Current special exhibit, rightfully hers, american women and the vote. Our partners are here tonight and we thank them for their support. Our special exhibit, rightfully hers, tells the story of the woman struggle for Voting Rights. Women activists had to win allies among men in influential positions. It was men who sat in state legislatures that would ratify or reject the 19 amendment, whose centennial we celebrate. When rightfully hers opened, guests were offered a yellow rose pin when they entered. That was won by members of the mens league for womens suffrage. For many guests, this not to the role that men played came as a surprise. Tonight we will take a look at the suffragents and their contributions to the voting right struggle. Its my pleasure to welcome nancy tate, she has served as the cochair of the womens Vote Centennial Initiative and is also on the board of the turning point suffragists memorial. She served as the executive director of the league of women voters, and prev
Any of that at all whereas i tend to try to balance might Corporate Media with independent review will like democracy now and you hear all the time on democracy now about soldiers refusing to deploy. I just wondered if you saw any signs of that . Thanks. Thats a great question. The short answer somewhat tellingly is i think in my experience at fort hood and among the folks that i knew there, the short answer is basically no. I had one friend who is involved with a relatively oriented Veterans Advocacy Group and certainly there is in this country a really lively antiwar Veterans Movement made up of a bunch of different organizations doing work that is politically important for those folks and also personally important for a lot of them. One of the things that was really interesting and striking to me in my work was the conventional language that we use and the civilian public being prowar, being antiwar whether in principle in general or with regard to specific policy decisions. Those a
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