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01/29/2025

The Chinese zodiac operates on a 60-year cycle, with 12 animal signs and five elements — metal, wood, water, fire and earth.

The Year of the Snake in 2025 is associated with the element of Wood— making 2025 the Year the Wood Snake.

January 29, 2025, marks the beginning of the Year of the Snake — a dynamic year to learn from the past, moving forward with wisdom, awareness, transformation and compassion.

01/20/2025

TODAY WE CELEBRATE
the power of nonviolent activism
that Martin Luther King Jr. championed.

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01/01/2025

At Live on Green! our favorite holiday is New Year's Day! Around the globe people have celebrated the beginning of the new year for millennia!

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11/28/2024

In the Autumn of 1621 members of the Wampanoag joint English settlers in what is now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts to mark a successful harvest hosting the “First Thanksgiving”!

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11/11/2024

11/05/2024

As the United States entered World War I in 1917, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) encouraged its supporters to join in the war effort. The organization argued women deserved the vote because they were patriots, caregivers, and mothers. Women’s expertise in maintaining the home and family would improve politics and society.

The combination of NAWSA’s war efforts and the publicity attracted by National Woman’s Party’s (NWP) pickets of the White House led to widespread support for woman suffrage. Although President Woodrow Wilson previously had refused to endorse suffrage, in September 1918 he addressed the Senate in favor of votes for women. He appealed to patriotic arguments for suffrage when he asked representatives, “We have made partners of the women in this war; shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right?”

The Nineteenth Amendment states: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of s*x.” Congress passed the amendment in June 1919. The NAWSA and NWP suffragists lobbied local and state representatives to ensure its subsequent ratification by the states.

After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment on August 18, 1920, female activists continued to use politics to reform society. NAWSA became the League of Women Voters. In 1923, the NWP proposed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to ban discrimination based on s*x. The League of Women Voters and efforts to pass the ERA continue today.

By Allison Lange, Ph.D.
Fall 2015

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11/04/2024

First Woman Elected to U.S. House of Representatives Jeannette Pickering Rankin was an American politician and women’s rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940.

As World War I raged and women mobilized for war, the US House of Representatives considered a constitutional amendment affirming women’s right to vote. Representing Montana, Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress. She framed the amendment to her colleagues in terms of the democracy that Americans were fighting for in the war: “How shall we answer their challenge, gentlemen: how shall we explain to them the meaning of democracy if the same Congress that voted for war to make the world safe for democracy refuses to give this small measure of democracy to the women of our country?” The House voted in favor of the amendment, 274 votes to 136. Though it passed the House, the US Senate voted against the amendment. The fight for woman’s suffrage continued.

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11/03/2024

Live on Green continues to celebrate 104 years of Women’s Suffrage. Today we saw this legacy of strong, intelligent women highlighted by 23-year-old poet Amanda Gordon as she captured the moment with “The Hill We Climb."

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11/02/2024

On December 10, 1869, a full 50 years before the 19th amendment, Wyoming passed the first unconditional law in the U.S. permanently guaranteeing women 21 and older their inherent right to vote and hold office. Voters had to be a citizen or swear an oath that they were seeking citizenship which meant that the right did not extend to Native Americans and Chinese immigrants, who were excluded from citizenship at the time. African-American women, officially, were able to vote under the law, but it’s unknown if any did. Louisa Swain is said to be the first woman cast the historic ballot for the general election in Laramie, Wyoming. The Laramie newspaper did note that 93 women voted in 1870, but did not mention any names other than Louisa Swain.

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11/01/2024

Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut, physicist, and engineer. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. Ride was the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32.

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10/31/2024

Wishing Everyone a Spooktacular All Hallows’ Eve!
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10/31/2024

Suffragists Organize: National Woman Suffrage Association The disagreement about whether or not to support the Fifteenth Amendment, which granted African American men the right to vote, led to a division in the women’s rights movement. In 1869, activists established two competing national organizations focused on winning woman suffrage. The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) opposed the Fifteenth Amendment, while the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) supported the new law.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the NWSA first. The pair believed that instead of supporting the Fifteenth Amendment as it was, women’s rights activists should fight for women to be included as well. They started the NWSA to lead this effort.

