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Kwanzaa will be observed from Thursday, December 26 through Wednesday, January 1 in 2024.
Celebrate the beginning of the new year.
Hanukkah will be observed from sundown on Wednesday, December 25 through sundown on Thursday, January 2 in 2024.
League of Women Voters mentors from across the country will provide ClubExpress Support for Communication and Social Media Volunteers online. Join us for tips as to how ClubExpress can help volunteers with their communication and social media needs.
If you already have a LWVUS ClubExpress volunteer Roundtable login for League members set up, log in and register here:
https://lwvce.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=4091&club_id=575273&item_id=2454733
If you haven‘t set up a login yet, do that here first so that you can register for the meeting:
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League of Women Voters mentors from across the country will provide ClubExpress Support for Planning and Implementation (the tasks involved with a League going live with ClubExpress) online. All League members are invited to join us for tips as to how ClubExpress can help volunteers with setting upClubExpress and helping with League tasks.
If you already have a LWVUS ClubExpress volunteer Roundtable login for League members set up, log in and register here:
https://lwvce.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=4091&club_id=575273&item_id=2456593
If you haven‘t set up a login yet, do that here first so that you can register for the meeting:
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Diana Higuera is the Executive Director and Founder of the Rocky Mountain Welcome Center, an immigrant assistance nonprofit organization. Diana will speak from her perspectives as both an immigrant and a service provider on the challenges our new neighbors face integrating into our diverse community.
The public is invited to Colorado Public Utilities Commission meeting webcasts online.
Check their schedule to see if there is a meeting, request for comments, or public hearing today:
https://puc.colorado.gov/puccalendar
The PUC oversees these areas:
Energy and Water
Gas Pipeline Safety
Inmate Communication Services
Rail and Transit Safety
Telecom
Transportation
The meeting calendar is here:
https://puc.colorado.gov/puccalendar
This week‘s meetings:
https://www.dora.state.co.us/pls/efi/EFI_Agenda_UI.This_Weeks_Agenda
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission website is here:
https://puc.colorado.gov/
The Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission, formerly the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, will meet for their weekly general meeting.
The CO ECMC website with instructions for viewing the meeting online is here:
https://ecmc.state.co.us/#/home
The public is invited to Colorado State Board of Education Meetings online.
Watch live here:
https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/watchlive
The schedule of upcoming meetings and past meeting minutes are available on their website here:
https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard
The public is invited to the Colorado Dept Public Health Environment Producer Responsibility Statewide Recycling meeting online.
Register here:
https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2FWN_frAmNQbtQ06nTXfhmSJrQQ%23%2Fregistration&sa=D&ust=1707329760000000&usg=AOvVaw0J5E_knO1mTsh1cmupdQ08
The CDPHE Producer Responsibility Advisory Board website is here:
https://cdphe.colorado.gov/hm/epr-advisory-board
The CDPHE meeting calendar is here:
https://cdphe.colorado.gov/commitment-to-public-participation-and-public-participation-procedures
Online meeting. Go to their website and click on the AGENDA link for the online meeting connection l
Find out what‘s happening with Colorado‘s water resources. The Arkansas Basin Roundtable meets the second Wednesday of each month online.
For more information about this meeting:
https://cwcb.colorado.gov/events/arkansas-basin-roundtable-10
League of Women Voters mentors from across the country will provide ClubExpress Support for Webpage Admin Volunteers online. All League members are invited to join us for tips as to how ClubExpress can help volunteers with their website design and maintenance.
If you already have a LWVUS ClubExpress volunteer Roundtable login for League members set up, log in and register here:
https://lwvce.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=4091&club_id=575273&item_id=2327110
If you haven‘t set up a login yet, do that here first so that you can register for the meeting:
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In person at Riverdale Regional Park in Brighton at 7:00 p.m. and online meeting
The League of Women Voters of Arapahoe and Douglas Counties recognizes the efforts of Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist and founder of the League of Women Voters in 1920, on her birthday.
Read about her sacrifices which made it possible for women to be active participants in our democracy on the League of Women Voters of the US website:
https://www.lwv.org/blog/10-inspiring-facts-about-leagues-founder-carrie-chapman-catt
The public is invited to Colorado State Board of Education Meetings online.
