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Raging Against Supreme Court Decision in Palo Alto
Several rallies were held in Palo Alto today. The first at 11am found the Raging Grannies wearing black sashes over bridal wear. They were joined by high school students, Stanford students, Unitarian ministers and even a few liberal Baptists.
Photos: J. Emery...
Posted: Tue, May 26, 2009 5:44pm PDT
Raging Grannies and Friends for Troy Davis
Members of the Raging Grannies Action League and other concerned community activists supported Amnesty International's Global Day of Action for Troy Davis on Tuesday, May 19 in downtown Palo Alto.
Top photo: Raging Granny Ruth Chippendale's signs attract the eye of a passerby....
Posted: Tue, May 19, 2009 11:35pm PDT
Skateboarders Sign their Support for Death Row Inmate
May 19 Global Day of Action for Troy Davis.
Skateboarders expressed concern about living in a police state where death row inmates like Troy Davis find no court willing to hear new evidence....
Posted: Tue, May 19, 2009 11:21pm PDT
In Palo Alto, Amnesty International for Troy Davis
Tuesday May 19 was a Global Day of Action for Troy Davis. Davis has been on Georgi'as death row for more than 18 years despite a strong case of innocence. He lost his most recent appeal. His execution date is expected to be set soon....
Posted: Tue, May 19, 2009 10:47pm PDT
Condoleezza Rice Challenged on War and Torture at Stanford
Stanford University students, staff, alumni, and community have called for Condoleezza Rice to be held accountable for war crimes and torture. Challenging her return to the University, they are petitioning for a probe into her alleged violations of international and U.S. law....
Posted: Sun, May 17, 2009 11:57pm PDT
Activists tell Eshoo: Families Before Fat Cats!
Members and supporters of a San Mateo County healthcare task force called upon the office of US Congresswoman Anna Eshoo on May 13. Eshoo has yet to come out in support of either a Single-Payer healthcare plan or a Single-Payer style public option. Activists, with some help from the Raging Grannies, strongly encouraged her to do so.
Top photo: Granny Barbara B. at left fashioned a necklace out of prescription medication bottles to wear to the demonstration.
Photos courtesy J. Emery...
Posted: Thu, May 14, 2009 8:43pm PDT
Who's Watching Racist "Judicial Watch"?
Neighbors of the proposed new location for Mountain View's Day Worker Center called in a legal group from Washington, DC to advise them on protecting their neighborhood from "illegal" immigrants. At a city council meeting on May 12, the neighbors' group threatened the council that Judicial Watch would file a lawsuit against Mountain View for using taxpayer funds to help immigrants.
Photo: A Mountain View resident speaks in favor of the Day Worker Center's new location during a city council...
Posted: Thu, May 14, 2009 2:55pm PDT
NIMBY Group Loses Anti-Day Worker Center Appeal
The Day Worker Center of Mountain View owns property at 113 Escuela Avenue and has a conditional-use permit approved by the city's zoning administrator. Neighbors of the new location for day worker support appealed the granting of that permission, and went so far as to call for the help of a right-wing extremist group that has sued other California cities for supporting day laborer centers.
Top photo: Good News! Happy on May 12, Raging Grannies receive the news that the City Council unanim...
Posted: Wed, May 13, 2009 12:44am PDT
Condi Rice Caught on Tape on Stanford Campus Lying About Torture
Can Stanford in good conscience have former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice lecture on campus without acknowledging crimes against humanity under the Bush administration? While university officials are silent on the topic, students are speaking out. One student assailed Rice at a small campus event for "select" students on Monday, April 27th. A videotape of their conversation caught Rice in a big lie.
Photo: R. Robertson. Demonstrations against torture are seen more frequently now a...
Posted: Sun, May 3, 2009 11:05pm PDT
Stanford Alumni Nail Condi War Crimes Petition to Door of Stanford President's Office
On Sunday, May 3 Stanford alumni returning to the campus for a reunion marking the 40th anniversary of the anti-war April Third Movement nailed a petition to the door of the University President’s Office in Stanford’s Inner Quad. The petition demanded that Condoleezza Rice and other high government officials be held accountable for serious violations of law. Condoleezza Rice is back on Stanford campus this year and is facing questioning by students who have cornered her in halls and protests...
