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We Will Never Give Up: Alice Paul, Suffrage, the ERA and Other Rights We're Still Fighting For
Film and talk at Sonoma County NOW, Wed., Nov. 16, 6-8 p.m. (Free; please come by 5:00 if you would like to order food)
Round Table Pizza, 1003 Guerneville Road (behind Men's Wearhouse), Santa Rosa
88 years ago, in living memory, women were sent to prison for demonstrating nonviolently in front of the White House for the right to vote. They were hidden from media view at an abandoned workhouse, but word got out that on Nov. 15, 1917, the Night of Terror, they were attacked and brutalized by 40 guards. With other feminist groups across the country, we will commemorate that night, and make sure their struggle, and all our struggle for rights over the years, has not been in vain.
If you have not yet seen The Equal Rights Amendment: Unfinished Business for the Constitution, you will be impressed by vintage footage of these early struggles, but also by footage of huge crowds of us in the 1960s-80s and the "big picture" of what is going on politically up to the present. This inspirational 18-minute film from the National Women's Party shows many luminaries of NOW past and present speaking from the heart.
Now we still don't have the ERA, and more rights are being eroded daily. Each time a ballot or court issue is decided, the vote is so close. All it takes is a little more awareness of the issues and the history; after all, the name Alice Paul is still hardly known. Come on down to the NOW meeting--bring your daughters and families--and let's get the job done!
Info: SoCoNOW, 939-8944.
NAAP and SoCoNOW would like to join in the nationwide commemoration of Alice Paul and the suffragists on November 15. Let us know your ideas for activities, and take a look at the activities planned in New Jersey at the Alice Paul Institute:
November 15 is the anniversary of the event the Suffragists called the "night of terror," when they were intimidated, beaten and abused in prison after being arrested for picketing the White House in November, 1917.
There will be readings of the letters and diaries of women who were incarcerated in Occuquan Prison. Participants will be provided with flashlight-torches for the vigil. Torches were symbols in the suffrage movement for the enlightenment of women to go "forward into the light of a new day.
www.soconow.org
NAAP, 707-528-9802
Events of 2005
We Will Never Give Up: Alice Paul, Suffrage, the ERA and Other Rights We're Still Fighting For
Film and talk at Sonoma County NOW, Wed., Nov. 16, 6-8 p.m. (Free; please come by 5:00 if you would like to order food)
Round Table Pizza, 1003 Guerneville Road (behind Men's Wearhouse), Santa Rosa
88 years ago, in living memory, women were sent to prison for demonstrating nonviolently in front of the White House for the right to vote. They were hidden from media view at an abandoned workhouse, but word got out that on Nov. 15, 1917, the Night of Terror, they were attacked and brutalized by 40 guards. With other feminist groups across the country, we will commemorate that night, and make sure their struggle, and all our struggle for rights over the years, has not been in vain.
If you have not yet seen The Equal Rights Amendment: Unfinished Business for the Constitution, you will be impressed by vintage footage of these early struggles, but also by footage of huge crowds of us in the 1960s-80s and the "big picture" of what is going on politically up to the present. This inspirational 18-minute film from the National Women's Party shows many luminaries of NOW past and present speaking from the heart.
Now we still don't have the ERA, and more rights are being eroded daily. Each time a ballot or court issue is decided, the vote is so close. All it takes is a little more awareness of the issues and the history; after all, the name Alice Paul is still hardly known. Come on down to the NOW meeting--bring your daughters and families--and let's get the job done!
Info: SoCoNOW, 939-8944.
NAAP and SoCoNOW would like to join in the nationwide commemoration of Alice Paul and the suffragists on November 15. Let us know your ideas for activities, and take a look at the activities planned in New Jersey at the Alice Paul Institute:
November 15 is the anniversary of the event the Suffragists called the "night of terror," when they were intimidated, beaten and abused in prison after being arrested for picketing the White House in November, 1917.
There will be readings of the letters and diaries of women who were incarcerated in Occuquan Prison. Participants will be provided with flashlight-torches for the vigil. Torches were symbols in the suffrage movement for the enlightenment of women to go "forward into the light of a new day.
www.soconow.org
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