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Upcoming events

    • 25 Sep 2023
    • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    • Zoom


    • 28 Sep 2023
    • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, Cantina Room (270 N Kent Street, St. Paul, MN 55102)

    Please join us in person for a Ward 1 Candidate Forum! Submit questions and hear directly from the candidates. Questions can be submitted at the forum or in advance by emailing lwvstpaul@lwvmn.org. This forum will be recorded and posted online for later viewing.

    Partners Include: Union Park District Council, Frogtown Neighborhood Association, North End Neighborhood Association, Summit University Planning Council, Ayata Leads and St. Paul Neighborhood Network

    Don't forget to check out our one-stop-shop for all things voting at Vote411.org. Find your polling place, key deadlines, first time voter checklist, and more! By the end of September 2023, our online Voters' Guide will be up an running. Compare candidates side-by-side, share links to candidate info with friends and learn about who is seeking to represent your interests.


    • 02 Oct 2023
    • 6:30 PM (CDT)
    • Zoom

    Join us to read our fiction choice of the year, While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams. 

    "An inside-Washington thriller about an ambitious law clerk thrown into a life-or-death treasure hunt with major national implications when the Supreme Court justice she works for slips into a sudden coma."

    Email Karen (kare14will@gmail.com) to be added to the email updates.


    • 03 Oct 2023
    • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (CDT)
    • Zoom

    LWVSP Program Committee meets to discuss upcoming programs.

    Members welcome to attend. Contact the office.

    • 11 Oct 2023
    • 10:00 AM (CDT)
    • Highland Park Library (1974 Ford Parkway)

    Morning Book Club will meet Wednesday, October 11 at 10:00 a.m. at the Highland Park Library (1974 Ford Parkway) to discuss The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found by Frank Bruni.

    "One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off blood to one of his optic nerves, rendering him functionally blind in that eye—forever. And he soon learned from doctors that the same disorder could ravage his left eye, too. He could lose his sight altogether.

    In this “moving and inspiring” (The Washington Post) memoir, Bruni beautifully recounts his adjustment to this daunting reality, a medical and spiritual odyssey that involved not only reappraising his own priorities but also reaching out to, and gathering wisdom from, longtime friends and new acquaintances who had navigated their own traumas and afflictions."


    Please join even if you haven't read the book. 

    • 16 Oct 2023
    • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    • Zoom


    • 19 Oct 2023
    • 6:30 PM
    • Highland Library (1974 Ford Parkway, St. Paul)

    Join us for the October Voter Service Committee Meeting! Agenda TBD.

    • 06 Nov 2023
    • 6:30 PM (CST)
    • Zoom

    How Civil Wars Start: and How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter.

    "A leading political scientist examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States. Political violence rips apart several towns in southwest Texas. A far-right militia plots to kidnap the governor of Michigan and try her for treason. An armed mob of Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists storms the U.S. Capitol. Are these isolated incidents? Or is this the start of something bigger?"


    Email Karen (kare14will@gmail.com) to be added to the email updates.

    • 08 Nov 2023
    • 10:00 AM (CST)
    • Highland Park Library (1974 Ford Parkway)

    We will meet to discuss Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Graber. 

    "An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life—the humble parking spot

    Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow citizens over parking spots. But even when we don’t resort to violence, we routinely do ridiculous things for parking, contorting our professional, social, and financial lives to get a spot. Indeed, in the century since the advent of the car, we have deformed—and in some cases demolished—our homes and our cities in a Sisyphean quest for cheap and convenient car storage. As a result, much of the nation’s most valuable real estate is now devoted exclusively to empty and idle vehicles, even as so many Americans struggle to find affordable housing. Parking determines the design of new buildings and the fate of old ones, patterns of traffic and the viability of transit, neighborhood politics and municipal finance, the quality of public space, and even the course of floodwaters. Can this really be the best use of our finite resources and space? Why have we done this to the places we love? Is parking really more important than anything else?"

    • 16 Nov 2023
    • 6:30 PM (CST)
    • Highland Library (1974 Ford Parkway, St. Paul)

    Join us for the November Voter Service Committee Meeting! Agenda TBD.

    • 20 Nov 2023
    • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    • Zoom


    • 28 Nov 2023
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    • Zoom


    • 02 Dec 2023
    • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Details being finalized


    • 04 Dec 2023
    • 6:30 PM (CST)
    • Zoom

    You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe.

    "In a genre overdue for a shakeup, Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds he's not quite the man we remember Young George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, chased rich young women, caused an international incident, and never backed down--even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle. But after he married Martha, everything changed. Washington became the kind of man who named his dog Sweetlips and hated to leave home. He took up arms against the British only when there was no other way, though he lost more battles than he won. Coe focuses on his activities off the battlefield--like espionage and propaganda. After an unlikely victory in the Revolutionary War, Washington once again shocked the world by giving up power, only to learn his compatriots wouldn't allow it. The founders pressured him into the presidency--twice. He established enduring norms but left office heartbroken over the partisan nightmare his backstabbing cabinet had created. Back on his plantation, the man who fought for liberty finally confronted his greatest hypocrisy--what to do with the hundreds of men, women, and children he owned--before succumbing to a brutal death. Alexis Coe combines rigorous research and unsentimental storytelling, finally separating the man from the legend."

