Past Events For South Carolina + Columbia Area

Girl with vote411 sign
Event Date: 
09/24/2022 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Event location: 

Columbia Canal and Riverfront Park

Mid-term elections will be November 8. Which races are in your district?  Who are the candidates?  Where do they stand on the issues?   Where should you go to vote?

Girl with vote411 sign
Event Date: 
09/23/2022 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
Event location: 

West Columbia Riverwalk

Mid-term elections will be November 8. Which races are in your district?  Who are the candidates?  Where do they stand on the issues?   Where should you go to vote?

DEI Image
Event Date: 
09/21/2022 - 3:30pm

Recently, Governor McMaster has signed into law 2 bills that impact children and restrict access to healthcare. The “Save Women’s Sports Act” bans transgender students from playing girls’ or women’s sports in public schools and colleges. The “Medical Acts and Diversity Act” allows medical providers to deny services based on religious beliefs to people, including LGBTQ people.

Sponsored by the LWV of Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Area, this panel presentation will clarify the difference between facts and misinformation and enhance understanding of the complexities of gender and sexual identity, particularly as they relate to personal and political issues.

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LWVCA Book Club
Event Date: 
09/21/2022 - 12:00pm

Book club will be meeting September 21, 12pm to discuss The Turnaway Study, by Diana Greene Foster.  All members are welcome.  You don't need to have read the book to attend.

Black Women's Equal Pay Day Sept 20, 6 pm virtual forum
Event Date: 
09/20/2022 - 6:00pm
Event location: 

Zoom

Learn about the impact of pay inequality at our online conversation with Nichelle Harrison, a business owner, WREN director, and AAUW member; and Rep. Chandra Dillard, a leading sponsor of the Equal Pay Act in the State House, and a passionate advocate. There's an equal pay day for every ethnic and racial demographic because no group of women is on pay check parity with white males in the US.Sponsored by the LWV of Greenville County.
 
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Register to Vote
Event Date: 
09/20/2022 - 12:00am to 11:45pm

LWVCA will be participating in National Voter Registration Day with voter registration events at the following locations:

Still Hopes Retirement Center
10am - noon and 2pm - 4pm

Event Date: 
09/15/2022 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm

What’s Up with the South Carolina Legislature?      

Womens Equality Day logo
Event Date: 
08/26/2022 - 12:00am to 11:45pm

In recognition of passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, the U.S.

The Big Debate by Chris Garcia
Event Date: 
08/23/2022 - 7:00pm
Event location: 

University of South Carolina Aiken, Ethredge Center

With the national premiere of an original playlet, The Big Debate, this event brings to life the fraught friendship and the competition for recognition between voting rights stalwarts Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony.

Voting Matters: Suppression and Disenfranchisement
Event Date: 
08/18/2022 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Event location: 

University of South Carolina Aiken, Etheredge Center

Leon Russell, National Board Chairman of NAACP
Eugene White, President, Aiken County Branch of NAACP
Lynn Shuler Teague, Vice President for Issues and Action, LWV-SC

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