Action and Advocacy

Action and Advocacy

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League Action and Advocacy

 

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League of Women Voters takes action on issues or advocates for a cause when there is an existing League position or principle hat supports the issue or speaks to the cause.  Without a position, League members may not take action on an issue or advocate for a cause.

League action takes many forms:

        • providing information to members and the public
        • influencing public opinion
        • circulating petitions
        • forming and joining coalitions
        • urging governmental action
        • supporting or opposing legislation
        • meeting with or contacting elected officials
        • lobbying

  

League Positions

Positions result from a process of study and consensus.  Any given study, whether it be National, State, or Local, is thorough in its pursuit of facts and details.  Prior to the results of the study being presented to the general membership, study committee members fashion consensus questions that are then addressed by the membership.  Additional discussion, pro and con, takes place as League members (not part of the study committee) learn the scope of the study until a consensus is reached.   It is the consensus statement -- the statement resulting from the consensus questions -- that becomes a position.

A League may also adopt a position through the concurrence process.  Instead of responding to consensus questions developed by a study committee, the local membership or delegates are asked to agree with a position statement that has already been arrived at through study and consensus by another League.  Members of a local League or delegates to a convention are provided with the same kind of thorough and unbiased information as when using the consensus process.

  

What is "Program"?

In League, the term "Program" refers to the process of studying issues, developing positions through the consensus or concurrence process, prioritizing positions for action and taking action on those positions. 

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When democracy is attacked, we can’t stay neutral. We must stand in our positions and advocate for what is right and just. 

LWVUS CEO Virginia Kase

 

 

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