Stanton and Anthony established the NWSA’s headquarters in New York City. They started a newspaper, The Revolution, as the mouthpiece of their women-led organization. The Revolution’s motto was: “Justice, not Favors. — Men, their Rights and Nothing More; Women, their Rights and Nothing Less.” Their paper covered topics including a woman’s right to suffrage, education, and divorce. The NWSA was more radical and controversial than the competing American Woman Suffrage Association, which focused only on the vote. The NWSA wanted a constitutional amendment to secure the vote for women, but it also supported a variety of reforms that aimed to make women equal members of society.

By Allison Lange, Ph.D.
Fall 2015

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10/30/2024

Jackson made a name for itself in 1920 when it became the first town with a civic government of all women.

Known as the “petticoat” rulers, Mayor Grace Miller and Rose Crabtree, Mae Deloney, Genevieve Van Vleck and Faustina Haight made up the Town Council after being nominated for the ticket by Jackson citizens when prominent men refused to step up.

Elected May 11, they swiftly appointed other women to take administrative positions when they took office June 7. Marta Winger was appointed town clerk, Edna Huff was health officer, Viola Lunbeck was named treasurer and Pearl Williams was town marshal, whose main duty was to keep livestock out of town.

Those appointments were what made Jackson especially noteworthy in the year women were granted suffrage with the 19th amendment to the U.S Constitution. Oskaloosa, Kansas, and Kanab, Utah, had already elected all-female town councils in 1888 and 1912.

With its petticoat government Jackson underscored why Wyoming deserved its nickname, the Equality State, which it acquired after giving women the right to vote in 1869.

The women not only put the valley in the limelight but also cleaned up the town financially and physically.

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10/29/2024

“In 1868, the women’s rights movement splits into two factions as a result of disagreements over the Fourteenth and soon-to-be-passed Fifteenth Amendments. Suffragists Organize: American Woman Suffrage Association.

The national suffrage organization established in 1869 was the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). Unlike the rival National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), AWSA supported the Fifteenth Amendment that granted African American men the right to vote.

Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Brown Blackwell teamed up with other prominent reformers. The organization was headquartered in Boston, a city known as a center of reform movements. In 1870, Stone established The Woman’s Journal, which quickly became a successful suffrage newspaper. The paper announced and recapped the association’s meetings, discussed suffrage issues, and detailed strategies. The Woman’s Journal lasted beyond the end of the suffrage movement, ending publication in 1931.

The AWSA quickly became the more popular organization because it was more moderate in its aims. While the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) advocated for a range of reforms to make women equal members of society, the AWSA focused solely on the vote to attract as many supporters as possible. Unlike the female-led NWSA, the AWSA also included prominent male reformers among its leaders and members. AWSA leaders also pursued a state-by-state strategy, which they thought would be more successful than NWSA’s efforts to pass an amendment to the Constitution.”

By Allison Lange, Ph.D.
Fall 2015

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10/28/2024

Katherine Johnson is an African-American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. manned spaceflights. During her 35-year career at NASA and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, she earned a reputation for mastering complex manual calculations and helped the space agency pioneer the use of computers to perform the tasks.

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10/27/2024

On the flag of the United States, each state in the union is represented by a star. In 1919, the National Woman’s Party led by Alice Paul began sewing stars on a giant purple, white, and gold flag. Each time a state ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, a new star would be sewn on the flag. There was room on the National Woman’s Party flag for 36 stars, symbolizing the number of state ratifications required for the amendment to become law.

Purple represented royalty and “the royal blood that flows in the veins of every suffragette, the instinct of freedom and dignity.”

White dresses symbolized the femininity and purity of the suffrage cause.

In 1867, Kansas suffragists adopted the sunflower, the state flower, as a symbol of their campaign. From then on, yellow (gold) became associated with the national women’s suffrage movement.

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10/26/2024

Dr. Lucy Jones is the founder of the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society, with a mission to foster the understanding and application of scientific information in the creation of more resilient communities. She is the author of the book, The Big Ones (Doubleday, April 2018) and is also a Research Associate at the Seismological Laboratory of Caltech, a post she has held since 1984.

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