They dont like it they dont want that and that with that indeed as youve mentioned the support fool the incumbent president lukashenko has been growing here still i have to say not as large as it looks not as large as the opposition protests but this could be a case of a silent majority because again who has won the election a highly controversial case but still so this similar action has taken place in other cities like in capital minsk and all across the country again people in the thousands there have been cases one Anti Government people tried to crash their rallies and she crashed the progovernment rallies and the progovernment protest as. Has but again have been already consecutive days of protests. And theyre not it doesnt look like they are going to end anytime soon a liberal and. Youre watching or to International Time in moments to cross to washington d. C. Where theyre watching the hawks are. Survival guide. To the storm. Repatriations look at the rest of 70 years. Of the. 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Greetings and salutations women are more than a sum of our reproductive parts women are a force a powerful and Strategic Group a group that the route history was seen as such a threat to the massage mystic male dominated environment that womens rights were stripped we were treated like 2nd class citizens and public and even in our own homes but the year 2020 with all of its ups and downs gives time to pay homage to and celebrate one of the greatest victories american women have achieved gaining the right to vote 100 years ago on august 18th 1020 the 19th amendment to the Us Constitution was ratified and the largest expansion of democracy in American History came as a result of the 19th amendment this is story year of its internal celebration also brings to light other factors related to voter rights the battle for the white house to sit with president Donald TrumpsReelection Campaign explicitly working to not only limit diverse voter turnout but to deconstruct voter platforms from long lines and closing polls stations to Voting Machines not even working in trumps full scale assault on male in voting the 19th amendment and the fight for voters rights is alive and well on tuesday former Vice President and 2020 democratic president ial nominee joe biden made history by announcing his running mate u. S. Senator Harris Harris is the 1st black Vice President ial candidate in u. S. History but even though harris is more than qualified for the role shes facing backlash the kind that is typically only reserved for women women for whom ambition is seen as a bad word and strength is seen as unladylike harris is also taking fire for her race shes even. Being slut shamed with fox news host Tucker Carlson implying that harris slept her way to the top and that her success is largely dependent on the minute shes dated a sneer that isnt new fox news darling in favor of conservative voice tom miller in made the same comments a year ago but apologized after her colleagues called or out these types of attacks on women have historically kept many from running for office in the 1st place because females are often hill to a very different standard than men. At the intersection of womens rights and a world all too eager to file it its time we start watching the hawks. If you want to know whats going on a city in the street you want to. Be so you wish to see the top prizes joyce state ill see your boys rolls royce mass graves see desolate systemic deception is to late show which days i went to some pretty good job as. A welcome one to watching the hawks i am tired and im a music rock band joining us now are on a lemon executive director of the womens suffrage some time your commission and patricia work the executive director and c. E. O. Of turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association thank you both for coming on its an author have a new. Beginning here. In the 19th amendment is a very important part of American History and womens right to vote is particularly vital with women being the largest demographic in america something we should all be excited and celebrating but how did we get here and whats the significance of the 19th amendment centennial in 2020 when we know that this might be one of the most consequential elections of our time. That you want to take that with. Well. I believe that this is history in the making there have been other milestones in the Suffrage Movement of 50 years to 75 year history but this here is just. The 100 here in reverse 3 people are taking notice at our organization we like to say that the Separation Movement is the best kept secret in American History by doing presentations all over the country and i speak just sawzall individuals at all ages and most of them never heard anything about the movement so this. Here being the 100th anniversary is particularly poignant because i guess 100 years just means more then any other major milestone and so the whole movement is getting a lot 7 of recognition. And history is there is a lot of the peeling back of an onion so to speak of information that has not been widespread in its way past time so its a very exciting. On your the some projects are historically showcased throughout history you know as white women what i want to ask you if you can what was the role of black women Voting Rights in the history of this movement and why is it consistently stated that the 19th amendment ensured all women Voting Rights access one of fact you know black women face significant barriers to vote and even with the passage of the one to the moment how has that been changed over the years and and how is a gun better. Thats a big question