[LWVNM Action] LWVNM Centennial Celebrations, August 23 and August 26. Let's get out the vote!

Tue Aug 18 19:01:11 MDT 2020

Thousands of activities commemorating 100 years of the women's vote are
happening around the country this week:
<https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/Centennial-Upd
ate-August-16-22.pdf>
https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/Centennial-Upda
te-August-16-22.pdf 

Articles galore are coming out about the importance of the centennial and
the power of the vote. While young voters are severely underrepresented in
the vote, there is hope that the centennial is building awareness.  

<https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/18/5-first-time-women-voters-on-the-19th-amend
ment-and-2020-election.html>
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/18/5-first-time-women-voters-on-the-19th-amendm
ent-and-2020-election.html Here are the highlights of NM's events Other
suffrage week events and election information:
https://www.cabq.gov/culturalservices/the-womens-vote 
Sunday, Aug 23: Women's Vote Centennial Car Parade in Santa Fe, 2-3 pm,
<https://www.lwvsfc.org/> https://www.lwvsfc.org/
Meet in PERA parking lot across from Capitol before 2 pm sharp. Proceed
north on Santa Fe Trail toward Plaza. Take right on San Francisco, left on
Cathedral Place, left on Palace, right on Washington St, left on Marcy,
passing City Hall, left at Federal Court Building, left on Grant Ave passing
Santa Fe County Headquarters on right (Grant and Catron) and Nina
Otero-Warren's House at 135 Grant. Honk twice and then wend your way back
home.
Look for LWVCNM's ad in the Albuquerque Journal on Sunday, August 23,
highlighting the centennial, League goals, values, and actions that support
suffrage over the past 100 years, including voter guides and now Vote 411. 
***
Watch NM's Women's Equality Day Celebration, Wednesday, August 26, 4-7 pm 

Non-partisan virtual celebration of the women's vote centennial/ratification
of the 19th Amendment. 
Links to Join the Event:  
 <https://youtu.be/sA4mqaSChFo> https://youtu.be/sA4mqaSChFo  
https://www.facebook.com/events/2433123916980590/

The celebration will create a tapestry of women standing together, showing
the strength and power of their vote. An 18-year-old woman from each of NM's
counties will speak the first year they are permitted to vote along with a
woman from each of the 50 states and D.C. briefly stating why they vote. One
Native American, one Black, one Hispanic, and one White woman will share
their history about the struggle to vote accompanied by songs from those
cultures. Other performance pieces will honor the women's vote. The program
includes brief remarks by some NM women leaders--including Governor Lujan
Grisham, SOS Toulouse Oliver, Supreme Court Justice Nakamura, Congresswomen
Deb Haaland and Xochitl Torres Small. A new program that will help survivors
of domestic violence access low interest loans will be launched. Martha Burk
will speak on Economics, Women and the Power of Voting, and Olivia Friedman
will read excerpts from her book  2020 and Beyond, The Next Steps for Women.

Learn much more about NM's role in the suffrage movement and more about the
struggle for voting rights through
<https://www.newmexicopbs.org/new-mexico-and-the-vote-podcast/>
https://www.newmexicopbs.org/new-mexico-and-the-vote-podcast/ four episodes.
https://nmhumanities.org/women2020/
 <https://youtu.be/OJ2d8eI5LWU> https://youtu.be/OJ2d8eI5LWU

 <https://libguides.unm.edu/c.php?g=956352>
https://libguides.unm.edu/c.php?g=956352,
<https://www.nps.gov/articles/new-mexico-and-the-19th-amendment.htm>
https://www.nps.gov/articles/new-mexico-and-the-19th-amendment.htm. 

