BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//League of Women Voters of Naperville - ECPv6.13.2.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:League of Women Voters of Naperville X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://lwvnaperville.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for League of Women Voters of Naperville REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220715T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220715T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164743 CREATED:20220610T202412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220831T014434Z UID:45813-1657888200-1657893600@lwvnaperville.org SUMMARY:Friday Book Group July 15 – The Hardest Job in the World: the American Presidency DESCRIPTION:The Hardest Job in the World: the American Presidency by John Dickerson \nFrom Goodreads: \nFrom the 60 Minutes correspondent\, a deep dive into the history\, evolution\, and current state of the American presidency–and how we can make the job less impossible and more productive for the future. \nJohn Dickerson looks at the history of the American presidency and how the office is altogether different than the job we discuss during presidential campaigns. In campaigns\, the presidency is a magical place where the will of its occupant can move the nation. In reality\, the presidency is stretched\, burdened\, and unmatched for the complexity of the modern world. URL:https://lwvnaperville.org/event/friday-book-group-july-15-the-hardest-job-in-the-world-the-american-presidency/ LOCATION:Zoom Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lwvnaperville.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/hardestjob-cover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220621T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220621T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164743 CREATED:20220610T202211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220831T014439Z UID:45811-1655838000-1655843400@lwvnaperville.org SUMMARY:Tuesday Book Group: The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics by Stephen Breyer DESCRIPTION:The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics by Stephen Breyer \nFrom Goodreads \nA sitting justice reflects upon the authority of the Supreme Court—how that authority was gained and how measures to restructure the Court could undermine both the Court and the constitutional system of checks and balances that depends on it. \nStephen Breyer\, drawing upon his experience as a Supreme Court justice\, sounds a cautionary note. Mindful of the Court’s history\, he suggests that the judiciary’s hard-won authority could be marred by reforms premised on the assumption of ideological bias. Having\, as Hamilton observed\, “no influence over either the sword or the purse\,” the Court earned its authority by making decisions that have\, over time\, increased the public’s trust. If public trust is now in decline\, one part of the solution is to promote better understandings of how the judiciary actually works: how judges adhere to their oaths and how they try to avoid considerations of politics and popularity. URL:https://lwvnaperville.org/event/tuesday-book-group-the-authority-of-the-court-and-the-peril-of-politics-by-stephen-breyer/ LOCATION:Zoom Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lwvnaperville.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/authority-breyer.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220617T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220617T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164743 CREATED:20220413T214706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220831T014445Z UID:45541-1655492400-1655497800@lwvnaperville.org SUMMARY:Friday Book Group: The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics by Stephen Breyer DESCRIPTION:The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics by Stephen Breyer \nFrom Goodreads \nA sitting justice reflects upon the authority of the Supreme Court—how that authority was gained and how measures to restructure the Court could undermine both the Court and the constitutional system of checks and balances that depends on it. \nStephen Breyer\, drawing upon his experience as a Supreme Court justice\, sounds a cautionary note. Mindful of the Court’s history\, he suggests that the judiciary’s hard-won authority could be marred by reforms premised on the assumption of ideological bias. Having\, as Hamilton observed\, “no influence over either the sword or the purse\,” the Court earned its authority by making decisions that have\, over time\, increased the public’s trust. If public trust is now in decline\, one part of the solution is to promote better understandings of how the judiciary actually works: how judges adhere to their oaths and how they try to avoid considerations of politics and popularity. URL:https://lwvnaperville.org/event/friday-book-group-the-authority-of-the-court-and-the-peril-of-politics-by-stephen-breyer/ LOCATION:Zoom Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://lwvnaperville.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/authority-breyer.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164743 CREATED:20220413T214208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220831T014450Z UID:45538-1653073200-1653078600@lwvnaperville.org SUMMARY:Tuesday Book Group: Kill Switch – The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson DESCRIPTION:Kill Switch – The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson \nFrom Goodreads \nEvery major decision governing our diverse\, majority-female\, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the United States Senate\, an institution controlled by people who are almost exclusively white\, overwhelmingly male\, and disproportionately conservative. Although they do not represent a majority of Americans—and will not for the foreseeable future—today’s Republican senators possess the power to block most legislation. Once known as “the world’s greatest deliberative body\,” the Senate has become one of the greatest threats to our democracy. How did this happen? \nTaking us into the Capitol Hill backrooms where the institution’s decline is most evident\, Jentleson shows that many of the greatest challenges of our era—partisan polarization\, dark money\, a media culture built on manufactured outrage—converge within the Senate. Even as he charts the larger forces that have shaped the institution where he served\, Jentleson offers incisive portraits of the powerful senators who laid the foundation for the modern Senate\, from Calhoun to McConnell to LBJ’s mentor\, Richard Russell\, to the unapologetic racist Jesse Helms. URL:https://lwvnaperville.org/event/tuesday-book-group-kill-switch-the-rise-of-the-modern-senate-and-the-crippling-of-american-democracy-by-adam-jentleson/ LOCATION:Zoom Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lwvnaperville.