PLEASE GIVE NOW
TO LWVAL EDUCATION FUND FOR BIRMINGHAM AND MAKE 2X THE DIFFERENCE!
Donate by Midnight, December 31!
Tax-deductible!
Thanks to a generous supporter, your gift to the LWVAL Education Fund for use in Birmingham is DOUBLED if you give by 11:59 PM, December 31, 2020! A generous benefactor has pledged to match donations up to $400 given to the LWVAL Education Fund for use in the Greater Birmingham Community. That's right, your gift will be MATCHED! Please give before midnight New Year's Eve to double your impact!
WHAT DOES YOUR DONATION SUPPORT?
All of these unbiased, nonpartisan voter service and citizen education projects and more are supported by your gift...
- Voter registration drives
- Voting rights restoration assistance and education - one-on-one - for returning citizens who have served for felony offenses
- Election information materials for citizens - printing and distribution
- Hosting of our LWVGB online voter guide at VOTE411.org - now including national, state, and local elections!
- Get-Out-the-Vote (GOTV) campaigns
- Candidate forums
- Public educational programs such as these:
* "The Fight for the Noblest Democracy: Women’s Suffrage in Alabama"
* “Alabama Absentee Voting and Getting Your 411”
* “Voting Safely During a Pandemic”
* "Getting Out the Vote in Alabama"
* "Restoring the Vote: Progress in Alabama"
* "Voting in Alabama: Let's Make It Easy and Safe"
And those were just in the last 6 months!
Register now for "The Case for Carbon Pricing and How You Can Help" on Jan. 12th.
MORE REASONS TO GIVE
- Give in honor or in memory of a special person in your life - your mother, daughter, aunt, niece, or whomever (woman or man) you wish to express your love and respect.
- Give to honor the memory of the many suffragists who fought for women's right to vote. This is the centennial year of both the 19th Amendment and the founding of the League of Women Voters.
- Your donation is tax-deductible! And the CARES Act allows you to take a charitable deduction for contributions to the LWVAL Education Fund of up to $300 per tax return even if you are not itemizing.
If you cannot give at this time, we still greatly appreciate your support! We hope you will respond to LWVGB calls-to-action and volunteer for LWVGB projects when you can. We hope you will consider joining LWVGB. (Dues assistance is available if needed. Contact us.) And whether or not you are a member of the League, you are always welcome to attend our LWVGB online programs.
Please give if you are able before midnight, New Year's Eve to double your support!
Thank you!
LWVGB wishes you a safe and healthy New Year! 
LWVGB January Meeting
The Case for Carbon Pricing
and How You Can Help
Tuesday, January 12, 2021, 6:00 PM
on Zoom
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Non-League members as well as League members are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Join us for a virtual panel and discussion of how League members can be part of one or more of the LWVUS’s ten new Climate Teams including Carbon Pricing. Hear a brief overview of the two major carbon pricing mechanisms – cap and trade or carbon tax/fee & dividend. Learn how Citizens’ Climate Lobby/ Education works to create the political will for its preferred carbon pricing approach.
This introduction, with a short Q&A, may help you decide if and how you might add your strengths to the effort to solve this most pressing problem of our current and future generations.
Some League climate history – from the LWVUS July 2020 Virtual Convention.
“The LWVUS calls for an immediate, wide-scale, mobilization by the United States, to restore, protect and fund an ecologically sustainable environment and climate, based on an interrelated approach that is environmentally sound, science based, just and equitable, dedicated to adequately addressing the scale and speed of the global climate change emergency.”
As a result of this commitment, the LWVUS has formed a new Climate Team with 24 Steering Committee members. It joins League members working on climate issues in various ways, including League education efforts by the Climate Change Task Force since 2006 and attention to putting a price on carbon starting in earnest in 2014.
The LWV position on carbon pricing, which was adopted in 2018, states “The League of Women Voters stands united with, and in support of, efforts to price carbon emissions, whether cap-and-trade, carbon tax/fee, or another viable pricing mechanism. The League does not have a position on how the revenue generated is to be used. We do not espouse any single method of pricing carbon over another. We will evaluate all proposed methods based on their effectiveness to abate emissions and whether the method can be successfully implemented.”
Although the LWV doesn’t endorse any specific pricing mechanism or revenue distribution at this point, we aim to educate ourselves about the options. The work of Citizens’ Climate Lobby/ Education provides one concrete example of some of the issues, activities and anticipated results involved in putting a price on carbon.
Citizens’ Climate Lobby/ and Education are the two arms of a major and well-organized nonpartisan push that exists to create the political will for climate solutions. By training and mobilizing a powerful coalition of climate advocates, CCL and CCE enable individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power to work for long-lasting climate solutions. The focus of CCL is to advocate for a carbon fee and dividend, as introduced in the 2019-2020 Congress in the bipartisan Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, HR 763 which had 86 co-sponsors. CCL fully expects a similar bill to be introduced in the new Congress.
Change is inevitable, its direction is not. Whatever you do, give it all that you’ve got!
