Books After Dark
Books After Dark: Policing the Womb Tuesday, June 6th at 6:30 PM Policing The Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for […]
Books After Dark Club
Join us on March 7th, 2023 @ 6:30 pm on Zoom! Join this club to learn about our country’s history from different perspectives and enjoy our community of Leaguers. March’s Book: Rest Is Resistance, A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey Rest Is Resistance is a call to action, a battle cry, a field guide, and a […]
Books After Dark
Books After Dark: Native American & Indigenous Peoples Book Series Tuesday, February 7th at 6:30 PM Join us in February as we will be finishing up and Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States in our DEI Collaboration with LWVNE. You don’t even have to read the book, just come and enjoy the community and dialogue! To […]
Great Decisions
Thursdays, January 26th – March 16th 1:00-3:00pm via Zoom The LWVGO Great Decisions Book Club is an online (Zoom) discussion group based on eight readings from the non-partisan Foreign Policy Association. Its strengths lie in tying together many individual news items into a cohesive whole, raising in-depth questions, then encouraging each person to decide the […]
Books After Dark Native American & Indigenous Peoples Book Series in Collaboration with LWVNE’s DEI
Books After Dark
Books After Dark: FeaturingBraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer Tuesday, October 4th at 6:30 PM Beginning in October, Books After Dark will be partnering again with the LWVNE DEI Committee to present a 3 month series of discussions on Native and Indigenous Peoples experience and community. Please join us on […]
Books After Dark
Books After Dark: FeaturingHow Population Change Will Transform Our Worldby Sarah Harper Part 1: Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 @ 6:30 pm Part 1: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 6:30 pm Predicting the shape of our future populations is vital for installing the infrastructure, welfare, and provisions necessary for society to survive. There are many opportunities […]
Books After Dark
Books After Dark: Featuring Mental Health Stigma Tuesday, June 7th, 2022 @ 6:30 pmPOSTPONED FROM MAY Join us for a discussion in leading the fight against Mental Health Stigma as we celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month. We’ll be looking at 2 books so feel free to read one, both, or neither of them and join us […]
Books After Dark
Books After Dark: COVID-19 by Debora MacKenzieTuesday, April 5, 2022 6:30PM Debora MacKenzie’s urgent telling is required reading for these times and beyond. It is too early to say where the COVID-19 pandemic will go, but it is past time to talk about what went wrong and how we can do better. […]
Join us for a Community Conversation on Voter ID
Monday, February 21, 2022 @ 7:00 p.m.Taking place in person at the UNO Weitz CEC and also on Zoom The process of coming together to share facts and positive actions is the bedrock of a healthy community. We can listen, learn, and have a voice in the future. An interfaith, multicultural committee has formed to educate and enlist action […]