7-9 p.m., Amherst Women's Club
Program: ranked choice voting.
3 p.m.,
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt
6-9 p.m., ARMS Auditorium
Three forums for district and at-large candidates in one evening.
LWVA Co-President letter on racism
Did you see Kathy Vorwerk Feldman's letter to the editor in the Hampshire Gazetter 5/13 or the Amherst Bulletin 5/16?
Revised 2014 Directory ‘They Represent You' Now Available
Important contact information is listed in They Represent You, the League's annual directory of elected town-wide officials and Town Meeting Members, U.S.
MA Bills to Support in this new Legislative Term
Last November, some voters in Massachusetts had to wait hours to cast their vote and many others did not vote due to our out-dated voter registration system. This must change. It is time to pass comprehensive election reform legislation -- including election audits, pre-registration for 16 and 17 year-olds, online voter registration, Election Day Registration and more. Please call your representatives today.
Please support election modernization legislation in 2013.
Expanded Polystyrene (Styrofoam*) Ban Passed in Amherst
A coalition consisting of the Amherst Recycling and Refuse Management Committee, the LWVA, and The Hitchcock Center for the Environment worked together to pass a new Town bylaw to ban the use of take-out Styrofoam products in the Town of Amherst. The ban will not take effect until January 1, 2014, and there will be hardship deferments if a restaurant cannot find non-Styrofoam* products to use. However, there are distributors in western Massachusetts which have many non-Styrofoam, compostable plant-based products, and there is also the possibility of a consortium for bulk buying being form
Democracy in the Balance: Money, Speech and Power
There is much we do not understand. Educating our membership (including ourselves), and spreading the word to the grassroots are necessary first steps to whatever direction our advocacy efforts will take. The MA Leagues of Concord/Carlisle and Sudbury recently developed an educational presentation and suggested that we preview it in Amherst.
In October 2012, the LWVA’s Follow the Money (FT$) Interest Group, presented its version of the program, ‘Democracy in the Balance: Money, Speech and Power’ to the Amherst League.