Reproductive Rights Action Team Meeting
2024-03-19 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
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Board Meeting
2024-03-18 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-02-19 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-01-29 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Email office@lwvspa.org for details.

Team Leads Quarterly Meeting
2024-03-18 17:30 - 18:30, 2023-12-18 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.

Nominating Committee
2024-03-14 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Allendale UMC, 3803 Haines Road North, St. Petersburg, FL, 33703, United States
We are meeting at LWVSPA’s office. Email office@lwvspa.org for details.

Cocktails & Conversation
2024-03-13 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Golden Isles Brewing Co., 3000 Dr M.L.K. Jr St N, St. Petersburg, Florida, 33704, United States
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!).

Parking is limited at the brewery – carpooling is recommended, and parking is also available on side streets.

We hope to see you there!

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Sustainability Action Team Meeting
2024-03-13 17:30 - 18:30, 2024-02-07 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Sanderlin Center, 2335 22nd Ave S, Saint Petersburg, Florida, 33712, United States
The Sustainability Action Team is meeting at the Sanderlin Center Rain Garden. Email lauracrabtree.league@gmail.com if you need more info.

International Women's Day Celebration
2024-03-08 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Temple Beth-El, 400 Pasadena Ave S, St. Petersburg, Florida, 33707, United States
A community event to celebrate International Women’s Day 2024.

A lecture by S.L. Wisenberg is part of the Friday night service of Temple Beth-El, followed by an Oneg complete with a light dinner and a performance by the Florida Tribe Women’s Drum Circle. All are welcome!

On March 8, 1908, women needle trade workers, hundreds of Jewish women among them, marched through New York City’s Lower East Side to protest child labor and sweatshop working conditions and to demand women’s suffrage. Since 1910, March 8 has been celebrated as INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, recognizing the continual struggle women face.

S.L. Wisenberg will weave a story of resistance using readings from her own books to illustrate this constant struggle. Wisenberg is a Jewish feminist writer in Chicago who writes about history: her own, Jewish, American, European, and women’s. Whether about living one-breasted (cancer), or the history of male “experts” on the womb, she writes with depth, insight and humor. Her most recent book, The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home, was awarded the Juniper Prize in nonfiction and shortlisted for the Chicago Review of Books nonfiction award. Wisenberg also authored The Sweetheart Is In, Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, & Other Obsessions, and a nonfiction chronicle, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch. In a roundup of Jewish memoirs about cancer, Jewish Woman magazine noted the book “is among the most Jewishly informed of the recent memoirs. It’s also the most poetic.”

The Leif Nissen Social Justice Lecture Series is sponsored by Karen Lieberman & Bruce Nissen to honor their son Leif (May 21, 1980-November 19, 2008) of blessed memory. Leif was dedicated to social justice issues and his family chooses to honor him through these lectures. The series is supported by the Temple Beth-El Social Action Committee.

Sponsored by Temple Beth-El in conjunction with the League of Women Voters St. Petersburg Area and co-sponsored by Pinellas NOW, Allendale United Methodist Church, and the Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater.

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Committee on Membership
2024-02-28 17:00 - 18:00, 2024-01-31 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-12-27 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-11-29 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-10-25 17:00 - 18:00 UTC
Contact chair, Amy Weintraub, for more teleconference link or for more info.

In Search of the Beloved Community: A Conversation with Raymond Arsenault
2024-02-22 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Allendale UMC, 3803 Haines Road North, St. Petersburg, FL, 33703, United States
Tombolo Books is presenting this event in partnership with the League of Women Voters of the St. Pete Area.

In this first book-length biography of John Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis’s upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism as a Freedom Rider and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, his championing of voting rights and anti-poverty initiatives, and his decades of service as the “conscience of Congress.”

Join local historian and author Dr. Raymond Arsenault at Allendale United Methodist Church for a discussion of In Search of the Beloved Community: John Lewis.

Arsenault will be in conversation with Civil Rights activist Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr.

More info and registration here

Cocktails & Conversation
2024-02-22 17:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Doc Ford’s Jungle Terrace, 8790 Bay Pines Blvd FL, St. Petersburg, Florida, 33709, United States
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!).

We’ll have a semi-private area with our own bar to gather and order off the menu.Come have a bite and a beverage and catch up with friends, meet new members.It’s a great event to bring a prospective member to meet and mingle with other Leaguers.Parking at the location.

We hope to see you there!

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Voter Services Committee
2024-02-21 18:30 - 19:30, 2024-01-17 18:30 - 19:30, 2023-11-15 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.

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Program Planning Meeting - Members Only
2024-02-17 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Allendale UMC, 3803 Haines Road North, St. Petersburg, FL, 33703, United States
RSVP for Program Planning

Every year, we solicit advocacy and educational issues from our members to set our “Program”, or priorities, for the next League year (May – April). This process happens during Program Planning, where teams present their issue, its importance, and their plan. Members vote on programs to be presented at our Annual Meeting.

Light refreshments served.

Contact office@lwvspa.org with any questions.

Cocktails & Conversation
2024-01-23 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | James Museum, 150 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, Florida, 33701, United States
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!).

For our January Cocktails & Conversation we will be taking advantage of $10 Tuesdays at the James Museum!

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LWVFL Lobby Days in Tallahassee
2024-01-23 08:00 - 2024-01-24 17:00 (America/New_York)
LWVFL LEAGUE LOBBY DAYS 2024

Lobby Days marks a unique opportunity to humanize our legislative priorities with our state lawmakers. The League’s reach has continued to grow over the past year and we’re excited to show that off in the halls our state capitol.

Haven’t been to one of our Lobby Days before? Don’t fret! We provide attendees with onsite training to be an effective advocate.

Register for LWVFL Lobby Days

Indian Shores Mayoral Candidates Forum
2024-01-16 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Indian Shores Town Hall, 19305 Gulf Blvd, Indian Shores, Florida, 33785, United States
In Person Event5:30pm-6:00pm: Meet and Greet6:00pm-7:30pm: Forum(Live stream will not be available, but event will be audio recorded and posted on the town’s website.)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parade
2024-01-15 11:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Help Represent the League at the MLK Day Parade!

Join us on the morning of 1/15/24. We will have a truck available, so that participants will not have to walk the entire parade route.

Email Stacey Kroto if you have questions, or sign up below and we will provide you with info.

Sign up to walk in the parade

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!

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:

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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!

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.
