A monument has popped up on the Supreme Court grounds
Front of Harper’s Bus A view of Harper’s Bus Side of Harper’s Bus Back of Harper’s Bus A few of the victims. OTTAWA : 11 am, 26 September, 2014, Grounds of the Supreme Court of Canada The Ottawa Raging Grannies have constructed a monument to all victims “thrown under the bus” by the Harper government. The large blue cardboard bus is labelled Monument to the Victims of C, and popped up near the proposed site of a...
Read MorePeople’s Climate March — Ottawa Photo Op
The Ottawa Raging Grannies did more than just show up for the Parliament Hill Rally to provide supporting photos from around the world to be shown in New York during the major People’s Climate Events. We came with a great sing-along song, “Bring Back Our Planet to Me” and the crowd loved it. Check out the words and our video.
Read MoreOttawa Grans at the Unconvention in Montreal
June 25-28, 2014 Congratulations to the Montreal Raging Grannies on a great unconvention! Ten of us attended: Bessa, Gale, Jane, Jeanette, Jo, Linda, Loris, Ria, Siobhan, and Virginia. We put on a well-received workshop on poster making in which participants made posters for the march involving all the Grannies. Our contribution to the “Show and Tell” raised the roof when we drummed in to “When the Grans Come Marching In” followed by the Corporation Song, then drumming ourselves out with “Here We Come”. We even made the front page of Le...
Read MoreProtest against secrecy and the TPP
On July 10, the Ottawa Grans attended a hastily called demonstration by SumOfUs. Negotiators of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement made a last minute change of venue. They were supposed to meet in Vancouver, but Harper moved it to Ottawa to escape planned protests. This trade agreement is being negotiated in secrecy. Leaked information shows that it is a complete corporate takeover. Grannies Alice, Alma, Ann, Cathleen, Jo, Ria, and Terrie sang two songs, “We are the Corporations“, an old favorite for these corporate take-overs and a new one,...
Read MoreAnti-pipeline rally
November 19, 2013 Rallies took place across Canada. In Ottawa, we rallied in beautiful, sunny 20C (68F) weather. In the Ottawa demo, the Prime Minister’s Office was ‘sandbagged’ to stop Harper’s tar sands flood. (More details here) We had a good group out and sang two of our three songs against pipelines for an enthusiastic crowd. Unfortunately, the photo below hides and cuts off some of us. You can see (sort of) Jo on the left, Bessa with the megaphone, Jake behind, Pat out front, Diana out of costume, Loris and Sobian. Out of camera are Linda, Gale, Jeanette and...
Read MoreGrannies are a welcoming committee for healthcare summit.
When we heard about an emergency summit to stop privatization of healthcare, we decided to be at the door to welcome those attending. Public healthcare is under serious threat and we have several songs on this topic written over the years but still relevant today. We handed out the songs and invited people to sing along and many did so. When the meeting started, we took our seats and heard excellent presentations on the urgency of the situation, followed by a call to action. Get the full writeup by Koozma who also took the great picture of the...
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