To the palace! (British suffragettes 100 years ago)

[cyberswede]

Awesome pictures of awesome women...

https://storify.com/anyapalmer/to-the-palace

[LongTomH]

1. The same fight took place in America over Women's Suffrage

Women faced police brutality and starved themselves, all to win the vote. It took 41 years of hard-fought struggle before the Nineteenth Amendment was finally passed in 1920.

John Nichols, writer for The Nation and co-author of Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America was in Kansas City last night to give a talk at the Kansas City Central Library. The fight for women's suffrage was one of the struggles that Nichols mentioned as a way that America admitted 'more people to the room' (Nichols' phrase) as voters.

Then he went on to mention the Powell Memorandum and subsequent developments as ways that the big rich have made 'the room' more and more irrelevant. He doesn't recommend giving up......read Dollarocracy or watch the following video:

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[cyberswede]

2. Thanks!

I like John Nichols. Saving to watch later...

[Rex]

3. The way the British treated the WSM and the women themselves was barbaric.

It is hard to believe that it has been less than 100 years since women were 'given' (hell no! they had to fight and die for it!) the right to vote in America!

Sometimes I believe we use the words 'civilized society' to liberally.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Trouble makers! Fringe! Out of the Mainstream!

[Cooley Hurd]

5. This, less than a year after the dramatic attempt by Emily Davison to turn the tide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Davison

[Warpy]

6. It's long but stay with it to the bitter end. It's worth it.

He manages to hit a lot of nails squarely on their heads and hammer them down.

Then he tells us what to do about it.

This speech is not about expanding suffrage. It's about making democracy irrelevant, a dog and pony show that is then totally eradicated by a bunch of rich old white men.