LWVSPA

Committee on Membership
2023-12-27 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-11-29 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-10-25 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-09-27 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-08-23 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-07-26 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-06-28 17:00 - 18:00 UTC
Contact chair, Amy Weintraub, for more teleconference link or for more info.

CANCELED December Voter Services Committee
2023-12-20 18:30 - 19:30 UTC
Our December meeting is canceled. If you have any questions please email office@lwvspa.org. Thanks!

Team Leads Quarterly Meeting
2023-12-18 17:30 - 18:30, 2023-10-16 17:30 - 18:30 UTC | Join by phone ‪(US) +1 970-439-4031‬ PIN: ‪153 751 894‬#
The Board holds quarterly conversations so we can better coordinate across the organization. We’d like all action team and program leads to attend these meetings – board members and team members are always welcome! Email office@lwvspa.org for more info.

Orientation for New & Prospective League Members
2023-11-28 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Unitarian Universalist Church, 100 Mirror Lake Dr, St. Petersburg, Florida, 33701, United States
Get Plugged Into the League’s Work! As one of the most active advocacy and policy education groups in Pinellas County, the League’s current issues include voter engagement, environmental sustainability, gun safety, campaign finance reform, and reproductive rights. Come learn about the League’s strategies to influence change and how you can join in!

Our New Member Orientation is designed to orient folks who are curious about the League, as well as those who’ve been members for less than a year. Our hope is that everyone will find what interests them and get involved as expediently as possible.

Register in advance for this meeting:

Register

Cocktails & Conversation
2023-11-16 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Red Mesa Cantina, 128 3rd St. S., St. Petersburg, Florida, 33701
We would love for you to join the League for Cocktails & Conversation. These happy hours are the perfect time to relax with (or without!) a drink and enjoy some great company. Just an easy, casual evening out – the perfect mid-week pick-me-up!

These events are “Dutch,” with attendees ordering and paying for what they like from the menu (think Happy Hour drink specials!).

Register Here!

Voter Services Committee
2023-11-15 18:30 - 19:30, 2023-10-18 18:30 - 19:30, 2023-09-20 18:30 - 19:30, 2023-08-16 18:30 - 19:30, 2023-07-19 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Join with the Voter Services Leadership Team to hear about our Voter Guide, Candidate Forums, Voter Registration, & Election and Voter Protection.

Join Via Zoom

All-Member General Meeting
2023-10-24 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Allendale UMC, 3803 Haines Road North, St. Petersburg, FL, 33703, United States
The October General Meeting offers an opportunity to jump into a statewide campaign sponsored by our State League (a.k.a. the League of Women Voters of Florida). Attendees will join in the effort to notify 100,000 returning citizens (a preferred term used instead of ex-offenders or former felons) that they may have the right to vote.

We will form a work party to collectively write hand-addressed postcards with a note of encouragement to this target group, letting them know there is pro bono legal assistance available to help determine if they have in fact completed their sentence and can register. Postcard, name/address info, and stamps will be on hand. We will have pens too, but feel free to bring your favorite pen (ultrafine point Sharpies work great).

So far LWVSPA has mailed 3900 cards. We would like to get out another 1,000 by early November – with your help at the General Meeting, this is likely to happen.

All postcard writers must sign a privacy pledge agreeing not to share any of the names and addresses of intended postcard recipients. The link to the privacy pledge is here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Dx6sTdW8XOqvpkA9PkVejGZYIjf_0sGAaJ2JApchbgY

We hope to see you there!

Email office@lwvspa.org with any questions.

Cocktails & Conversation
2023-10-19 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club, 559 Mirror Lake Dr. N., St. Petersburg, Florida, 33701
BYOB, light bites and soft drinks will be provided.

A Shuffleboard Club staff member will be available to give us some pointers and show us how Shuffleboard is played.

Free to LWVSPA members, and bring a prospective member!

Be sure to RSVP for accurate headcount.

Plenty of free parking at the Club and next door lot at SunShine Center

Register Here!

Voter Services Committee
2023-09-20 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | Allendale UMC, 3803 Haines Road North, St. Petersburg, FL, 33703, United States
Join with the Voter Services Leadership Team to hear about our Voter Guide, Candidate Forums, Voter Registration, & Election and Voter Protection.

This meeting will be held in-person.

Hopped-Up on Democracy
2023-09-14 18:30 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Pinellas Ale Works, 1962 1st Ave S, Florida, 33712
Hey smarty pants! Do you like Democracy? Craft Beer? Trivia, Games and Prizes? Then join us for a FREE, non-partisan, democracy-themed Game Night, special redistricting edition. Bring your friends, bring your spouse who’s apathetic about voting, bring your mom and let’s get our democracy on! Free food and drinks!

