December 17, 2024 News Update
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January 8, 2025 11:30 am - 1:00 pm |  | Emily Lau, staff attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative at the UW-Madison law school, will speak on efforts to amend both the U.S. and WI state constitutions.
Our US Constitution is a founding document of our democracy and yet the process for changing it is in danger of becoming politicized. From the Congressional Research report cited below “Article V of the U.S. Constitution provides two ways to amend the nation’s fundamental charter. Congress, by a two-thirds vote of both houses, may propose amendments to the states for ratification, a procedure that has been used for all 27 current amendments. Alternatively, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the states, 34 at present, Article V directs that Congress “shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments…””. This alternative has never been implemented. Yet on January 25, 2022, the Wisconsin legislature voted to support the “Convention of States”, making the current total 19 states in support of this effort. The League of Women Voters (National) is “concerned that there are many unresolved questions about the powers and processes of an Article V Constitutional Convention." The League believes that such a Convention should be called only if 6 specific conditions are in place which would safeguard this process.
Our Wisconsin Constitution is also under fire. In 2024, there have been 5 state Constitutional Amendments on the ballet. Unlike the regular bills passed by the legislature, the governor cannot veto a proposed constitutional amendment. This indicates that the WI legislature is using the constitutional amendment process to bypass the governor’s veto authority. Legislating through constitutional amendments politicizes our democratic process and corrupts our Constitution. The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin advocated a “NO” vote to all of the 2024 proposed Constitutional Amendments on the ballot.
| January Book Club
January 25, 2025 |  | NOTE: There will be no December Book Club meeting.
Boys and men are struggling. Profound economic and social changes of recent decades have many losing ground in the classroom, the workplace, and in the family. While the lives of women have changed, the lives of many men have remained the same or even worsened. Our attitudes, our institutions, and our laws have failed to keep up. Conservative and progressive politicians, mired in their own ideological warfare, fail to provide thoughtful solutions. The father of three sons, a journalist, and a Brookings Institution scholar, Richard V. Reeves has spent twenty-five years worrying about boys both at home and work. His new book, Of Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood. Reeves looks at the structural challenges that face boys and men and offers fresh and innovative solutions that turn the page on the corrosive narrative that plagues this issue. Of Boys and Men argues that helping the other half of society does not mean giving up on the ideal of gender equality.
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| One of the groups working in the Driftless area (they serve the Wisconsin counties of Buffalo, Crawford, Grant, Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe, Richland, Trempealeau, and Vernon) that does good work. Find out more by visiting their website. | In the United States, women are still not guaranteed equal rights. We have seen the devastating consequences of this reality. Yet, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which will update the US Constitution to protect the equality of rights under the law regardless of sex, can be added to the Constitution with one action. With just months left in office, we are urging President Biden to act to ensure that the ERA is published.
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