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Date: 12/19/2024
Subject: LWVOC Newsletter & Events
From: Lisa K Adkins


Check out our annual year-end video montage: LWVOC 2024  It's the longest one yet because 2024 was BUSY!  You'll see our Voter Services teams, the AAP-FOP volunteers, Leaguers participating in local events including parades, protests, and government meetings.
 
Have you visited our Photo Albums page recently?  You can view many of our 2024 events including Hot Topics.  Did you know that as a member, you can also upload a photo album of your experience at a League event.  Log into your profile in our Club Express system at  lwvoc.org for easy instructions.
 
As an Orange County Leaguer, that also makes you a member of the LWVUS.  They've released their impressive "wrap-up" of the year and it includes the following impressive numbers nationally!
  • VOTE411 Covered more than 55,000 candidates in nearly 30,000 elections
  • Leagues Connected with voters more than 30 million times with GOTV info
  • 1.86 Million voters reached through Spanish-language ads
  • 9.19 Million people received election info through vote411.org
  • 9.38 Million voters protected via litigation/28 federal cases & 25 state cases
 
UPCOMING EVENTS
Immigration: What is next for Central Florida?
An estimated 1.2 million undocumented immigrants live in Florida and often work at construction sites, farms, hotels and as caregivers to the young and old. President-elect Trump has vowed mass deportations of those who are in the United States illegally, which has stirred deep concern among immigrant families. The LWVOC will host a Jan. 8 Hot Topics lunch and discussion — “Immigration: What’s Next for Central Florida?”— that will look at how our community is preparing for sweeping deportation orders.

WESH 2 Anchor Nancy Alvarez, the child of Cuban immigrants, will moderate the discussion. The panel includes:
   *Members, be sure to log into the system first to receive your discount.
 
Hot Topics returns JAN 8. and we're beginning the year with one of the hottest topics in the nation but even hotter for central Florida!
 
This is a great opportunity to invite a friend to lunch and share the impact that LWVOC makes on the community. 
What is the PURPOSE of our annual planning meeting?
  -Setting priorities for grassroots involvement for the upcoming 2025-26 year
How do we IDENTIFY possible areas of advocacy?
  -We engage our members through roundtable discussion and reflection on the past year's
          accomplishments
When are those priorities DEFINED and what happens NEXT?
-Members are polled during the meeting and the results move on to the Board for final discussion and
future presentation at our Annual Meeting
 
*Members, log into the system and register below
Don't delay!  Many of you are seeing your RENEWAL notices on the lwvoc.org site or in an email.  Please do so before DEC 31.
In 2025, joining or renewing with LWVOC will be transferring to our national site but, there's still time for you to take care of your membership locally.  Simply RENEW or if you've been putting it off, JOIN by visiting: MEMBERSHIP Here.
Clare Durante
Maria Bledsoe
Amanda Brady – Susan B. Anthony member
Keyanni McGill
Marell Ferrao
Charles Keefer – Ida B. Wells member
 
Interested in giving the GIFT of League membership to friends or family?  Email the lwvocmembership@gmail.com team for more information.
 
Share this newsletter and invite your family and social circles to JOIN the League of Women Voters of Orange County!
 Sue Dulin, in honor of of Nancy Nix, for her dedication to democracy, women's rights and the importance of the vote in our country
 
Melinda A. Wright, a generous gift to the LWVOC Giving Society
 
Visit our Donor page to see the MANY different ways you can support the League of Women Voters of Orange County.

Sponsors are vital to our work to empower voters by providing timely information for the benefit of non-partisan civic engagement in our community.

To further explore how becoming a Hot Topics Sponsor can align with your business goals, please contact LWVOC Vice President, Lee Rambeau Kemp HERE

A range of sponsorship levels are available.

Statewide call to action: The League of Women Voters supports the Florida Right to Clean Water campaign, a citizens' initiative to amend the Florida Constitution with the right to clean and healthy waters. If our current laws were working, then we wouldn’t have manatees dying in record numbers, 80% of our 1000 springs impaired, and harmful blue-green algae and red tide in greater frequency and duration. A constitutional right takes precedence over legislation that permits pollution, restricts fertilizer bans, and allows radioactive materials to be used in our roads. Create a legacy for the future of our waters!

The Right to Clean Water! In support of establishing our basic right to clean and healthy water, LWVOC has committed to helping get this citizen initiative on the 2026 ballot. Please sign your own petition. Those who signed prior to 2024 will need to sign the new petition.

Learn how YOU can become an active volunteer here:  https://www.floridarighttocleanwater.org/resources
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