Environmental Concerns Speaker Series Ebmud and Our Water Situation

Our next LWVBAE Environmental Concerns meeting will be Monday, October 13, 2025 from 7:30-9:00 pm. Andy Katz our representative on the EBMUD board will give us the latest update on our water situation. Andy is an environmental and workers’ rights attorney, a Lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Law, and is a former Chair of the Sierra Club California. Join us!

The Journey of a Latino Ballot

Every Hispanic Heritage Month, we celebrate music, food, and family. In our kitchens, classrooms, and neighborhoods, we are also building something bigger: a growing voice in American democracy. That voice travels to the polls. It travels on a ballot. Imagine one ballot’s journey. It may belong to a grandmother who studied for citizenship at night and proudly cast her first vote. Or to a first-time voter who just turned 18. See more!

Strengthen the Racial Justice Act

AB 1071 (Kalra) strengthens California’s commitment to a justice system free from racial bias. Help us get this reform across the finish line.California is one signature away from a stronger, fairer justice system. To ensure the landmark Racial Justice Act (RJA) delivers on its promise of equal treatment under the law, we need you to ask Governor Newsom to sign AB 1071.Take action!

Threats to Independent Government Agencies

Since the second Trump Administration began, an estimated 199,000 civil servants have left the federal workforce. This has had a major impact on independent agencies, or government agencies within the executive branch, but whose leadership cannot be removed at will by the president, unlike cabinet secretaries. See more!

Protect democracy and the environment on the State and National levels!

1. Receive National League action alerts in your inbox - then respond with phone calls, postcards, emails  to our electeds. 

1. Receive California League action alerts in your inbox - then respond  to your electeds and more.