Global outreach

League of Women Voters^®
of La Plata County

enabling and educating local citizens in a global world

Upcoming Events. Correspondance. News Clips. Great Decisions. Past Events. Reference Info.

Upcoming Events

*LWV of La Plata and the Common Reading Experience Program of Fort Lewis College will again sponsor the Our Voices Together 2008 Forum on Sept 18, 2008 at Fort Lewis College. Our special guest will be Greg Mortenson, co-author of the bestseller, Three Cups of Tea.
The public is invited to hear Greg at 7pm on Sept 18 at Whalen Gymnasium on the Fort Lewis College Campus. Tickets are free and can be obtained at http://www.fortlewis.edu/cre or by visiting the Community Concert Hall at FLC Downtown Ticket Office at 707 1/2 Main Ave in Durango.

Don't miss this opportunity!

*Fall 2008: Fort Lewis College has announced its Common Reading Experience book for 2008 as Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea
The fall schedule includes many events involving the students and the community. For a view of the fall CRE schedule, click CRE2008
for more information on Three Cups of Tea, click 3 cups

Correspondance from our Members

*(NEW) The LWV-blogger blog site has been launched. To check it out, click lwv-blogger

*Durango Herald Opinion Article Lifting the Rest published November 4, 2007

News Clips

*4/10/08 By Dale Rodebaugh, Herald Staff Writer Tanzanians like health collaboration, partnership between hospital, east African country in third year It's the first visit of the Tanzanians here, but Dr. Chuck Salka, an infectious-disease specialist at Mercy, and Diana McKenna, the hospital's director of mission care, have visited Tanzania. The outreach effort began in 2005.
To read more of the Tanzanian visit to Durango, click DH4-10

Great Decision Series

*January - May 2008 Great Decisions Series for 2008 - LWV of La Plata will again host the popular Great Decisions 2008 series. Topics for this series will range from Iraq to Latin America and from Defense & Security to Private Philanthropy. Deadline for signup is December 28. For more information click GD 2008 flier
For a view of the Foreign Policy Association 2008 topics, click FPA

Past Events

*12/4/07 LWV of La Plata sponsored a Great Decision "BONUS" Event entitled the Israeli - Palestine Conflict. The session will be held in the Windom Room, Durango Rec Center from 5 to 7pm. For more information click Great Decisions Bonus

*11/10/07 Approximately 200 student and community members attended A Safer, More Compassionate World Forum
LWV La Plata and the Fort Lewis College Common Reading Experience program jointly hosted the Safer, More Compassionate World Forum to highlight ways that people like us can engage constructively in what the 9/11 Commission termed the Agenda of Opportunity - education, employment and the possibility for a brighter tomorrow by contributing, person to person, to help build a future without the threat of terrorism. For more information, click flier and agenda
The following reference materials were presented to all participants of the Safer, More Compassionate World Forum on November 10.
Click the following to view the handout materials:

speaker biographies
useful links
reading references

for pictures from Safer, More Compassionate World, click smc-w pics

Reference Information

11/3/07 Fifth Annual UN Seminar, Denver, CO., Author Lorie Young, former LWVCO President, for a summary, click UN Seminar

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