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Friday, June 7, 2013

Lecture (6/12/2013): Affordable health Care Act -- Free lecture hosted at Three Oaks Vickers Theatre, MI

from League of Women Voters website (Berrien County and Cass County) Health Care Reform: What We Know and Don't Know. - - - The speaker on Wed. June 12 at 7 p.m. is Diane Hackbarth, RN, PhD and University of Loyola (Chicago, IL) professor and an accomplished public health educator, researcher, and program evaluator for more than 30 years. Dr. Hackbarth will discuss the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as "Obamacare") - what did we do before Obamacare, why we need to do it differently, and what is going to happen as Obamacare is implemented - - what changes, what stays the same? This meeting is open to the public and there is no charge. at the Vickers Theatre 6 N. Elm Street Three Oaks, MI 49128 http://lwvbcc.org/calendar.html

1 comment:

Timothy Shaw said...

Who is this group of activists - concerned voters (both female and some male)?

The League of Women Voters of Berrien and Cass Counties is an active and growing organization. Since 2005 our membership has more than doubled and we are currently the 4th largest League in Michigan. In part this is because the League is really the only grassroots, multi-issue, nonpartisan political organization working at all levels of government in this area.
LWVBCC has a variety of meetings each year often with world class speakers. Senator Debbie Stabenow visited us in September 2010 and in November 2010 Dr. Rosina Bierbaum, Dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment and a rock star in the scientific world, spoke on climate change at a sold out dinner co-sponsored by Fernwood Botanical Garden. Environment and Energy related issues have consistently been a focus. Beth Wallace of the National Wildlife Federation was the featured speaker at a very well attended September 2011 public meeting on pipelines, including the Keystone XL pipeline

In addition, we do traditional League things like voter service, program planning for conventions and consensus meetings on national and state items, most recently consensus meetings on the Role of the Federal Government in Public Education--held at a new local winery!--and Privatization of Government Services

Voter Service is always huge in a major election year. We had three forums in the summer of 2012 before the primaries and just had four very well attended candidate debates in October. We organized a coaltion of the League and 8 other community organizations to induce the candidates to prticipate in our forums. From March 2012 through the voter registration deadlie on October 9 LWVBCC registered 483 voters.

http://lwvbcc.org/LWVBCC.html