hunger strikers
Last night for intro to women's studies I watched the movie Iron Jawed Angels about Alice Paul and the fight for a constitutional amendment to give women the vote. the music was pretty obnoxious, and the film was overall infused with an unrealistic modern girlishness, but I was sitting far back from the screen so it was ok. good, actually, even though I couldn't help wondering how things actually happened and what was exagerated and who followed these people around makeing transcripts of their lives, anyway?
(also: the characters of the senator's wife and the senator are fabricated.)
there are hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay and they are being force fed. (500 prisoners, mostly captured in Afghanistan, "some have been held for nearly four years without charge."
