Westport Quakers

The Peace and Social Justice Committee at Westport Monthly Meeting invite you to participate in the viewing of a film, Iron Jawed Angels.

We will be gathering Sunday February 3, 2019 from 12-2 pm in the Macomber Community House. The following synopsis is from Suffrage and the Media website. “Iron Jawed Angels tells the story of how a key leader in the US suffrage movement, Alice Paul took the voting rights fight to Washington, DC.

The film follows Paul and fellow militant activist Lucy Burns as the pair clash with old-guard suffragists from the National American Woman Suffrage Association—or NAWSA—over tactics and strategy. Paul and Burns wanted, for instance, to push for an amendment to the US Constitution guaranteeing women’s voting rights. Paul and Burns break off from NAWSA and eventually turn to confrontational protests that land them in jail.

The movie shows how, while locked up in the Occoquan women’s prison in Virginia, Paul and her National Woman’s Party co-activists go on a hunger strike and are force-fed in response—hence the moniker “iron-jawed angels.”

In the film, the hunger strike pays off. Public sympathy for the suffragists grew after word leaked out about the hunger strike and the brutal tactics used to break it.”

Please join us in learning how these young women helped American women win the right to vote. Please bring a bag lunch. Beverages will be provided.Date: February 3, 2019  
Time: 12-2 PM
Location: Macomber Friends Community House, 930 Main Road, Westport MA 02790
Contact person: Pamela Drouin | pardrouin@gmail.com