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MetroWest Ranked Choice Voting Launch

Join Voter Choice Massachusetts , on Monday, July 21, 2025, 6:30-8:00pm. for the MetroWest RCV Launch — a first-of-its-kind organizing meeting focused on winning the right to use RCV in Newton and surrounding cities and towns, including Brookline, Needham, Waltham, Wellesley, and Weston.

Featured speakers will be those successfully organizing towards their city or town passing RCV, and Newton resident Terry Altherr, who helped with GOTV during the New York City mayoral primary campaign, speaking on the difference between that experience and GOTV campaigns in MA that do not use RCV.

Newton Free Library – Druker Auditorium 330 Homer Street, Newton, Massachusetts 02459.  Bring a friend!

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Housing and Climate Change Forum

On Wednesday, April 30 at 7:00pm, Newton for Everyone will be hosting a forum on Housing and Climate Change: What’s the Connection?   The featured speaker is Dan Ruben, long-time Newton resident and a leading voice in sustainability practices

Housing’s impact is not only about how we build our homes, but also where we build our homes.  Explore how strategic housing development can contribute to a more sustainable future for Newton.

This is a hybrid event –  in person at the Scandinavian Living Center – Nordic Hall, 206 Waltham St., West Newton.  Or streaming on Zoom.

Register HERE.

LWVN is a coalition partner with Newton for Everyone.

Forum on a Single Payer Health System for Massachusetts

On Thursday, April 10, 2025, the Massachusetts Campaign for Single Payer Health Care (MASS-CARE) held a forum on Medicare for All, A Single Payer Health System for MA.  This program was co-sponsored by LWVN; Our Revolution Watertown/Waltham/Newton; Progressive Watertown; the law office of Ken Ormes, attorney; Our Revolution MA; and Mass Nurses Association.

The program was hosted by Alison Leary, Newton City Councilor-at-Large.  Keynote speakers were Donald Berwick MD, MPP, FRCP, former Chief of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid under the Obama administration; Gordon Schiff, MD, quality and safety director for the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care Physicians for a National Health Program; and Bruce Fleischer, retired Services Employees International Union organizer and chair of the labor committee of Mass-Care.

The forum addressed the problems of our current health care system; the shortcomings of the ACA; how a single payer health care system in Massachusetts can achieve fair, equitable and high-quality healthcare in the Commonwealth for all; the myths surrounding Medicare for All; and what it would take to achieve a single payer health care system in the Commonwealth.

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Newton for Everyone Hybrid Event – October 28, 7:00pm: Housing for Older Adults in Newton

Join Newton for Everyone, on Monday, October 28, 2024 at 7:00pm for a conversation about Housing for Older Adults in Newton: Challenges and Opportunities. 

Do you know someone who wants to stay in Newton but whose house isn’t working for them anymore?  Many Newton seniors face the choice between remaining in a home that no longer suites them and moving away from their community of friends and family.  While housing matters to the health and wellbeing of all people, aging can bring specific challenges: costs, accessibility, and access to services.  Newton residents Lizbeth Heyer of 2Life Communities and Jennifer Molinsky of Harvard University will discuss these challenges and ways to meet them with innovative housing options that fit diverse preferences and needs of the city’s older residents.

Register for in-person

LWVN is a coalition partner of Newton for Everyone.

See the Recording of our Topic Meeting on Ballot Question #2

On Monday, October 7, 2024, LWVN, together with its cosponsors LWVMA, LWV Boston, LWV Brookline,  LWV Needham, LWV Harvard, LWV Waltham, LWV Wellesley, and LWV Weston, hosted a forum to discuss Question #2 on November’s ballot:  Should Massachusetts eliminate the MCAS test as a high school graduation requirement?

We heard an extremely robust debate about the pros and cons of this ballot initiative from our panelists Deb McCarthy and Alain Jehlen (proponents of “Yes” on Question #2), Ed Lambert and Jill Norton (proponents of “No” on Question #2), and Farah Assiraj (a school administrative expert).  Our moderator was Heather Hamilton.  This event was taped by Brookline Interactive Group (“BIG”), Brookline’s local media outlet.

VIEW THE RECORDING.

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LWVMA Forum on Ballot Question #1: Audit Authority

Join LWVMA on Tuesday, October 8 at 7:00 PM via Zoom for an educational forum on Ballot Question 1: State Auditor’s Authority to Audit the Legislature.

We will be briefed on arguments for and against the measure and then questions will be taken. Register HERE.

Review the LWVMA statement on the November 2024 ballot questions HERE.