Arrested, jailed, beaten, chained, body-slammed, twisted, punched and tortured ...

[Scuba]

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. K&R!

[aikoaiko]

2. Can anyone tell me who the suffragettes are in this picture?

[kag]

5. Found it...

Margaret Scott, Jane Short, May McFarlane & Olive Hockin.

The picture is of British "militant" suffragettes. I found this link:

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image/1055972/unknown-surveillance-photograph-of-four-suffragette-prisoners

[Scuba]

6. Thank you.

[aikoaiko]

14. Very nice. Thank you.

[roguevalley]

22. some of them died for it. they ran in front of horses at races, were force

fed on hunger strikes. they are my heroes. Thank you for the lovely picture. its going to be on my desktop

[Enthusiast]

3. Kicked and recommended!

This is a good one, Scuba.

[Overseas]

4. K&R.

[yuiyoshida]

7. I voted yesterday

ureshii desune (so happy)

[Red State Prisoner]

8. ...Other than that, my day sucked.

A timely post.

[randome]

9. That picture reminds me of these (fictional) badasses.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[SoapBox]

10. Exactly.

People around the world have died for the Right to Vote.

And morons here are either too lazy, too stupid, too non-caring...it goes on and on.

[gratuitous]

23. Voters here have also been subject to a concerted effort

There are very well-connected and moneyed forces hard at work to either block access to ballots or persuade certain segments of the electorate that their vote is meaningless. Voters have been carefully coached not to care about such things, and have received a great deal of positive reinforcement for their lazy or stupid proclivities.

My point being that the conditions you complain of didn't "just happen."

[rhett o rick]

25. Before you disparage non-voters, you should investigate why people don't vote.

I think you will find that they are not lazy, stupid morons. And calling them such is counterproductive.

[stage left]

11. Big K&R! nt

[riqster]

12. GOTFV!

[Nitram]

13. British sufragettes werer tortured through the use of force-feeding.

[niyad]

16. watch "iron-jawed angels" to see what was done to the suffragists in this country.

[KoKo]

34. Yes they were. PBS did a show on it last month.

Force fed like our Gitmos Prisoners. We forget how hard it was for women to get the vote and what they went through to get it...because it seems so normal these days that everyone has the opportunity.....forgetting how hard and how long it took women and blacks to get that right to cast a ballot.

[niyad]

15. k and r

[H2O Man]

17. Powerful.

Thank you.

Recommended.

[malthaussen]

18. I'd "kick and recommend,"

... but these women have suffered enough abuse already.

How little some of us appreciate the sacrifices made by those who have come before us.

-- Mal

[arikara]

19. I've never missed an election in 40 years.

One time I didn't like the major party choices and voted "rhino" which was a kind of a jokey protest party we had in Canada for awhile. I've often voted for lesser known parties that I knew wouldn't win. Once I wrote in a name which isn't easy to do in Canada because the ballots are black, and which anyhow effectively spoils the ballot.

Lately because we have a leftist party and a centerist party splitting the vote against the harperites, I've been voting strategically for whichever one has the best chance of beating the conservative in our riding. In other words, anybody but Harper. I'm not alone in this but with the split vote he keeps sliding up the middle.

Every time a destructive conservative wins I feel sick, and swear that there's no use to voting. But when it comes down to it I always do.

[LiberalLovinLug]

27. Hi countrymate!

I have been pounding this theme even since last election. As someone who has voted NDP all my life, I switched last time and voted Liberal. Joyce Murray, she won.

While I respect the philosophy of those that refuse to vote for a party that is not liberal enough for them and could not stomach voting for a neo-liberal third way type party like the Liberals. I also understand that the less votes a progressive party gets, the less relevant their issues will be for the other parties to adopt. That has always been my reasoning in the past.

But the scales have tipped too far in present day Canada. We are in an emergency situation. We must Stop Harper and his ongoing transforming of Canada from an open, progressive inclusive society respected worldwide to an isolated playground of the wealthy.

I just pray that enough Canadians grasp the seriousness of splitting the vote once again, and put aside their party loyalties for at least this one upcoming election. Because Harper has engineered a surplus (by taking in more taxes, fees, and cutting social spending and transfer payments) in order to have a big gift basket and he will be doling it all out to bribe all the small c conservatives and fence-sitters across the country. And, yes, many will fall for that.

[arikara]

32. Hi back to you too!

Last election I had the luxury of voting NDP but the time before because it was going to be too close, myself and at least 20 people I know were forced to vote liberal. And its a good thing because the lib only beat the con by 5 votes. It was to say the least a really good example of how important it is to vote, and to consider your vote carefully.

This time I'll have to see how it plays out, the NDP guy isn't all that effective in many people's opinion and Trudeau is pretty popular. So I'll have to watch closely to pick right because for the sake of Canada, it HAS to be "anybody but Harper".

That in a nutshell is the problem with our first past the post system, that somebody can win and become a dictator with just over 30%. Other countries have run offs and keep voting until a candidate gets over 50% of the vote. I don't believe Harper and very few conservatives would ever win 50% and we would sure have a different more happy, healthy country.

[MisterP]

20. making the electoral exploitation of the suffragists by an unrepresentative and vocally oligarchic

political class that openly ignores what Americans need all the more sickening, wouldn't you say?

it'd be like a university encouraging women to adjunct under Harriette Cooke's photo and the motto "Nobody Can Keep Women Out of Academia"

[WillyT]

21. K & R !!!

[theHandpuppet]

24. Where can I find a larger image to make a window poster?

Need one!

[theHandpuppet]

36. Has anyone found a larger image I can fashion into a window poster?

Please?

[jtuck004]

26. Oh, gonna use it alright. n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

28. "Shoulder to Shoulder" is available on Youtube.

It was a series originally shown on Masterpiece Theater from the Beeb about the women's suffrage movement in England and showed imprisonment and force feeding. It was about the Pankhursts, Emmeline and Christabel, Sylvia and Richard.

Trivia: Patricia Quinn, who was Christabel, was Magenta in Rocky Horror and she was also in I, Claudius.

Episode 1:

[unionthug777]

29. i thought the title...

was about what will happen to scott walker when he finally goes to prison......

[jwirr]

30. I will continue to use my vote this year as I have since JFK. Thank you ladies!

[raven mad]

31. I'm holding my vote till November 4th..................

because I love the party atmosphere here at my polling place when an almost-solid Democratic district reelects and elects-new. Probably go "across the street" to have a brew or three afterward.

Democrats have it tough in Alaska, but we're Alaska-tough.

[PatrickforO]

33. My wife and I did not waste our precious franchise.

We voted early.

[TxDemChem]

35. I voted yesterday.

I am so grateful to those who fought for women and black rights to vote. My daughter turns 18 next year and we are going to register her to vote together.