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Date: 8/12/2025
Subject: August 12, 2025 News Update
From: La Crosse League of Women Voters



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August 12, 2025 News Update
 
Empower Voters, Defend Democracy

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Community Forum: Focus on Medicaid
We are pleased to offer the recording of the program that was held on June 25. Full recording, with great panelists and easy to access information to use right now. 


We Celebrated!
Member Ice Cream Social
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We hope you joined us in thanking you for your membership, your support and your encouragement. The weather was cooler and cloudy, but the park was pleasant, as were the conversations. 

August Book Club
August 25, 2025
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From the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the world’s youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office, comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation of leaders.
When Jacinda Ardern became Prime Minister at age thirty-seven, the world took notice. But it was her compassionate yet powerful response to the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks, resulting in swift and sweeping gun control laws, that demonstrated her remarkable leadership. She guided her country through unprecedented challenges—a volcanic eruption, a major biosecurity breach, and a global pandemic—while advancing visionary new policies to address climate change, reduce child poverty, and secure historic international trade deals. She did all this while juggling first-time motherhood in the public eye.
Ardern exemplifies a new kind of leadership—proving that leaders can be caring, empathetic, and effective. She has become a global icon, and now she is ready to share her story, from the struggles to the surprises, including for the first time the full details of her decision to step down during her sixth year as Prime Minister.
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September Lunch & Learn
September 10, 2025 
11:30 am - 1 pm 
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    The LWVLA will open its 2025-26 Lunch & Learn series with an opportunity for a virtual conversation with Don Sawyer and Tim Hashko—creators of "Beyond the Bridge: Solutions to Homelessness"—and La Crosse native James Mathy, Milwaukee County Housing Administrator.
    This powerful documentary about effective strategies to eliminate homelessness includes the Housing First approach that has seen success in Milwaukee—Sawyer and Hashko will be joined by James Mathy, Milwaukee County Housing Administrator. The League’s lunch program is a precursor to an October 14 Weber Center screening of Beyond the Bridge in support of the La Crosse County/City Pathways Home program.
    Remember to register by Thursday, September 4 to ensure your place
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Our meeting space is The Waterfront Restaurant, North Entrance. 

What Does the Constitution Say? 
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The US Constitution has been amended several times to expand and secure voting rights for different groups of citizens.
•24th Amendment (1964): Outlawed the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections. Poll taxes, a tool used to disenfranchise Black voters and poor whites, were banned in all elections - federal, state, and local - by the 1966 Supreme Court decision Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, which invoked the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. 


Our League is Growing! 
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What is the Federal SAVE Act? 
The LWVUS Is Opposed
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BRENNAN CENTER ON THE SAVE ACT


Make a Difference. 
Let Your Voice Be Heard. 
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We The (Informed) People
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