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[KAYE KIPP]

Yes.  I remember that series.  It's a really good one.

Kaye
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From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
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> Paula:
>
> This is bang on-target! Thank you for posting.
>
> Insofar as I know, we, the blind, have never been subject to this sort
> of treatment -- at least insofar as trying to gain the right to vote was
> concerned (we always had it but that right wasn't always honored!). But
> we *have* faced real violence back in the days when we first tried to
> organize nationwide.
>
> When the Clark County chapter used to hold literature seminars, I played
> the entire PBS "Eyes on the Prize" series as part of it -- both to
> analyze how another nonviolent movement succeeded and to sharpen our
> thinking skills as to what was done right, what not and how we could be
> more effective.
>
> Again, good show!
>
> Mike Freeman
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Paula M Achter
>  To: NFB Washington
>  Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:23 PM
>  Subject: [nfbwatlk] Fw: [Fwd: Fwd: How Women Got to Vote - a history
> lesson-PLEASENOTE!!!!]
>
>
>  Hello Everyone:
>
>  I hope that I am not breaking any rules by putting this on. I thought
> some of you would find it interesting. Especially those of you who are
> history buffs.
>
>  Paula Achter
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: me
>  To: Sheila ; Judy Sammis ; Tina
>  Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:21 PM
>  Subject: Fw: [Fwd: Fwd: How Women Got to Vote - a history lesson-
> PLEASENOTE!!!!]
>
>
>
>  Imagine! This happened in the 20th Century in America!!! (*:*)
>
>
>    Subject: Fwd: F FW: How Women Got to Vote - a history lesson
>
>
>    One more thing we were never taught in school and I never came on it
> in all my reading. NOw what I need is someone I WANT to vote for.Ã,Â
> PSubject: ***Ã,  FW: How Women Got to Vote - a history lessonÃ,Â
>    How Women Got To Vote: A short history lesson on the privilege of
> voting...
>
>    >The women were innocent and defenseless. 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 Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her
> head and
>    >left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They
> hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed
> andknocked 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. 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.
>    >
>    >So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year
> because--why,exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work?
> Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?
>    >
>    >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.
>    >
>    >All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But
> the actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote.
> Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege.
> Sometimes it was inconvenient.
>    >
>    >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--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."
>    Ã,Â
>    HBO will run the movie periodically before releasing it 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 Bunko 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.
>    >
>    >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. The doctor admonished the men: "Courage in women is
> often mistaken for insanity."
>    >
>    >Please pass this on to all the women you know. We need to get out
> and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very
> courageous women.
>    >
>    >
>    >
>    >
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