Women4Change Indiana News- August 2024
We have something new to hope, fight, and vote for.
Women4Change Indiana's mission in 2024 is to make sure that Project 2025's far right extremist agenda never comes to fruition and to ensure that any Hoosier who can vote, does.
Are you ready to mobilize?
Join us on the frontlines as we register new voters and protect voting access in Indiana.
Preserve democracy and change Indiana for the better by mobilizing Hoosier Voters with us.
Invest in our efforts.
Power. Partner. Volunteer.
We can't do it alone and that's why we've joined the collective efforts of national voting rights and resource coalition Vote.org, and are locking arms with stalwart nonpartisan voting access organizations: the League of Women Voters-Indiana, Hoosiers for Democracy, Common Cause, Count Us IN Indiana, and MADVoters to Lift Every Voice and Vote as we march toward National Voter Registration Day, September 17th, 2024, to bring the bottom up for Indiana. Indiana ranks last in the country for voter turnout.
Visit: http://lifteveryvoiceandvote.org
In the meantime, find integral election dates, download voter and absentee forms, our new voter guides in English, Spanish, and our Voter Guide for College Students at:
www.women4changeindiana.org/vote
What's on the line?
Democracy.
In 2024, American women’s educational attainment and voter turnout have surpassed that of men. Democracy has enabled this to happen, but 104 years later, since women gained the right to vote through the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, calls to #repeal19th and replace it with head of household voting, grow among far right and religious extremists.
Our hard work and our vote can be taken away.
We know what to do.
We must get out the vote.
Threats to voting and democracy at home and abroad
We stand in solidarity with Afghan women, who the Taliban have banned from showing their face or speaking in public.
See our faces. Hear our voices.
We acknowledge the halting and takebacks of progress and girls’ and women’s freedoms globally, threats to our freedom and Democracy, here at home, which is why we are partnering with the International Leadership Association on “Leadership for Democracy: Self, Identity, and Freedom”.
Participate in a global webinar conversation about taking local action to help preserve freedom and democracy in your communities. Individual, scholarship, and class registrations are available.
September 12, 1-3PM EST
“Leadership for Democracy: Self, Identity, and Freedom” features Dr. Ronald Heifetz, Harvard Kennedy School, and includes discussants:
Katherine Tyler Scott, ILA Host, Women4Change's Board of Directors and Civic Education Chair, Dr. Mike Hardy, OBE, is Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University and Board Chair for the International Leadership Association. and Angela Carr-Klitzsch, CEO, Women4Change
Register for "Leadership for Democracy"
“Women’s Work” in 2024 on Labor Day
Where we’ve been and where we’re going.
Dr. Cameuel Wright presented at Indiana Department of Health’s 2024 Labor of Love Summit, represented CareSource, a sponsor of the event, The Milk Bank and Women4Change Indiana, where she serves on those boards. She co-presented conference session: "Protecting Mothers and Babies through Vaccination" with Lisa Robertson from the Indiana Immunization Coalition.
Simultaneously, across the street, a Secret Service motorcade detail began to emerge: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority conference’s keynote speaker and Vice President of the United States had arrived, and conference presenters and participants gathered from the J.W. Mariott to see history in the making from across the street; Just a few days before, Vice President Harris announced she would be running in place of Joe Bident for President of the United States.
Pictured: Dr. Cameuel Wright, W4C, CareSource, and the Milk Bank and Labor of Love Conference presenters and attendees gather to witness the arrival of Vice President at the Indiana State Convention Center. July 24th, 2024. Photos: Aimee Robertson-West
Supporting Overdose Lifeline in Indiana
On August 20th, we locked arms with recovery providers at Overdose Lifeline’s block party to commemorate their 10 years of service in Indiana and to elevate overdose awareness.
Overdose prevention resources like safe needle exchange, harm reduction, and lifesaving medications like Naloxone are important and #youareworthsaving
Photo: Stephanie Picarra
National Voter Registration Day is September 17th and we’re sending out postcards to 10,000 of our closest friends and voters in Indiana.
Join our efforts to Get Out the Vote and for postcard parties with the Women’s Fund at the CICF social hub every Thursday in September from 5-7pm.
To RSVP email: vote@women4changeindiana.org
Visit Vote and Events at Women4Change Indiana to help get out the vote and to participate in our events during fall 2024.
This Labor Day, let’s talk about “women’s work”.
Women’s workforce participation (ages 25-54) is 75%, -the highest rate since the data collection began in 1948, and yet, women also do 75% of all unpaid labor in the United States.
Just because we wear it well doesn’t mean it’s not heavy.
Let’s keep going and striving for better.
Thank you for all you do to support a future of equity for women and all Hoosiers.
In solidarity,
Women4Change Indiana
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Do you have feedback about this content and news to share with Indiana and Hoosier voters through our newsroom? Contact: Aimee Robertson-West at aimee@women4changeindiana.org