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BOOK SALE SEPTEMBER 24th – Special offer for teachers

HELPERS NEEDED: SET UP: September 23, 3:30-6:00 pm and SALE: September 24, 9-5 pm

TEACHERS: Shop early for the best selection at 8am, Early Bird Special for $10, or shop late for FREE BOOKS for your classroom from 3 – 4pm, with your MTA card.

MA VOTING INFORMATION

Go to VoteInMA.com  to find answers to all your voting questions.

July 4th Naturalization Ceremony

A warm, sunny day and about 400 supporters welcomed 54 new US citizens at the Northampton Courthouse lawn on July 4th, and our League chapter was there to congratulate them, give them voter information and assist them in registering.
LWV Northampton members Randi Klein, Vera Yanez, Anne Wedaman and Katherine Halvorsen were assisted by Barbara Pearson from the Amherst chapter who wanted to help and experience the moving ceremony. About 15 new voters registered on site and more took information on how to register on-line.

CELEBRATING OUR 100th ANNIVERSARY, ANNUAL MEETING, GROUP PHOTO

The Annual Meeting on June 2nd was our first post-COVID, in-person meeting! It was a perfect opportunity to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Northampton Area LWV, all together, once again!  Meeting highlights included a presentation by Regis Chandler, the lead teacher at JFK Middle School, who used the “She Shapes History” museum exhibit to develop student discovery projects on the history of the suffrage movement and the ongoing struggle for voting rights.

On display was an exhibit of historical posters created by Sharon Farmer, Zjemi Moulton, Nancy Polan, and Nancy Brady.

An entertaining trio – Brigid Glackin, Margie Riddle, and Nancy Brady – presented a lively, musical tribute to Lou Bouley, in appreciation of her decades of leadership on the Northampton LWV Board. Thank you, Lou, for always having an answer and a smile.  You are the “glue” that holds the League together!

 

Historical Posters Highlight Local Leaders in the early years of the League

Click to read the 100 Years special section in the Hampshire Gazette, 9/24/2020

STUDENTS: Join LWV, enter drawing for Apple iPad

Join the LWV by October 31st and enter a drawing for an Apple iPad Air! FREE STUDENT MEMBERSHIP for students grades 9 and up and college students. Use QR codes or click here for more info, join, enter contest.

vote411.org

vote411.org Your first stop for voting information, including responses from local and state candidates to questions on issues. Find statements from the candidates for Hampshire County sheriff.

Activist urges all to work for a stronger democracy and join LWV

Columnist Sara Weinberger, in a recent Gazette article, “The challenge of finding hope in dark times,” urges all who despair over the state of our democracy to take action, join the LWV and VOTE.

Weinberger writes, “Democracy is on the ballot this November.” Democracy only works when each American is actively involved in advocating for a government that really is ‘of the people, by the people, and for the people’. Take action, join the League of Women Voters, (which) works “to ensure that all citizens actively engage in making democracy work.”

S.1/HR1, ForThePeopleAct is critical to America’s future. Demand that Congress make elections fairer and puts power back in the hands of the American people. Ask your representative to support automatic voter registration, restore the Voting Rights Act, and reduce the influence of big money in politics.

Click to watch Northampton LWV member, Chris Flory, discuss Medicare for All in MA.