Features suffrage wagon at the Long Island Museum
Here’s an email from Sylvia Ramos about how we could be doing something important while waiting from one action to another. A “whistleblower” draws a line and says “I’ve had it, and I am not going to tolerate any more lies, coverups, and abuse.” Being a whistleblower may or may not involve becoming a public…
Continue ReadingWatch the videos from our friends supporting Suffrage Wagon News Channel. We have been publishing since 2009. Now we’re working with our sister site, SuffrageCentennials.com, to support passage of an equal rights amendment to the US Constitution. This year, 2023, US women have been working for such an amendment for 100 years. THE IMPORTANCE OF…
Continue Readingby Marguerite Kearns I wrote the book, “An Unfinished Revolution” because if I didn’t, no one would have. I chose what I believed would be an “easy” book for starters. I found out quickly that women’s rights as a topic, even its history, isn’t easy. Even the fact that I waited to begin the documentation…
Continue ReadingSUFFRAGETTES ANTHEM – SPIRIT OF 1776 from on Vimeo. Make sure that you see the inauguration live at 2. p.m. EST from New York. It is historic, and the “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon used by Edna Kearns. in 1913 in. New York City and Long Island has an important part! Suffrage Wagon News Channel…
Continue ReadingWATCH THE INAUGURATION OF NEW YORK STATE’S FIRST WOMAN GOVERNOR, KATHY HOCHUL Make sure you’re on hand to watch the inaugural ceremony of Kathy Hochul, first woman elected governor of New York State. It’s scheduled for January 1, 2023, EST, at 2. p.m. Watch online by searching for live coverage! A special thanks to those…
Continue ReadingSuffragists Martha Wright & Edna Kearns Dec. 25th birthdays on Vimeo. In 2022, activist and writer Edna Buckman Kearns will be celebrating her 140th birthday. And suffrage activist Martha Coffin Wright is 216 years old. For bookings and interviews, leave a message for Marguerite Kearns (855) toll free 553 3666. This multi-media suffrage news channel…
Continue ReadingFrom Marguerite Kearns: It’s easy to forget the effort and enormous accomplishments of the past when facing the unknown. and what we perceive to be prejudice and discrimination in the present moment. And so I am persisting in remembering. One thing that lent itself to invisibility was the networking many of us engaged with over…
Continue ReadingI couldn’t have been more elated than when a review of my book, An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights appeared in the Friends Journal of August 2022. Prior to this, Friends Journal has kept a distance from memoir and family history. This would make sense back in the days…
Continue ReadingA historical marker has been relocated from the boardwalk in Long Beach, NY to Northern Blvd. for reasons of size. This is the second marker installed on Long Island commemorating Edna Kearns’s suffrage organizing and her “Spirit of 1776” suffrage wagon. Robert F. Keeler of Stony Brook, NY represented granddaughter Marguerite Kearns at a marker…
Continue ReadingOverview of early women’s rights on Suffrage Wagon News Channel! on Vimeo. Suffrage Wagon News Channel has been publishing since 2009. For bookings and interviews, leave a message for Marguerite Kearns (855) toll free 553 3666.
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