LWV Woodland is pleased to announce Davis Media Access and Democracy Winters as this year's recipients of our League's Democracy Works awards. The award event will be held at 7:00pm, Friday, Oct. 20, at American Legion Post 77, 523 Bush St., Woodland. The event is free to the public (although donations are always welcome), and desserts and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided; alcoholic beverages can be purchased at the bar.

Davis Media Access produces “Meet the Candidates” programming, which includes recording and distributing candidate forums and offering pro-and-con statements on ballot measures.

Davis Media Access has been in existence since 1988 and is a nonprofit community media and technology center, supporting local content creating through television, radio and the internet. “Coverage of local elections is core to DMA’s mission of amplifying community through media,” has stated Executive Director, Autumn Labbe-Renault, “and a partnership we offer to our city and community.”

Democracy Winters is a non-partisan network of volunteers working in the Winters area to preserve democracy and uphold constitutional freedoms through community outreach and informed engagement in local, state, and national politics. Goals of Democracy Winters include peacefully and publicly defending the “essential principles of our republic,” facilitating engagement in the democratic process as all levels of government and “promoting dialogue across political divides to find common ground and unite around shared American values.”

According to members of Democracy Winters, the group draws on a variety of tools for political advocacy, including calling and meeting with government officials and their staffs, along with other forms of peaceful activism.

To learn more about the Democracy Works award and past recipients, check out our website at https://my.lwv.org/.../woodland/news/democracy-works-award.