MAKING SURE YOUR REGISTERED TO VOTE

I think it's so important that we not forget our history. This is just for women's rights- if you're a minority, your right to vote was fought for all the more. Additionally, consider all of the people around the world that do not have the right to vote even today. It is SO important that we exercise this right and honor it's history. If you're a woman born in the United States, you're already one of the luckiest women in the world.

This is the story of our Grandmothers, and Great-grandmothers, as theY lived only 90 years ago.


It was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the
polls and vote.


The women who made it so were innocent and defenseless. And by the
end of the night, they were barely alive.


Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went
on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk
traffic.

They beat Lucy Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her
head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They
hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and
knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and
suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing,
dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the
women.


Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the
warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a
lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket
Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.


For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their
food -- all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. When one of the
leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair,
forced a tube down her throat and Poured liquid into her until she vomited.
She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the
press.


So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because --
why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote
doesn't matter? It's raining?

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE FOR OUR COUNTRY.....TIME IS RUNNING OUT AND YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO VOTE IN OUR NEXT ELECTION.....

CANNOLI