Emailing - League of Women Voters of Albany County

Date: 8/23/2025
Subject: Women's Equality or Inequality
From: Albany County League of Women Voters

August 26: Women's Equality - or Inequality - Day

August 26, known as Women's Equality Day, marks the anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment, granting some women the right to vote. Yet today, women have fewer rights than they have had in decades. To recognize this, we acknowledge it also as Women's Inequality Day.

LWVAC's Commemorations

Shirley Chisolm: Unbought and Unbossed. Sunday, August 24, 2 pm at the Albany Public Library Delaware Avenue Branch. A documentary about the 1972 presidential campaign of the trailblazer Shirley Chisholm. Light refreshments served. Register Here.

Women's Equality information displays at area libraries: Albany Public Library branches, as well as Berne, Bethlehem, Guilderland, Colonie, Menands, Watervliet, Ravena and Voorheesville public libraries. You also can read about the passage of the 19th Amendment and suffragists who fought for its passage on our Womens Equality Day webpage.

Join LWV Saratoga County at the SOS Rally for Voting Rights
Tuesday, August 26, 12 noon at the Broadway entrance to Saratoga Springs' Congress Park

Give democracy 30 minutes of your time. Bring a flag. Bring a friend.

The President is vowing to radically restrict voting rights by eliminating mail-in ballots and even voting machines. On the anniversary of women in the US getting the right to vote, gather to call attention to this travesty by rallying in defense of ALL citizens having voting rights with nonpartisan messaging that defends democratic ideals and practices. For information, contact president@lwvsaratoga.org

"Not your grandmother's bridge party."

LWVAC member advocate Christine Primomo is featured in an 8/20/25 Altamont Enterprise article about one way to get out messaging about the existential crisis that we face as a nation. The "bridge parties" she organized don't involve players around a card table. Rather they involve activists displaying banners across a bridge -- banners to inspire passersby to join the movement to preserve democracy. The Visibility Brigade of which her group is a part, began in Paramus, New Jersey in 2020. Christine says, “It’s like we have to save this country for our grandchildren and future generations.” Continue Reading. . .

(Photo by Sonja Stark)

Colleague Event - Coming Up September 4th

Skills for Disagreeing Better. A Braver Angels Workshop
5- 6:30 pm at Colonie's William K. Sanford Library

Learn about the values and concerns of the other political side. Practice skills for communicating more effectively in the presence of disagreement. The program is open to everyone. For more information, contact Bruce France at bfrance@braverangels.org or (518) 441-9584. Register here.

Join League of Women Voters of Albany County in the fight for a democracy by the people, for the people — all of the people. With threats to our democratic systems on the rise, the League of Women Voters continues to protect voting rights and drive change.

The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan grassroots organization that encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

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