NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION
Calling new members for an online orientation with Membership Chair Sherry Rose!
AUG.4, 6:15 PM
Before All Member Meeting
Join the session by clicking on this link (same link as Aug.4 All Member Meeting below):
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August 4 All Member Meeting
ONLINE
Speakers: Joan Seidel, Commissioner, Kent City Health Department, and Joe Diorio, Commissioner, Portage County Combined Health District
The health commissioners will talk about their agency's work during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in Kent and Portage County.
LWV Kent friends and persons interested in membership are welcome. There will be time for questions through a moderator.
Topic: LWVK All Member Monthly
Time: Aug 4, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Coming in September...
Mark your calendar for Sept. 10, 2020, for our annual Fall Kick-off Meeting! Planning is still underway but it will most likely be online.
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Looking for the Event Calendar?
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Head to the website of the League of Women Voters of Kent to find the Event Calendar for details about upcoming meetings, positions, volunteer opportunities, membership and more.
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Looking for your input on Voters' Guide questions
Have a few questions you'd like to see candidates answer in the LWV Kent Voters' Guide for the November election? VG Editor
Nena Hankins
is looking for suggestions for the following races: Portage County commissioners, sheriff and recorder. Questions should be sent to Nena at
nhankins@att.net
no later than August 3.
LWV Kent handles local questions while LWV Ohio provides questions to be asked of the candidates for US Congress, State Senate and State Representative. They work with Judicial Votes Count on the questions to be asked of the candidates for Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, 11th district Court of Appeals, Court of Common Pleas--General Division and Court of Common Pleas--Juvenile/Probate Divisions.
LWV US provides the questions for the president/vice president races. Now you know!
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Poll workers needed for November election
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If you are feeling confident about your health and social distancing, consider becoming a poll worker for the Portage County Board of Elections. The board is working diligently to keep all workers in health protected environments and also fulfill its mission of providing in-person voting. Click
here
for information about becoming a poll worker. Click
here
to complete an online form to submit. Click
here
to print a form and mail.
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New committee chairs and co-chairs!
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There are new faces heading up LWV Kent committees:
Sally Saltzman
for the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Program,
Michelle Chapman
and
Mary Sartain
for Health and
Jill Hazelton
joins
Jen Kinney
leading the Voter Service Committee. Thanks to
Fran Lantz
and
Alfreda Brown
who chaired Health and DEI respectively. The chairs are looking for new members as well as our other committees. Click
here
to land on the page where you'll see our list of committees and links to get in touch with the chairs.
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The Northeast Ohio Suffrage Centennial Committee will be hosting Dr. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox for her presentation, "Fashioning Women's Rights: Suffragists' Political Style and Its Visual Legacies." Due to public health concerns, this presentation will take place on Zoom. We ask that you register in advance for this presentation at:
Dr. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
is Visiting Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University in the Department of History. She teaches courses in American culture and history, fashion, consumer culture and politics, and women’s and gender studies. To check out Einav's work, visit
https://www.einavrabinovitchfox.com/
.
Visit
www.neohiosuffrage.org
to learn more about the local women's suffrage movement through the "Valiant Visionaries of the Vote" project initiative.
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Week Five of the Chautauqua Lecture Series: Women’s Vote Centennial and Beyond
The Chautauqua Institution joins the nation in commeorating the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, while also considering those who were left out of the mainstream suffrage movement, examining the slow progress toward gender equality in the United States, and looking for relevant lessons from the fight for women’s suffrage and apply them to ongoing battles for equality.
All events are at 10:45 a.m. EDT. Click on the presenters' names and you will go the Chautauqua site to login. If you are not a member, you can register for a 90-day free trial! Some presentations have already occurred but you can still view.
- Monday, July 27: Elaine Weiss, author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, on "The Woman's Hour"
- Tuesday, July 28: Kimberly Churches, CEO of the American Association of University Women, on "Close The Gaps Forever"
- Wednesday, July 29: Errin Haines, editor-at-large at The 19th, on the role of journalism and media at the intersection of gender, politics and policy
- Thursday, July 30: Carol Jenkins, co-president and CEO, ERA Coalition and Fund for Women's Equality, on the work toward passage and enactment of the Equal Rights Amendment
- Friday, July 31: Barbara Mikulski, former U.S. senator from Maryland, reflecting on the themes of the week and how to use this anniversary to "remember, reflect and recommit"
…and Interfaith Lecture Series: The Feminine Spirit
Confucian Correlative Cosmology, specifically Taoism, presented the image of the Yin/Yang Holism (the Tai Chi) to describe how seemingly opposite forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world; and, how they give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. In this image, the feminine charisms are juxtaposed with the masculine charisms (neither are strictly gender-specific), and in this emerging era it has been observed that the feminine is finally rising, ultimately to restore balance and to revitalize the world. In this week, Chautauqua Institute shines a light on the feminine charisms and spirit and some leading women who embody this spirit.
All events are at 2 p.m. EDT.
Click on the presenters' names and you will go the Chautauqua site to login. If you are not a member, you can register for a 90-day free trial! Some presentations have already occurred but you can still view.
- Monday, July 27: Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB, author of The Time is Now: A Call for Uncommon Courage, on "A Woman’s Life: A Good Event/Bad Event World"
- Tuesday, July 28: Mirabai Starr, author of "Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce & Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics," on "Fierce and Tender Wisdom: Reclaiming Women's Voices Across the Spiritual Traditions"
- Wednesday, July 29: Sarah Hurwitz, author of "Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life — In Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)," on "God, Politics and Lessons Learned from a Jewish Journey in the White House and Beyond”
- Thursday, July 30: Valarie Kaur, founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, on "See No Stranger: The Spiritual and Political Force of Revolutionary Love"
- Interfaith Friday, July 31: Michael Martin, executive director of the Native American Community Services of Erie (N.Y.) and Niagara Counties, Inc., representing the Haudenosaunee tradition
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You can submit questions for this online event
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On August 17, 2020, the
Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission
and Twitter will present a live virtual event with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton commemorating 100 years of the 19th Amendment and women's right to vote. The event will feature a conversation between Secretary Clinton and Elaine Weiss, author of
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will moderate. Would you like to ask the panelists a question about the suffrage centennial or the history of women's fight for the ballot? Register below and submit your question on the registration form for a chance to hear it discussed on August 17!
Make sure to visit the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission website
here
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Suffrage history podcasts coming up!
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The
podcasts
will premiere on Wednesday, August 5. New episodes will be released weekly through September 16, featuring the untold stories of the women’s suffrage movement and the generations of activists who championed equality. In
And Nothing Less: The Untold Stories of Women’s Fight for the Vote
, actresses Rosario Dawson and Retta will guide listeners through stories not often found in history books.
The Magic Sash
, hosted by gold medal gymnast and advocate
Aly Raisman
, is a historical fiction adventure for tweens in which an 11-year-old girl and boy journey back in time to meet iconic suffragists.
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LWV Kent Book Club lives online!
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Here are the selections LWVK Book Club members chose for the next few months. Meetings are held the first Wednesday of the month at 1:30 p.m. on Zoom until further notice. Join by contacting
Jane Preston Rose
at
janeprestonrose@yahoo.com
or call her at 330-678-9127.
August 5, 2020:
Rising
:
Dispatches from the New American Shore
by Elizabeth Rush
September 2, 2020:
There There: A Novel
by Tommy Orange
October 7, 2020:
The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
by Charlotte Alter
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