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Amen! <br><br>There are some who, even today, would deny the vote to women in the belief that it divides the household and weakens the headship of the husband -- I hope all of us, religious or not, continue to honor these sisters by voting, agitating, working for causes, and rebutting the voices of those patriarchs who would deny us.<br><br>Thanks, Margaret.<br><br>Keely<br>http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/<br><br><br><hr>From: edc@moscow.com<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:36:07 -0700<br>Subject: [Vision2020] vote<br><br>
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--- <b><span style="color: black;">W</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">HY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE<br>
<br>
This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only
90 years ago. </span></b><br>
<img id="EC_EC_EC_EC__x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01C92EA9.7371AC30" alt="cid:1.1700063233@web52301.mail.re2.yahoo.com" width="600" height="448"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br>
Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to
the polls and vote.</span></b><br>
<img id="EC_EC_EC_EC__x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.jpg@01C92EA9.7371AC30" alt="cid:2.1700063234@web52301.mail.re2.yahoo.com" width="600" height="420"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br>
The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless
for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. </span></b><br>
<img id="EC_EC_EC_EC__x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x0000_i1027" src="cid:image003.jpg@01C92EA9.7371AC30" alt="cid:3.1700063234@web52301.mail.re2.yahoo.com" width="435" height="600"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br>
And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards
wielding clubs and their warden's blessing <br>
went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing
sidewalk traffic.' </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
<br>
[See the attached file]<b><br>
(Lucy Burns)</b></span><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br>
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. </span></b><br>
<img id="EC_EC_EC_EC__x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x0000_i1028" src="cid:image004.jpg@01C92EA9.7371AC30" alt="cid:4.1700063234@web52301.mail.re2.yahoo.com" width="452" height="600"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
(Dora Lewis)</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br>
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron
bed and knocked her out cold. Her cell mate, 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.<br>
<br>
Thus unfolded the</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> 'Night of
Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">, 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<span style="color: navy;"> </span>Woodrow Wilson's White House for the
right to vote.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">For weeks, the women's only water came from an
open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. </span></b><br>
<img id="EC_EC_EC_EC__x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x005f_x0000_i1029" src="cid:image005.jpg@01C92EA9.7371AC30" alt="cid:5.1700063234@web52301.mail.re2.yahoo.com" width="396" height="600"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
(Alice Paul)</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br>
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. </span></b><u><span style="color: blue;"><br>
</span></u><a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf" title="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <br>
</span><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br>
So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because--why,
exactly? <span style="color: navy;"><br>
</span>We have carpool duties? <span style="color: navy;"><br>
</span>We have to get to work? <br>
Our vote doesn't matter? <span style="color: navy;"><br>
</span>It's raining?<br>
<br>
Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new movie 'Iron
Jawed Angels.' It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so
that I could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have my say. I am
ashamed to say I needed the reminder.<br>
<br>
All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But the
actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote. <br>
Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege.
Sometimes it was inconvenient.<br>
<br>
My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's history, saw the HBO
movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it, she looked angry.
She was--with herself. 'One thought kept coming back to me as I watched
that movie,' she said. 'What would those women think of the way I use, or
don't use,</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">my right to vote? All of us take it for granted
now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn.' The
right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her 'all over again.'<br>
<br>
HBO released the movie on video and DVD. I wish all history, social studies
and government teachers would include the movie in their curriculum I want
it shown on Bunco night, too, and anywhere else women gather. I realize
this isn't our usual idea of socializing, but we are not voting in the
numbers that we should be, and I think a little shock therapy is in order.<br>
<br>
It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a
psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently
institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice
Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy.<br>
<br>
The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for
insanity.' <br>
<br>
Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know. <br>
<br>
We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for
by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or
independent party - remember to vote.<br>
<br>
History is being made.</span></b> </p>
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