    Email Karen (kare14will@gmail.com) to be added to the email updates.

    • 21 Dec 2023
    • 6:30 PM (CST)
    • Highland Library (1974 Ford Parkway, St. Paul)

    Join us for the December Voter Service Committee Meeting. Agenda TBD.

    • 08 Jan 2024
    • 6:30 PM (CST)
    • Zoom

    Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams. 

    "In Our Time Is Now, Abrams draws on extensive national research from her voter rights organization, Fair Fight Action, and her 2020 Census effort, Fair Count, as well as moving and personal anecdotes from her own life. Abrams weaves together the experiences of those who have fought for the vote and the right to be seen throughout our nation's history, linking them with how law and policy deny real political power. So much hangs in the balance for the 2020 election, and the stakes could not be higher. Our Time Is Now will galvanize those seeking change. It will be a critical book by the expert on fair voting and access that will show us where we fall short, who America is now, and most importantly, empower us to become the democracy we're meant to be."

    Email Karen (kare14will@gmail.com) to be added to the email updates.


    • 05 Feb 2024
    • 6:30 PM (CST)
    • Zoom

    For Love of a River: The Minnesota by Darby Nelson.

    "Growing up in the river town of Morton, Darby Nelson developed a deep taproot of affection that anchored his contagious curiosity about the land and people of the Minnesota River Valley. Now, with an ecologist’s lens and a lifelong appreciation for wild and scenic places, Darby sets out with his wife, Geri, to paddle the river all the way from its source near the Minnesota–South Dakota border to its confluence with the Mississippi in the Twin Cities.

    Includes beautiful illustrations and colored photographs of Darby and Geri’s journey."

    Right now this book is not available in the library. Email Karen (kare14will@gmail.com) to be added to the email updates which will include sharing the copies we received at the LWV Minnesota Convention. 


    • 04 Mar 2024
    • 6:30 PM (CST)
    • Zoom

    American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa. 

    "A groundbreaking Dakota author and activist chronicles her refusal to assimilate into nineteenth-century white society and her mission to preserve her culture —with an introduction by Layli Long Soldier, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for  Whereas Bright and carefree, Zitkála-Šá grows up on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until Quaker missionaries arrive, offering the reservation’s children a free education. The catch: They must leave their parents behind and travel to Indiana. Curious about the world beyond the reservation, Zitkála-Šá begs her mother to let her go—and her mother, aware of the advantages that an education offers, reluctantly agrees.   But the missionary school is not the adventure that Zitkála-Šá expected: The school is a strict one, her long hair is cut short, and only English is spoken. She encounters racism and ridicule. Slowly, Zitkála-Šá adapts to her environment—excelling at her studies, winning prizes for essay-writing and oration. But the price of success is estrangement from her cultural roots—and is it one she is willing to pay?  Combining Zitkála-Šá’s childhood memories, her short stories, and her poetry, American Indian Stories is the origin story of an activist in the making, a remarkable woman whose extraordinary career deserves wider recognition."

    Email Karen (kare14will@gmail.com) to be added to the email updates.


    • 01 Apr 2024
    • 6:30 PM (CDT)
    • Zoom

    The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs. 

    "In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them, who were all born at the beginning of the 20th century and forced to contend with the prejudices of Jim Crow as Black women. Berdis, Alberta, and Louise passed their knowledge to their children with the hope of helping them to survive in a society that would deny their humanity from the very beginning--from Louise teaching her children about their activist roots, to Berdis encouraging James to express himself through writing, to Alberta basing all of her lessons in faith and social justice. These women used their strength and motherhood to push their children toward greatness, all with a conviction that every human being deserves dignity and respect despite the rampant discrimination they faced. These three mothers taught resistance and a fundamental belief in the worth of Black people to their sons, even when these beliefs flew in the face of America's racist practices and led to ramifications for all three families' safety. The fight for equal justice and dignity came above all else for the three mothers. These women, their similarities and differences, as individuals and as mothers, represent a piece of history left untold and a celebration of Black motherhood long overdue."

    Email Karen (kare14will@gmail.com) to be added to the email updates.


    • 06 May 2024
    • 6:30 PM (CDT)
    • Zoom

    The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris. 

    "Harris communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values while offering a master class in problem solving, in crisis management, and leadership in challenging times. In examining the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, she shows how our shared efforts will continue to sustain us and this great nation, now and in the years to come."

    Email Karen (kare14will@gmail.com) to be added to the email updates.


    • 10 Jun 2024
    • 6:30 PM (CDT)
    • Zoom

    Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard. 

    "A personal and scientific work on trees, forests, and the author's profound discoveries of tree communication."

    Email Karen (kare14will@gmail.com) to be added to the email updates.


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