The original Grannies were honoured on their 30th anniversary with a display at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, MB. The Raging Grannies were also part of the " March against Monsanto" protest on May 25, 2013, to protest against genetically modified foods. The Action League of the San Francisco Bay Area Peninsula, as the group is known in the Bay Area, was the subject of the 2009 video documentary Raging Grannies. A group also went to New York City, where they were arrested for allegedly blocking access to a recruitment center in Times Square on April 28, 2006, they were acquitted of all charges. A spokesperson for the group said they wanted to enlist and be sent to Iraq so that their children and grandchildren could come home. In July 2005, five members of the group were charged with trespassing after they attempted to enlist at a US Army recruiting center in Tucson, Arizona. California State Senator Joe Dunn launched an investigation and the intelligence unit was subsequently shut down. In May 2005, a California chapter of the Raging Grannies was allegedly spied upon by a unit of the California National Guard after it organized a Mother's Day anti-war rally. Remember ? ' Death panels.' Then right after the election, what death panels ? Didn't exist.The Calgary Raging Grannies performing in 2002 They said government bureaucrats are going to kill your granny. People are depending on grants from their granny. Young, old and middle aged, there are no jobs. In my house, chocolate biscuits are called "don't tell Dad" because that's what I say to them when they see the chocolate biscuits.Īt that time people were fighting apartheid, so they didn't pay. I think you're allowed to spoil when you're a granny, that's what grannies are for. I have three grandchildren – one girl and two boys. ( Grace Beahm/The Charleston Post and Courier via AP). Related ImageExpand / ContractClementa Pinckney was a beloved pastor and respected lawmaker before he was gunned down in his own church Wednesday night. As big a void as Quil Lance death leaves there, it left an even deeper one in the family Quil Lance held together with love and strength, Quil Lance grandson, Quil Lance, told the Charleston Post and Courier I ’m lost, I ’m lost, granny was the heart of the family. ( Charleston County Public Library) Quil Lance had retired from Gaillard Center, a performance hall in Charleston County, and been serving as a custodian at the church where Quil Lance worshiped. Related ImageExpand / ContractCynthia Hurd was a librarian who worshiped at the venerable church. Cynthia Hurd loss is incomprehensible, and we ask for prayers for Cynthia Hurd family, her co-workers, her church and this entire community as we come together to face this tragic loss. Cynthia Hurd was a tireless servant of the community who spent Cynthia Hurd life helping residents, making sure they had every opportunity for an education and personal growth, the library system said in a statement. ( Courtesy : Charleston Post and Courier) Cynthia Hurd, 54, was a branch manger in the Charleston County Public Library -RRB- system, where Cynthia Hurd was so revered from a career spanning 31 years that all city branches were closed in Cynthia Hurd honor Thursday.
Related ImageExpand / ContractSharonda Coleman-Singleton, was a speech therapist and girls ’ track and field team at Goose Creek High School. What motivated the gunman is not yet clear, but his monstrous act took the lives of nine people who prayed, worked and struggled on behalf of their community and their church.
Granny misses you so much, baby.Ĭharleston County Mayor Joseph Riley said.