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A Vote 4 Maxine (Video) & How Women Got To Vote (Story)

2008-10-28T21:31:04Z

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 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. 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." HBO will run the movie periodically before releasing it on video and DVD. I wish all history, s ocial studies and government teachers would include the movie i n 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... (Author Unknown)

OBAMA 08

The Indomitable Maxine Waters Ably Defends Housing BillRep.

2009-01-08T00:34:50Z

On July 24th during FBN's "America's Nightly Scoreboard," gushing peppy preppy host David Asman met his match in California Democrat Maxine Waters, who argued in favor of the housing bill that will be voted on in a rare Saturday Senate session.

The FOX Business approach is that the government should simply let giant mortgages houses Fannie Mae [the Federal National Mortgage Association or FNMA] and Freddie Mac [the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation or FHMC] fail or go into receivership.

The Congress has decided that these two institutions are too big to be allowed to fail.

For days FBN has been telling viewers that only 21% of Americans approve this bill. However, after an hour searching ong Google, I can't find any poll numbers to back up their claims.

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rock city - maxine

2009-01-08T00:30:53Z

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Sounding the Alarm: Stop the War President Now

2009-01-08T00:55:39Z

http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2008/04/help-support-campaign-to-stop-war.html
Sounding the Alarm, Stop the War President Now
http://www.TinyUrl.com/3TYBMU

"I am pleased that we have taken time from our schedules to come to the floor tonight to sound the alarm. The saber rattling is going on by this administration. The remarks that we're hearing day in and day out are more accusatory toward Iran.

... we all know that U.S. strikes against Iran would be disastrous.

Middle East experts generally agree that Iran would respond to a U.S. strike by attacking U.S. and Israeli interests throughout the region and possibly globally. These strikes would lead to a greater Middle East war, including greater loss of life, financial burden, over stretch of our military and worse.

We're sounding the alarm this evening and we are sending a message to the President of the United States of America and to the Vice President, particularly now to the Vice President, who, when he was reminded by an ABC News reporter that the recent polls show that two-thirds of Americans say the fight in Iraq is not worth it, his response was, "and so?" Well, Mr. Vice President, our "and so" to you tonight is, and so the American people do not want us to continue this war in Iraq and to air strike in Iran. We're sounding the alarm.

We are made to believe that we are somehow being placed at a great threat by Iran.

And so we know where this is going. We know what this means, and we're saying, we must not rule out diplomacy. ...

We know that we've still got work to do on Iraq. We've still got to make many Members of this House feel comfortable with the idea that they can confront their President, that they can still be very, very patriotic as they stand up against war ...

We know that the work has to be done, but we've got to add to that work the fact that we can stop an airstrike on Iran and we can stop the notion that somehow we must send more soldiers in." - Rep. Maxine Waters April 15, 2008

Kucinich Reads Resolution to Impeach Vice President Cheney:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyWe5eNBRE8&feature=PlayList&p=ACE24C0452F38F86&index=0&playnext=1

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Don't let Bush Trick Us into ANOTHER War.

2009-01-08T00:55:39Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRdf4GpFzlM&feature=PlayList&p=FAEBFDB43DEC4893&index=0&playnext=1
http://TinyUrl.com/6CXGQ4
Don't let Bush Trick Us into ANOTHER War.
SEE:
http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2008/04/dont-let-bush-trick-us-into-another-war.html
Tell them you will not stand for another war! SEE links to contact your representatives:
http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2008/04/dont-let-bush-trick-us-into-another-war.html
"There are experts that are indeed worried that the same playbook that was used to bring this country into the Iraq war is now being used toward Iran. The Administration is pushing suspect inteligence." - Rep. Maxine Waters

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SiCKO DVD Extra Preview - SiCKO Goes to Washington

2009-01-08T00:42:51Z

Michael Moore heads to Washington D.C. with Dawnelle Keys, Julie Pierce, and Donna & Larry Smith, all featured in 'SiCKO,' to testify at a briefing on Capitol Hill with Rep. John Conyers. Watch a bipartisan group of U.S Representatives, including presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, join together with Mike to discuss America's health care crisis. People always ask what they can do to improve America's health care system and make a difference — Call your representative and tell them to support H.R. 676!

http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/what-can-i-do/boxscore/index.php?action=print

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