Watch live here:
https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard/watchlive
The schedule of upcoming meetings and past meeting minutes are available on their website here:
https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeboard
Online meeting. Go to their website and click on the AGENDA link for the online meeting connection l
Find out what‘s happening with Colorado‘s water resources. The Colorado Water Conservation Board‘s Metro Basin Roundtable meets on the second Thursday of each month online.
For more information about this meeting:
https://cwcb.colorado.gov/events/metro-basin-roundtable-9
The League of Women Voters honors the history and contributions of Korean immigrants and their descendants..
The League of Women Voters supports justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
LWV Chaffee County will host a social followed by a monthly meeting beginning at 11:15. At 12 noon the program begins with a Panel and Discussion with John Armstrong, B1 Energy, Julie Mach, Elements Mountain Compost, Grant Hamel, VeroTouch, and Beth Helmke, Deputy County Administrator. The program will explore the initiatives for Recycling, Renewing, and Repurposing in Chaffee County. Susanna Spaulding has assembled this panel of four local experts who will share ways we can create a more sustainable future for our community through innovative methods of creating a new life for waste materials. The session begins at 11:15 with a brief social and business meeting followed at 11:30 with Carol Merovka: Access to Healthcare Survey, LWVCC & CCPH. Noon-1:00: The program will explore the initiatives for Recycling, Renewing, and Repurposing in Chaffee County. The public is invited to join us.
In-person at Koelbel Library in the Forum Theater
The League for Women Voters of Arapahoe and Douglas Counties invites you to see the documentary "Radium Girls" free in-person.
Radium Girls‘, based on true events, follows teen sisters, Bessie and Jo Cavallo, who dream of
Hollywood and Egyptian pyramids as they paint luminous watch dials at the American Radium factory in
New Jersey. When Jo loses a tooth, Bessie‘s world is turned upside down as a mystery slowly unravels.
She discovers a corporate cover-up and, in a radical coming of age story, Bessie and the Radium girls
decide to take on American Radium.
Based on historical events, the national sensation following the notorious case of the Radium girls in 1928 ultimately led to significant and lasting impact in the area of workplace health and safety and the study of radioactivity. The film is directed by Lydia Dean Pitcher, and Ginny Mohler. It stars Joey King and Abby Quinn.
This film was released to limited audiences in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic.
This film is 1 hour 42 minutes long.
Online meeting. Go to their website and click on the AGENDA link for the online meeting connection.
Find out what‘s happening with Colorado‘s water resources. The Rio Grande Basin Roundtable meets on the second Tuesday of each month online.
Information on this meeting:
https://cwcb.colorado.gov/events/rio-grande-basin-roundtable-9
Online meeting. Go to their website and click on the AGENDA link for the online meeting connection l
Find out what‘s happening with Colorado‘s water resources at the Colorado Water Conservation Board‘s South Platte Basin Roundtable monthly meeting online.
For meeting information:
https://cwcb.colorado.gov/events/south-platte-basin-roundtable-10
Catharine McCord, Colorado Asian Pacific United, and Harry Budisidharta, J.D., In-House Leal Counsel for Aurora Mental Health and Recovery, will discuss the historic racism against Asian immigrants and their descendants that resulted in the destruction of Denver‘s Chinatown in the 1880‘s - and that continues today.
Need health care insurance coverage?
The League of Women Voters believes everyone, everywhere deserves access to quality essential health services without suffering financial hardship.
Connect for Health Colorado, our state‘s official Health Insurance Exchange, is the only place where Colorado residents can qualify for discounts on health care insurance based on income. Shop to compare plans.
Open enrollment period ends January 15, 2025.
Visit our State of Colorado Health Insurance Exchange website here:
https://connectforhealthco.com/
The Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission, formerly the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, will meet for their weekly general meeting.
The CO ECMC website with instructions for viewing the meeting online is here:
https://ecmc.state.co.us/#/home
Our ET helped sponsor an official LWV Observer at the United Nations COP29. Hear Rebecca Theobald will talk with us about how these International Environmental outcomes can inform our local application of Climate Justice, Air Quality, and more. Also, our Interest Groups will discuss Actions to take from our Program Planning of 2025.
Agenda will be emailed to registrants. Also see on the LWVLC website: ET‘s November Minutes and video of how Geographic Information Systems Professional (GISP) Peter Price gathers and interprets data for environmental use. Go to lwv-larimercounty.org >News & Events>Watch Our Videos>Environmental Team >latest entry.
