LWVSPA

Historic Trolley Tour of the St. Pete African American Heritage Trail
2025-10-04 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Florida
Join us for the African American Heritage Association’s trolley tour of the historic Deuces neighborhood.Open to LWVSPA members only. Seats are limited – RSVP is required.

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Sip & Strategize: Stop Mid-Decade Redistricting
2025-10-04 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Florida
On Saturday, October 4, please join LWVSPA Board Member and Common Cause Florida Executive Director Amy Keith to “Sip & Strategize”:

– Learn more about state leaders’ threat to further gerrymander Florida’s congressional districts, in violation of the Florida Constitution.– Take immediate action to influence our local legislators to oppose mid-decade redistricting.

LWVSPA and Common Cause will provide one drink ticket per attendee and light appetizers. We will be in the “Nook Room.”

Come ready to learn and take action immediately to stop mid-decade redistricting!

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Reproductive Rights Book Club: Beyond Limits
2025-10-06 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Florida
We hope you’ll join us for a thoughtful conversation.About the book:Beyond Limits is Dr. Sella’s firsthand account of her path to becoming one of the only third-trimester abortion providers in the United States. It’s an illuminating, deeply human look at abortion care.

Discussion highlights:-What compassionate care looks like in complex cases-Ethics, autonomy, and the real-world impact of policy-Provider narratives and patient experience

We will meet at Stephanie Sembler’s house – the address will be provided to registrants beforehand.

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National Popular Vote Committee
2025-10-07 17:00 - 18:00, 2025-11-04 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Florida
First Tuesday of each month, 5-6 pm.Join us as we talk strategy. First timers are welcome and all levels of experience are encouraged to join.

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Voter Services Voter Registration Training - LWVSPA Members Only
2025-10-15 18:30 - 20:00 UTC | Florida
Amy Keith will lead us through Voter Registration training, LWVSPA practices, and key facts needed to pass the LWVFL Quiz. LWVSPA members who are interested in Voter Services must pass this quiz to be certified to table at events. For our seasoned volunteers, LWVFL is not requiring everyone to retake the quiz, but join us anyway to share your experience!

This date replaces the usual monthly meeting previously scheduled for 10/15.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED – LWVSPA members only.

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No Kings 2 #Resistance visibility event
2025-10-18 09:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Florida
Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country.

In America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Grow our movement and join us.

📍 Where: Tyrone Mall along 66th Street (outside) – Tyrone Blvd and 22nd Ave at 66th Street

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Advocacy Training (LWVSPA members only)
2025-10-18 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Allendale UMC, 3803 Haines Road North, St. Petersburg, FL, 33703, United States
Hear from seasoned LWVSPA advocates and engage in hands-on learning to build and strengthen skills for issue advocacy — particularly issues in the LWVSPA Program. Whether someone is new to advocacy or has years of experience, they will leave the workshop with messages, step-by-step tools, and the practice they need to feel ready to make a difference.

In addition to whole-group plenaries and action team meetings, break-out sessions will include these workshops on tactics:

– Engaging and Influencing Elected Officials

– Using the press (Getting in Print, media events)

– Online Communications (Effective action alerts, social media)

– Action in the Public Square (Hosting powerful events: protests, panel discussions, town halls, webinars)

We will meet at Allendale United Methodist Church.

Childcare will be available for those needing it – please complete the form that appears in the confirmation email.

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CANCELED Pumpkins for Democracy: PAL Interest Meetup (Open to All)
2025-10-19 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Florida
This event has been canceled.

Board Meeting
2025-10-20 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Florida
If any LWVSPA member wishes to address the board, they should email the president at president@lwvspa.org to get on the agenda and to receive meeting info (such as location or Zoom login).

Communications Committee Meeting
2025-10-21 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-18 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Florida
The LWVSPA Communications Committee meets monthly via Zoom. Email office@lwvspa.org for the link if you’d like to get involved.

Florida Holocaust Museum Tour
2025-10-21 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Florida Holocaust Museum, 55 5th St. S., St. Petersburg, Florida, 33701, United States
Join LWVSPA’s Social Justice Action Team as we tour the newly renovated Florida Holocaust Museum. Space is limited – RSVP is required.

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Committee on Membership
2025-10-22 17:00 - 18:00, 2025-11-26 17:00 - 18:00 UTC | Florida
Contact chair, Amy Weintraub, for more teleconference link or for more info.

All-Member Meeting for Tampa Bay Area Leagues
2025-10-23 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Allendale UMC, 3803 Haines Road North, St. Petersburg, FL, 33703, United States
Get updates on the League’s work at the state level from League of Women Voters of Florida President Jessica Lowe-Minor, and learn about the important work that your local Tampa Bay area leagues are doing!

We will meet in the Sanctuary of Allendale UMC.

A recording will be posted to LWVSPA’s YouTube for those unable to attend.

Childcare will be available during the meeting; if you need that service, please fill out the form that appears on the RSVP confirmation page.

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October Cocktails & Conversations
2025-10-28 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Hangar Restaurant & Flight Lounge, 540 1st St S, St. Petersburg, Florida, 33701, United States
We would love for you to join the League for Cocktails & Conversation, and invite a guest or two. These happy hours are the perfect time to relax with (or without!) a drink and enjoy some great company.

