| Every November all Bodacious Women in the
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| | suffered a heart attack. Additional
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| United States get to vote - for our next
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| | affidavits describe the guards grabbing,
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| President, members of Congress, and other
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| | dragging, beating, choking, slamming,
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| elected positions. Personally, I'm less
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| | pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
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| interested in WHOM you vote for, as much
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| | Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on
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| as that you vote AT ALL. This is
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| | Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the
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| especially true after reading the
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| | Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered
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| following by Jane Saks, Director of
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| | his guards to teach a lesson to the
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| Advancement at the College of
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| | suffragists imprisoned there because they
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| Architecture and the Arts in Chicago. I
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| | dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White
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| honestly had no idea how much our
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| | House for the right to vote.For weeks,
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| foremothers went through so that women in
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| | the women's only water came from an open
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| the U.S. had the right to vote.At one
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| | pail. Their food--all of it colorless
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| point Woodrow Wilson and his cronies
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| | slop--was infested with worms. When one
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| tried to persuade a psychiatrist to
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| | of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a
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| declare activist Alice Paul insane so
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| | hunger strike, they tied her to a chair,
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| that she could be permanently
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| | forced a tube down her throat and poured
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| institutionalized. The doctor refused.
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| | liquid into her until she vomited. She
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| He said Alice Paul was strong and brave.
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| | was tortured like this for weeks until
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| That didn't make her crazy. The doctor
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| | word was smuggled out to the press. So,
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| admonished the men: "Courage in women is
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| | refresh my memory. Some women won't vote
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| often mistaken for insanity."I say the
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| | this year because--why, exactly? We have
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| only thing that would qualify us as
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| | carpool duties? We have to get to work?
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| insane is if we DIDN'T VOTE!Now, from
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| | Our vote doesn't matter? It's
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| Jane Saks:"The women were innocent and
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| | raining?Last week, I went to a sparsely
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| defenseless. And by the end of the
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| | attended screening of HBO's new movie
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| night, they were barely alive. Forty
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| | 'Iron Jawed Angels.' It is a graphic
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| prison guards wielding clubs and with
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| | depiction of the battle these women waged
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| their warden's blessing, went on a
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| | so that I could pull the curtain at the
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| rampage against the 33 women wrongly
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| | polling booth and have my say.My friend
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| convicted of obstructing sidewalk
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| | Wendy saw the HBO movie, too. When she
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| traffic. They beat Lucy Burn, chained
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| | stopped by my desk to talk about it, she
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| her hands to the cell bars above her head
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| | looked angry. 'One thought kept coming
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| and left her hanging for the night,
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| | back to me as I watched that movie,' she
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| bleeding and gasping for air. They
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| | said. 'What would those women think of
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| hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell,
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| | the way I use--or don't use--my right to
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| smashed her head against an iron bed and
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| | vote? The right to vote, she said, had
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| knocked her out cold. Her cellmate,
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| | become valuable to her all over again.
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| Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and
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