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Meggan Watterson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
330 total appearances

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We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

And when Churchill dared to disparage women who were fighting for the right to vote, right?

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

He disparaged the suffrage movement.

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

Mary Maloney grabbed a bell and she followed Churchill wherever he went.

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

And whenever he tried to say something, Mary started ringing her bell and drowned out everything he was gonna say.

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

Yes.

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

It's so creative and it's so powerful.

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

And what ended up happening is that she annoyed the hell out of everyone.

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

And he, of course, was only speaking to other men and people in positions of power.

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

And so they were like, who is this Mary?

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

What is like, what is she about?

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

And so it ended up really raising awareness about the fight for women's right to vote.

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

Then there was the Mothers of the Disappeared in Argentina, 1977, when they're

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

You know, young adult children were being disappeared in the middle of the night by the reign of terror.

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

They started gathering together, wearing white scarves and just demanding that this government be held accountable for the disappearance of their children.

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

There was Julia Butterfly Hill, who was.

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

When I was a budding eco-feminist and really considering joining her, this was in 1997, she stayed in a redwood tree named Luna for almost two years to protect it from being logged.

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

So she just stayed up in that tree.

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

There's the women...

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

of Liberia, Mass Action for Peace, they joined together, Christian and Muslim women, and they protest wearing all white in front of the presidential palace to end the Liberian Civil War.

We Can Do Hard Things
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson

They just refused...