All We Wanted to do Was VOTE. Iron Jawed Angels - Force Feeding Scene

[sheshe2]

Iron Jawed Angels - Force Feeding Scene

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Thank you sheshe2!

I have the movie on DVD and I will watch it again this weekend.

[sheshe2]

2. I will try the library to see if I can watch it again.

Thanks Cooley.

[Demsrule86]

7. Alice Paul became a vegetarian after

the force-feeding. The torture of the Suffragettes was appalling. November 15th will be the 99th anniversary of the night of terror...by then we will have our first woman president! More information


http://www.coe.ucsf.edu/coe/news/night_terror.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Paul

"Three times a day for fourteen days Alice Paul and Rose Winslow have been going through the torture of forcible feeding. I know what that torture is. The horrible griping and gagging of swallowing six inches of stiff rubber tubing-[it] is not to be imagined. That over, there is the ordeal of waiting while the liquids are poured through-then the withdrawal of that tube! With streaming eyes and parched, burning throat, one wonders how the people of this nation already tasting blood and pain can let this be done….

The prisoners endured their punishment with unwavering resolve, but they were near collapse. If they meant to win or die, it seemed increasingly likely that dying would be their fate. But far away, the tide of their desperate war was turning, thanks to the NWP lawyers working overtime for the prisoners. Dudley Malone concentrated on the Washington jail, while Matthew O’Brien took on Occoquan, and their labors were producing results. Forcing their way into the prisons with court orders, both were outraged at what they found. In Washington, Alice Paul languished in a hellhole on the psychiatric ward, despite a clean bill of mental health from the alienist. The irate Malone demanded, and got, her prompt removal to the main jail. At Occoquan, O’Brien obtained a writ of habeas corpus ordering Superintendent Whittaker to produce all his suffragist prisoners for a hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Alexandria, Va. Whittaker tried frantically to evade the writ-even hiding out in his own home in vain. The hearing was held November 23 and 24 before a packed house, including newspaper reporters from far and wide.

Both attorneys argued eloquently for justice for Americans who, as O’Brien declared, were railroaded to Occoquan, where unspeakable brutalities occurred, for the sole purpose of terrorizing them and compelling them to desist from doing what…they have every legal right to do.

The sympathetic judge called the testimony given on the prisoners’ behalf blood-curdling. But more compelling than any evidence was the appearance of the prisoners themselves. Haggard, pale and disoriented, many with ugly bruises sustained during the Night of Terror, some barely able to walk or sit upright, their condition sent a wave of shocked disbelief throughout the courtroom. The sight of those mistreated women, vividly reported in newspapers, clinched their case. The judge ordered the prisoners’ immediate transfer to the Washington jail pending further review — and the grim conflict took a startling turn.

For months the government had gone to extremes — even breaking the law — to suppress the picketing. But the movement only grew stronger as public opinion shifted toward the women."

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php?topic=9543.0

[niyad]

3. thank you for this very powerful reminder.

[sheshe2]

4. ...

Force-feeding[edit]

Poster by 'A Patriot', showing a suffragette prisoner being force-fed, 1910.
In September 1909, the Home Office became unwilling to release hunger-striking suffragettes before their sentence was served.[30]




Suffragettes became a liability because if they were to die in custody, the prison would be responsible for their death. Prisons began the practice of force-feeding the hunger strikers through a tube, most commonly via a nostril or stomach tube or a stomach pump.[29] Force-feeding had previously been practised in Britain but its use had been exclusively for patients in hospitals who were too unwell to eat or swallow food. Despite the practice being deemed safe by medical practitioners for sick patients, it posed health issues for the healthy suffragettes.[28]





Memories of Winson Green Sep 18th 1909 ; Illustration from Mabel Cappers WSPU prisoners scrapbook




The process of tube-feeding was strenuous without the consent of the hunger strikers, who were typically strapped down and force-fed via stomach or nostril tube, often with a considerable amount of force.[33] The process was painful and after the practice was observed and studied by several physicians, it was deemed to cause both short-term damage to the circulatory system, digestive system and nervous system and long-term damage to the physical and mental health of the suffragettes.[34] Some suffragettes who were force-fed developed pleurisy or pneumonia as a result of a misplaced tube.[35]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette

[niyad]

6. in the pbs series "shoulder to shoulder", about the british suffrage movement, they

also showed some very harrowing scenes about the force-feeding of the british suffragists. although that program is not available on dvd (why is that, pbs???) all the episodes are available on youtube.

[DesertRat]

5. This was such a good movie

I originally saw it when it came out on HBO and found it deeply affecting. I wish they'd run it again before the election.