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/bookclub.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220519T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220519T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164743 CREATED:20220518T191739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220831T014456Z UID:45763-1652986800-1652992200@lwvnaperville.org SUMMARY:14th Congressional District Republican Primary Candidate Forum DESCRIPTION:Join Us \n\n Thursday\, May 19\n \n7pm by Zoom Meeting \nHear from the Republican Candidates running for the Illinois 14th Congressional District\nAll official candidates have been invited: \nScott Gryder\, Mike Koolidge\, Jack Lombardi\, Jim Marter\, Jaime Milton\nSponsored by The League of Women Voters of Naperville\, The League of Women Voters Aurora Area\,and The League of Women Voters of DeKalb County \nThe Candidate Forum is free and open to all\, but registration is required. \n \n Register for Candidate Forum\n \nHow a Candidate Forum Works\nAll candidate forums are run by trained\, non-partisan moderators. Equal time is given to all candidates to answer each question. \nThe candidates will have two minutes to present an opening statement\, in turn\, alphabetically. \nQuestions will be chosen in advance by the League for appropriateness and relevance from those solicited from League members as well as community members. The moderator will ask questions in rotation so that each candidate will have the opportunity to be the first to answer. Candidates will each have up to two minutes to answer each question. \nAfter the questions are completed\, each candidate will have two minutes to provide a closing statement\, in turn. \nNo surrogates are permitted to participate. An uncontested forum\, that is\, one with only one candidate\, is not permitted. URL:https://lwvnaperville.org/event/14th-congressional-district-republican-primary-candidate-forum/ LOCATION:Zoom Meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220419T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220419T203000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164743 CREATED:20220413T213800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220831T014503Z UID:45536-1650394800-1650400200@lwvnaperville.org SUMMARY:Tuesday Book Group: Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein DESCRIPTION:Are our polarized political institutions driving our political system towards crisis? \nFrom Goodreads: \nDiscover how American politics became a toxic system\, why we participate in it\, and what it means for our future–from journalist\, political commentator\, and cofounder of Vox\, Ezra Klein. \nIn this groundbreaking book\, Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century\, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and each other. And he traces the feedback loops between our polarized political identities and our polarized political institutions that are driving our political system towards crisis. URL:https://lwvnaperville.org/event/tuesday-book-group-why-were-polarized-by-ezra-klein/ LOCATION:Zoom Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lwvnaperville.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/bookclub.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220415T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220415T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164743 CREATED:20220413T211627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220831T014509Z UID:45518-1650025800-1650031200@lwvnaperville.org SUMMARY:Friday Book Group: Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein DESCRIPTION:Are our polarized political institutions driving our political system towards crisis? \nFrom Goodreads: \nDiscover how American politics became a toxic system\, why we participate in it\, and what it means for our future–from journalist\, political commentator\, and cofounder of Vox\, Ezra Klein. \nIn this groundbreaking book\, Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century\, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and each other. And he traces the feedback loops between our polarized political identities and our polarized political institutions that are driving our political system towards crisis. URL:https://lwvnaperville.org/event/friday-book-group-why-were-polarized-by-ezra-klein/ LOCATION:Zoom Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lwvnaperville.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/bookclub.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220409T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220409T190000 DTSTAMP:20260406T164743 CREATED:20220408T225313Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T224018Z UID:55-1649530800-1649530800@lwvnaperville.org SUMMARY:The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration DESCRIPTION:Join the League of Women Voters of Naperville for a live virtual tour of The Legacy Museum in Montgomery Alabama. The museum is situated on a site in Montgomery where Black people were forced to labor in bondage. It is only blocks from one of the most prominent slave auction spaces in America\, and steps away from the rail station where tens of thousands of Black people were trafficked during the 19th century. After the virtual tour we will hear about  EJI’s legal and racial justice work and there will be an opportunity for participants to ask questions and share reflections. \nRegister in advance for this event HERE. \nWatch this video to learn more. URL:https://lwvnaperville.org/event/the-legacy-museum-from-enslavement-to-mass-incarceration/ LOCATION:Zoom Meeting ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lwvnaperville.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/legacy-museum.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR