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From the CUPE Ontario Women’s Committee:
Vote Sisters! Vote!
Remember your herstory. It is the story or our grandmothers and great-grandmothers who struggled for the right to vote. Remember the perseverance of our sisters who claimed the right to vote in Canadian Federal Elections in 1918 and then on Tuesday, October 14th vote!
We must use this right that was fought so hard for by these courageous women who were ridiculed and persecuted. Follow the link below to listen to Nellie McClung’s mock parliament in 1914 and hear Nellie destroy the sexist inferiority myths that were used to argue against women’s right to vote.
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10643
Follow the link below to hear Beatrice Bridgen remember what is was like to live when women were not in public life.
http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/elections/topics/1450/
On Tuesday, October 14th, remember Nellie, Beatrice, and Agnes McPhail, the first woman elected to the Dominion Parliament in 1921. Remember our sisters who fought so hard and sacrificed so much for the right to vote. And then, on Tuesday, October 14th vote!
Between now and Tuesday, check out the website for the Ad Hoc Coalition for Women’s Equality and Human Rights. It has fact sheets on women’s issues for this Federal Election and great questions to ask candidates.
http://www.womensequality.ca/election2008.html
Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.
A psychiatrist testifying at the trial of American Sufragettes in 1917.
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