so. You know the history of the 1000 amendment in a long history and complicated history and particularly when it comes to regulations so the Suffrage Movement had deep ties to the Abolition Movement the original suffragettes were women who were already motivated they were already activated and they were fighting against slavery in the United States and thats really where the Suffrage Movement again but then there is a big rift in the at the start of the movement over the 14th and 15th amendments and womens exclusion from those amendments and thats really where the problems began and so you have some white stuff or just who work very hard to secure the right to vote for all women and you have other white stuff or just who dont do that at all and who in fact in very exclusionary discriminatory. And prejudiced behavior to try to secure the food for themselves and that will ripped out the Suffrage Movement and then with the passage of the 19th amendment in 1020. 00 this incredible. Just very proud moment for one and unfortunately what in the pap and it is that women of color are very much excluded from the way that the 1000 amendment is it been put into place throughout the country and so native american women because citizenship was denied to native women and till 1924 native american women couldnt vote in the United States and then you had chinese american women same story citizenship was denied to chinese american women not able to vote until much later black women of course face a particularly unique set of. Prejudices and an access to the ballot because of jim crow laws in the south the same laws that were already impacting men in the south black men once the 90 minute passes that doesnt protect black women and so those black women are then facing the same set of exclusionary prejudiced and discriminatory obstacles to the ballot so what we like to say is that the 1000 amendment is an incredibly important chapter with taurine american democracy but its not the only chapter and for women of color the story continued barking on months when ive been to let it out perfectly i think to really summed up what that struggle has been and how important you know important we have. Ever trisha weve made progress but we also have to look at the fact that some of that progress has been hampered by a lot of things that measure that progress with the way to where we currently are women make up only 23. 7 percent of congress only 7. 4 percent of legislators are women. This november 32000 trains people could be turned away at polls because of the lack of an id to vote what does all of this mean for the legacy of the 19th amendment. Unfortunately Voter Suppression is alive and well here we see it state by state we saw it happening it happening in georgia when stacy abrams was running running for governor i mean its it is there it is just one of those things that we have to say well i mean its very very unfortunate i would like to think that what im seeing is women just dont give up i agree with everything that ana said earlier about what happened in so far as africanamerican women during the Suffrage Movement and that racism there permeated that entire movement but they never gave up they formed separate organizations and they never gave up they just kept working and working in working. In the early part of the 20th century teenager africanamerican sororities were 4 of the Alpha Kappa Alpha and the Delta Sigma Theta sorority and 100 years later at least 2. Africanamerican sorority still of what is a major sings if they deal with a year after here are Voting Rights and so even though there has been the suppression we just have to keep working at it and fighting to try to over take it and i think that there was this things that has been that has been remarkable is seeing that finally women have recognized that they are capable of running for office Winning Office and doing a wonderful job being wonderful leaders and i think its grissoms just to sticks out if you ask a man if he wants to run for office and say ok sure no problem but if you ask the women one until say well i dont know if im qualified i have to think about this a while and i you know ill get back to you on that and they dont just jump into it but i. Think that women are being encouraged i think youll see across the country states now have organizations to help train women on how to run for office i know we have that in the state of virginia where i live and im really happy to see it because its my personal opinion that even if we had totally equal number gender wise of elected officials why its important is because even though the end result might be the same women have a different perspective on things than men do and so its important to have the full perspective of the issue before you vote on it and once again we may get to the same conclusive and of of an issue but we need to have the perspective of both genders the because we dont think alike i have a wonderful husband and live 3 and a lot but we dont get to that end result the same way very frequently today i have to say but realistically i think if we had far more Women Leaders represented in this country we would not be in the dire straits that we are in to bury in many different areas of this country i want to ask you both of you can go 1st but how will the female vote impact the 2020 election i mean theres a lot of focus on the president ial but you also have the son of your bahamas you have other permanent races locally that are up for grabs that well on a how do you think the female vote is going to play this year. I dont know what i would say about that that women are amazing right and mean show and used throughout the stanfords movement and ending up and you see women chilling out and i think thats a suffragettes would have wanted to see especially 100 years after the ratification of the 1900 amendments it doesnt matter what side of the aisle youre on what matters is that you engage in your community that you care about your community and that you work to make this country better. And one of the ways that we can do that is i engage in our democracy and i think its just a beautiful thing to be in this 100. 