[pjw] INFO: Women's suffrage in America 100 Years later!

[Peace and Justice Works]

Hello PJW supporters

As today's 100th anniversary of women's right to vote in the USA was 
approaching I could not help thinking about our dear friend Yvonne 
Simmons, who worked tirelessly for the rights of women. I called to talk 
to Yvonne at the memory care facility where she's been living for the last 
several years to remind her of today's significance.

I looked around to see if I could find any Portland-specific 
commemorations (admittedly, through just a few web searches) and all I 
found were these two items.

USA Today has a page for each state. Oregon's includes some important 
figures, but also an air force general and Gert Boyle of Columbia 
Sportswear??

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/life/women-of-the-century/2020/08/13/women-of-the-century-oregon-suffrage-activists-politicians-on-list/5005132002/

The only reference I saw on the Oregonian's home page was Trump's empty 
(but, I guess, better late then never?) gesture to pardon Susan B Anthony 
to try to prove he's not the sexual harasser in chief.

https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2020/08/trump-to-posthumously-pardon-susan-b-anthony-champion-of-voting-rights-for-women.html

If you're down near Portland State University and want to take a look 
around the Walk of Heroines sometime you should do that, Yvonne and a lot 
of other Women's International League for Peace and Freedom members' names 
are engraved on the wall there.

https://www.pdx.edu/heroines/

(You may remember we held the Mother of All Protests there in May 2017 
after Trump dropped a similarly monikered bomb in Afghanistan.)

Anyway, happy to hear about anything I missed and/or your nominees of 
Portland heroines to recognize.

dan handelman
peace and justice works