Anna Lee Mraz Bartra. Peninsula 360 Press - Alianza News
By 3 p.m. the temperature was already 33 degrees Celsius (91 degrees Fahrenheit) when, despite the high temperatures, the elderly activists came out to fight for social justice just weeks before the State and Federal elections in San Mateo, California.
The Raging Grannies Action League is an organization of women in their 60s and 90s who for decades have been protesting for world peace, feminist values, social justice and equal rights for all.
Organizing the protest involved the necessary care during the pandemic, such as chalk marks on the ground to indicate proper social distance. Making such marks, says angry grandmother Ruth Robertson, is quite a feat at that age because of the arthritis and other ailments that afflict more than one.
The protest was organized by this group, but the call was attended by many more people, 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 with my mother who is 93 years old and this is her first protest in her life?
Angry Grannies demonstrated with signs and shouts and leaflets and spokespeople 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. Far-right forces endangered our public health with misinformation and weapons; and that we have suffered through this season of crisis with more crises: crises of public health, of white nationalism, of climate change.
I'm not a grandmother, but I am very angry," says Haller. These women have had enough and now stand up to change the future and welcome all who share this vision.
Today's protest was applauded, or rather honked, in favor by passing cars. In addition to promoting the vote with multiple signs, they also joined forces with other organizations such as Indivisible, Mi Gente for future protests that could come after the election, and especially if Trump decides to make one of his jokes," Robertson said.
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