Raging Grannies on the move again...........

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Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:15:11 -0500

Re: [GranniesAgainstGeorge] Raging Grannies on the move

again...........

 

 

> Women Protest War

 

> Grandmothers try to enlist in military as statement against carnage

in Iraq

> by Danielle Furfaro

>

> COLONIE, New York - A small group of grandmothers protested at the

U.S. military recruitment office in Colonie Center Tuesday afternoon

after they were barred from entering the office to enlist as a

statement against the Iraq War.

>

>

> Pat Beetle, 81, tries to enter the Army recruitment center at

Colonie Center, Feb. 14, 2006, during a protest against the war in

Iraq that she helped organize. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

> The dozen women, along with about 40 supporters, walked into the

mall a few at a time and met in front of the second-floor recruitment

office. When they arrived, they found the door locked and several mall

security guards and Colonie police officers waiting for them. A few

recruiting officers stared from behind the glass office door, but

refused to come out.

>

> Each of the women had brought typed statements explaining that they

wanted to enlist to take the place of young people to keep them from

being killed or maimed.

>

> When a security guard repeatedly asked the women and their

supporters to leave, Ann Kistler, 56, of Albany, repeated that the

women were just there to enlist. After a few minutes, the crowd

started chanting and singing John Lennon and Yoko Ono's " Give Peace a

Chance " as Colonie police officers argued with organizer Pat Beetle.

>

> Officials refused to take the women's statements.

>

> About five minutes later, the protestors left the mall.

>

> The Valentine's Day protest coincided with several others around the

country. They're being organized in the spirit of the Raging Grannies

protest in Tucson, Ariz., last summer and the Grannies for Peace

protest in New York City in October, during which several women were

arrested.

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