February 22, 2025
Like hammer on anvil, their voices rang loud and clear. Voices forged in the front line fires of social justice action. Voices tempered with fierce and righteous passion for their cause. Maud Gonne was such a voice. Carrie Chapman Catt was another.
It is sadly appropriate to share Carrie Catt’s voice as right now there are whispers and actions to disenfranchise women’s right to vote. Although rumored, project 2025 does not address this. But the SAVE bill currently moving through Congress does. This bill would make it difficult for many women to go through the process of voter recertification and reregistration. And many on the political far right are still weaving a narrative of taking away our right to vote that was forged into our constitution in 1920.
Carrie, sister, your voice still rings loud and clear. And yes, we give ourselves.
Beannacht,
Judith
Carrie Chapman Catt was leader in women’s suffrage movement. She led an army of voteless women to successfully pressure Congress to pass the constitutional amendment giving them the right to vote and convinced state legislatures to ratify it. She also founded the League of Women Voters, served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and was one of the best-known women in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. She became ancestor in 1947.
The minds that would conceive, maybe the minds behind the minds, such absences of liberty must be horrible and inhuman. I say absences plural because I don’t think the taking away (as in thefts) would stop with women.
Yes. I do think we are dealing with the minds behind the minds. Shadow influences and not good ones. And no. The taking away will neither begin nor stop with women. Pretty much anyone who is not white, male, christian and conservative/fascist. Going to be a rough time for so many.