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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!
Halloween