Andrea began the show by getting Granny Ruth and Granny Gail to say a bit about the raging Grannies. They explained that the original gaggle of Raging Grannies was a Canadian Group, but the name had spread by word of mouth. The Peninsula Raging Grannies had been founded after the Afghanistan War started as a project of the local WILPF (Womens International League for Peace and Freedom) Chapter. They have kept going because the need for what they are doing is so great.

Granny Gail explained that being grannies gives them a bit of freedom to "push the envelope" that most demographics don't have. After all, what cop wants to drag a grannie off to jail? What Police Department wants pictures of their cops doing that kind of thing circulating? The grannies also work to make their points through humor and music, so at the very least people smile and enjoy listening.

  

Grannie Ruth explained that Raging Grannies like to have fun with their costumes. Usually they start with stuff they buy at thrift stores, because they don't want to be responsible for any more slave labor. Then they decorate them up with buttons, flowers, ribbons, and whatever else catches their eyes. The general idea is to be outrageously noticable, another way they work to get more attention to their causes.

Andrea showed off a couple of the signs the Raging Grannies use. They explained that their anti war toy campaign involved liberating as many post retail war toys as possible to give them to artists as the raw material for making "peace sculptures". After a bit of prodding from the host, Ruth explained that the peace sculptures were big enough to absorb LOTS of war toys, and that they are open to having parents abscond with their childrens war toys for the cause.

  

In this spread from The Progressive showing the world opposing war in the days leading up to GW II, our Raging Grannies were the picture representing San Francisco. Both Grannies were very proud to have been picked as "our image on the world stage."

  

Then they explained that Raging Grannies care about all the things Grannies always care about, they just do it in a public way so everybody gets the point. Then they sang Yankee Doodle, except with lyrics about how bad the schools are now that the politicians have taken all of the money to fight wars with.

  

How can anyone amount to anything without a decent education?


  

Then they sang the Marine Corps Anthem, only with words that made it clear they are fighting a stupid oil war.


  

  

Sport Utility Vehicles that get less than 10 MPG...



There was more, and it was all good, but you get the idea...