League of Women Voters of Wyoming

2023 Organizational meeting "Rising WY" 6 pm
2023-05-30 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Denver)
Rising WY is a non-profit, non-partisan group with which the LWV of WY shares many goals. They invite interested people & members to attend their membership meeting at the WyoWest Brewing Co in Cody, 221 N. Bent.
The link for tonight is here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85318747319?pwd=[REDACTED]

WY Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivision Comm. 2-Day Meeting
2023-05-30 08:30 - 16:15
The Committee will meet in the Fremont Co School District 1 Board Room — Lander. The Board Room is shown below. To see and download the documents created for the meeting, including the syllabus, link to https://wyoleg.gov/Committees/2023/J07 The YouTube links are also posted on this page.
The next meeting of this committee will be August 25-26 in Douglas, WY. Members of the committee are
Senate: Eric Barlow, Brian Boner, Cale Case, Bill Landen, Charles Scott
House: Forrest Chadwick, Jeremy Haroldson, Steve Harshman, Christopher Knapp, Sandy Newsome, Jared Olsen, Pepper Ottman, Cody Wylie, Mike Yin

Women win with ranked choice voting
2023-05-25 12:00
Women make up less than 1/3 of all elected officials. Listen to a 4-person panel explaining how Women Win with RCT featuring:

Johana Bencomo, Las Cruces (NM) City Councilor
Deb Otis, FairVote Director of Research and Policy
Victoria Pelletier, Portland (ME) City Councilor and RepresentWomen National Partnerships Manager
Kelleen Potter, Executive Director of Utah Ranked Choice Voting and former Mayor of Heber City

The panel is sponsored by a coalition including FairVote and Represent Women.
You must register for this free webinar>>>

Cheyenne Event on Domestic Violence
2023-05-22 17:30 - 19:00
Zonta hosts this event at the Cheyenne Civic Center. The evening will be an interactive conversation starter and awareness experience focusing on the impacts of domestic violence on families and our community. It will also bring this year’s art contest to a close. Read more>>>

Resolved: Society needs the influence of men's aggression
2023-05-18 18:00 - 20:00
You must sign up for this online debate sponsored by Braver Angels. Donations are optional. Register here>>>
The debate sponsors hope to spotlight one of the elements of masculinity—the appetite for risk, comfort with physical danger, and aggression that can lead to violence or to taking charge in a crisis. Does society benefit?

Webinar: Consequences of Default
2023-05-18 13:00 - 14:00
The Center for American Progress(CAP) will host this discussion with

Patrick Gaspar (CAP SEO)
Wendy Edelberg (Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute)
Mark Zandi (Chief Economist, Moody’s Analytics)

Emily Gee, CAP Senior VP, will moderate.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellin warns that “the federal government is at risk of default, potentially, as soon as June 1.” Register for this conversation with experts about what default might mean for the economy. Register here>>>

Minerals, Business & Econ Development meets in Kemmerer
2023-05-18 08:30 - 16:00
The committee will meet in Kemmerer at the South Lincoln Training & Events Center.
Materials for the meeting are available from their legislative page https://wyoleg.gov/Committees/2023/J09.
There are two co-chairs — Ed Cooper and Donald Burkhart, Jr. There are also 12 members — Affie Ellis, Stacy Jones, Chris Rothfuss, Dalton Banks, Jon Conrad, Scott Heiner, Christopher Knapp, J.T. Lawson, Martha Lawley, Rueben Tarver, and Cyrus Western.

Legacy Lecture: Red, White & Blue on the White House Runway
2023-05-11 11:00 - 12:00
In February 1968 the Johnsons were in the White House and they hosted the first White House fashion show. Many predicted it would become a yearly tradition. Nope.
The Vietnam War, the murders of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights protests overshadowed the year, and that show. The speaker is a noted fashion historian and explores the event that happened once.

