Raging grannies
The Raging Grannies (German "the angry, angry grandma" but certainly also with the connotation "determined women") are an international peace activist - organization , the 1986 / 87 in the Canadian Victoria was founded. They came into the headlines when she from 2003 against the Iraq war the Bush protested coalition. They only want to protest peacefully, but they consider it extremely wrong to lose sons or grandchildren as war heroes. The group's activities today focus on Canada, the USA and Greece .
The members of the Raging Grannies are older women who dress old-fashioned and flashy, according to their own statements, because “whoever demonstrates in public in such a manner is at least not beaten or mistreated” . The Raging Grannies often draw attention to themselves through street theater or regularly form protesters in front of a government building. They sing self-written songs to melodies of old protest songs of the peace movement . In California , the Raging Grannies were spied on by the National Guard .
In July 2005 five members of the group were charged with trespassing sentenced after they tried to get into a recruiting station for the US Army in Tucson , Arizona to enlist. They agreed to be trained and sent to Iraq so that their sons or grandchildren could go home. These recruiting offices are now a central place of action for the Raging Grannies .
Before Bush's 2006 visit to Germany , some of the raging grannies toured the most important barracks and political locations in Germany under the heading “We will not be silent” for an active peace policy. You were also active as the Granny Peace Brigade weekly in Times Square , NY , in 2007 .
See also
literature
- Carole Roy: The Raging Grannies: Wild Hats, Cheeky Songs, and Witty Actions for a Better World , Black Rose Books (2004), hardback or paperback, 227 pages, ISBN 1-55164-241-7 .
- Armin Ulm: Grandmas don't just have to be nice. Infuriated American grandmothers demonstrate in front of the NATO - Headquarters for peace and against the policies of George W. Bush. RNZ - Heidelberg, July 17, 2006, p. 3 - about the 20 demonstrators of the Granny Peace Brigade (with 4-column photo).
Web links
- Raging Grannies of Brit. Colombie, Canada
- Marc Pitzke: Grandmas against the war. The old ladies' vengeance. In: Spiegel online from June 11, 2006
- taz article from November 30, 2001 about Carolyn Canafax , which shows the range of topics of the group.
- Four lyrics