Anna Lee Mraz Bartra. Peninsula 360 Press - Alianza News
By 3 p.m., the temperature had reached 33 degrees Celsius (91 degrees Fahrenheit) when, despite the high temperatures, the elderly activists went out to fight for social justice a few weeks before the state and federal elections in San Mateo, California.
Raging Grannies Action League is an organization of women between the ages of sixty and ninety who have been protesting for decades for world peace, feminist values, and social justice and equal rights for all.
The organization of the protest involved the care needed during the pandemic, such as chalk marks on the ground to indicate proper social distance. Making such marks, says angry grandmother Ruth Robertson, is a feat at that age because of arthritis and other ailments that afflict more than one.
The protest was organized by this group, but many more people came, not so old, not so grandmothers, but they came to support today because as Sara Haller said "I believe in social justice, I want things in the country to change, and even though it is hot and I am 61 years old, I believe that unless we all do something, nothing will change. I came here with my mom who's 93 years old and this is her first protest ever."
The Angry Grannies organization stated with posters and shouts, as well as pamphlets and spokespersons that women, along with racialized minorities, are the groups that have been most extraordinarily affected by the pandemic; that Trump has emboldened right-wing militia groups to disrupt the voting process. The extreme right-wing forces endangered our public health with misinformation and weapons; and that we have suffered this season of crisis with more crises: crises of public health, of white nationalism, of climate change.
"I'm not a grandmother, but I'm very angry," Haller says. These women have had enough and now they are standing up to change the future and welcoming all who share this vision.
Today's protest was applauded, or rather horned, by passing cars. In addition to promoting the vote with multiple posters, they also joined forces with other organizations such as "Indivisible," "My People" for upcoming protests that may come after the election, and especially if "Trump decides to make one of his jokes," Robertson said.
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