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Increased Gun Risk During COVID-19 – Virtual Town Hall

The Massachusetts Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence invites you to Increased Gun Risk During COVID-19, a virtual town hall featuring  Professor Matthew Miller of Northeastern University on Tuesday, April 14th at 7pm.

Professor Miller is an expert in the field of injury and violence prevention, will brief us on the intersection of guns and suicide and why the increased gun sales guns are particularly dangerous during the pandemic. We will also learn more about ERPO awareness in Massachusetts and how you can help save lives.

Please register by sending an email to:macopgv@gmail.com.  A Zoom link within 24 hours of the program.

Civics Challenge – Inaugural Event for the LWVN

In line with the League’s main objectives of educating citizens about their civic responsibilities and to increase participation in government, LWVN held its inaugural Civics Challenge on March 1st at the Cabot School.  We had 9 teams consisting of family & community groups,  middle school, high school, and college students, teachers from NSHS, and a group from the Newton TAB.

City Councilor Josh Krintzman and former Alderman Brooke Lipsitt were our informative and entertaining masters of ceremony. Our judges for the evening were Linda Morrison, Courtney Rau Rogers, and Sue Flicop.

Please join the LWVN in congratulating the three winning teams:

  1. The Newton South History Department:  Tucker Ahlers, Ashley Chapman, John Greiner & Lillian Robinson
  2. The Grads:  Michel Costello and John Lovett
  3. The Proud Lions:  Cathy Borgesen, Kevin Cheng, Dylan Dincer, & James Farmer

We want to thank the Village Bank for its support of the event; Congressman Joe Kennedy for the donation of the pocket constitutions which were given to all participants; State Senator Cynthia Creem and Represenatives Ruth Balser & Kay Khan for donating a tour of the State House as our first place prize.  In addition, our first place winners received signed copies of E is for Election Day by Gloria Gavris.

Last but by no means least, we want to thank the
LWVN Civics Challenge planning & organizing team:

Jennifer Abbott, Karen Manning, and their extraordinary leader Frieda Dweck

LWVN Topic Meeting – Climate Action Forum

On February 26th, the LWVN held  a very important  Climate Change Forum at the Scandanavian Living Center where we had approximately 90 people in attendance.  We were pleased to have had the Leagues of Framingham, Needham, Wayland, Wellesley, and Weston as co-sponsors.  We also want to thank   Launa Zimmaro, legislative specialist   for climate change and energy from the LWVMA who helped to organize this event and recruit the exceptional panelists that included:

  • Craig Altemose, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Better Future Project
  • Jordan Stutt, Carbon Programs Direct of the Acadia Center
  • Audrey Schulman Co-Founder & Executive Director of HEET (Home Energy Efficiency Team)
  • Zeyneb Magavi, HEET Director

We were also joined by State Senator Cynthia Creem who closed the meeting with important remarks regarding the The FUTURE Act  legislation for which she is the lead sponsor.

Additional information and resources from the forum.

Please join us in thanking Frieda Dweck for organizing this very successful event, along with her team of Jen Abbott,  Lisa Mirabile, and Karen Manning who worked diligently to promote the event to the League and the wider community.

 

The League Presents: Civics with author Gloria Gavris

Gloria Gavris, a Newton resident, joined Marcia Johnson for a conversation about her book E is for Election Day.   During the conversation we learn about Gloria’s early involvement in elections and civic engagement in her home town of Everett Massachusetts.  At an early age she became involved in her father and brother’s campaigns for local office.

Gloria also shared how she has been working with educators to help students, of all ages, learn more about elections and how they can become actively involved.  She shares how her book became something special to her and some of the 2016 presidential candidates.  It is fascinating!

With the 2020 presidential, congressional and state legislative campaigns in full-swing, Gloria shares ideas on how parents can use this book as an educational tool to help their families learn, real-time, more about the election process.