00 here and to be able to come together as a country i hope in this moment and rally together as americans and stand for something and meaning that something this year is new to the full story of what it means to be american and of what it means to work towards a more Perfect Union right because thats what the Suffrage Movement represents it represents. Unequivocal power that women have to keep pushing forward and she will work for Something Better and so i think that is worth celebrating this year i could not agree with you more and i want to thank you both so much for the good work that youre doing in keeping the Movement Alive and educating people around the country on the importance of the 19th amendment and what all of those women of all colors did in order to get equality and keeping that fight going to this day thank you so much for joining us once again and elaine when the executive director the woman suffragists some time your commission and patricia the executive director of c. E. O. Of turning point suffer just more association thank you so much for both coming on it means the world to us. Thanks for having make you. All right everybody as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand for the brand new portable t. V. App which is a bailable on all platforms all right there not to download it you ought to your so all right coming up we look at the cheers and jeers over the selection of harriss democratic nominee joe bidens pick for Vice President you do not want to miss this discussion stay tuned to watch in the books. Join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and ill be speaking to get a little the politics Small Business im show business ill see you then. When else shows seem wrong. Why dont we all just dont call. Me. Yet to shape out these days because thats ahead and in detroit because the trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. All right welcome back everyone as we honor the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment and a womans right to vote here in the United States we would be remiss if we didnt take an indepth look at the biggest woman in Politics News of the week and that of course of the selection of former California Attorney general and current u. S. Senator kamel heiress to be joe bidens running mate in the 2020 president ial race in an email to his supporters biden declared quote i need someone who understands that we are in a battle for the soul of this nation and that if were going to get through these crises we need to come together and unite for a better america. Gets that naturally this choice came with the expected amount of cheering support during criticism and crisis hardened indifference that weve come to expect from Major Political announcements here in 2020 of the year where basically everything has come undone so as we head into a week of virtual political conventions in a race for the white house that after 2 long years is finally finally actually going to officially starts lets take a look at the impact criticism and historical significance of the biden harris ticket to the big dance and joining our ticket to talk about this to do are activists and professor of American History at George Washington university Brittany Lewis an political analyst dr eyad was jones the weaver whos also a ph d. Very good all right thank you both for coming on today. Thanks for having me thank you so i want to start how do how does the decision of harris shape the Biden CampaignGoing Forward most importantly does it does it secure him votes in november. He wasnt actually. Going to get before britney wants your story. Sure you know i havent met personal thing and i got in at night and not a lot of hoopla mccleary had on a happy day that i i do believe unless there is what is his most strategic i think it should bidens ability to play politics if you will i think that even more missed pressure on him to not only nickel woman but to be a black woman as. I think to not have to a black woman would have been political suicide since white people specifically black women have been such an important base for the Democratic Party historically and were truly instrumental in getting bite in the nomination so you know not for all especially the more progressive democrats or folks on the left are excited about her but i do still believe that theres a large majority of people who are excited about having her on the ticket and i think that they you know represent politics an update the politics the optics that she represents and will clinton has a voter base that was not as excited as voting for bite inch as much as they are excited about getting from the white house. Doctor as what are your thoughts. Well i definitely believe that she is going to be that x. Factor that will linnet to garner a greater and do see as im for this ticket we have seen through all the polling that weve looked at in recent months that biden seems to trounce trump on almost every end to cater imaginable except for enthusiasm and there is no deeper base for the Democratic Party than not only black people but black women specifically and so it made sense to pick harris to be his running mate not just because she is a bla