League of Women Voters mentors from across the country will provide ClubExpress Support for Membership volunteers online. Join us for tips as to how ClubExpress can help volunteers with their membership tasks.
If you already have a LWVUS ClubExpress volunteer Roundtable login for League members set up, log in and register here:
https://lwvce.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=4091&club_id=575273&item_id=2336126
If you haven‘t set up a login yet, do that here first so that you can register for the meeting:
https://lwvce.clubexpress.com/
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League members, join the LWVUS for an update on the LWVUS Structural Transformation project, Framing the Future. Hear about progress growing the League. This is an online meeting.
Registration is required.
If you‘re a League member and need help registering for this meeting, email: lwvadc.defending.democracy@gmail.com with your name, email address, and League for assistance.
The League of Women Voters commemorates National Religious Freedom Day on January 16, the day in 1786 that the Virginia General Assembly‘s adopted of Thomas Jefferson‘s landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
This statute was shepherded through the Virginia Legislature by James Madison and became the basis for the establishment clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, leading to freedom of religion for all Americans.
Jefferson and other leaders of the founding generation knew that the kinds of theocrats and monarchists they’d defeated in the 18th century would be back someday. Jefferson, seeking to inoculate the Virginia Statute against false interpretations in the future, late in his life wrote that the religious freedom of the Virginia Statute was not for Christians alone, but that it encompassed “the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and infidel of every denomination.”
This suggests that freedom of religion was not intended to be the imposition of a certain religion‘s beliefs on all Americans nor a way to be exempt from equal rights and anti-discrimination measures.
Jefferson’s clarification reminds us why it’s essential that we not let the historical revisionists twist the meaning of the First Amendment to serve their purposes. We cannot cede the definition of religious freedom and the narrative of our history to revisionists. As Thomas Jefferson so clearly articulated, religious freedom means freedom for people of all faiths and people of none.
Learn more about National Religious Freedom Day on Wikipedia‘s website:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Religious_Freedom_Day
In-person at Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment in the Sabin/Cleere Room and onl
The public is invited to the Air Quality Control Commission Meeting in-person and online. Submit comments at 8:00 AM before the meeting begins at 9:00 AM.
The agenda is available here:
https://cdphe.colorado.gov/aqcc-meeting-information-and-commission-calendar
The Colorado Air Pollution Control Division website is here:
https://cdphe.colorado.gov/aqcc
Online meeting for League members
All League members are invited to hear the LWVUS presentation "League Policy Positions and How You Can Use Them!" in this online meeting.
Registration is required.
Featured Community Event: Colorado Sun 2025 Legislative Session Preview online.
The Colorado Sun’s politics team, Editor and Reporter Jesse Paul and Policy & Politics Reporter Brian Eason, will discuss with guests the upcoming 2025 Legislative Sessions.
Topics will include priorities for the year, as well as the Joint Budget Committee’s priorities for 2025.
Speakers include:
Colorado Governor Jared Polis
Sen. Jeff Bridges, JBC Chair, Democratic state senator from Greenwood Village
Sen. James Coleman, Democratic state senator from Denver, President of Colorado Senate
House Speaker Julie McCluskie, Democratic Representative from Dillon
Additional speakers to be announced!
The event is free and open to the public.
Register here (scroll down to event):
https://coloradosun.com/events/
In-person at Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment in the Sabin/Cleere Room and onl
The public is invited to the Air Quality Control Commission Meeting in-person and online. Submit comments at 8:00 AM before the meeting begins at 9:00 AM.
The agenda is available here:
https://cdphe.colorado.gov/aqcc-meeting-information-and-commission-calendar
The Colorado Air Pollution Control Division website is here:
https://cdphe.colorado.gov/aqcc
LWV members are welcome to observe LAC meetings to stay up to date on LWVCO‘s advocacy efforts.
Join the National People‘s March / Women‘s March as we march in Washington, DC as part the National People‘s March coalition, also in local marches nationwide to demand women‘s rights. We won‘t go back.
For more information, see the National People‘s March / Women‘s March website:
https://www.womensmarch.com/
On the steps of the Colorado State Capitol
Join the Denver People‘s March / Women‘s March as we march as part the Denver People‘s March coalition, also in Washington, D.C. and in local marches nationwide to demand women‘s rights. We won‘t go back.
