"Every week in Palo Alto, a group of women gathers outside a Tesla showroom, sporting wide-brim hats and carrying anti-billionaire signs. They call themselves the Raging Grannies: a coalition of senior women who use humor, harmony and handmade costumes to protest inequality, social injustice and the lopsided concentration of wealth in America. Every day there's something new with these big corporations, said Sherry Hagen, who goes by Granny Sherry."
"The Raging Grannies are part of an international collective of women whose mission is to use performance art to deliver pointed anti-corporation and political messages, a movement that began in Victoria, British Columbia, in the late 1980s and has since spread to cities across the United States. The Palo Alto chapter, known as the Raging Grannies Action League, shows what activism can look like in older age. Many Grannies are lifelong activists."
A group of senior women gathers weekly outside a Tesla showroom in Palo Alto, wearing wide-brim hats and carrying anti-billionaire signs. They call themselves the Raging Grannies and use humor, harmony, and handmade costumes to protest inequality, social injustice, and concentrated wealth. The Raging Grannies are part of an international collective that began in Victoria, British Columbia in the late 1980s and has spread across the United States. The Palo Alto chapter, Raging Grannies Action League, brings performance-art protest into local politics and movements. Many members are lifelong activists with roots in anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and later protests against the Gulf War, the Afghanistan war, and for civil and reproductive rights. Some critics question their style of activism.
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