Vid: Suffrage

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Title: Suffrage
Music: Shut Your Mouth by Garbage
Summary: This video is for the TV movie Iron Jawed Angels. The movie shows American women's struggle to get the right to vote - pretty tough. They hounded senators, petitioned the president, held rallies, held a parade that started a riot, picketed a war-time president, got arrested for their tactics & finally (after their prison hunger strike hit the press) won women the right to vote! It's hard to believe, but this isn't that old of a part of our history - women got the right to vote in the US in 1920. That means that there are still women alive today who, in their lifetime, were not allowed to vote. So watch this video, see the movie, and appreciate what those women sacrificed so that you could cast your ballot on election day. Oh yeah, and one more thing, GO OUT THERE & VOTE!!!
Source Material: Iron Jawed Angels (2004) © HBO Films.
Note: You can download a copy of the movie trailer here, just incase you want to get a better idea of what happens in the movie.
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Comments

[littlesammy.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just... wow.

Thank you for sharing.

[copracat]

Awesome choice of song and a great vid. Also, you made me cry.

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

That was incredible.

[halcyon-shift.livejournal.com]

Beautiful

[isagel.livejournal.com]

Amazing. I'm sitting here crying. Christ. I wasn't expecting this to hit me that hard, but, yeah. Thank you.

[goodbyebird]

Thank you so very much for making this ♥

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this! I've come across this before, and it's an excellent vid.

[ofparsnip.livejournal.com]

Wow, this was amazing. Thank you for making this!

(Funny story, I'm actually writing a paper on Alice Paul and the NWP.)

[mrsfrankenstien.livejournal.com]

Ohh, this is beautiful. Perfect song for that movie!

[saekhwa]

Wow. This is utterly and absolutely amazing. Iron-Jawed Angels is one of my favorite movies, and this vid does it so much justice.

[july-july-july.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Garbage was a great choice.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Incredible.

[cee-m.livejournal.com]

Jesus. I'm sitting here just shaking.

This was absolutely amazing. I'm sitting on the floor at school just about crying... This was... just wow.

[cee-m.livejournal.com]

Oh. and I also pimped this on my personal blog and my facebook...
http://marymo.net/mm_blog/?p=234

[chaila43.livejournal.com]

That was great! Really perfect song choice, incongruous with the costumes and the scenery, but completely appropriate for the subject matter. I also loved all the martial imagery, starting with feet and standing together at the beginning, through all the marching, and building to the final actual battle. Awesome!

And I'm totally going to have to track down this movie!

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

WONDERFUL. Thank you so much for this.

[ninhursag.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. This is just amazing!

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

Amazing vid!

[undeny.livejournal.com]

This was so good! Thank you so much for sharing.

[dysprositos.livejournal.com]

That was really amazing. Also, best use of talkyface ever (in the testimony scene).

[cofax7]

Oh, that was great! Well done!

[e-transitions.livejournal.com]

thanks! I'm glad you liked it so much! :)

[e-transitions.livejournal.com]

thanks ^_^

[e-transitions.livejournal.com]

thx!

[e-transitions.livejournal.com]

thanks for the thanks ;)