You must register>>>

Club Express: Orientation for local leagues
2023-05-11 10:00 - 11:00
You must register. Follow link>>>

Wyoming LWV State Convention Day 2
2023-05-07 08:00 - 12:00 | Gillette College Technical Education Center, 3251 S. 4-J Road, Gillette, WY, 82718, United States
Gillette Wyoming, Gillette College. Convention runs Saturday 12 to 5 w/ dinner following at 5:30. Sunday 8am-12

Also available via zoom. Registration fee is the same for zoom or in-person

Wyoming LWV State Convention Day 1
2023-05-06 12:00 - 17:00 | Gillette College Technical Education Center, 3251 S. 4-J Road, Gillette, WY, 82718, United States
Gillette Wyoming, Gillette College. Convention runs Saturday 12 to 5 w/ dinner following at 5:30. Sunday 8am-12

Also available via zoom. Registration fee is the same for zoom or in-person

Dinner at the Rail Yard Bar and Grille. Cash bar – 5:30pm, Dinner approximately 6pm. Guest speaker following dinner is State Senator Eric Barlow. (Speaker presentation will be streamed via zoom)

GOP hold leadership elections in Jackson
2023-05-06 12:00

MMIP March for Justice
2023-05-06 09:45 - 12:00 | FCSD #25, 121 North 5th Street, Riverton, WY, 82501, United States
All welcome to participate

Wear red (shirts, hats, bandanas, etc.)!

Make and bring signs!

MORE INFO

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day
2023-05-05 12:00

Ratification of all my 27th Amendment about Congressional Salaries
2023-05-05 00:00 - 12:00
The last 27th Amendment passed in 1992, although Congress approved it 1789, and it was intended to part of the Bill of Rights. The Amendment text is below. Read more >>>

No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

Tribal Talks: Breaking Boundaries
2023-05-04 18:00 - 20:00
This event is the last of three sponsored by CWC-Jackson, the WY Humanities Council, the WY Cultural Trust Fund, and the Teton County Library. The other dates are March 2 and March 23.
Jacki Klancher, CWC’s Professor of Environmental Science and Health and CWC students Aidan Hereford and Antoine Day present “New Voices: from Everest Base Camp to the Continental Divide.”
The CWC student team was comprised of four Indigenous students: Jada Antelope, Aidan Darissa Hereford, Red Thunder Spoonhunter, Antoine Day, and one non-Indigenous first-generation student Ryan Towne.
The journey was sponsored by Wyoming EPSCOR, Rocky Mountain Alliance for Minority Participation, and the Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium. This team paired with MeteoTracker technology manufacturers to test portable climate sensors. In Spring 2022, a small team traveled to Everest Base Camp to assess the use of these sensors for high-elevation data collection. This talk will describe the rationale behind this effort and how it relates to alpine conditions in Wyoming.

The venue will be the Teton Library Auditorium in Jackson, WY. This announcement will be updated as the date grows closer.

Virtual Screening + Q&A with filmmakers: Who She Is
2023-05-02 19:00 - 20:30
Join us — LWVWY, the filmmakers of “Who She Is” and various leaders on MMIW/P — on May 2 at 7 pm. You must register. Use the Q&R code on the image below or click here to link to the registration page.
WHO SHE IS is a documentary that highlights the lives of four women from Wind River in Wyoming caught in the MMIW [Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women] epidemic in the U.S. By bringing these missing women to life on screen, through animation and first-person storytelling, the documentary aims to humanize the people behind the statistics. Audiences will learn about each woman’s loves and losses and will come to know their story. The entire film run time is 37 minutes.
There will be a post-film question and answer session. For further information, please do not hesitate to contact Michelle Escudero at 301.219.1836 or Linda Barton at 307.349.1427.

–Wyoming PBS and LWVWY

Join Healthy WY to debrief the 2023 session & reconnect
2023-04-25 17:30 - 18:30
Join this statewide conversation. We’ll hear from grassroots leaders involved with a big win for Medicaid for Moms & the loss for Medicaid expansion.
Please pre-register to later receive a link to the Zoom call. Read more>>>

LWVUS Community Call: ERA
2023-04-25 14:00 - 15:00
A Senate vote on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is looming. Join us for a virtual community call tomorrow.
We’ll share federal updates and align on our messaging during this crucial moment for gender equality.

