SHE Is History Theatre West’s 2018’s Staged Reading of the all female cast
From left to right: Anne Leyden as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Clara Rodriguez as Bella Abzug, Rosemary Thomas as Sojourner Truth, Ashley Taylor as Abigail Adams, Maria Kress as Victoria Woodhull and June Schreiner as Alice Paul.
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The STILL UNPASSED Equal Rights Amendment…
Men and women shall have equal rights throughout The United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.
FAILED AGAIN!
We have been trying to get this passed since 1923! Written by Alice Paul and known as The Lucretia Mott Amendment, introduced on July 23rd, 1923 in Seneca Falls, New York. She was in town celebrating the 75th anniversary of where the very first Women’s Rights Convention was held in 1848. She updated it in 1943 to read:
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Just this past APRIL 27, 2023, brought again to Congress and again failed. Passing bills is complicated. There are timelines and deadlines, required numbers of votes necessary to ratify. This time around we needed sixty. Below is some info about what happened.
League Of Women Voters 100 Years Equal Rights Amendment Fails…
As Susan B. Anthony said, “Failure is impossible”.
As Bella Abzug said, “Never ever give up”!
And as I say, “Oy! Vote, vote vote”!
Alice Paul at the Ballot Box
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Mother’s Day….
“Mother’s know that they will have to devote most of themselves and energy to it for many years and that however diligently they do this, they will be blamed for whatever goes wrong.” Psychiatrist Jane Price.
Ahhh. Motherhood. The hardest job in the world and the most important.
Three women are responsible for what is now Mother’s Day. But our completely commercialized Mother’s Day is not what they intended.
Not at all.
Those three women were about helping, peace and caring and unifying a country split by civil war.
It started with Anne Reeves Jarvis, a 19th Century West Virginia mother who wanted to teach local women how to care for their children. So in 1858, she helped start Mothers Day Work Clubs. She also wanted an end to the Civil War and in attempt for reconciliation between Union and Confederate soldiers, she organized Mothers Friendship Day.
Meanwhile, Julia Ward Howe, mother, poet, lecturer, suffragist, and basic badass, campaigned to have “Mother’s Day For Peace” celebrated every year. Mostly known for writing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, she also wrote “The Mother’s Day Proclamation” in 1870, asking mothers to come together for world peace.
When Ann died in 1905, her daughter Anna Maria Jarvis, who never married or had kids, wanted to honor her mom and all the moms that sacrifice so much. She organized her first Mother’s Day celebration in 1908 and became inspired to have a national holiday devoted to mothers. And she was pissed off that all the national holidays were about men. So she started a letter writing campaign and in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a measure making the second Sunday in May “Mother’s Day”.
And there you have it…