Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
We have relied on many many people who have contributed to the uphill task of taking the story of Edna Buckman Kearns to the broader public. This has included the contributions of numerous people, organizations, and the luck of presence and courage. We have attempted to break the rules of engagement in many ways and…
Continue ReadingErich Fromm’s book, Escape from Freedom, was published in 1941. He was born in 1900. This combination certainly qualifies as “the past.” Fromm is easy to ignore because freedom is a popular topic. Fromm believes that if Americans actually believed in freedom and held it to their chests as a valuable goal, they would most…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns This opinion column is a reaction to how it is increasingly popular to punish more Americans with “involuntary treatment” of their so-called political opinions and freedom of speech. Forced treatment can increasingly result in outcomes like me walking away as a result of involuntary and potentially violent treatment. There is more. I…
Continue ReadingSuffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009. It is a document of personal and historical development of one person and many others toward a goal of including women’s history as part of American history. Unless we can move from a top-down social and economic system to a horizontal social and economic system, we…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns When I was young, I couldn’t figure out why women and their history weren’t considered a part of American history. I didn’t fully understand then that women were second-class citizens, there to serve men rather than thinking for themselves. Although this perspective has suffered to a degree during my lifetime, the top-down…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns Several days ago I sat through three hours of the film “Oppenheimer” in a movie theatre. I remembered my glasses, but not my hearing aids. So I sat through three hours of terrific images but little sound. Then the above article appeared in my mail. Half of the listening streaming public depends…
Continue ReadingTea houses are important for organizing during the first wave of the women’s rights movement. The concern continues today about the working conditions of tea employees, many of whom are women.
Continue Reading This article from a suffrage newsletter highlights grassroots organizing on Long Island during 1912. From the archive of Edna Buckman Kearns,this document shows Edna on the platform speaking for over an hour, along with selling memorabilia for fundraising. It’s one of many examples of the extensive campaigning during 1912 on Long Island (New York)….
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