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...professed purpose of the 600 women who began camping out on a 52-acre farm in the Finger Lakes region of New York State on July 4 was to protest the storage of nuclear weapons at the nearby Seneca Army Depot. Calling themselves the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice, the women, mostly white, well educated and feminist, sought to pattern their demonstration after the Women's Peace Camp protest at England's Greenham Common, a projected site for U.S. cruise missiles. There, several thousand women have assembled, on and off, since September...
...mentioned that the women's and anti-slavery groups felt similar needs. The Executioner's eyes lit up like an electric chair "Can you think of a specific instance when the two were linked?" I shrugged helplessly. The Inquisitor interrupted, asking her, "Now, was the connection actually made at Seneca Falls?" She replied something like, "Well, not in the platform, but in the speeches made outside." She then turned to me an asked to name the women who had made this link. I shook my head. She told me it was the Frick sisters, or something like that. She went...
...more public the punishments are, the greater the effect they will produce upon the reformation of others," declared Seneca in ancient Rome. Over the centuries, many societies came to believe otherwise. The rituals of execution, rooted perhaps in a primitive need for sacrifice, catharsis and revenge, seemed less to cast out the evils of humanity than to feed its blood lust. By the late 18th century, a reform movement had taken hold in Europe, aided by the invention of such "humane" devices as the hanging machine and the guillotine...
Steve Kuplinski Seneca Falls...
James I. Campbell Seneca Falls...