It's Women's History Month and tomorrow is International Women's Day. In celebration, the LWVOC is partnering again with the Orange County Regional History Center for the upcoming 5th Annual Women's History Breakfast next Thursday, MAR 14 register HERE
Visit our Women's Rights committee page to learn about getting involved with our team.
We'll have lots of questions for next week's Hot Topics panel about how this session's bills affect women, especially those concerning our bodily autonomy. Register HERE for Mar 13 HT
Read about the theme "Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion" HERE and make plans to attend an event(s) next week. Women's issues are a part of every discussion!
| | MARCH 19 is election day!
This week, Mary Montanus and Karen Buchan (l-r) attended Valencia College Winter Park's Women's History Celebration sharing League and voting information.
As a reminder, besides the PPP (Presidential Preference Primary) for Republicans, there will be multiple municipal candidates and amendments on the ballot!
Early voting has begun and continues through MAR 17. Additional election information can be found at Vote411.org | | | | MAR 12 Showcase, 6:00PM
Spring Orientation
Welcome New Members
MAR 13 Book Club, 7PM
Racial Book Club, Zoom
"Call Us What We Carry"
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MAR 13 Hot Topics, 11:00AM
Running in Place
Legislative Debrief
MAR 14 Breakfast, 8-10AM
5th Annual Women's History Event
Brkft & Program
| | |  | Florida lawmakers have passed a bill effectively making it illegal for unhoused people to sleep on public property...unless it's on a "state-sanctioned" camp. Where would those be? And when it comes to SOLUTIONS that Floridians are desperately seeking for the home insurance crisis, the erosion of voting rights, better tax breaks for themselves rather than chosen corporations and the deregulation of public schools (plus so much more,) WHAT have they done?
Stay tuned and find out during the March Hot Topics legislative debrief with panelists Jason Garcia of the "Seeking Rents” newsletter and podcast and Skyler Swisher of the Orlando Sentinel. Also joining us is political analyst and UCF professor Aubrey Jewitt. Retired Chief Circuit Judge Fred Lauten will moderate.
| SURVEY TIME: If you attended the FEB 14 Hot Topics or watched the Live Facebook feed or saw it on YouTube, we would appreciate your evaluation.Visit bit.ly/HTFeb14
| You're Invited! 5th Annual Women’s History Breakfast at Orange County Regional History Center, Thursday, March 14, 8-10AM
Buy your ticket today for the 5th Annual Women’s History Month Breakfast: Daring Women of the Skies. Enjoy breakfast and good company while supporting the importance of telling women’s stories and the History Center’s HERstory: Women in History Internship program.
| | The National Women's History Month 2024 theme is "Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversion, and Inclusion." Learn More HERE | It was a great turnout at the year's first Speakeasy with the League. Watch the calendar for our next one and join in the conversation "after hours" with your fellow Leaguers and invited guests. Be sure to bring along your social circle and encourage them to Join Now
Shown above (top down l-r): LWVOC President Tiffany Hughes, Digital Democracy partners Sadie Holzmeyer, Bobby Sena, and Leaguer Chandra Griffin, attendees, Speakeasy organizers Beth Coffey, Chandra Griffin, Christina Green
Photography by Daryl Fullerton. | | So many Leaguers have impactful life stories as well as LWVOC experiences and we want to hear about them, especially during Women's History Month! As we've learned at recent League events, stories connect us and in so doing, help all of us defend democracy.
Listen to Anna Alvarez Boyd's poll-worker story HERE on our YouTube Channel. Don't forget to subscribe so that you'll receive notifications of all our video premiers.
If you're interested in learning more about storytelling and want to share your own, just reply to this newsletter. | | | We have SO MANY volunteer opportunities available! Members, be sure you're logged into the system and visit our site page for ALL the available openings including providing food for our Adopt-a-Precinct workers at the upcoming March primary!
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Hailed as “a dream come true” (Ruth Bader Ginsburg), a “perfect…jewel” (Opera Today), and “the kind of opera that should be everywhere” (OperaWire), Scalia/Ginsburg is a one-act operatic comedy by composer-librettist Derrick Wang about the unlikely friendship between U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia — and the pivotal moment that would change the Supreme Court for years to come.
Use code CFVAFAM to save 10% on tickets
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Central Florida Vocal Arts and Opera del Sol present Scalia/Ginsburg
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Friday, March 15 and Saturday, March 16 at 8:00 PM, and
Sunday, March 17 at 3:00 PM
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Alexis and Jim Pugh Theater at the Dr. Phillips Center for Performing Arts Purchase tickets here.
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To further explore how becoming a Hot Topics Sponsor can align with your business goals, please contact LWVOC Vice President, Lee Rambeau Kemp HERE
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