Posted: Sun, May 3, 2009 2:49pm PDT
Raging Grannies at Mountain View Post Office
Tax Day is traditionally spent in front of a post office by Raging Grannies. 2009 was no different, and four of the protesting grannnies went to Mountain View, California's main post office. They weren't there long because they had to head down to San Jose to head off tea-baggers at the pass!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 25, 2009 9:55pm PDT
Water, Women, Africa: Stanford Action
An action on Stanford campus held on the day before Earth Day brought together three topics of great concern to the activist Raging Grannies--women, water, and Africa. Women, who bear the brunt of water hauling in African communities, are endangered when they must carry water for many miles over many hours on a daily basis. They are unable to attend school and are often at risk of sexual assault as they travel back and forth to water sources.
Photos by Justin Miel. Please contact for perm...
Posted: Thu, Apr 23, 2009 10:00pm PDT
Earth Day Comes Early to Stanford U.
Raging Grannies in norte america celebrate Earth Day every year. In the San Francisco Bay Area members of the Peninsula Raging Grannies Action League marked Earth Day 2009 one day early on April 21 by joining in an action to bring better water access to Africa.
top photo: Some of the Raging Grannies joined students who marched across campus carrying buckets on their heads to demonstrate the great lengths women in Africa go to in order to supply their families with water, the most basic of n...
Posted: Tue, Apr 21, 2009 11:29pm PDT
Access to Water Means Safety for Women in Africa Pt. I
54 Stanford women students and eight young men carried buckets in a campus march to promote the cause of an organization working for access to water in Africa. Women, who bear the brunt of water hauling in African communities, are endangered when they must carry water for many miles over many hours on a daily basis. They are unable to attend school and are often at risk of sexual assault as they travel back and forth to water sources. Improved water supply can also promote the cause of wor...
Posted: Tue, Apr 21, 2009 7:04pm PDT
Video:San Bruno Grace Honda IAM 1414 & IBT 665 Striking Workers Fight for Their Unions
IAM 1414 and IBT 665 workers have been on strike at San Bruno Grace Honda since September 2008. This video is about the issues in their struggle for a contract and a union....
Posted: Mon, Apr 13, 2009 2:02pm PDT
On Lovelle Mixon, the Media and, Police Violence
Considering police violence in our communities, it is not hard to see why some people might be quietly celebrating....
Posted: Wed, Apr 1, 2009 2:36pm PDT
OPED NEWS; The Future of Our Food has only just begun with Biotechnoly, by Sandi Trend
A very interesting and informative article written by Sandi Trend, Mother of David Bell, former Assistant Researcher/Microbiologist of Agraquest, Inc. in Davis California. Ms Trend urges EVERYONE to watch the new documentary, “THE FUTURE OF FOOD” on LINK TV... [DIRECTV Channel 375 | DISH Network Channel 9410]...
Posted: Sun, Mar 29, 2009 5:29am PDT
Antiwar Protests: 6 Years and Counting
Demonstrations on the sixth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq were smaller than during the Bush years owing to the “Obama factor,” but more unified than ever against the occupations of Afghanistan and Palestine. The most visible opposition to antiwar has shifted from flag-waving ultra-nationalists to the defenders of Israel. Despite this, far more American Jews demonstrated against the occupations than in support of Israel....
Posted: Thu, Mar 26, 2009 11:53pm PDT
Greedy Mega-Landlord May Face Criminal Charges
This is a story that would not have come to light without the dedicated work of tenants' rights activists in the Fair Rent Now Coalition. Coalition volunteers are determined to keep Page Mill Properties' many violations in the news. They contacted both mainstream media and indybay to provide details of Cal/OSHA's investigations and fines resulting from the electrocution death of a Page Mill employee.
Photo: Demonstrators in front of Page Mill Properties March 11, 2009 by Justin Miel. ...
Posted: Fri, Mar 20, 2009 5:48pm PDT
Frying Pans for Peace in Palo Alto
Top photo: Welcoming early arrivals to some entertainment before a rally in Lytton Plaza in dowtown Palo Alto.
After a few songs and an impromptu puppet show, the rally began in all seriousness. Speakers including Karen Meredith, whose son Lt. Ken Ballard was killed in Iraq, brought all focus on the sad day that is today, the 6th anniversary of the US led invasion of Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Mar 19, 2009 11:54pm PDT