If you’re feeling festive or spooky, feel free to wear something Halloween-y for our Oct. 28 Cocktails & Conversation — strictly voluntary!

Our October event will be at the Hangar Restaurant & Flight Lounge.

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Disappeared In America Day of Action
2025-11-02 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Pinellas County Courthouse, 14450 49th Street N, Clearwater, Florida, 33762, United States
Immigrant families are being torn apart — but together, we can demand human dignity, justice, and due process. On Nov 2, join the vigil in front of the Pinellas County Courthouse in Clearwater as part of the national Disappeared In America Day of Action. Together, we will not tolerate our immigrant neighbors and loved ones to disappear without a trace. Sponsored by Pinellas/Hillsborough Interfaith Coalition, co-sponsored by LWVSPA

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Reproductive Rights Action Team Meeting
2025-11-03 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Florida
Join us via Zoom! We meet monthly on the 1st Monday. Email office@lwvspa.org with questions.

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Social Justice Action Team Meeting
2025-11-06 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Florida
We believe in secure equal rights and equal opportunity for all. We promote social and economic justice and the health and safety of all Americans.

The Social Justice Team invites the public to engage in and become more educated on the prescient issues of the day. We seek to expand the imagined possibilities of progress for all people and voices. We advocate safe, open-minded discussions in the community around the intersections of economics, history, politics, privilege, and race.

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Education Committee (With LWVNPC)
2025-11-11 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Florida
We have combined the October / November meetings into this one in-person meeting. We will meet at the Chili’s located at the corner of East Bay Dr. and US 19.

Please email office@lwvspa.org to RSVP if you wish to attend.

Open to all current LWV members only.

Cadillac Crew - Studio@620
2025-11-16 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | The Studio@620, 620 1st Ave S, St. Petersburg, Florida, 33701, United States
Join LWVSPA at a performance of Cadillac Crew at the Studio@620!Space is limited – only 10 seats available. Open to LWVSPA members only.

“On the day of a much-anticipated speech by Rosa Parks during the height of the Civil Rights Movement four activists working in a Virginia civil rights office wonder whether the proclamation of equality amongst mankind includes women.”More info on the play here: https://thestudioat620.org/events/cadillac-crew/

If no seats remain, join the waitlist here: https://forms.gle/eTCzgvbwMeZHmvsc8

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Vigil for Immigrant Justice
2025-11-16 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-23 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Pinellas County Courthouse, 14450 49th Street N, Clearwater, Florida, 33762, United States
The Pinellas/Hillsborough Interfaith Coalition, LWVSPA, and our allies host a peaceful Freedom Vigil to stand in solidarity with immigrant families and demand an end to the detention and deportation of our nonviolent, law-abiding immigrant community neighbors, siblings, and friends. These vigils shine a light on the erosion of due process and the rise of authoritarian overreach. We pray for family reunification and justice for all immigrants. Together, we affirm that justice, compassion, and the rule of law must apply to everyone—regardless of immigration status.

Details:

Sundays 4-5 pm

Pinellas County Courthouse14250 49th Street N (corner of 144 Ave N & 49th St N)Clearwater, FL 33762

Register:https://flic.fyi/727vigil

LWV Manatee Repro Rights Action Team meeting: FL State Rep. Kelly Skidmore
2025-11-17 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Florida
Florida State Rep. Kelly Skidmore of Delray Beach will be the guest speaker for the LWV-MC Reproductive Rights Action Team meeting. Rep. Skidmore is the sponsor of HB 6001, a bill to abolish the nearly $30 million spent each year by the state of Florida to fund “faux medical clinics” designed solely to steer women away from abortion.

Meeting via Zoom.

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Voter Services Committee
2025-11-19 18:30 - 19:30 UTC | Florida
Join with the Voter Services Leadership Team to hear about our Voter Guide, Candidate Forums, Voter Registration, & Election and Voter Protection.

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November Cocktails & Conversations
2025-11-20 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Study Wine & Bourbon Tasting Lounge, 3100 3rd Ave N, St. Petersburg, Florida, 33713, United States
We would love for you to join the League for Cocktails & Conversation, and invite a guest or two.

These happy hours are the perfect time to relax with (or without!) a drink and enjoy some great company.

Our November event will be at The Study.

The Study is a Wine & Bourbon Tasting Lounge, and offers charcuterie boards and other light bites. Ample parking.

You can sample a wide range of wines and bourbons, self-serve pre-measured tastes or glasses.

We will host a donation box in support of Feeding Tampa Bay at our Nov. 20 C&C. The SNAP benefits cut effective Nov. 1 is having a serious impact on many of our neighbors, and food insecurity is a very real threat in our local communities.

Please bring non perishable items such as

holiday meal staples

canned vegetables

canned meats

dry cereals, rice, pasta

If you prefer to make a monetary donation at C&C, we’ll have a QR code for that or you can give a check to Feeding Tampa Bay.

Thanks to LWV member Cassie Schwalm who is organizing this food drive.

There will be no C&C in December, but we will resume in the new year!

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HB 6001 Letter Writing Party
2025-11-23 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Allendale UMC, 3803 Haines Road North, St. Petersburg, FL, 33703, United States
Join us for a letter writing party in Support of HB 6001 that would stop Florida taxpayers dollars from funding anti abortion centers.

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