League of Women Voters of Colorado Executive Director Beth Hendrix will be a speaker at this event.
For more information, see the People‘s March / People‘s March website:
https://action.womensmarch.com/events/denver-people-s-march-1?akid=21975.512469.PrBODM
Join the League and panelists as we discuss City Council Pay and the pros and cons if pay was increased from $6,250/year. Panelists include outgoing Council members Yolanda Avila and Randy Helms, and former Council members Richard Skorman and Tim Leigh. NOTE: Because of weather concerns, this event is now virtual only!
The International Day of Acceptance encourages a more inclusive world for people with disabilities. It was created by Annie Hopkins and promotes social acceptance and inclusion of people living with a visible or invisible disability.
We all deserve equal access to opportunities and fair treatment, no matter our differences.
Remember the 3 E‘s:
* Embrace diversity
* Educate your community
* Empower one another
and love life.
The League of Women Voters celebrates democracy on Presidential Inauguration Day.
The League of Women Voters honors Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King ,Jr. on his birthday.
March in-person from Martin Luther King Memorial in Denver City Park to Civic Center Park in Denver
The League of Women Voters honors the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his birthday each year. Join us as we march in the Denver Marade.
Please note that the Marade‘s start has been delayed 30 minutes to 10:00 am due to the cold weather forecast. Please dress warmly!
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Learn more about the Denver Marade on their event website: https://www.drmartinlkingjrchc.org
Ride in-person from Civic Center Park in Denver
The League of Women Voters honors the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his birthday each year.
All are invited to participate in the Marade Bike Ride, riding together in solidarity and visiting local Black historic landmarks.
The ride will start at Civic Center Park.
Civic Center Park
101 14th Ave
Denver, CO 80202
Free and open to the public. Register here by entering "MLK Marade Bike Ride":
https://eventbrite.com
Learn more about Denver Marade activities on their event website: https://www.drmartinlkingjrchc.org
In-person at the Denver Coliseum
All are invited to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. African American Heritage Rodeo, hosted by the City of Aurora‘s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in-person.
Denver Coliseum
4600 Humboldt St
Denver, CO 80216
Ticket purchase is required.
Purchase tickets from National Western:
https://nationalwestern.com/Rodeos/
For more information, see the City of Aurora webpage:
https://auroragov.org/MLK
On January 21, 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision.
This controversial decision said that the freedom of speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations, including for-profits, nonprofit organizations, labor unions, and other kinds of associations.
The League of Women Voters works every day to protect voter rights and defend democracy.
Read more about the Citizens United decision in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
The Voter Services Team encourages informed voting and provides unbiased educational and informational services to voters, e.g. ballot-issues pamphlets.
Join the monthly Voter Service Team meeting and volunteer for upcoming voter registration events (high schools & naturalization ceremony), community events (PRIDE, Juneteenth, etc), educate voters when upcoming elections are happening (municipal elections, off-cycle elections for school, etc).
League meetings are open to the public. Please join us if you are interested in being a more active and engaged citizen.
Margie Thompson, Professor Emerita, Multicultural & Global Communication& Media, University of Denver, and Dave Perry, Publisher/Editor of the Aurora Sentinel, will address the consequences of mis/disinformation about immigration – both for immigrants and on public policy – and how to combat it.
National Gun Violence Survivors Awareness Week is January 22 - January 26
The League of Women Voters supports measures to prevent gun violence.
The League of Women Voters commemorates the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision which guaranteed abortion rights.
The League of Women Voters supports reproductive choice and sees abortion as health care.
Read about Roe v. Wade in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade
Read more about the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women‘s Organization U.S. Supreme Court decision in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women%27s_Health_Organization
Read the League of Women Voters of the U.S. statement on the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs decision overturning abortion rights:
https://www.lwv.org/blog/explaining-scotuss-abortion-decision-dobbs-v-jackson-womens-health-organization
The Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission, formerly the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, will meet for their weekly general meeting.
The CO ECMC website with instructions for viewing the meeting online is here:
https://ecmc.state.co.us/#/home
National Gun Violence Survivors Awareness Week is January 22 - January 26
The League of Women Voters supports measures to prevent gun violence.
