Get Out There And Vote

This isn’t about who you vote for it’s about a woman’s right to vote. Did you know that women didn’t get the right to vote until 1920? The movement started in 1848. “The women’s suffrage movement”
Do you know how much women really suffered because of picketing the White House for the right to vote? I didn’t either until I read this:
Women picketing for the right to vote were arrested 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.
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.

Why is it that you won’t make it to the polls this year?
We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn’t matter? It’s raining?

Last February HBO released the movie ‘Iron Jawed Angels.’
It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that you and I could pull the curtain at the polling booth. Here’s a clip, I have to warn you it is disturbing.YouTube - Iron Jawed Angels- Psych Ward/Force Feeding

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