Join us on January 12, 2021 to discuss and learn more. Register to attend at https://bit.ly/2KBW6yv
LWVGB December Meeting
Voting in Alabama:
Let's Make It Easy and Safe
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Video of this program is now posted on the
LWVGB YouTube Channel.
The League of Women Voters of Alabama (LWVAL) and Alabama Arise are pursuing a program to make voting easy, safe, and accessible for all citizens. On Thurs., December 10, 2020, LWVAL President Barbara Caddell and Arise Attorney and Policy Analyst Dev Wakeley explain the voting rights advocacy program that the League and Arise are jointly pursuing. Both organizations support improvements in voting rights restoration, universal automatic voter registration, and additional voting options that might include no-excuse absentee voting, curbside voting and/or early voting. Government transparency and fair, people-powered district mapping are essential in order to reach these goals. What can we expect in the 2021 Alabama legislative session, and what can we do to make positive changes in the Alabama election process a reality? Caddell and Wakeley explain.
Note: Your gift of up to $400 to the LWVAL Education Fund for LWV Greater Birmingham is MATCHED! Please give generously! THANK YOU!
DID YOU MISS GIVING TUESDAY? IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO GIVE! DONATIONS UP TO $400 TO THE EDUCATION FUND ARE STILL DOUBLED THROUGH DECEMBER 31!
#GivingTuesday, December 1, 2020, is a global day of generosity. Please support the League of Women Voters of Greater Birmingham! In this centennial year of the League of Women Voters and the 19th Amendment, why not give in honor or memory of a special loved one in your life?
BONUS! Your donation could be doubled! A generous benefactor has pledged to match donations up to $400 given to the LWVAL Education Fund for use in the Greater Birmingham Community. That's right, your gift will be MATCHED between now and December 31, 2020. Please give now to double your impact!
These LWVAL Education Funds will support citizen education and voter services in the Greater Birmingham area. Your contribution will be used to support voter registration drives, assist with voting rights restoration, fund candidate forums, and so much more. Your donation supports this work right here in our Greater Birmingham community. The LWVAL Education Fund is a 501c3 entity, and therefore your donation to the LWVAL Education Fund is tax-deductible. The CARES Act also allows all taxpayers to take a charitable deduction to the LWVAL Education Fund of up to $300 per tax return, even if not itemizing. Please give generously!
We welcome your donations to the general fund of the LWVGB, too. Because the LWVGB is a 501c4 organization, your gift is not tax-deductible but is still very much needed to carry out our advocacy efforts - in the legislature, in the courts, and all across Alabama!
Thank you in advance for your contribution! It is with your help that LWVGB continues to empower voters and defend democracy!
Thank you Kathy Jones, Blair Bowie, and Alfonzo Tucker, Jr. for presenting at this Zoom meeting and for your work in leading this important work to restore the voting rights of returning Alabama citizens following incarceration.
VIEW THE VIDEO RECORDING
LWVGB November Meeting
Restoring the Vote:
Progress in Alabama
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Many Alabama citizens with a previous felony conviction believe that they have lost their right to vote. In fact, most convictions do not result in the loss of voting rights. For those that do, there are processes for restoring those rights.
On Nov. 19, 2020, the League of Women Voters of Greater Birmingham presented a program on the history of voter suppression in Alabama and the work of League members throughout the state to educate and register voters and restore the voting rights of returning citizens. Kathy Jones (left above), League of Women Voters of Alabama Voting Rights Restoration lead, and Blair Bowie (right above), Campaign Legal Center Counsel and Restore Your Vote Manager, were the presenters. Also, Mr. Alfonzo Tucker, Jr. recounted his experience with voter rights restoration - a complicated, confusing, and error-prone process in Alabama - and his efforts to assist others. Jones, Bowie, and Tucker answered questions following the presentation. This Zoom meeting was a free, educational event open to the public.
FOR RETURNING CITIZENS
Voting is fundamental to democracy! Do you want to restore your voting rights? If you are an Alabama citizen, we can provide FREE VOTER RIGHTS RESTORATION ASSISTANCE! Text the League of Women Voters of Alabama and the Campaign Legal Center at (256) 203-6827 or call (888) 306-8683 for assistance with any of these questions and more:
* Not sure if you are eligible to register to vote?
* Has your voter registration application been turned down?
* Do you need to submit a Certificate of Eligibility to Register to Vote (CERV)
* Do you need assistance in determining outstanding fines and fees for disqualifying convictions?
* Do you have out-of-state or Federal convictions?
FOR THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER
Here are ways you can help in Alabama! Send email to vrr@lwval.org for more information about volunteering in this Voter Rights Restoration Program.
* Become a VRR Warrior!
+ Direct engagement with citizens
+ Help us "normalize" public discussions of the humanitarian crisis of voter disenfranchisement. Many people still don't understand the issue.
* Support LWVAL Advocacy Team
* Build advocacy through community-level grassroots activism and engagement
* Make a donation to the VRR Fund
* Join the League of Women Voters. For information contact the LWV of Alabama or a Local League near you.
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Thank you for voting, Alabama!
