time to resurrect the National Women's Party?

[niyad]

the repukes have always screwed us, the dems only marginally less. so, after the latest woman-hating adventures of the dems, namely nelson, is it time to resurrect the National Women's Party:

(for those of you in the DC area, visit the Sewall-Belmont house, Alice Paul's home, and the museum of the NWP--http://www.sewallbelmont.org/)

National Woman's Party


NWP members picket the White House in 1917, the banner reads, "Mr. President How Long Must Women Wait For Liberty."The National Womens Party (NWP), was a women's organization founded in 1916 that fought for women's rights during the early 20th century in the United States, particularly for the right to vote on the same terms as men. In contrast to other organizations, such as the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which focused on lobbying individual states and from which the NWP split, the NWP put its priority on the passage of a constitutional amendment ensuring women's suffrage. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns founded the organization originally under the name the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in 1913; by 1917, the name had been changed to the National Women's Party.

During the group's first meeting, Paul clarified that the party would not be a political party and therefore would not name a candidate for United States president during elections. While non-partisan, the NWP directed much of its fire at President Woodrow Wilson when criticizing those responsible for the social situation in which women of the era lived. The National Woman's Party also opposed World War I.

Women associated with the party staged a suffrage parade on March 3, 1913, the day before Wilson's inauguration; they also became the first women to picket for women's rights in front of the White House. The picketers were tolerated until 1917, but when they continued to picket after the United States declared war in World War One, they were arrested by police for "obstructing traffic". Many of the NWP's members, upon arrest, went on hunger strikes; some, including Paul, were force-fed by jail personnel as a consequence. The resulting scandal and its negative impact on the country's international reputation at a time when Wilson was trying to build a reputation for himself and the nation as an international leader in human rights may have contributed to Wilson's decision to publicly call for the United States Congress to pass the Suffrage Amendment.

After the ratification of the Nineteenth amendment in 1920, the NWP turned its attention to eliminating other forms of gender discrimination, principally by advocating passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, which Paul drafted in 1923. The organization regrouped and published the magazine Equal Rights. The publication was directed mostly towards women but also intended to educate men about the benefits of women's suffrage, women's rights and other issues concerning American women.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Woman's_Party

[laughingliberal]

1. That would be a start. Might be good to start like that and evolve into a political party nt

[niyad]

4. I have been telling people for years that that is my party affiliation. there are people who know,

but the majority, sadly, have never learned of the NWP.

[HeresyLives]

2. I just watched the movie,

'Iron jawed women'. It was dreadful.

But it hit me where I live.

Go for it.

[niyad]

3. "it was dreadful"--did you mean the movie was dreadful, or what women went through to secure

the vote?

by the way, have you ever seen the pbs series, "shoulder to shoulder" about the british women's suffrage movement?

[HeresyLives]

5. The movie was dreadful.

It was cheap, it was cheesy.

The women wore too much make-up and moved and spoke too freely for the times. It skipped over the important parts, and made a big deal out of their love-lives.

I cried for two hours.

[kiva]

6. It's Iron Jawed Angels.

[HeresyLives]

7. Thank you ...that made a big difference.

[niyad]

8. kick

[Echo In Light]

9. Error: you can only recommend threads which were started in the past 24 hours

[AliceBurns]

10. RE: time to resurrect the National Women's Party?

Resurrect the NWP? Absolutely not - unless you can get someone into that organization with a modicum of leadership skills. The past several presidents have been dreadful and ruined an organization that should have been easy to "resurrect." The place is notorious for running off women with political talent, and the level of infighting that has gone on there should embarrass them (but doesn't). That group is as woman-hating as they come (wolves in sheep's' clothing) and utterly dysfunctional. The board distances itself from "feminists" or even using the term in their mission statement. Paul and Burns would be ashamed to have their names associated with that group! They want your money, and will plead poverty at every corner, but then they squander it on senseless projects. They've burned major donors and are the exact opposite of the ideals that Paul and Burns stood for. The revolution needs to begin with taking back that organization and making it truly "democratic." Only then will we see progress in the truest sense of the word. Equal Rights for women? Only if you have money, connections or are willing to compromise everything you ever believed as a feminist! Better yet, start over and form another party for the solution to what ails us!

[tabasco]

11. You prove your ignorance with your first sentence. n/t