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being shattered by this brave form of woman representing this--
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again, hundreds of thousands of women joined together
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in opposition to liquor and alcohol.
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Mass movements trigger political action.
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They overcome entrenched bureaucracy
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or entrenched industry power like tobacco and breweries
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and also move us past most of the inertia
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built into America politics.
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The war on drugs, interestingly,
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the one that existed more or less in your lifetimes
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never quite made it to the movement stage,
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although there were many carefully staged events