Register Here

All-Member General Meeting
2023-09-05 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Allendale UMC, 3803 Haines Road North, St. Petersburg, FL, 33703, United States
City of St. Pete Council Vice-Chair Deborah Figgs-Sanders will be speaking about hot topics in the city. Following the meeting the Reproductive Rights team will offer a 15-minute training on best practices in collecting the petitions to get abortion rights on the 2024 ballot. This is for people new to petition collection work.

We hope to see you there!

Email office@lwvspa.org with any questions.

Orientation for New & Prospective League Members
2023-08-22 18:00 - 19:00 UTC

Sustainability Committee Meeting
2023-08-16 18:00 - 19:00, 2023-07-12 18:00 - 19:00 UTC
We will meet at the LWVSPA Office

2335 22nd Ave S, Suite 5

St. Petersburg, FL 33712

Reproductive Rights Action Team Meeting
2023-08-15 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Sign up here to join the team email group and to get the Zoom link:

https://forms.gle/SYehL9yTEZG5tvZk8

Thanks to Leaguers and other Florida repro supporters, we’ve had an amazing push collecting about half the petitions we will need to get abortion access on the 2024 ballot. HOWVER, with the December deadline looming, we need to do even more. Please join the LWVSPA Repro Rights Action Team to meet other abortion rights supporters and learn more about getting involved in this campaign to get abortion on the ballot here in Florida.

The petitions you help collect could make all the difference in getting abortion on the ballot in 2024, but we won’t be able to reach enough voters without you.

Taking it to the Streets: How to Combat Structural Racism in St. Petersburg
2023-06-27 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | The Center for Health Equity, 2333 34th St S, St. Petersburg, Florida, 33711, United States
The League of Women Voters of the St. Petersburg Area’s Social Justice Team is partnering with Miss Gwen Reese on a project called Taking It To the Streets.

This project is funded by the Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg to educate residents and community groups about the Structural Racism study that the City funded and conducted. This is also a way to get folks to advocate for the recommendations from the study.

Miss Gwen will provide an overview of the study, and then there will be a community discussion on the experiences with structural racism.

This meeting is open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.

We hope to see you there!

All-Member General Meeting
2023-06-27 17:00 - 17:45 UTC | The Center for Health Equity, 2333 34th St S, St. Petersburg, Florida, 33711, United States
This is a great opportunity to meet your fellow Leaguers and have two-way communication with League and Action Group leaders.

Author Sarah-Jane Vatelot will speak about her book, Where Have all the Mangos Gone?

Sarah Jane Vatelot is an architect and author of “Where Have All the Mangoes Gone”. Sarah is a Tampa Bay 2021 40 Under 40 honoree. She explains the direct link between the redlining maps, which identified as ‘hazardous’ the three historically African-American neighborhoods of Peppertown, the Gas Plant, and Methodist Town, and the 1935 effort to relocate all of the city’s black residents to areas away from the tourist-oriented downtown. Later, in the 1970s and 1980s, federal dollars provided means by which the city could once again flex its muscle. Officially sanctioned segregation was out, but similar efforts cloaked as “urban renewal” were in. In 1978 City Council passed a resolution that the Gas Plant district was to be declared a “redevelopment area.” It was envisioned to support an industrial park and residential development. Jobs and homes. That is what the city said would come with redevelopment. In her book Sarah-Jane notes that Gas Plant residents were promised, “in writing, that the neighborhood would be rebuilt with ‘new affordable housing and a modern-day industrial park.” The plan also promised, in writing, 600 new jobs, with combined salaries of $5.6 million, by the end of the 1980s. “While there is little evidence that, in the 1980s, the deliberate intent was to conclude the efforts begun in the 1930s, the goal was fulfilled.” Sarah Jane will share this fascinating St. Petersburg history.

After the General Meeting Ms. Gwendolyn Reese, Co-Principal Investigator of the Structural Racism study will speak about combating structural racism. Register separately for that here: https://bit.ly/TTTSLWVSPA

We hope to see you there!

Voter Services Committee
2023-06-21 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | National Council of Negro Women SPMS Council House, 1835 9th Ave S, St. Petersburg
Join with the Voter Services Leadership Team to hear about our Voter Guide, Candidate Forums, Voter Registration, & Election and Voter Protection.

This meeting will be held in-person

Board Meeting
2023-06-19 18:30 - 20:00 UTC | Join by phone ‪(US) +1 470-241-4871‬ PIN: ‪120 641 866‬#
