk of Nuclear War: An Agenda for Action: Symposium, Hadley Farms Meeting House. See below for more details
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Book Sale News
Hi all,
By the time you read this, thanks to the extra effort put in by a dozen or more of you who came to our extra evening pricing and sorting sessions last week, we will have finished pricing and sorting the deluge of books we have received this year. But it's not to late to help! We need help:
Thank you from the 2017 Book Sale Organizing Committee.
A few snapshots from Fort River Gymnasium....
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LWVA at work |
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Almost done
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But look at all the paperback fiction still to be displayed |
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Children's tables
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Last day
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Another Book Sale Story... from the 2016 Sale
After the successful 2016 Book Sale, the LWVA Board voted to thank Fort River Elementary School for hosting the sale and its preparations by making a donation from the proceeds of the sale to the Fort River Library. The Board recently received a very nice letter from Lani Blechman, the incoming librarian at the school, thanking LWVA for its "welcome and generous" gift and attaching a list of the books ordered. You can read the list
here.
If you consult the list, you will see that, as the Librarian indicated, staff, with teachers' suggestions, "looked for books that will allow our students to see themselves as active and informed citizens." They ordered "41 books of various genres and formats that can be used with various age groups and readers-- in order to talk about voting rights, civic change processes, and empowering all people to participate in government work."
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LWVA Members: Time to March Again!
If you're not working at the Book Sale on Saturday, July 29, please consider joining a contingent of Western Massachusetts League members at the
Pioneer Valley Women's March on July 29. As well as general health care, reproductive justice will be a focus. The march will start at 1 p.m. at Child's Park in Northampton, then walk about 1.5 miles to Pulaski Park, where from 2 p.m. there will be speakers. If you just want to meet at Pulaski Park, that is great, too. It's expected that there will be an LWV banner: look for it to march or meet under. Interested and able?
Contact Jackie Wolf.
You may remember receiving a notice from LWVMA that the Joint Committee on Financial Services did not chose to include the bill (S499/H536) to assure insurance coverage of contraceptive services at its hearing on July 18. LWVMA says that a hearing on this bill, the ACCESS bill, is likely to be held in September. Also: Jackie Wolf reports that Rep. James J. Lyons from Andover is putting forward a constitutional amendment to ban taxpayer-funded abortions. So reproductive rights remain an active concern in Massachusetts.
Symposium on Climate Change and Nuclear War cosponsored by LWVA
The symposium Climate Change and the Growing Risk of Nuclear War: an agenda for action has been organized by Physicians for Social Responsibility, whose co-founder and past president, Ira Helfand, is a Leeds resident. The LWVA Board was happy to agree to cosponsor the event, scheduled for September 23 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m at the the Hadley Farms Meeting House on 41 Russell St..
The planned program includes three panels, the first, from 9:15-11:15, Climate Change and Conflict, will be moderated by Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas. Its four confirmed speakers will be Bill McKibben of 350.org; Nitin Damie, American College of Physicians; Michael Klare of PAWS (Peace and World Security Studies Program, the Five Colleges) and Jennifer Leaning, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. From 11:30 to 12:30, the panel on Conflict and Nuclear War will be moderated by Sut Jhally. Panelists will include Ira Helfand of Physicians for Social Responsibility. After a lunch break, the final panel will meet from 12:30- 1:30. An Agenda for Action will have as panelists Marty Nathan of climate Action Now and John Loretz of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Workshops will be held between 2:45 and the 4 p.m. adjournment.
Registration forms can be found here. The registration fee of $35 includes coffee and lunch. Students can participate for free, but need to register.
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LWVA Website apprentices needed
The LWVA Communications team is looking for apprentice web masters for LWVA web site. Training provided. Required: logical thinking, good at detail, reasonable level of comfort with computers, and willingness to spend two to four hours per month working on the site. Not required: experience with web site design or management. Training provided. Bonus: if you are still in the labor force, familiarity with the Drupal platform, which you will gain, is worth putting on your resume. Contact
Kathy Campbell if you are interested in finding out more.
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New Co-president of LWVMA from Western Mass
Linda Matys O'Connell of Springfield, guest speaker at the February LWVA Birthday Lunch, is now co-president of LWVMA. For more information on the new leadership team, which started work on July 1, click
here.
LWVMA and the Election Integrity Commission's Voter Record Request
You might be interested in reading the July 5 letter from the new co-presidents to Secretary of State Galvin, thanking him for refusing to comply with the voter record request from the Election Integrity Commission. You can
read it here.
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LWVUS responses to Election Integrity Commission's initial meeting, July 19
National's blog has an interesting post "Advocates Gather Across D.C. to Support Voting Rights" on July 19th activities in the capital: two panels and a protest rally in which LWV participated. You can read it
here.
You can also
read LWV President Chris Carson's statement on July 19th about the Election Integrity Commission.
On LWVUS' Facebook page:
listen
to the comments of Jessica Jones Capparell, Interim Senior Director of Advocacy, on fighting back against false claims of voter fraud. (Scroll down to her post of July 20.)
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