Oklahoma Prosperity Project

Forward from Sara - So may I add: BE INFORMED!!!!!!! Oklahomans can enter their zip codes and learn where the candidates in their districts stand on their issues:

Visit http://www. okprosperity. com/page. asp?content=startpage&g=OKLAHOMA

or make a new MySpace friend:

http://profile. myspace. com/index. cfm?fuseaction=user. viewprofile&friendid=384951728.


and Kudos to Sara for posting this ... )


It has only been 88 years since HALF of the citizens of our nation were granted the right to have a voice in their own government. Don't let these heroic womens' tribulations be in vain. VOTE! Encourage others to do so. And not just during Presidential elections. All elections are important. Please pass this on.



WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE

This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.





Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.



The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.





And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.


Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.

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(Lucy Burns)
They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.





(Dora Lewis)
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.



Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.



Thus unfolded the'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered hi