• Thank you to all of you who brought menstrual products to the December general meeting. These products are provided free to middle and high school students in the La Crosse schools. We collected 28 boxes of tampons,33 packages of pads, and 7 toiletry bags. We filled four 13 gallon plastic bags! You are awesome!

Other locations can benefit from menstrual product collections: jails, food pantries and unhoused centers. We’ll be doing a collection at the International Women’s Day event for that.

• Please read the article on page 2 about the petition to remove sales tax on menstrual products… and sign it! Also consider contacting our legislators about it.

• Speaking of International Women’s Day, mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 8 for this annual event. More information in the next newsletter.

• AAUW WI response to the UW System regents vote to accept the WI legislature’s offer to release funds if they agreed to cut DEI positions is on-going. A statement was drafted before the holidays, got tabled and will be picked up in the new year. It will now be a position statement that we hope you will share on your social media.