LWVIL Action Alerts
Override the President's Veto of SCHIP
The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act.
LWVUS Action Alerts
Restore Civil Liberties.
Repeal the Protect America Act.
Action Foci 2007-2009
MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK: Assess and strengthen citizen
participation in the state legislative process, which will include
but not be limited to, efforts to pass the Show Us Amendment.
MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK:
Efforts to increase voter education and reduce barriers to the
electoral process. The action item will strengthen our judicial
system by promoting the creation of an Illinois Judicial Evaluation
Commission to provide voters with impartial evaluation of judicial
candidates.
PUBLIC EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES FUNDING: Promote
efforts to provide stable, reliable and adequate revenues for
public education and other social services.
STATE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION: Investigate the need for a State Constitutional
Convention. The Constitution of the State of Illinois requires
that the question of a need for a constitutional convention
be submitted to the voters every twenty years, if not sooner.
The question was last submitted to the voters in 1988. |
