<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Celebrate 100 years since Jeannette Rankin’s 1916 Election<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Contact: Betsy
Mulligan-Dague, <a href="mailto:peace@jrpc.org">peace@jrpc.org</a> or
406-543-3955<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"> Available
for interview: Allyson Adams, <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><a href="mailto:allysonadams@mac.com">allysonadams@mac.com</a><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">A staged reading of <i>Save The
Country: How Belle Fligelman and Jeannette Rankin Changed the World</i>, a new
play by Allyson Adams will be held at the Crystal Theatre on Saturday, November
12 at 7 pm. The play delves into the emotional triangle between Jeannette,
Belle and Welllington Rankin during Rankin’s 1914 MT suffrage fight to her
April 1917 “No” vote on WWI. Beer and wine are available for sale and free cake
will be served to celebrate this momentous 100 year anniversary.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Teacher, author, playwright and actress Allyson Adams discovered U.S.
Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin’s story in 1997 when she moved back to Virginia
City and discovered the biography “Flight of the Dove” by Kevin Giles. With a
Montana PBS docudrama and a decade of one-woman shows under her belt, she is a
Jeannette Rankin messenger for “Peace is a Woman’s Job.”<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal">Whereas, previous works focused on six decades of Rankin’s life, “Save
the Country” is an emotional triangle during the three year period between
Montana’s Suffrage victory and Rankin’s first No vote. The play delves into the
relationship between Jeannette and her remarkable campaign manager, Belle
Fligelman, “the woman behind the woman,” and Wellington, Jeannette’s Harvard
educated brother and financier. Actress Amber Rose Mason will read the part of Belle Fligelman,
Allyson Adams as Jeannette Rankin and John Hosking in the role of Wellington
Rankin.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;box-sizing:border-box;outline:0px">Within the span of three years, Jeannette led and won the
fight for Montana Suffrage, immersed herself in New Zealand’s labor movement,
became the first woman elected to any parliamentary body in the world and then
voted No against U.S. entry into WWI, thus declaring her place in history. A
new side of Jeannette Rankin emerges. She’s famous for her peace actions, but
she was about a lot more. She was at the beginning of the Progressive Movement
in the early 1900’s and her focus was on domestic issues for women and
children, equal pay, education and healthcare. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;box-sizing:border-box;outline:0px">Please visit <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.peaceisawomansjob.com/">http://www.peaceisawomansjob.com</a></span> or
<span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.jrpc.org">www.jrpc.org</a></span> for more about this remarkable
woman.<span></span></p></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><font style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" size="4"><b style="color:rgb(0,102,0)"><font size="2"><br></font></b></font><div style="text-align:center"><br><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Betsy Mulligan-Dague, Executive Director</span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Jeannette Rankin Peace Center</span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">...working to build a world that is nonviolent, socially just and environmentally sustainable...</span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">519 S. Higgins</span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Missoula, MT 59801</span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Phone: 406-543-3955</span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Fax: 406-541-3997</span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:peace@jrpc.org" target="_blank">peace@jrpc.org</a></span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.jrpc.org" target="_blank">www.jrpc.org</a></span></div></div></div>
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