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What is the problem with a woman president in the US? Suffrage Centennials asks the question!

by Marguerite Kearns

Go ahead, Edna Buckman Kearns. Use your telephone and ask the same question. If the nation to the south of us can elect a woman to head its government, we can too.

This is another example of other nations on Planet Earth being ahead of us in the US..

Another example is an amendment to the US Constitution. Last year, 2023, we drew attention to the fact that the United States is backward. Its women have been voting for over 100 years. A new team has taken over the effort and they have built on prior efforts.

Are they successful? It’s another year and another opportunity to set things in place. Instead we women have an opportunity to choose between two old tired men. What about Kamala Harris, the nation’s first woman elected vice president? She’s in the number 2 spot and is patiently waiting to see what will happen next about the 2024 election.

We at SuffrageCentennials.com have been publishing since 2013. How much longer must we wait? The US Supreme Court isn’t helping either right now. This is classic.

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What’s the problem with a US woman head of ship? If Mexico can do it, why can’t we?

by Marguerite Kearns

Again, we are the laughing stock of Planet Earth. We aren’t able to elect a woman head of state. Mexico can do it. But the United States can’t. This is also true with adding an equal rights amendment to the US Constitution. US women have been working on this for more than 100 years.

Is this an issue because an equal rights amendment is a reform of the current top-down social and economic system? Must we have a horizontal social system to allow this. Some of our supporters say “YES.” Others are not sure. They may be struggling with “internalized oppression.” This is an insidious condition. The roots of patriarchy run deep in the United States.

Start with yourself, folks. This is a serious question.

SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing since 2013. How much longer must women wait, Mr. President? This question hasn’t changed in more than 100 years.

 

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Join the ERA Coalition! You’ll never feel alone in working for an equal rights amendment!

Join the ERA Coalition. It’s free. Plenty of specially designed graphics, photos, etc. are available for you to use. There are training videos, special programs, and much more on the horizon.

We’re carrying on the work. This website is geared to organizers and planners across the nation when they’re looking for inspiration and passion online to inspire them and their organizations.

SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing since 2013.

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SuffrageCentennials.com represents those who say: “We’ll never give up our status as equal voters. We will never give up on an ERA!”

by Marguerite Kearns

Every year there are those like me and many many others who repeat the same refrain, “We will never give up.” We support the addition of an equal rights amendment to the US Constitution. US women have been voting for more than 100 years. It ‘s a rite of passage that the United States has never traveled, and it’s long overdue.

The United States has never had a woman president of the United States. A prejudice against women remains deep in the US social infrastructure. Photographer Peter Norby returns to one side of his nature…his Chinese DNA from his mother mixed with his father’s Anglo roots. He prepares traditional offerings for the Chinese New Year. Other folks also carry on this tradition. Check out SuffrageWagon.org for other variations. And good luck, the other ERA advocates mumble loud and clear. The continuing work is the result of another generation entering the fray. We will never give up.

SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing since 2013.

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We’re also getting ready for August 26th—Women’s Equality Day in 2024.

This date is recommended by the current US President on an optional basis. He distributes a press release of support.

We’re advocating something more. This includes that August 26th become a federal holiday and that women around the world support this new holiday.

We also support an equal rights amendment be added to the US Constitution. Support the events and educational opportunities that are ongoing.

SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing since 2013.

 

 

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I need exercise right now…Get ready for the ERA!

by Marguerite Kearns

How can I expect the equal rights amendment to pass the US Congress? Not now, kids. There’s an election in the works between two men, Biden and Trump this coming November 2024. And exercise wasn’t popular when I was a kid. My mother got exercise by raising five children. But something was wrong with the nuclear family. I couldn’t figure out what it was. It was the top down structure, a concept screaming from inside me. Everyone else hasn’t made the leap to horizontal structure screams a tiny small voice within me. That’s why the conventional types are on the bandwagon for reform.

Or at least that’s the simplified version of “cause and effect” that I am endorsing.

I am stretching out right now to move to another roof over my head. I’m writing as if many women I respect are in line to spread optimism by speaking in “optimistic” terms without a simultaneous structural shift.