Read LWVCNM's August issue of the Voter
<https://www.lwvcnm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Voter2020_08.pdf>
download here
. This terrific issue focuses on the history of the suffrage in New Mexico.
Articles include a timeline from 1848 to final ratification Aug 26, 1920,
Hispanic women and the fight for the vote, Harriet Tubman and the voting
rights movement.
 <https://www.lwvcnm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Voter2020_08.pdf>
((((((((((((( 
 <https://www.lwvcnm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Voter2020_08.pdf> As we
celebrate the centennial of both the 19th Amendment and the League of Women
Voters, I want to thank each of you for being dedicated to using fair,
accessible, and inclusive elections as the best way to advance the
principles of democracy. Today, we pay homage to the generations of
suffragists who saw that the vote was the best avenue for electing officials
who supported their policy priorities and enacting laws to protect them.
Through decades of well-organized letter writing campaigns, speeches,
marches, protests, hunger strikes, and quiet work behind the scenes studying
issues and coming to consensus on principles in the public interest, we have
raised awareness of the power of the vote. 
 <https://www.lwvcnm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Voter2020_08.pdf> The
19th Amendment changed our country and continues to do so. As we deal with
the health, education, economic, and political disparities exacerbated by
the pandemic, what once were considered women's issues are front and center
as American issues. Across racial, ethnic, age, socio-economic, and other
discussions, women are making sure that local, state and federal laws are
protecting the most vulnerable. 
 <https://www.lwvcnm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Voter2020_08.pdf> The
women's vote was the greatest expansion of democracy in our nation's
history. It continues to expand our awareness that our democracy is made of
many kinds of people living in many different conditions. We must expand the
vote and the diversity of voices at the table if we are to achieve a
government of, for, and by the people. We want everyone to prosper in terms
of quality of life, health, education, professional opportunities, and
working conditions. The more voices we have, the more chances those voices
will change our nation for the better. 
 <https://www.lwvcnm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Voter2020_08.pdf> Let's
get out the vote in recognition of those who lived and died for that right.
Let's promote Vote411.org, which will have the most inclusive voting guide
NM has ever seen. Most importantly, let's make sure that everyone who is
eligible to vote is registered and able to vote. 
 <https://www.lwvcnm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Voter2020_08.pdf> This
is our most important moment. Together, we can make amazing progress in the
long march for an inclusive democracy. 
 <https://www.lwvcnm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Voter2020_08.pdf>  
 <https://www.lwvcnm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Voter2020_08.pdf> Thanks
again! Meredith Machen, LWVNM Past President; Education, Immigration, and
History Chair
 <https://www.lwvcnm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Voter2020_08.pdf> ^^^
 <https://www.lwvcnm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Voter2020_08.pdf> Send
me a request and I will send you links to scores of articles and podcasts.
I'm excited about what's being done around the state and country, and I
think consciousness in America is changing as a result of looking at our
current conditions in the light of history. 
 <https://www.lwvcnm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Voter2020_08.pdf>  "My
___ Was a Suffragist " (Most of Americans whose families have been here for
decades are descendants)  

One hundred years after the 19th Amendment, suffragists' descendants
consider how far we've come and how far we still have to go.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/style/woman-suffrage-movement-descend.htm
l?smid=em-share

<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/style/woman-suffrage-movement-descend.ht
ml?smid=em-share> "Votes for women was a demand that was both radical and
all-American. And the nearly century-long history of how women won that
right is as colorful and kaleidoscopic as it is complicated and almost
impossible to sum up."

<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/style/woman-suffrage-movement-descend.ht
ml?smid=em-share>  

<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/style/woman-suffrage-movement-descend.ht
ml?smid=em-share> https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/2AKyZX3r7pZoJA
 <https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/2AKyZX3r7pZoJA>  
 <https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/2AKyZX3r7pZoJA>
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/17/us/suffrage-movement-photos-h
istory.html?action=click&block=associated_collection_recirc&impression_id=48
612c10-e1a6-11ea-8e98-3936b8a34dea&index=0&pgtype=Article&region=footer

<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/17/us/suffrage-movement-photos-
history.html?action=click&block=associated_collection_recirc&impression_id=4
8612c10-e1a6-11ea-8e98-3936b8a34dea&index=0&pgtype=Article&region=footer>  

<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/17/us/suffrage-movement-photos-
history.html?action=click&block=associated_collection_recirc&impression_id=4
8612c10-e1a6-11ea-8e98-3936b8a34dea&index=0&pgtype=Article&region=footer>  

<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/17/us/suffrage-movement-photos-
history.html?action=click&block=associated_collection_recirc&impression_id=4
8612c10-e1a6-11ea-8e98-3936b8a34dea&index=0&pgtype=Article&region=footer>
Meredith Machen

<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/17/us/suffrage-movement-photos-
history.html?action=click&block=associated_collection_recirc&impression_id=4
8612c10-e1a6-11ea-8e98-3936b8a34dea&index=0&pgtype=Article&region=footer>
League of Women Voters of New Mexico

<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/17/us/suffrage-movement-photos-
history.html?action=click&block=associated_collection_recirc&impression_id=4
8612c10-e1a6-11ea-8e98-3936b8a34dea&index=0&pgtype=Article&region=footer>
505-577-6337 c
 <tel:505-577-6337> projects at lwvnm.org
 <mailto:projects at lwvnm.org> meredith.machen at gmail.com
 <mailto:meredith.machen at gmail.com>  
 <mailto:meredith.machen at gmail.com> Empowering Voters - Defending
Democracy-100 Years STRONG!!!!
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