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Promoting peace, justice, and social and economic equality through song and humor. |
The first group to call themselves "Raging Grannies" sprouted on February 14, 1987 in Victoria, British Columbia. Several peace activists who had been doing street theater there began dressing up in outrageous hats and singing satirical songs to protest nuclear submarines, uranium mining, nuclear power, militarism, racism, clear-cut logging, and corporate greed. Raging Grannies groups quickly sprang up clear across Canada, all the way to Charlottetown, PEI, and down the Pacific Coast into the USA by way of Seattle. There are now more than 90 gaggles of Raging Grannies throughout the world. Rochester's Raging Grannies first raged in September, 2002, in response to proposed Monroe County Budget Cuts that threatened our parks, our libraries, and our entire system of social service delivery - and in response to the ever-louder drum beats of war emanating from the White House. |
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