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Date: 7/8/2025
Subject: July 8, 2025 News Update
From: La Crosse League of Women Voters



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July 8, 2025 News Update
 
Empower Voters, Defend Democracy

Disability Pride Month 
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Did you know that July is Disability Pride Month? This is a time to celebrate the diverse community of people with disabilities, reflect on the progress that has been made to close the equity gap so that individuals can feel empowered to live with dignity, and focus on the work that lies ahead in building inclusive communities. For instance, major inequalities persist in transportation, digital access, physical barriers and many other areas that prevent more than one billion people with disabilities, worldwide, from fully participating in society.
Disability Pride Month is celebrated in July, commemorating the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) enacted on July 26, 1990. This law was a landmark that extended civil rights protections to people with disabilities.
The Disability Pride Month flag is a charcoal gray flag with five parallel colored stripes in a diagonal band that runs from the top left to the bottom right corner:
Red: Represents physical disabilities such as stroke, arthritis, and spinal cord injuries
Gold: Represents neurodiversity such as autism spectrum disorder, brain injuries, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity
White: Non-apparent or invisible disabilities and undiagnosed disabilities
Blue: Represents emotional and psychiatric disabilities, including mental illness, anxiety, and depression
Green: Represents sensory disabilities such as deafness, blindness or low vision, lack of smell, lack of taste, audio processing disorder, and all other sensory disabilities
Black background: Represents mourning and rage for victims of ableist violence and abuse
Diagonal Stripes: Symbolizes cutting across barriers that disabled people face, and is meant to allude to the idea of light cutting through the darkness.
The flag's design also commemorates and mourns disabled people who have died due to ableism, violence, negligence, suicide, rebellion, illness, or forced sterilization.

Watch Now 
Community Forum: Focus on Medicaid
We are pleased to offer the recording of the program that was held on June 25. Full recording, with great panelists and easy to access information to use right now. 

July  Book Club
July 28, 2025 - 6:30 to 8 PM
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Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.
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*Save the Date*
Member Ice Cream Social
August 10, 2025
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Welcome all LWV members!
We hope you'll join us in thanking you for your membership, your support and your encouragement.
Drop in or stay the whole time to meet old friends and make new ones.
Ice cream will be provided! Bring a family member if you like!
Please RSVP on the Ice Cream! below by August 6 to help us know how much ice cream to have ready to enjoy.

Celebrate in Madison on August 6
Anniversary of Voting Rights Act 
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League of Women Voters of Wisconsin is hosting  a 60th Anniversary celebration, commemorating the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and we hope you can join us!
This is a powerful community gathering to honor landmark civil rights legislation and mobilize against decades of attacks on voting rights, with a call to restore and protect them through the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
The planning committee is in need of volunteers to help make this important event a success, let us know if you can help. Click here to be a volunteer!

 New Election Observer Rule 
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The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin celebrates the adoption of a new administrative rule by the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) establishing consistent standards for election observers statewide. The rule will take effect August 1, 2025 and serves as a major step forward in safeguarding election integrity and voter rights. We are proud to have played a central role in its development and passage. The rule received bipartisan support from both the WEC and the state legislature’s Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules.
“This rule would not have passed without the work of the League and our partners—from recommending that the Wisconsin Elections Commission create an advisory committee, to actively serving on that committee and offering detailed feedback on each provision. We voiced our support during public hearings and were involved at every stage of the process,” said Eileen Newcomer, Voter Education Manager for the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin. Read our full statement here.

What is the Federal SAVE Act? 
The LWVUS Is Opposed
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 Read about the SAVE Act by clicking below.


BRENNAN CENTER ON THE SAVE ACT


Make a Difference. 
Let Your Voice Be Heard. 
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We The (Informed) People
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https://www.pbs.org/  PBS.org    ttps://wisconsinwatch.org/  Wisconsin Watch                                                                                                          https://theracquet.org/  The Raquet 
https://wisconsinexaminer.com/    Wisconsin Examimer

We hold these truths....
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In Congress, July 4, 1776
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...

Your Vote is your Voice
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The Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) mailed postcards on June 13 to registered voters in Wisconsin who have not voted in the past 4 years (since the November 2022 General Election).
These voters have 30 days to respond to let their clerk know whether they want to stay on the active voter list. If you receive a card and your clerk does not hear from you or if your mailing is undeliverable, you will be placed on the inactive list and need to reregister. The deadline to return the postcard and keep your registration active is July 15th.


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