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Date: 1/5/2025
Subject: The DEI Dispatch - January 5, 2025
From: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee



DEI 2024-2025
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
Dispatch
  
January  5, 2025

If you have announcements to pass onto the DEI Committee, please email it to dei@lwvtucson.com. The next issue of the DEI Dispatch will be January 19, 2025.
 
LWVGT DEI Policy - adopted November 11, 2021
 

League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson (LWVGT) is fully committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in principle and in practice. LWVGT aims to build a participant base that is representative of all dimensions that make each individual unique. Our aim is to be inclusive, affirming, and welcoming of all identities. We intend to ensure that each individual has access to the same opportunities to grow, contribute, and develop within the organization. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to the organization's current and future success in engaging all individuals, households, communities, and policymakers in creating a more perfect democracy. 

 


NDRH 2025 flyer
2025 National Day of Racial Healing
Planning Meeting
Monday, January 6, 2025
5:30 PM
LWVGT Office
800 N. Swan, Suite 126, Tucson
For more information email dei@lwvtucson.com
 
The National Day of Racial Healing takes place annually on the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The observance grows every year as people across the country work to create connections and share a sense of belonging. The League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson and the YWCA of Southern Arizona are again partnering on an event to celebrate NDRH. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, January 18, 2025.
 
If you missed the event last year you can view a video recording on the League website at Members/You Tube Library/click videos and it is the first two videos in the fourth row down.  View NDRH 2024

Underwriting/Sponsoring NDRH
The NDRH Committee has written a letter soliciting underwriters or sponsors for the event.  If you know of an individual, organization, or business that may be interested in providing some funds for the NDRH email dei@lwvtucson.com.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in 2025

As we begin a new year it is time to reflect on how DEI will be a part of LWVGT. What will be the focus?  It is a time for dialog and planning.  

What will be the format?  Do we wish to have in person gatherings like we hosted in November? Would we like to add movie discussions to our activities? (see below) What are your thoughts and suggestions?
 
We will discuss all thoughts at the February 12 DEI meeting.  At that time LWVGT President and President-Elect will be with us to share the Vision from LWV.

DEI Movies
Would you like to discuss a movie you viewed that has a DEI theme?  If the answer is "yes", do you have suggestions as to how you would like to have this discussion.  Please share at dei@lwvtucson.com
 
One suggestion is to have a DEI Movie Discussion group on the first Thursday of the odd months to compliment the DEI Book group the meets on the first Thursdays of the even months at 6 PM.  
 
Here are a few movies members have viewed in the past month:
 
The Six Triple Eight - The US Army's only predominantly Black, all-women battalion serving oversees in WWII must do the impossible in the stirring drama based on true events.  2024 2h 9m - Available on Netflix, Prime
 
Free State of Jones - A Mississippi farmer-turned-outlaw leads a ragtag ban of fellow Civil war deserters and enslaved people in a rebellion against the Confederacy. Based on true events. 2016 2h 19m - Available on Netflix
 
The Old Oak - When a group of Syrian refugees move into a once thriving mining town in Northern England prejudice fuels a rift between the community and its newest inhabitants.  2024 1h 52m - Available on Prime, Kanopy
 
One Life - Nicholas Winton is a young London stockbroker who leading up to the beginning of WWII rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Based on a true story. 2023 1h 49m - Available on Kanopy 
 

The DEI Outreach Committee
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
1:30 PM  
Zoom

DEI Book Discussion Group
Thursday, February 6
6 PM
 
The DEI Book Discussion Group will meet Thursday, February 6to discuss the Ta-Nehisi Coates  book The Message, One World Press, 2024.
 
Future Book titles:
  • Thursday, April 3 - Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America by Martin Duberman.
  • Thursday, June 5 - Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II by Daniel James Brown
 
This group meets on the first Thursday of even-numbered months.  There is a discussion host for each meeting who will provide discussion questions.  For more information email dei@lwvtucson.com


DEI Committee Meeting
Wednesday, February 12
6 PM
Zoom
Discussion 
The Future of LWVGT DEI
Emily Bridson, President
and
Betsy Boggia, President-Elect
 
What will be the focus of LWVGT DEI in the coming year? Following a very busy election year LWV is pondering its vision for the coming two-four years.  LWVGT President, Emily Bridson, and President-Elect, Betsy Boggia will attend the DEI meeting where we can have a dialog about the goals for DEI's future.  Please bring your questions and suggestions.

YUMMY!
The Potluck of Thanks on November 19 was a time of great fellowship and delicious food.  We all have wonderful memories of the evening and the meal.  If you prepared a dish for the event, would you be willing to share your recipe?  Please respond to dei@lwvtucson.com. It would be greatly appreciated!

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES


Nogales Buffalo Soldiers 
Legacy Association
Fourth Annual Salute
Saturday, February 1
10:30 AM
Camp Stephen D. Little

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