Why League members join protests

We have been asked why, as a non-partisan organization, we participate in the No Kings Protests. Our answer is simple.

We are continuing the long tradition established by the League of Women Voters (LWV) of defending our democracy from those who seek to dismantle our Constitution and strip away the rights we and our foremothers have fought so valiantly to achieve and protect for over a century.

We are there to push back against attempts to strip away due process, the right to speak and assemble and to defend the essential need to preserve a free press,

We are there to insist that the gains toward a more just society not be trampled on and discarded. That human rights belong to all humans, regardless of race, religion, or status.

We demand that our government is one that respects the balance of power, the essential separation of that power, and the requirement that it serves all the people without favor.

We are not partisan, but we are political. We do not endorse specific candidates, nor do we support a specific political party. We do, however, fight and advocate for our positions on issues that are essential for a healthy democracy and social justice.

While much of this hard work is done quietly, mostly through community meetings and voting events or the filing of amicus briefs, when circumstances call us out to the street to exercise our constitutional right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress, you will find us there proudly carrying on the tradition of the brave women whose work and sacrifice won women the right to vote, fought for civil rights and birthed this incredible organization

Proudly, we march.

Lynn Bruno and Heather Fleming

Co-Presidents of LWV of Glen Ellyn