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So many times people have said "oh, how horrible... I had no idea that was happening."Well now you do. If you want to do something about it, one of the big charities working on this is Eve Ensler's VDAY.
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November 15, 1917, Occoquan Workhouse, Virginia, USA
40 prison guards armed with clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against 33 women wrongly convicted of "obstructing sidewalk traffic". Women did not yet have the right to vote, and they'd been picketing the White House asking for that right. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food, all of it colorless slop, was infested with worms. Here's some details on what happened to three of them that night and over the course of their imprisonment.
LUCY BURNS' hands were chained to the cell bars above her head. She was beaten and left hanging there all night, bleeding and gasping for air.
ALICE PAUL was one of the leaders of the picket, and embarked on a hunger strike. The guards tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she puked. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
DORA LEWIS was hurled into a dark cell where guards smashed her head against an iron bed, knocking her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and had a heart attack. Additional affadavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
Yeah, and you can imagine what else they did, too.
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Natalia Sedov (Natasha), Trotsky, their son Leon and the dog
From Trotsky's testament: ""For forty-three years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist; for forty-two of them I have fought under the banner of Marxism. If I had to begin all over again I would of course try to avoid this or that mistake, but the main course of my life would remain unchanged. I shall die a proletarian revolutionist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist, and, consequently, an irreconcilable atheist. My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth.Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence and enjoy it to the full."
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"In my inner life, not only during my school years but throughout my youth, nature and individuals occupied a lesser place than books and ideas. Despite my country bringing-up, I was not sensitive to nature. My interest in it and my understanding of it came in later years, when childhood and even early youth were far behind. For a long time people passed through my mind like random shadows. I looked into myself and into books, in which in turn I tried again to find myself and my future."
From Leon Trotsky, My Life