Raging Grannies Against Torture at the Grand Prix

Jeppesen Dataplan has close business ties to the CIA. An October 2006 article in The New Yorker magazine reported that the company has provided navigational and logistics support to the agency's extraordinary rendition program. The article says Jeppesen provided "flight plans, clearance to fly over other countries, hotel reservations, and ground-crew arrangements" to the CIA. A former employee quoted Bob Overby, Jeppesen's managing director, as saying at a meeting, "We do all of the extraordinary renditions flights—you know, the torture flights. Let's face it, some of those flights end up that way...It certainly pays well."

In late 2006 South Bay Mobilization, Amnesty International, and the Raging Grannies Action League and San Jose Raging Grannies began staging demonstrations in front of the company's International Trip and Flight Planning Office in San Jose, California to protest their involvement in the rendition program. The Raging Grannies made a special appearance on Sunday July 29 in front of the Grand Prix entrance in San Jose, directly across the street from Jeppesen, to draw public attention to the issue with street theater.