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Join The Matriots PAC, Common Cause Ohio and the League of Women Voters of Ohio to learn about the process and find out how you can be an advocate. Matriots Founding Member Ann Henkener will share her decades of work on fair districts. Baldwin Wallace professor Barbara Palmer will share her work that shows gerrymandering in Ohio is most likely the reason for the complete stagnation in the number of women Ohio is sending to the U.S. House.

The event is March 30. The panel Q&A and will run 5-6 p.m. and panelists will stay from 6-6:30 to answer questions.

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Explore the backstories to visits to Toledo by women suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1869, stage star Sarah Bernhard in 1881, and pioneering aviator Blanche Scott in 1910. With Women's History Month underway in March, classrooms and museums across the United States will be focusing on famous women who shaped the world we live in. This lecture will explore visits to Northwest Ohio by these important women in history.

Tedd Long is the author of the book, "Forgotten Visitors; Northwest Ohio's Notable Guests". Join him as he explores the backstory to these forgotten visits to Northwest Ohio.

Free to All; No Registration Required

Information: 419-824-3707; http://www.lourdes.edu/lectures

Statehouse Day Schedule

10:30 AM - Welcome

10:40 AM - LWVO's History of Fighting Gerrymandering & Why This Year Matters

11:00 AM - Ohio Statehouse Map Making

11:40 AM - Action & Stretch Break!

12:00 PM - Congressional Map Making

12:40 PM - Action & Stretch Break!

1:00 PM - Election Policy Update & Action Items

1:55 PM - Adjourn

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Channel 30/WGTE TV

Susan has served for the past three year as the education specialist for the LWVO Lobby Corps. She has worked extensively with nonprofit organizations focused on mobilizing the citizen voice to support public education.

Her work focuses on building community understanding of how privatization and testing are part of a war on public education.

She lives in Cleveland Heights where for the last 6 years she has been a member of the Heights Coalition for Public Education.

Zoom Meeting hosted by LWV of Bowling Green

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HOW ENFRANCHISEMENT STOPS LYNCHINGS, JUNE 1910

Performed by Alexandria Rayford-West

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Our guest speaker will be Adrienne M Jenkins, Attorney, East Central Region of the Federal Trade Commission. Joining the FTC in 2017, Adrienne has worked on a variety of consumer protection cases and investigations including scams involving tech support, charities, and imposters, robocalls, and deceptive advertising. Prior to joining the FTC, Adrienne was an Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor (Cleveland, Ohio). Adrienne earned her J.D. from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

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Speakers:

Jeffrey Broxmeyer, UT Political Science Professor

Scott Ketter, Senior Survey Advisor at Pew Research

Speakers: Karen Soubeyrand & Dan Burgard, Citizens Climate Lobby

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We will discuss where we have been since women won the right to vote, where we are going and what lessons we can learn to make us stronger not only as an organization, but as individuals. As part of our celebration, we will be also be conducting a "virtual" raffle. We will be raffling PERSONALIZED AUTOGRAPHED copies of Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins' book: The Untold Story of Women of Color in the League of Women Voters.

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Panelists: Brennan Center for Justice's Michael Li, Common Cause's Kathay Feng, and the League of Women Voters of Ohio's Jen Miller. Moderator: Common Cause Ohio's Catherine Turcer

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Learn about next steps in implementing anti-gerrymandering reforms that were passed by voters in 2015 and 2018, as well ways to modernize Ohio's voter registration system. Finally, we will explore lessons learned from this primary and operational improvements that should be made to our election system.

You'll hear about the latest policy developments from national and state-level experts and get the chance to advocate directly to lawmakers through our digital tools.

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Looking for Members to March and to staff a table.

Interested in marching? - show up at Love Mural at 3:30 pm

Interested in staffing a table?

- contact Barb Colvin bcolvin@bex.net

- time for table 4 - 6 pm at Trinity Church

Hosted by:

State Senator Teresa Fedor: Ohio District 11

Kevin Dalton: President, Toledo Federation of Teachers

Dan Greenberg: NW Ohio Friends of Public Education

Speaker: Judy Leb, CASA

3:30-8:30 p.m. Sanger Branch Library

3:30-7 p.m. Sylvania Branch Library

LWV-TLC will have an information table at the Seminar

Speaker: Dr Johnathon Ross & Dennis Slotnick from SPAN Ohio and what is happening in Ohio with healthcare