WHAT'S ON
LEAUGE OF WOMEN VOTERS SF

Since 2003, Access SF and the League of Women Voters of San Francisco have built and maintained a successful on-going partnership to provide quality non-partisan media coverage in advance of local elections. To date, more than 150 hours of original televised pro/con discussions, candidate debates and community issue forums has resulted from the collaboration.

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** NEW ITEM - June 14, 2006**
Access SF & the League of Women Voters win Hometown Video Award for Election 2005 series in the Democracy-In-Action professional category. Read the media advisory (PDF).

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**SPECIAL PRESENTATION**

- TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST -
A community issue forum recorded in the Access SF studios on Tuesday, May 9th on how citizens and nonprofits can engage with the current landscape of telecommunications policy, capacity and infrastructure.

A co-presentation with the League of Women Voters of San Francisco and SPUR, the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association.

Panelists will include:
- Miriam Smith, San Francisco State University
- Maureen Blanc, International Museum of Women
- John Lorance, Compumentor
- Nicole Sawaya (Moderator), SPUR

With invited in-studio guests from the following organizations:
- KQED
- Department of Telecommunications and Information Services
- VolunteerMatch
- The Foundation Center

* Link to Playback Schedule on Cable Channel 29 - June 12th - 25th, 2006

* Media & Programming Advisory - Telecommunications In the Public Interest (PDF)

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**INFO ON PAST COLLABORATIONS**

ELECTION JUNE 2006 SERIES - PRO/CON DISCUSSIONS

* Media Advisory - ELECTION JUNE 2006 SERIES (PDF)

* Playback Schedule - ELECTION JUNE 2006 SERIES (PDF)

* View the online photo galleries from the Pro/Con Discussion taping at Access SF, April 29th, 2006

* For Election 2005, Access SF and the League expanded the partnership to include field coverage of local candidate debates. View the photo galleries online from that series, which ran on Cable Channel 29 during Oct. & Nov. 2005.

* Check out our press room for past media advisories about our collaboration with the League of Women Voters of San Francisco.