This is for any woman who says she's not voting this year:

[JimmyJazz]

Subject: FW: Women and the vote
The privilege of voting:
The women were innocent and defenseless. Forty prison guards
wielding clubs with their warden's blessing -- went on a rampage against 33 women 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, knocking 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. By the end of the night, the women were barely alive.

Thus unfolded the "Night of Terror" on November 15, 1917, when the
warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to
teach a lesson to the suffragists who were imprisoned there because they had 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 -- 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.

HBO has a new movie called "Iron-Jawed Angels." It is a graphic
depiction of the battle these women waged so their granddaughters
could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have their say. What
would those women think of the way we use -- or don't use -- our
right to vote?

It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to
Persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so 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."

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. Kick

women please please please read this It is so very important for us to understand the price that was paid for our freedom

[JimmyJazz]

2. thanks n/t

[ismnotwasm]

3. Yes

I proudly take back the title feminist as well as liberal. The fight is not over ladies.

[Cheswick2.0]

4. Iron Jawed Angles was a wonderful movie

Please everyone copy this and send it to all the women in your e-mail and urge them to send it on.