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April 2020 VOTER Vol.63 #4 Political Responsibility through Informed and Active Participation April 2020 Annual Membership Meeting Set for June 6th The League of Women Voters Eden Area plans to hold our Annual Membership Meeting on Saturday, June 6th, at 9:30am. We may hold the meeting just online, or in-person with an online option; the board will make the final decision at our April board meeting. If you have not attended an online meeting before, we want you to know that we will be giving lots of support and instructions on how to participate. As of this writing, it is uncertain as to the need to meet totally online, but we are being proactive and preparing for that need. If we do end up offering an in-person meeting, it will be held at the Castro Valley School District, either at the board room or at the adult school. We will give you plenty of notice as to the exact location. As mentioned above, we will definitely have an online option if we do offer the in-person meeting, since many of our members may still wish to stay at home due to the current health crisis. We will be modeling social distancing protocols and other health practices. We encourage members to save the date and look for our next issue of the VOTER for the meeting kit, and for further instructions on where and how we will meet. Thank you for your patience. Census Is Vital to Our Democracy By now you should have received your U.S. Census invitation in the mail; it is a light blue color. It contains your special twelve-digit Census ID number and the website; this is the first time that the census is asking for all of us to complete it online. Please be sure to fill it out; it only takes about ten minutes. For more information on the U.S. Census, please see: https://2020census.gov/en.html Don’t have a computer? Don’t worry; you can participate in the Census using your cell phone or by mail. As you probably know, it is essential that California gets an accurate count, so we can receive our fair portion of funds for education, highway construction, medical services, transit, water, and many other programs. The Census also helps us determine how many U.S. Congress members are allotted to our area. If you have already completed the Census, thank you! It is a key element of our democracy, which is why the League is partnering with the Census to promote it. LWVEA Website Takes President’s Report Credit Card Memberships Looking for something to do at home during and Donations this unusual time sheltering in place? Have your own “Suffragist” Film Festival in honor of The League of Women Voters Website now the centennial of the 19th Amendment and the takes credit card payments for memberships or League of Women Voters! You can seek out donations: https://my.lwv.org/california/eden- the DVDs on Amazon or see if your library has area . a downloadable version (many do). Some of the When you go to our site and click on Join in older films may be on demand from Turner the left-hand menu of options, you can join or Classic Movies (tcm.com). renew your membership online using a credit card. This is a simple and easy way to renew; Suffragette (2015) look for the blue Membership or Additional In this British-made Family Member button near the top of the Join drama, women of different page. classes fight for the right Student memberships are free, so if a to vote in 1912 London. student is joining or renewing, just fill out and Rated PG-13, the film is email in the form to [email protected] or not for the weak of heart – [email protected]. there are some instances Interesting in donating to our league? Click of a woman abused by her on Donate on the left-hand menu, and you will husband, as well as go to our Donation page. Scroll down until you violence again women see the blue Donation button (about halfway protesting. Meryl Streep has a cameo as down the page). Once you click on it, you can Emmeline Pankhurst, but her scene and enter any amount in the donation area and speech is the high point of the film. charge it to your credit card. The story focuses on one working class woman Maud, played by Carrie Mulligan, but Volunteers Needed to some upper class women are also shown, since this movement had the unusual distinction of Distribute Voter including women from the entire class system of England. Registration Forms Iron Jawed Angels (2004) LWVEA Members Volunteer Opportunity: Although this was a made-for- Here is a way LWVEA members can help more TV movie and not a theatrical people register to vote without actually feature film, this is considered participating at one of our public voter the best film about U.S. women registration events. How about helping us by campaigning for the vote. Hilary delivering voter registration forms to post offices Swank stars as Alice Paul, the and libraries and schools so citizens can pick real-life suffragist who organized up a form to register when the mood hits them? protests. Other notable actresses playing real These sites already welcome our service. We’ll people include Margo Martindale as Harriot supply you with plenty of VR forms and a list of Blatch, and Angelica Huston as Carrie 8 to 12 sites which we ask you to visit every six Chapman Catt. to eight weeks, or as needed, to maintain their A main component of the story involves the supply. Sites are available in Hayward, San protests and arrests by those determined to Lorenzo, San Leandro and Castro Valley. Just obtain the right to vote; many of these were email Richard Maurer at [email protected] upper class women, alongside working women. to get started. The film’s dramatic, realistic depiction of beatings and force-feeding in prison are Mary Poppins (1964) shocking but important in showing what really If you haven’t seen this happened. since you were a kid, you may have forgotten that Mrs. Banks The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (Glynis Johns) was a (1947) suffragette, protesting for the Starring Betty Grable, this right to vote while the children celebrates working women in were at home with Mary the late 1800’s. Grable plays a Poppins. She even sings a young woman hired by a song “Sister Suffragette” early in the film! This shipping company as a is a fun one to introduce children to the concept stenographer, due to her adept that women had to fight to get the vote. use of a typewriter. She fights sexism at work and becomes involved in the Penny Peck, LWVEA President suffrage movement, which also earns her ridicule from her coworkers. This is not one of Grable’s best romantic musical comedies but it Demand Action from is fun. Congress to Protect Rails into Laramie (1954) 2020 Election A military officer is sent to Laramie to facilitate the As the House and Senate work to address the building of the railroad in this COVID-19 public health crisis it is CRITICAL Western. What is unique is that legislators include adequate funding that part of the story involves provisions to safeguard the right to vote in the a trial with an all-female jury; upcoming November election. in 1869 Wyoming became the first state to grant women Contact Congress today and ask them to the right to vote and serve on ensure funding to safeguard our elections is juries. Although this isn’t specifically about included in the next stimulus bill. women’s suffrage, the plot does talk about it and the female jury. Starring John Payne and To date, Congress has passed two large Dan Duryea. stimulus packages that have been signed by the President and is currently negotiating a third Adventure in Baltimore package. The League believes that this third (1949) package needs to include funding for provisions Set in 1905, Shirley to ensure Americans are given the right to vote Temple stars as a young adult safely in November. That's why we joined our interested in equality for allies at the Leadership Conference on Civil and women and the suffrage Human Rights in sending a letter to Congress, movement. Her father is a signed by over 150 organizations, calling for at minister, played by Robert least $2 billion in funding to be allocated toward Young, and the two have essential measures including: great chemistry. In 1936, they starred together in “Stowaway,” when Temple was 8 years old. • voter education (informing the public of In this film, her love interest is John Agar, who new practices and immediately Temple had married shortly before filming. It quashing disinformation as it arises). was great to see that many women in the • an extended early in-person voting suffrage movement were seeking equality in period (allowing citizens to vote over an other areas as well, such as education. expanded period rather than in a cluster Men ruled the world. on Election Day Physically stronger, • expanded voter registration options They could dominate (including online voter registration and Through strength, same-day voter registration) Violence, • no-excuse absentee voting-by-mail And women, (including a number of options through Even those who gave men life, which to request and return ballots) Had little power, • prohibition of polling place adjustments Little to say. that disproportionately impact vulnerable populations such as people of color, But then came America— limited-English proficient citizens, A democracy— people with disabilities, and students.
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