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The new Advocacy Team for the LWVAL

Allow us to introduce your new League of Women Voters of Alabama (LWVAL) Advocacy Team! We are an inter-league collaboration of the Alabama State League and nine Local Leagues across Alabama. We are working proactively to advocate for positive change in the Yellowhammer State! Our goal is to harness the expertise, passions, and connections of all of our hundreds of LWV members to advocate for change. We have partnered with Alabama Arise, and are working with them on such voting rights topics as automatic voter registration, voter rights restoration, and absentee/early voting. The LWV…
February 14, 2021Posted in2021Leg
In the midst of distraction, let’s focus
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In the midst of distraction, let’s focus

We open our Advocacy Blog by calling for FOCUS on our League of Women Voters goals, in this unprecedented moment in American history. If you’re like most people, you are absolutely distracted right now. The firehose of news is overwhelming. As human beings we have limited attention, and if that attention is pulled all over the place, then it becomes impossible to focus on goals or anything else. We’re also distracted by fear of the pandemic. And of course just by the challenges of living our lives in our particular situations at this moment…
February 13, 2021Posted in2021Leg