Election 2014 Fraught with “Drumbeats of Concerns”

As our local and state elections rapidly approach, many of our voting citizenry appear to be anxious, concerned, and worried regarding the impending outcome and is impact.
What will it mean? Who will win? Will we be worse or better off?
As one of our members, Deborah L. Hughes, Executive Director of The Susan B. Anthony House and Museum remarked recently at its Annual Tea, we are voting for a “Revolution of Hope!”

In the home of Susan B. Anthony, leader of the Suffrage Movement, still today we face questions of equity: when will women truly achieve Pay Equity? when will we achieve a fair Minimum Wage?

In Rochester, the home of Frederick Douglas, we still must ask ourselves: how will voter suppression impact those communities most vulnerable to the new ID law where voters’ voices are being silenced?

According to our Attorney General Eric Holder, “Despite our nation’s record of progress, and a long tradition of extending voting rights, today a growing number of citizens are worried about the same disparities, division and problems Dr. King fought throughout his life to address and overcome. “

We will consider these questions and more in the context of the upcoming November Elections with our speaker, Dr. Timothy Kneeland, Professor of History at Nazareth College, and no stranger to AAUW.

Please join us and bring a friend.

Gaynelle Wethers, Programs VP