You must register>>>You’ll receive zoom information by email after registering.

Brookings Institute: Health Economics & Research
2023-04-25 11:00 - 13:00
On April 25, the Brookings Center on Regulation and Markets will hold a workshop for young scholars to explore these topics. Of particular interest might be the 20 minute intro at 11:00 and the rural example described here. Read more>>>
12:10 pm Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)

Data overview from Pam Owens (AHRQ)
Research example from Joanna Jiang (AHRQ): Impact of Rural Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions on Access and Quality of Care

Today: NCSD allows special public input time on gender rules
2023-04-24 16:30

ARSONIST, a play by J. Goldfinger & produced by Relative Theatrics
2023-04-20 19:30 - 21:00
This play is part of the 2023 Shepard Symposium. This tale is inspired by Electra — daughter of Kind Agamemnon in Greek mythology. We have a father-daughter arson team on the run in the Everglades. “The play is a meditation on the themes of life and death, the power of nature over humanity, and the ties that bind father to daughter.”
Relative Theatrics (RT) — founded in August 2013 by Anne Mason — performances take place on the stage of the historic Gryphon Theatre. Seating is limited to 50 for an intimate theatre-going experience.
The play is performed at the Gryphon Theatre in the Laramie Civic Center a little to the SE of campus — see map below.

SCOTUS hears Pugin v. Garland + Garland v. Cordero-Garcia
2023-04-19 08:00 - 17:00

SCOTUS hears oral arguments for Groff v. DeJoy
2023-04-18 10:00 - 11:00

Alternate Voting Methods Task Force LWVCO
2023-04-17 18:30 - 20:00
Join in the discussion with the permanent committee on alternative voting methods. If you missed their meeting last month 3/20/2023, click here to watch its recording
The committee has the stated purpose “to promote the collective actions necessary to advance equity and justice in Colorado’s systems and policies in the area of alternative voting methods as aligned with League positions.” It tries to influence public policy through advocacy, it organizes webinars, workshops, and presentations. Go to register for the upcoming meeting>>>

LWVWY Regular Board meeting
2023-04-17 18:00 - 19:30

SCOTUS hears Pugin v. Garland + Garland v. Cordero-Garcia
2023-04-17 10:00 - 12:00
Two cases will be heard together. Both hinge on the definition or understanding of “obstruction of justice.” Specifically, may an offense after or before a legal procedure count as an obstruction to that procedure? Both defendants were long-time — 1985 and 1964, respectively — legal permanent residents in the US. Both were being removed from the US for offenses after the procedures.
Congress codified the meaning of obstruction of justice in 1996. Does this supersede this legal phrase as used earlier, e.g., the 1893 decision “obstruction can only arise when justice is being administered?”

Both sides refer to Title 18, Chapter 73 of the U.S. Code. Title 18 is the unit concerning Crimes & Criminal Procedures while Chapter 73 within Title 18 discusses Obstruction of Justice using 21 sections, each discussing an example of obstruction. Read more>>>

DC Emancipation Day Panel
2023-04-16 16:30 - 17:45
April 16th is a celebration of President Lincoln’s D.C. Emancipation Act, which freed approximately 2,989 African Americans in 1862 during the Civil War. Meet DC leaders leading this fight for a panel discussion. You must register. Go to register>>>

Join 5th annual Out of the Darkness campus walk
2023-04-15 11:00 - 12:30

The Big Truth: Maj Garrett & David Becker discuss their new book
2023-04-11 17:30 - 19:00
Sponsored by the Colorado LWV, this session hosts co-authors well-known to the politics of Washington DC. Here is a short review of their book. You must register for the event. Read more>>>
“Concerned that the sanctity of the 2022 midterm elections is at stake if not democracy itself, Major Garrett, CBS’s Chief Washington Correspondent and elections expert David Becker have written one of the definitive books on the subject. Vivid, doggedly researched, and deeply important, it is a crucial work at an important time. It will interest citizens of all parties and political persuasions alike.”
—Jay Winik, historian, and New York Times bestselling author of April 1865: The Month That Saved America and 1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History
