Submitted by Northampton Area LWV, February 2021 Program Plans will be voted on for adoption at the LWVMA Annual Meeting in June. ACTION PRIORITIES: Action Priorities are the broad, general subject areas the state League should focus on. LWVMA will concentrate, though not exclusively, on legislation in these areas and take action as issues come […]
Pass Climate bill, S.9, Fast. Governor Baker, Sign it immediately January 25, 2021. The LWVMA just issued this action alert. Governor Baker vetoed the climate bill. The House and Senate have refiled it with a new number, S.9. A joint committee is holding S.9, which the House and Senate should soon vote on, then they will […]
Protect Reproductive Rights in Massachusetts. Support the ROE Act.
LWVMA testimony on the ROE Act, S.1209/H.3320 here Sample letter to Governor Baker Dear Governor Baker, Please support the ROE Act provisions in the state budget that will soon come to your desk from the legislature. There is a very real possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wade and abolish the […]
Civic Engagement Does Not End with Our Vote
Civic Engagement Does Not End With Our Vote Letter to the editor, Hampshire Gazette, printed Nov. 24, 2020 We celebrate the amazing success of the November 3rd elections. In spite of extreme challenges, Americans voted in record numbers! We voted safely and early during the pandemic! We voted in one of our most partisan and contentious elections, guided […]
MA Election Coalition Report, 2020 Election
For Immediate Release: Thursday, November 12th Contact: Patricia Comfort, League of Women Voters of Massachusetts pcomfort@lwvma.org, 857-452-1715 Massachusetts Elections Were a Success — Advocates Applaud Election Officials Boston – In the midst of a global pandemic, voters in Massachusetts set a record for the highest turnout election cycle in history, and they were able to […]
Learn status of bills prior to acting to support or oppose them.
Getting League supported bills out of committee. Is your legislator a cosponsor? Testimony by League members? Getting League Supported bills out of Committee (or keeping League opposed bills from coming out) Advanced Advocacy In 2020, the deadline for a bill to come out of Committee is Feb. 5, 2020. If a committee decides to, it can extend […]
NO BIOMASS in climate legislation in Massachusetts
Act to REMOVE BIOMASS from climate legislation in Massachusetts Join us in writing to the joint committee that is reconciling the Senate and House climate bills, H.4912 and S.2500, passed earlier this year, with this message. Biomass energy must be removed from the list of “non-carbon emitting fuels.” The fact is biomass is a huge emitter of […]
Minutes: Annual Meeting June 2, 2020
Minutes: Annual Meeting June 2, 2020 League of Women Voters of the Northampton Area Annual Meeting, Respectfully submitted by Margie Riddle, Secretary June 2, 2020 Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 6 p.m. by Mary Lou Bouley through Zoom connection because of the restrictions due to the Covid-19 virus pandemic of 2020. Present […]
Contact MA legislators: Pass HD5075
Pass An Act ensuring safe and participatory 2020 state elections in response to COVID-19 Write to thank your representative and senator for co-sponsoring HD5075 and urge them to work for swift passage of HD5075. Write as a member of the League of Women Voters, which worked as part of a voting rights coalition to draft this […]
Children’s Book List on the Struggle for Women’s Suffrage in the United States
This list has been prepared by members of the League of Women Voters of the Northampton Area after reviewing many books in local libraries. With thanks to the collaboration of the librarians at Forbes Library in Northampton, Lilly Library in Florence, and Meekins Library in Williamsburg. We have chosen twenty books that we believe will have strong […]