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alfredo

(60,071 posts)
2. Watching is not enough, we need women to vote and to enter politics.
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:33 PM
Mar 2012

I hope women will take to the streets. I will be there with them.

I got a photo of my grand niece protesting against the Alabama government. I'm so proud that she is willing to put herself on the front lines.

peace frog

(5,609 posts)
3. Hammer this message home at every opportunity
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 12:53 PM
Mar 2012

Radio, TV, billboards, print media, use it all to bring this message to women. Then make sure they register and GOTV!

sarge43

(28,941 posts)
5. Least we forget. Men benefit from Planned Parenthood. This is their fight, too.
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 01:16 PM
Mar 2012

Low cost vasectomies, prostate cancer screening, STDs testing

The threat to get rid of Planned Parenthood strikes at poor, rural and low income individuals, regardless of gender. But hey, it's the Republican way.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
12. Oh, the horror! And a woman Speaker standing next to him. And a woman justice appointed!
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 07:23 AM
Mar 2012

Yes, that was just one of the many things they created the Tea Party to stop. If he hadn't been progressive, we would never have seen these loons take over.

 

Liberal_Stalwart71

(20,450 posts)
9. This year should be the Year of the Woman where Democratic women EVERYWHERE
Mon Mar 19, 2012, 03:06 PM
Mar 2012

run for office. Even Republican women who've had enough should run and replace these old white men where appropriate.

 

notgoinback

(39 posts)
14. A woman's place is....
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 12:35 PM
Mar 2012

Conservative Christians called the legislation "an affront to God". From pulpits in every state,
fire-breathing preachers urged their congregations to denounce a bill "inspired by Satan and his
blasphemous agents in Washington." Newspapers were deluged with letters from religious
leaders, hysterically predicting the coming destruction of American families - the horrors of
a society "without morality or purpose". Indignant, Bible-quoting Congressmen attacked their
colleagues for even considering a law that condoned and encouraged "wanton, unnatural be-
havior". One overwrought Senator claimed he wept at the thought of happy homes, "torn
asunder by falsehoods and folly" and "innocent children abandoned to orphanages".

What caused this eruption of melodramatic fear-mongering? A 19th amendment to the U.S.
Constitution, giving women the right to vote!






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