Comments on: Counting down til Suffrage Day http://radicalcrossstitch.com/2008/09/08/counting-down-til-suffrage-day/ Seriously Seditious Stitching Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:37:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Casey http://radicalcrossstitch.com/2008/09/08/counting-down-til-suffrage-day/comment-page-1/#comment-13506 Casey Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:42:41 +0000 http://radicalcrossstitch.com/?p=1477#comment-13506 Yes, Ms K, I have been shot by your Suffragettes goings on and loved every minute of it. I'll have a squiz at this coffeebreaks doovie but I want more Aus/Kiwi info too so keep on with your goings on please Kakariki Yes, Ms K, I have been shot by your Suffragettes goings on and loved every minute of it. I’ll have a squiz at this coffeebreaks doovie but I want more Aus/Kiwi info too so keep on with your goings on please Kakariki

]]> By: Virginia Harris http://radicalcrossstitch.com/2008/09/08/counting-down-til-suffrage-day/comment-page-1/#comment-13414 Virginia Harris Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:08:10 +0000 http://radicalcrossstitch.com/?p=1477#comment-13414 I'm excited that you're doing this research and honoring Lucretia Mott! Senator Clinton and Governor Palin are proof that women can and do diverge on important issues. Even on the question of whether women should vote! Most people are totally in the dark about HOW the suffragettes won votes for women, and what life was REALLY like for women before they did. Suffragettes were opposed by many women who were what was known as 'anti.' The most influential 'anti' lived in the White House. First Lady Edith Wilson was a wealthy Washington widow who married President Wilson in 1915. Her role in Wilson's decision to jail and torture Alice Paul and hundreds of other suffragettes will never be fully known, but she was outraged that these women picketed her husband's White House. I'd like to share a women's history learning opportunity... "The Privilege of Voting" is a new free e-mail series that follows eight great women from 1912 - 1920 to reveal ALL that happened to set the stage for women to win the vote. It's a real-life soap opera! And it's ALL true! Powerful suffragettes Alice Paul and Emmeline Pankhurst are featured, along with TWO gorgeous presidential mistresses, First Lady Edith Wilson, Edith Wharton, Isadora Duncan and Alice Roosevelt. There are tons of heartache on the rocky road to the ballot box, but in the end, women WIN! Thanks to the suffragettes, women have voices and choices! Exciting, sequential episodes are great to read on coffeebreaks, or anytime. Subscribe free at www.CoffeebreakReaders.com/subscribe.html I’m excited that you’re doing this research and honoring Lucretia Mott!

Senator Clinton and Governor Palin are proof that women can and do diverge on important issues.

Even on the question of whether women should vote!

Most people are totally in the dark about HOW the suffragettes won votes for women, and what life was REALLY like for women before they did.

Suffragettes were opposed by many women who were what was known as ‘anti.’

The most influential ‘anti’ lived in the White House. First Lady Edith Wilson was a wealthy Washington widow who married President Wilson in 1915.

Her role in Wilson’s decision to jail and torture Alice Paul and hundreds of other suffragettes will never be fully known, but she was outraged that these women picketed her husband’s White House.

I’d like to share a women’s history learning opportunity…

“The Privilege of Voting” is a new free e-mail series that follows eight great women from 1912 – 1920 to reveal ALL that happened to set the stage for women to win the vote.

It’s a real-life soap opera! And it’s ALL true!

Powerful suffragettes Alice Paul and Emmeline Pankhurst are featured, along with TWO gorgeous presidential mistresses, First Lady Edith Wilson, Edith Wharton, Isadora Duncan and Alice Roosevelt.

There are tons of heartache on the rocky road to the ballot box, but in the end, women WIN!

Thanks to the suffragettes, women have voices and choices!

Exciting, sequential episodes are great to read on coffeebreaks, or anytime.

Subscribe free at

http://www.CoffeebreakReaders.com/subscribe.html

]]> By: Rob Butz http://radicalcrossstitch.com/2008/09/08/counting-down-til-suffrage-day/comment-page-1/#comment-13383 Rob Butz Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:37:21 +0000 http://radicalcrossstitch.com/?p=1477#comment-13383 That's a nice piece. Speaking of the RNC, it's also a timely piece because of Palin's sneering comment about "community organizing" (a reference to Obama's background) and its alleged "unaccountability" and implied uselessness. The U.S. right wing is pretty brilliant at identifying those positive terms among lefties and making them into cuss words, so Palin's swipe on community organizing from her huge platform also serves to de-legitimize people protesting the RNC. Anyway, I just thought "awesome! take that, RNC assholes!" when looking at Cat's stitch so I thought I'd say so. That’s a nice piece. Speaking of the RNC, it’s also a timely piece because of Palin’s sneering comment about “community organizing” (a reference to Obama’s background) and its alleged “unaccountability” and implied uselessness. The U.S. right wing is pretty brilliant at identifying those positive terms among lefties and making them into cuss words, so Palin’s swipe on community organizing from her huge platform also serves to de-legitimize people protesting the RNC. Anyway, I just thought “awesome! take that, RNC assholes!” when looking at Cat’s stitch so I thought I’d say so.

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