_________________ "Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest." - e.v.
_________________ cirlces they grow and they swallow people whole half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul and so it goes
Penn and Teller did something very similar by going around an environmental rally getting people to sign a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide.
i love sci-geek humour.
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Peeps wrote:
b, every now and then youre a-ok in my book
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That is pretty funny, but I will admit that i didn't know the definition of suffrage until now. I guess I would have been one of the morons in here if they had asked me.
It reminds me of a segment on This Hour Has 22 Minutes (probably nobody outside of Canada will know what this is) called "Talking to Americans". The basic premise was they would go to major metropolitan centres and get people to say rediculous things about Canada. There was one where they had a petition to save Canada's national igloo which was melting from global warming. Supposedly that was where the Prime Minister lived . Somehow they got the support of some senator, I forget who now. There was another one where they convinced people that we were building a bridge from PEI to Saskatchewan (which would be roughly 3000 miles).
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B wrote:
Peeps wrote:
b, every now and then youre a-ok in my book
Look at my boys, getting along!!
Edit: Wow. I just noticed that is possibly the scariest smilie I have ever seen. It does not convey the happy warm fuzzies I am truely feeling in my heart Let me try another:
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I don't know if I knew what suffrage was in college, but even if I thought it was suffering, I would have asked for an info packet before signing a petition.
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B wrote:
I don't know if I knew what suffrage was in college, but even if I thought it was suffering, I would have asked for an info packet before signing a petition.
Good for you, B.
Let's see, the Susan B. Anthony dollars came out in 1979, I was six. That's about when I learned the word.
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suffrage in portuguese is sufragio. I dont know there in the US, but at least in Brazil, during the history classes we hear a lot the expression "sufragio universal".
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Somehow, I'm really not that surprised. Polls show the majority of Americans believed there were direct ties between Iraq and September 11 too.
It's not that Americans are stupid. It really isn't. It's just that they don't listen and don't care to. They're content to be spoonfed most of the time. The president implies there are ties? There must be! Some guy walks up to you in the street with a petition? It must be a good thing!
I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but I see a connection.
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I am definately showing my age here (so i will tell you i am the same age as peeps), but this is the primary reason why the word suffrage stuck in my mind...schoolhouse rock did more for me than some of my teachers.
and you know, i do not ever recall being taught about suffrage. i guess the whole idea of women voting was not "proper" for my history classes? too many wars to get through, and goddam we never, ever ever got past the beginning of WWII.
Schoolhouse Rock - History Rock
Sufferin' Till Suffrage
Music: Bob Dorough
Lyrics: Tom Yohe
Sung by: Essra Mohawk
}} Yeah!... Hurray!
Now you have heard
Of women's rights
And how we've tried
To reach new heights
If we're all created equal,
That's us too.
}} Yeah!
But you will proba-
Bly not recall...
That it's not been
Too long at all,
Since we even had the right to
Cast a vote.
}} Well...
Well sure some men
Bowed down and called us misses, }} Yeah!
Let us hang the wash out,
And wash the dishes, }} Huh...
But when the time rolled around
To elect a president
What did they say, sisters?
}} What did they say?
They said, uh, see you later,
Alligator, and don't forget my, my...
My mashed potatoes,
Because I'm going downtown to
Cast my vote for president.
But we were sufferin',
Until suffrage, }} Whoah...
Not a woman here could vote
No matter what age.
Then the 19th Amendment
Struck down that restrictive rule.
}} Oh yeah!
Now we pull down
On the lever
Cast our ballots,
And we endeavor
To improve our country,
State, county, town and school.
}} Tell 'em bout it!
Those pilgrim women who
Who braved the boat
}} They cook, cook, cooked!
Could cook the turkey, but they,
They could not vote
Even Betsy Ross who sewed the flag
Was left behind that first election day.
}} What a shame, sisters!
Then Susan B.
Anthony }} Yeah!
and Julia Howe, }} Lucretia!
Lucretia Mott, }} And others!
They showed us how,
They carried signs
And marched in lines
Until at long last
The law was passed.
Oh we were sufferin',
Until suffrage,
Not a woman here could vote
No matter what age.
Then the 19th Amendment
Struck down that restrictive rule.
}} Oh yeah!
And now we pull down
On the lever
Cast our ballots,
And we endeavor
To improve our country,
State, county, town and school.
Yes the 19th Amendment
Struck down that restrictive rule.
Yes the 19th Amendment
Struck down that restrictive rule.
}} Yeah, yeah!
{We've got 'em now!}
Since 1920, Sisters Unite! Oh lord!
_________________ cirlces they grow and they swallow people whole half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul and so it goes
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kiddo wrote:
I am definately showing my age here (so i will tell you i am the same age as peeps), but this is the primary reason why the word suffrage stuck in my mind...schoolhouse rock did more for me than some of my teachers.
and you know, i do not ever recall being taught about suffrage. i guess the whole idea of women voting was not "proper" for my history classes? too many wars to get through, and goddam we never, ever ever got past the beginning of WWII.
Schoolhouse Rock - History Rock Sufferin' Till Suffrage
Music: Bob Dorough Lyrics: Tom Yohe Sung by: Essra Mohawk
}} Yeah!... Hurray!
Now you have heard Of women's rights And how we've tried To reach new heights If we're all created equal, That's us too.
}} Yeah!
But you will proba- Bly not recall... That it's not been Too long at all, Since we even had the right to Cast a vote.
}} Well...
Well sure some men Bowed down and called us misses, }} Yeah! Let us hang the wash out, And wash the dishes, }} Huh... But when the time rolled around To elect a president What did they say, sisters?
}} What did they say?
They said, uh, see you later, Alligator, and don't forget my, my... My mashed potatoes, Because I'm going downtown to Cast my vote for president.
But we were sufferin', Until suffrage, }} Whoah... Not a woman here could vote No matter what age. Then the 19th Amendment Struck down that restrictive rule.
}} Oh yeah!
Now we pull down On the lever Cast our ballots, And we endeavor To improve our country, State, county, town and school.
}} Tell 'em bout it!
Those pilgrim women who Who braved the boat }} They cook, cook, cooked! Could cook the turkey, but they, They could not vote Even Betsy Ross who sewed the flag Was left behind that first election day.
}} What a shame, sisters!
Then Susan B. Anthony }} Yeah! and Julia Howe, }} Lucretia! Lucretia Mott, }} And others! They showed us how, They carried signs And marched in lines Until at long last The law was passed.
Oh we were sufferin', Until suffrage, Not a woman here could vote No matter what age. Then the 19th Amendment Struck down that restrictive rule.
}} Oh yeah!
And now we pull down On the lever Cast our ballots, And we endeavor To improve our country, State, county, town and school.
Yes the 19th Amendment Struck down that restrictive rule. Yes the 19th Amendment Struck down that restrictive rule.
}} Yeah, yeah!
{We've got 'em now!} Since 1920, Sisters Unite! Oh lord!
Nothing wrong with showing your age. I learned more from schoolhouse rock than I did in a couple of the half-assed history classes I was subjected to in junior high and high school.
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. Somehow they got the support of some senator, I forget who now. There was another one where they convinced people that we were building a bridge from PEI to Saskatchewan (which would be roughly 3000 miles).
