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The
Raging Grannies is an
international movement which started in 1987 in British Columbia, Canada.
It now has chapters (which we call “gaggles”) all over the world. Raging
Grannies promote global peace, justice and social and economic equality by
raising consciousness through song parodies and satire. Our gaggle,
NY Metro Raging Grannies and Their Daughters was
started and sponsored by the New York City chapter of Women’s International
League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
If you live near
enough to travel to our meetings in New York City (Manhattan), you can join
the NY Metro gaggle.
Contact us
at
raginggrannies@comicbookradioshow.com
We often sing at rallies, protests, demonstrations, and the like, but we
are also invited to sing by other groups and individuals.
To invite us to sing for your organization, group, or
rally, please e-mail us:
raginggrannies@comicbookradioshow.com
Some places we've sung:
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The
Clearwater Festival - The Great Hudson River Revival, a music and
environmental summer festival. This event has hosted over 15,000 people on a
weekend in June for more than three decades. All proceeds benefit
Clearwater, a nonprofit environmental organization. The festival is held
on the shore of the Hudson River in Croton Point Park, in the Village of
Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester County, NY. Our gaggle has been
singing there for the past five years. In 2008 we extended an invitation
to join us for the Festival and we met with Raging Grannies from
Westchester,
Tennessee, and Western Massachusetts for an afternoon of singing in
the rain. We posted video of a few songs at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuNZZKxC5Z8 and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf58OX4SntQ
(Photo by Lindsay Audin) More photos of this event on
Photos page.
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We sang with the Bay Ridge Neighbors for Peace in Brooklyn, NY, in
October 2007, with our banner proudly displayed.
April 16, 2008, at a rally opposing U.S. Military Bases abroad. Click
here to see the lyrics to the "No
Bases" song. Watch the video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRIQe-hGaMc
(Photo by Bud Korotzer) |
We sing by day and by night, indoors and outdoors at rallies.
Union Square (Photo by Robert Helman) |
We sang in Grand Central Station two days before Christmas, 2007. We
were chased away by officials twice.
(Photo by Dave Alpert) |
 We sang in Grand Central Station
again in 2008. This time we
were chased away by officials three times, but one of them helped us
find a new spot. We were joined by members of
Code
Pink and the Granny
Peace Brigade
(Photo by Eva-Lee Baird) |
To see more photos,
click here.
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