From Katharyn Mclearan...
The California Suffrage Parade Coalition is looking for 1,000 stout-hearted women to help them celebrate Women's Equality Day (August 26) dramatically in a parade similar to those that helped the suffragettes gain support for their movement.

"The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty. That vote of yours has cost millions of dollars and the lives of thousands of women." Carrie Chapman Catt

Why march? In the 2004, 22 million single women voters failed to vote in a presidential election with the potential to greatly impact their lives with steps backward on issues that affect not only of them, but of the world. We must remember how hard our foremothers fought to give us this right and the rights we may loose if we fail to exercise that right. This is not a protest march, but a
commemoration of their victory.

Assembling at 9:30 am at Southside Park (8th & T Sts.) they will march to the Capitol Steps where activists, advocates and dignitaries will greet them and speak to the general theme-a comparison between the challenges that faced women then and those women face today.

Join the Parade - as individual or an representing an organization like Sacramento for Democracy! - learn more and apply at: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/mmnte/files/mmnte/getinvolved/Ca
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Time: Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 9:30am PST
Length: 2:00