Remember the Christmas song about Grandma being run over by a reindeer? Perhaps we need some new lyrics, something like, “Grandma got arrested by Homeland Security, marching in a protest against war…”
60-year old Diane Baker, who suffers from a degenerative muscle disease, recently served a sentence of community service that required her to clean the streets of Washington, DC in below freezing weather. Her crime? Crossing a police line to sit on the steps of a Senate office building.
And in Columbus, Georgia, Cathy Webster and 2 other members of Grandmothers for Peace were sentenced to jail time for their participation in last fall’s demonstration at the School of the Americas. According to a piece on Common Dreams,
“Ms. Webster told the judge “You will notice that increasingly, it is the elders who are speaking out and acting boldly and authoritatively to bring understanding of what justice, kindness, generosity and compassion mean in a world weary of the endless conquest and dominance mindset of nations.”
We honor all the courageous Grannies who act so boldly.
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