Suffrage Centennials

“If I’m going to survive this waiting, what is my role in the future? Should I celebrate and support International Women’s Day in March?”

This is one way to roll off of the living room couch and stop eating so many Chinese noodles.

This is also a terrific question. Some are saying—”Continue supporting the voting rights movement forward.”

What if it’s a cop out to insist that we have passed the torch to others who are carrying on the work? Well, it’s true. They are right. And they may take extra moments to review and evaluate their decisions. If they don’t, think again. If all of us were perfect, we could make a reasonable argument that anyone with blurred and colored skin should bail out as oppressors, real or potential.

But what about the systemic injustice? Right. Making a decision would be easier if there were no mixed races to begin with. If there wasn’t injustice for others, what’s the point in battling for equality if it isn’t possible anyway. Many folks are insistent that they are right when it comes to overturning the apple cart. If you work for reform, you will obtain a version of reform.

Here at SuffrageCentennials.com, we’re pulling together a larger group of those more horizontal in nature. We believe that we’re fundamentally equal, and it’s sad that there are those who believe patriarchy is wonderful. Reform will make patriarchy even more acceptable.

Are you a reformer? Check yourself out. There are no magic bullets!

Want to cook up a storm as part of the year of the dragon celebration to get an ERA into the US Constitution?

That’s what we’re doing in preparation for 2024, the 101st year since US women have been working for an equal rights amendment to the US Constitution.

Suffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009. This is another example of how memory of the past has not been erased. It wasn’t long ago when the complaint rang loud and clear. Not enough citizens were exercising their right to vote.

And then this changed. Get off the couch and vote. We did.

Now that the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution has been celebrated, the actions of new voters have been recognized. We are facing new challenges—keeping the voters in the back row by way of gerrymandering and requiring new hoops for voters like us to jump through.

We support US citizens who have been working for more than 100 years to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution.

Join us!

SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing since 2013. We are pushing for an equal rights amendment to the US Constitution. I’m snacking and making myself a best friend. Now is the time to seek support externally, that’s equally true with making a strong backbone a priority internally

I’m calming my nervous system and holding myself steady throughout 2024 and beyond. There’s so much effort invested in keeping certain citizens in their so-called “place” with sales and promises and cheap tricks.

Slow down. Take stock. Be with yourself long enough to realize your and our potential power. It’s not acceptable anymore to tie down and insult potential representatives and allies of personal and social change.

A poll commissioned by Ms. Magazine predicts that an equal rights amendment to the US Constitution, in addition to abortion rights, will be important and a potent combination during the 2024 national election.

It took generations of constant grassroots and nonviolent organizing to win the right for women to vote in the United States. As US women noted, the right to an abortion that had been permanently established in the US Constitution, demonstrated for millions that the matter represented a reform, not a guarantee.

Patriarchy and a top-down social system are attempting to keep the status of women and others as second class by viewing the matters of an equal rights amendment and abortion rights as reforms rather than guarantees.

I’m no rich lady dropping into the women’s rights movement. Sure, there were those who gave generously, but the group never involved me and many others who were involved and spent their lifetimes busy.
This site and others sites originating from my kitchen are the result of labors of love. That’s very different from the casual statements unconnected to reality that web sites like SuffrageCentennials.com AND SuffrageWagon.org AND other web sites too numerous to mention are statements of the descendants of activists who primarily were people with tight values and long histories and memories.

I’ve known for years that if I expected to have ourselves and our ancestors recognized that we would need lots of money. Wrong. This and many other sites don’t have grants and foundations behind us. It’s a labor of love that has developed into a wave…a very large wave. It takes generations to succeed at this rate. Let’s give recognition where it is deserved!

I have been blogging for years. How? By going to school, taking classes, and not letting a minute pass when I could be learning and acting and spreading the word.

This coming year, it’s 101 years that US women have been working on an equal rights amendment to the national constitution. We’re almost there. To 2024, that is.

If men had been discriminated against like this for as long as we women have, all hell would break loose. It’s expected that women, the second gender, would be into non violence. And the word is spread that we’re pushovers. We’re supposed to be victims. We’re supposed to stand aside and internalize the oppression that has entered our souls.

Fortunately, this isn’t 100% of what all citizens and voters are saying. They’re noting that the US is behind the rest of the world. And that the situation around the world needs more TLC (tender loving care), not less of it.

They’re noting that more organizations are popping up that are claiming that US women are candidates for being treated as human beings, equal to and as qualified, (and in many instances more), they’re addressing the issues and messes caused by those who put themselves first. Let’s persist in this endeavor.

The US deserves an equal rights amendment to the US Constitution. It’s inevitable. And predictable that there’s a backlash to return to the “good old days” when certain taxpayers were expected to march through life with their heads down and their visions limited. Not indefinitely. No sir ree…!

Talk to Santa ab0ut an equal rights amendment! 

It’s not the Chinese New Year, but a holiday season when we’re thinking about special events to come in the future, like the Lunar New Year in 2024.

And special thanks to the New York State Museum for its special effort in planning the extra effort supporting the permanent exhibition of the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage campaign wagon used by Edna Kearns and others in 1913.

“March of the Women”—a women’s suffrage song in England! on Vimeo.

Best holiday wishes…SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing since 2013.

Opposition raised its head generations ago when women got together and decided they wanted to vote. Their nonviolent strategy took generations, but finally the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution passed in 1920. During the 1980s the opposition was resurgent. I remember hearing one man say: “We started having problems after we gave the women the right to vote.” There have been many attempts to eliminate the opposition. Now it is focused on the draft ERA or Equal Rights Amendment.

And as we noted, no one GAVE women the right to vote. It was a goal of women volunteers over generations.

This year, 2023, is the 100th year that women have been working nonviolently for an equal rights amendment. It is a reform, not a major digression. It is worth supporting. It would straighten out the mess the top-down social and economic structure has made of gender relations. But keep in mind that it is a reform, not the result of a recognition of dramatic changes that has resulted in a new direction.

There is progress. No doubt about that. But it can be reversed in an instant.

The battle over abortion rights is another example of something US residents thought was permanent. The US Supreme Court majority decided it was merely a reform that should be eliminated. And it happened. Right before our eyes.

This is what happens to reform initiatives. They may represent efforts of many in charge to make sure that top-down structures remain in place. But they have no status relative to future efforts.

Will an equal rights amendment be another example of a reform that can be overturned in an instant?

Let’s see.

SuffrageCentennials.com has been publishing since 2013.