A Single Woman, she'd have driven Bush nuts
...you should know her, but you don't...
A Single Woman is a one-woman play based on the life of Jeannette Rankin-- a major suffragist since 1910, Rankin was the first woman in Congress, voted in Montana four years before women even had the vote nationally--the first woman elected to the legislature of any western democracy!
Based on the life, speechs, letters and interviews of Jeanette Rankin, the play takes us from her childhood in 1880s Montana to her last television interview in 1972.
Join the Los Angeles Greens on this outing. Friday, July 22, 8pm. If we get 10 people, we get the HALF PRICE group discount!!
Please RSVP if you plan on attending to lisa@losangelesgreens.org
tickets: (group discount price is ) Riprap Studio Theatre 5755 Lankershim Boulevard North Hollywood http://riprapentertain.com/
"There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible." --Jeannete Rankin, 1929
Jeannette Rankin fought for equal pay, and an 8 hour day for women, child labor laws, the rights of Native and African Americans, Holocaust refugees and rights of immigrants. She led the Jeannette Rankin Brigade Peace Parade of 5000 women on the US Capitol against the Vietnam war and demanded unilateral disarmament. She spoke out against the corporate takeover of America. She led a Peace Parade at the Republican convention in Chicago in 1932 with the National Congress of Jewish Women and church groups, and recent Nobel peace prize winner Jane Adams. They were calling for Peace Planks to outlaw war forever (urging Democrats to do the same). As founding Vice President of the ACLU, she urged President Roosevelt to rescue Jews/religious and political prisoners from Europe in 1933 and onwards!
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