Suffrage Centennials has a board of directors that endorses an equal rights emphasis. Now that 100 years US women have been voting, there still isn’t a woman with enough pubic support to nail the nation’s highest post…President of the United States.

I’m supporting an equal rights amendment to the US Constitution.

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Suffrage Centennial news sometimes includes 5 or more generations!

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I made 370 suffrage voting rights videos! Was I crazy or what?

Marguerite Kearns introduces the book, "An Unfinished Revolution" from Marguerite Kearns on Vimeo.

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Who are we at SuffrageCentennials.com? Why do we do what we do?

I remember going to a writer’s workshop years ago. We crowded into a small room in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The most asked question could be summed up in this way: “Is writing the same as activism? Are we contributing to a safer saner climate by retreating into a closet and writing?”

Naturally the instructor was of the opinion that writing and spreading the word is as important as bodily action. Writing can be isolating. Some individuals make sure they are out in public and writing in less than conventional spaces. The answer to the question stated above is—it depends on what you write, its audience, and the passion you lend to the experience.

So far, on this web site there have been over 600 posts. Not all of these posts are gems. Some are. They were geared to opinion leaders. It wasn’t just me volunteering. Many of us toiled quietly and persistently for close to a decade before the 2020 centennial of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. We worked into the early mornings.

JUST BECAUSE THE SUFFRAGE CENTENNIAL IS OVER

DOESN’T MEAN WE’RE NO LONGER ON THE CASE!

And the impossible was realized—even though the COVID-pandemic took a chunk from our expenditure of such massive effort, it was worth it. The 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution meant that a unique and noteworthy anniversary was celebrated from top to bottom of the social and financial top-down hierarchy.

The anniversary wasn’t perfect. The people involved weren’t perfect. But boy, were we determined to make this 100 years of women voting something to remember. It agitated the base. Suffrage centennial celebrations would not have taken. place without the participation of so many over a long period of time.

WAS THE CENTENNIAL OBSERVANCE A SUCCESS OR A FAILURE?

There were books, conferences, t-shirts, articles, events, and more, more. Those behind the scenes found themselves in diverse situations, from those who never heard of the voting rights movement to those who made snap judgments about people they never met. We are acutely aware now that this social change movement opened the door to people and locations that were significant in their own right, as well as present-day historians.

I never thought I’d be starting at the age of ten and realizing that my future would contain tons of volunteering, the learning and performance of skills I never could have anticipated being familiar with, and more. My first book is about the suffrage movement and how it played itself out in one family. Curious? You will be even more curious about how suffrage centennials move into the future.

During 2023, US women could recite their history of working on a suffrage centennial project for 100 years. That’s how long we’ve been working for the establishment of an equal rights amendment to the US constitution. We have minds like steel traps. We remember, and we’ll never forget.

SUFFRAGE CENTENNIAL SUPPORTERS ARE WORKING HARD

FOR THE PASSAGE OF AN EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

The year 2023 marks the 100th year that US women have been supporting and working for an ERA.

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We’re all struggling with restlessness, say Suffrage Centennial advocates!

We can’t sleep. We’re tossing and turning. We’re restless and impatient. How many of us are following the trail of freedom with calmness and clarity? Many of us are moving to the Pacific Northwest. I hear such predictions as— “We’ll be ‘safe’ there. Plenty of water to drink, etc. Climate change is here, but we’re helping ourselves primarily.”

Location is key, the location advocates repeat. Real estate agents are having a field day in the Pacific Northwest. Those set on moving there are feeling superior and tested. They believe that location is primary, not one’s frame of mind. The rush is on. And PNW relators are smiling.Those left behind say something like: “It’s your frame of mind that’s important, not the location.”

And the argument continues. Places that once headed the list for the best places to move are discovering that location and gratitude and positive pretending are keys, but all of us are affected in one way or another by the fact that the United States has become the laughing stock of the world because it appears not to value its citizens. Many are supporting an equal rights guarantee in the US Constitution. We’re teaching our children this. The situation isn’t going away.

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