Now and again Asheville's audacious raging grannies take to the streets, sometimes joined by our sisters in dissent from Burnsville and Celo, to bring a little pep to the people's movement to Impeach the current criminal Bush regime and to speak out against all forms of violence, foreign and domestic. We've brought our songs, and those we've borrowed from other Raging Grannie groups to peace rallies, public squares, and in impromptu strolls through town. On one of our recent ventures we were captured on film. I discovered this video of our shenanigans recently on YouTube.Locally I'm a WNC contact person for Grandmothers for Peace International. Sometimes we grandmothers are willing to listen, as the women of Burnsville, NC, have done sitting in rocking chairs in the town square, calling for conversations about impeachment. Sometimes we bring our seasoned sauce to the streets in costumed cavorting as another way to keep the issue of impeachment on the table, on the streets, and in the press as a most necessary legal remedy for crimes in high office.
If you want to join with the Asheville Raging Grannies, let Denise know. We Women in Black, have many facets! If you want to become a member of WNC Grandmothers for Peace, contact
Clare .
In November, 20,000 or more folks will gather again at the gates of Fort Benning to call for closure of the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC) and accountability for the crimes against peace perpetrated by graduates. Once again the call is out for 1,000 grandmothers to take action at the gate. Join us! Check out SOA Watch for more information.
Here's a song you might practice:
Photo: Clare and Denise joined by Buddhist Peace Walkers Bro. Utsumi and Sr. Denise at 2005 Asheville Peace Rally
We Grannies Work for Peace
(tune: The Farmer In the Dell)
We Grannies work for peace
We work that wars might cease
We sign our songs condemning wrongs
And hope to tame this beast.
We Grannies know for sure
The price that's paid for war
We've sadly lived through many, and
We don't want any more.
We say it's an offense
To slaughter innocents
Destroying health and lives defies
Morality and sense.
War kills and maims, destroys
Ends lives and hopes and joys
We Grannies call for No More War
Please do not buy war toys.
No More War
No More War
No More War
And when this cause is won
And war is really done
Will we go home to sit and knit???
Fade off?
Not us!!!
Rage On!!!
- the Ottawagrans
2 comments:
Why don't we listen to our Grannies? In retrospect, long after mine are gone, I see that they had gleaned a bit of wisdom during their time here. Even the Republican ones.
Impeachment can't happen fast enough. Cheney and his puppet are planning to invade Iran. It's enough to make me wish that the military stages a coup to prevent Bush from totally destroying the U.S. armed forces. He has orchestrated the largest rip-off of the United States in history, engaged in illegal wars and murdered the language.
Bush deserves capital punishment, not that I believe in capital punishment. But he could definitely be sentenced to death for his exposure of Valery Plame's identity. Then we could make him wait until five minutes before his execution to commute his sentence -- the kind of break he NEVER offered anyone while governor of Texas.
But I digress. Impeach now.
I sure am proud that you are my mama. and a darn good grannie too. Raging or not.
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