The public is invited to the University of Denver The Josef Korbel School of International Studies Denver Democracy Summit in-person.
Information about the Democracy Summit is here:
https://korbel.du.edu/news-events/denver-democracy-summit
Register for January 23 online streaming presentation here:
https://udenver.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zmXBAd6sT1-KuWlmpOJEfg#/registration
Marcia Verba's home (contact Unit Leader for Address)
National Gun Violence Survivors Awareness Week is January 22 - January 26
The League of Women Voters supports measures to prevent gun violence.
The public is invited to the University of Denver The Josef Korbel School of International Studies Denver Democracy Summit in-person and streamed online.
Information about the Democracy Summit is here:
https://korbel.du.edu/news-events/denver-democracy-summit
Register for January 24 online streaming presentation here:
https://udenver.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zmXBAd6sT1-KuWlmpOJEfg#/registration
National Gun Violence Survivors Awareness Week is January 22 - January 26
The League of Women Voters supports measures to prevent gun violence.
The League of Women Voters of Arapahoe and Douglas Counties recognizes the efforts of Maud Wood Park, suffragist and first president of the League of Women Voters in 1920, on her birthday Tuesday, January 25.
Read about her efforts to lobby for maternity, child health, and welfare programs; to grant married women US citizenship independent of their husbands‘ status; and to pass a child labor amendment on the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial website: https://suffragistmemorial.org/maud-wood-park-american-suffragist/
National Gun Violence Survivors Awareness Week is January 22 - January 26
The League of Women Voters supports measures to prevent gun violence.
Today is Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Awareness Day.
Organizations around the country come together to raise awareness and uplift the importance of the long-established EITC.
This year, in honor of the largest EITC in our Colordo‘s history, Governor Polis issued a proclamation in honor of the day.
The EITC is a powerful, targeted tool to give a boost to working people.
The EITC is a refundable, cash-back tax credit for families who earn low incomes. This means families could get money back even if they owe $0 in taxes in a given tax year.
Originally enacted at the federal level in the 1970s, the policy has a history of bipartisan support, and its efficacy is backed by decades of research.
Children in families who claim the EITC have better outcomes at birth, improved education outcomes, and increased lifetime earnings. Colorado should do all we can to ensure families are able to find and claim this and other refundable credits (i.e. the Child Tax Credit) they qualify for.
As a refundable tax credit, expanding and preserving our EITC is frequently among the Colorado Fiscal Institute‘s top priorities.
Learn more on the Colorado Fiscal Institute‘s website:
https://www.coloradofiscal.org/eitc-day-2024/issues/state-budget-taxes/
Concerned about health care accessibility, affordability, and equity? All League members are invited to our next LWVUS HCR4US Health Care Reform Committee meeting online. Learn about the need for better health care outcomes in the United States and what League is doing.
The League of Women Voters, which is committed to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusiveness, remembers the estimated six million Jews were exterminated in death camps during World War II. This is in addition to deaths by death squads and in ghettos.
“To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice” – Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and human rights campaigner. Read more on the Council of Europe‘s website:
https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/27-january-holocaust-remembrance-day
In-person meeting at the Arapahoe Fairgrounds in the Main Hall
The Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission, formerly the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, will hold a public hearing in-person on two more proposed fracking well pads - State La Plata South in-person at the Arapahoe Fairgrounds.
For more information and to register:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1Lnx8qT9S4ykLdzMz14iWQulxM6YPkekXv_5UCWK2iG4WGg/viewform
Bobbie Heisterkamp's home
Bobbie Heisterkamp will host
Our speaker will be Luis Torres, Ph.D., Retired Deputy Provost for Academic and Student Affairs at Metropolitan State University and member of El Semanario Editorial and Advisory Board. Dr. Torres will speak about the opportunities and challenges for Dreamers under the DACA program.
On January 29, we celebrate the anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, signed into law by President Obama in 2009.
The League of Women Voters continues to explore the necessary changes still required to attain equal pay for all women.
Celebrate the beginning of the Lunar New Year.
The Colorado Energy and Carbon Management Commission, formerly the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, will meet for their weekly general meeting.
The CO ECMC website with instructions for viewing the meeting online is here:
https://ecmc.state.co.us/#/home
LWV members are welcome to observe LAC meetings to stay up to date on LWVCO‘s advocacy efforts.