Grandmothers Arrested at Iraq War Protest

[NVMojo]

NEW YORK (AP) - Eighteen antiwar grandmothers were arrested and face disorderly conduct charges after they showed up at a military recruiting center in Times Square and said they wanted to enlist, a protest group said.

Police arrested the women, ranging in age from 49 to 90, after they sat down Monday in front of the recruiting station to protest the war in Iraq, police said.

When the women, including Marie Runyon, who is 90 and blind, tried to enter the station, they found it locked, said Joan Wile, 74, director of Grandmothers against the War.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2005/oct/17/101709825.html

[IChing]

1. That is righteous, where will our youth be on Nov. 2 in schools?

How many plan to strike or do a walk out? someone needs to poll this at DU

Does it take us old farts to show the way?
Nominated....

[Cha]

2. Grandmothers trying to

insert some sanity into the maddog cheney regime!

[BikeWriter]

3. Right on! Recommended.

[Dangerously Amused]

4. Sent it to my Mama!

Thanks for this post. I sent it to my Mama in hopes that she will join me at the next protest.

:)

[alittlelark]

5. My Nana died 4 days before 9-11, she would have been there.

(why I was flying on 9-11)


35 years a librarian, and as liberal a person as I have ever known.

She was there in spirit.

[lostnfound]

7. I love librarians.

Worked in one as a teen, they were great people.

May she rest in peace. A GOOD long life, it sounds like.

I think about it this way: she did her job well -- her life, that is -- and was saved from having to suffer through 9-11, through most of the misery that has been the Bush pResidency.

[ShockediSay]

6. Those Outlaw Grannies are a Real Threat to

* and to our well-ordered follow-the-leader society!!!

(It WOULD be fun to sic'em on Barbara "my boy is righteous" Bush, stand back and watch.)

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

8. Somebody needs to stand up against... Babs

Melonhawg

Proud Members of Melonhawg Society

[Longhorn]

9. Admirable! n/t

[Cults4Bush]

10. Repubs do not listen to their elders... no respect for 'em .

I betcha this so upset some freepish types that they want them to be in solitary confinement.

[superconnected]

11. they knocked and rang the door bell.

The first tried to enter the door of a public recuriting office.

Gee, very disorderly conduct.

- If you're against people having the right to enter public buildings and knock on a door that is.

[Loonman]

12. Those grandmas will get you every time

Nobody lets anyone get away with being mean to a grandma. Great job! I bet the cops felt like heroes while arresting a blind 90 yr old for D&D.

[CHIMO]

13. Photo

Of a Granny from yesterday.



Molly Klopot of New York City is loaded into a police wagon in New York City on Monday for blocking a military recruiting centre. Grandmothers across the United States tried to enlist to replace grandchildren serving in Iraq.

[SunDrop23]

14. Good for them!