As we put Memorial Day 2010 behind us, it’s a good occasion to inform ourselves of other “soldiers” in other conflicts–women sacrificed in the ongoing struggle to advance democracy: Suffragists.
Alice Paul
A 2004 HBO film, Iron Jawed Angels, starring Hilary Swank and Julia Ormond, captures well one of those aspects of the nation’s prisons being used for political purposes. It was not the first time, and isn’t the last.
As the War to End All Wars (World War I) raged in Europe, and the Russian Revolution was new on the world scene, a group of women picketed the White House advocating for what seems like today the simple right to vote. They were arrested (“blocking the sidewalk”) and imprisoned. more…
