• COMING SOON: Beginning in September we will begin having statewide Zoom Voter Power Hour every other month. We will focus on issues that affect us all. Our members and new members want to do more to protect our democracy and the due process of law. Our first meeting will start with the exactly that: Democracy: What can we do?
• OUR FIRST ZOOM: Voter Power Hour will be September 23 at 6: 30 on Zoom available to all Missouri League members and their guests. In September we will discuss Unite and Rise 8.5 and Redistricting in Missouri. In November we will discuss the Effects of Medicaid Cuts in Missouri.

• FALL MEETTING: We will not offer a Fall Meeting in leu of the Voter Power Hour 

• NEW COMMITTEE: Welcome to our newest committee: People with Disabilities Committee, co-Chaired by Barbara Sheinbein and Diane Golden. If you are interested in joining, you may contact them via email. 

- Barbara Sheinbein: homeplate9 [at] sbcglobal.net
- Diane Golden: diane.c.golden [at] gamil.com

• STAND UP FOR CLEAN WATER:Contact your representative to oppose HR 3898 which would gut the Clean Water Act by the PERMIT Act. The PERMIT Act is a package of 15 anti-clean bills to remove the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to block dangerous projects, limits the rights of states and tribes to protect their own water, shields polluters from being held accountable and opens the door to unchecked pollution.

- The LWV of five states make up the Interleague Upper Mississippi River Region (UMRR). They submitted a request to LWVUS and were granted permission for all five states to submit letters to oppose HR 3898.
- See the letter sent by LWVMO opposing HR 3898. Feel free to use it as a template to write to your representative.

• REDISTRICTING: Jobs with Justice is organizing community meetings to prepare for potential redistricting in Missouri. The first meeting is planned for August 20 th . Liz Wertz and Sandy Michaels, Co-Presidents of LWVSWMO will keep us informed.
• LEGISTATIVE ACTION COMMITTEE will move from the Kansas City League to the MO State League. The committee has grown and now has members all across the state to monitor statewide MO legislative bills
• JEDI BOOK CLUB: After a good discussion of The Last German Slave Girl, the group chose a documentary for our next meeting. We can watch it together by screensharing it from Kanopy (Two Towns of Jasper | Kanopy) and discuss it after the 90-minute film.

- Here's the summary: In 1998 in Jasper, Texas, James Byrd, Jr., a black man, was chained to a pick-up truck and dragged to his death by three white men. The town was forever altered, and the nation woke up to the horror of a modern-day lynching. In Two Towns of Jasper, two film crews, one black and one white, set out to document the aftermath of the murder by following the subsequent trials of the local men charged with the crime. The result is an explicit and troubling portrait of race in America, one that asks how and why a crime like this could have occurred. 

We tentatively chose 6 pm on Thursday, Sept. 18.