Support Women's Equality Now

More than 100 years after some women gained the right to vote, women in the US continue to face inequities based on sex and gender. Despite the significant advances made in recent decades, there have also been enormous roadblocks to progress and devastating steps backward. 

Women’s Voting Rights 

Founded out of the women’s suffrage movement, the League of Women Voters has worked for more than a century to protect and expand voting rights for all. The failure of Congress to pass voting rights legislation undermines this fundamental citizen right. Resultantly, we have seen state legislatures across the country pass anti-voter laws that threaten to silence the voices of eligible voters, with a disproportionate impact on women. 

Constitutional Equality 

One hundred years after the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was introduced to constitutionally protect equal rights under the law regardless of sex, our Constitution still does not protect against sex discrimination. The ERA has met all ratification requirements and must be published. It will provide the judicial branch with a vital tool to combat discrimination, protect against the rollback of equal rights, and pave the way for additional legislative progress. 

Reproductive Freedom 

In 2022, the US Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning the constitutional right to abortion and removing a fundamental right that women and others who can become pregnant held for nearly 50 years. As Congress has failed to codify the right of reproductive choices, one year after Dobbs, nearly half of all states are enforcing more limited abortion restrictions than before the ruling. This has had a devastating impact on people’s health and lives, which will only worsen. 

Inequality hurts everyone! 

2023 Annual Member Meeting

REGISTER AT https://my.lwv.org/new-york/westchester

MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

REID CASTLE

2900 PURCHASE ST.

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Keynote speaker: Sandy Gale NYS Assemblymember (Ret.)

5:00 - 6:00 Annual Business Meeting

6:00 - 6:40 Buffet Supper

6:45 - 7:45 Program

LWVNYS Updates

Greetings from George Latimer, County Executive

Keynote Speaker: Sandy Galef, NYS Assemblymember (Ret.)

Where: The Blake Annex, 1 Steuben St, Albany NY 12203

Register: Register online here or mail a check made out to the League of Women Voters of New York State to 1 Steuben St, Albany NY 12207

Cost: $20 per person (includes lunch)

LWVNYS will host an advocacy day on May 2nd in Albany, NY. Join us!

• Learn about important legislative issues and how to advocate for them

• Meet new League members from across the state

• Lobby your state legislators at the Capitol

• Enjoy lunch provided by LWVNYS

League members are asked to make their own appointments with legislators and schedule them for 1:30 pm at the earliest. We will walk up to the Capitol after lunch. Those without appointments may try to visit their legislators or join the state League staff in the galleries watching session.

Hosted by the Capitol District LWV Environmental Committee, this presentation will focus on the science, technology, economics, and politics of building electrification in New York.

Register Here

Speaker Anshul Gupta is a research scientist and a climate advocate. His research, while mostly in computer science, has touched upon areas in energy, materials, and decarbonization, in which he has multiple publications as well as one issued and three pending patents. He has volunteered in multiple roles with the NY State chapters coalition of the Climate Reality Project, an international organization founded and led by former Vice President Al Gore that prepares its members to use their voices and everyday choices to fight climate change

Saturday, April 8, at 10:00 am 
Hastings Public Library
Barnes Room
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706

To participate by Zoom, send a request to info@lwv-rivertowns.org for the link.

Our name - the League of Women Voters - shows our deep history,
but we welcome members of all gender identities.

Por favor únete a la LWV of the Rivertowns para un foro virtual de candidatos moderados.

Escuche a los candidatos para Alcalde de Sleepy Hollow, Kenneth Wray, Unite Sleepy Hollow (USH) and Martin Rutyna, Transparent Accountable Government (TAG)

)Regístrese para ver el evento en vivo en    https://bit.ly/SHMayor

Para enviar preguntas, vaya a: info@lwv-rivertowns.org

Please join the LWV of the Rivertowns on Wednesday, March 15 from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. for a virtual moderated candidates forum.

Hear Candidates for Mayor of Sleepy Hollow discuss the issues affecting the Sleepy Hollow community

The candidates are Kenneth Wray, Unite Sleepy Hollow (USH) and Martin Rutyna, Transparent Accountable Government (TAG)

Questions can be submitted in advance (see below)  
Please register to view the event live by going to    https://bit.ly/SHMayor.

