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The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election

posted by takyon on Monday December 05 2016, @09:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the on-this-day dept.

Gaaark writes:

THE PETTICOAT REBELLION OF 1916
WOMEN GAIN RIGHT TO VOTE, SUCCEED IN OVERTHROWING GOVERNMENT

Or something like that, might have been Newspaper Headlines of the day.

The real story is that on December 5th, 1916, the polls opened at 8:00am in the small town of Umatilla, Oregon, for a municipal election. And there was not a woman in sight.
Until.

At 2pm, the women showed up in droves and with write-in ballots, they proceeded to elect an all-woman council: a coup d'etat, of sorts.

The story is at:
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-petticoat-rebellion-of-1916/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/63262/laura-starcher-and-petticoat-revolution-1916

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday December 06 2016, @01:56PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday December 06 2016, @01:56PM (#437678) Journal

    I knew a truck driver who delivered cases of cigarettes to stores.
    He got robbed once, beaten with a tire iron, locked in the back of his truck and left to die.

    He used to wake up screaming n his bedroom closet. Went from a tough Newfie to a scared, freaked-out newfie, just like that.

    Funny how the mind can get so fucked.

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  • (Score: 2) by tathra on Tuesday December 06 2016, @05:41PM

    by tathra (3367) on Tuesday December 06 2016, @05:41PM (#437878)

    thankfully there is a cure for PTSD [theguardian.com] but its one of many wonder drugs for treating psychiatric conditions [maps.org] that have been banned thanks to the war on drugs, and we all suffer for it. we're at least 5 years away from being able to get PTSD cured at your psychiatrist's office, but i've heard that impromptu therapy sessions with freelance therapists work pretty well too.