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| Wed, 09-24-2008 - 9:24am |
WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE.
This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.
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Remember, it was not until 1920
that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.
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The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed
nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking
for the vote.
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(Lucy Burns)
And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.
Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing
went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of
'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'
They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above
her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping
for air.
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(Dora Lewis)
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her
head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate,
Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.
Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging,
beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917,
when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his
guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because
they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right
to vote.
For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their
food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.
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(Alice Paul)
When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf
This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.
Remember, it was not until 1920
that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.
The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed
nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking
for the vote.
(Lucy Burns)
And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.
Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing
went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of
'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'
They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above
her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping
for air.
(Dora Lewis)
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her
head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate,
Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.
Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging,
beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917,
when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his
guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because
they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right
to vote.
For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their
food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.
(Alice Paul)
When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf

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Thank you for apologizing for any feelings you may have hurt. I still wonder though why you choose not to respond when factual information is given disputing your claims? For example, earlier in this thread (and another one) you've implied that Obama supports infanticide but when I offered information disputing that, you seem to have ignored it. Like you, I enjoy a debate but it's not a real honest debate if you just pick and choose when and to what you're going to respond.
Chrissy
mom to Aidan 8/21/03
Grayson Blaine 12/30/07
~Ashley~
~Ashley~
This country was founded on diversity....and allowing those to come here who wished to have a better life. Give me your poor..your huddled masses...all that on the statue of liberty. I have to say I am simply not suprised you don't value diversity.
As to Immigration law....is it NOT easy to come live in this country legally. My DH was born in Scotland and lived in Canada for most of his life. He moved here 2 years ago. It is a very involved and costly. When his residency is renewed this fall.....he will have given the government over 2 thousnad dollars.....submitted to 10 background checks...and 3 different biometrics procedures ( dna and fingerprinting). Not to mention the pysical and medical tests.
Wow. Just wow. That's all I can say - for once I am basically speechless!
Every time she opens her mouth, it just shows how much lower she can go.
MONTANA MOM !
MONTANA MOM !
Who the heck is Rosie?
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I think it's not as far fetched a proposition as many think it is.
I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure
From the republican co-sponsor of the bill..it did pass. For the record...Obama was not the only one who voted no. It was a comitee vote.
A storm of controversy has risen in the presidential race concerning Barack Obama and legislation I sponsored in 2003 ("Obama's '03 abortion vote on forefront," Eric Zorn, Metro, Aug. 21). I introduced Senate Bill 1082 because of a nurse's claims that abortions at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn resulted in living infants whom hospital personnel then allowed to die without medical or comfort care.
I plan to vote for Obama.
I DO take care of myself. I work and support myself financially. If my husband walked out on me tomorrow, I would still have my own job, my own health insurance, credit in my own name, etc. etc.
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