There will be no audience participation at the time of the event.  

To submit questions please go to: info@lwv-rivertowns.org  

Questions will be given to the moderator at the time of the debate.  

 If you cannot attend, the forum will be recorded; please check  our website (LWV-Rivertowns.org) and Facebook page after March 17.

More Info Here

PNHP(Physicians for a National Health Plan) is a NY based advocacy organization that the County League has been working alongside to promote the New York Health Plan, a single payer plan long championed by Assemblyman Richard Gottfried and State Senator Gustavo Rivera. It is hoped that many will participate in the upcoming virtual Lobby Day on March 14th. 

The 2023 Lobby Day will be Virtual. 

Tuesday, March 7 @ 7:30PM: Virtual NY Health Act Forum RSVP!

Thursday, March 9 @ 7:30PM: Virtual Lobby Skills Training (RSVP below)

Tuesday, March 14: Virtual NY Health Act Lobby Day (RSVP below)

RSVP

Lobby Day Agenda: 

10AM-11AM Orientation

11AM-3PM Meetings with Legislators (Delegations & exact times TBA the week before)

3PM-4PM Debrief 

Saturday, March 11, at 10:00 am 
Hastings Public Library
Barnes Room
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706

To participate by Zoom, send a request to info@lwv-rivertowns.org for the link.

Our name - the League of Women Voters - shows our deep history,
but we welcome members of all gender identities.

Early voting begins Saturday, Feb. 18 and extends to Sunday, Feb. 26. The District covers Hastings, Dobbs Ferry, Ardsley, Irvington, and parts of unincorporated Greenburgh.

To get information on the special election, go to the Westchester County Board of Elections at this link: https://citizenparticipation.westchestergov.com/. Click on Early Voting 2023 on the menu on the left side of the page. Visit www.vote411.org to get candidate information and check your voting status and polling places for election day voting. For early voting there are two sites: the Hastings Public Library and Greenburgh Town Hall.

Register Here

Protecting the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary from storm surges and sea-level rise has been a much-studied issue since Hurricane Sandy devastated the NY-NJ metropolitan area in 2012. In 2017 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers initiated a Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study to evaluate various proposals. The Corps’ preferred solution is the New York Harbor Storm-Surge Barrier, which entails building giant gates across waterways that feed New York Harbor. The Corps is wrapping up its study by holding hearings to receive public comment on its chosen proposal; this ends on March 7, 2023.  

Riverkeeper has been closely monitoring the proposal and public comment; its critique will be presented at this webinar by Tracy Brown, the Hudson’s own Riverkeeper.

 RSVP to join PNHP-NY Metro on February 21st at 7:30PM EST to discuss urgent threats to maternal health and the changes needed to achieve birth justice. lt will feature the voices of patients, doulas, midwives and physicians, and highlight actions to promote equitable maternal health for all.

Saturday, February 11, at 10:00 am 
Hastings Public Library
Barnes Room
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706

 Click here for the agenda
To participate by Zoom, send a request to info@lwv-rivertowns.org for the link.

Our name - the League of Women Voters - shows our deep history,
but we welcome members of all gender identities.

“Songs of the Suffragists: Lyrics of American Feminism from 1850 to 2020” is the title of a brief documentary film that will be screened by the LVW of Northeast Westchester on Feb. 8.  

The press release notes, "From the Civil War-era songs of Julia Ward Howe to Blues-era masterpieces by Bessie Smith to Bikini Kill’s grrl rock and Miranda Lambert’s country hits, the film highlights the intersection of culture and politics in our march toward gender equality in the United States.”  

• Read more about the program  [here].

• Register HERE

White Plains Public Hearing

Location: Haub School of Law at Pace University

Gerber Glass Moot Courtroom 78 North Broadway White Plains, New York 10603 *

Proof of vaccination/negative COVID test within 7 days required.

Please Note: sign-up for this meeting ends at 4:00 PM January 29th 2023

 Sign up Here

https://www.nyirc.gov/meetings

See Plan here 

https://www.nyirc.gov/assembly-plan