Wal-Mart workers rise again! Workers Crash Wal-Mart’s Party  Photo above: Raging Grannies Marched on Mountain View, California Wal-Mart in 2004. We have pestered Wal-Mart at that location with our pro union pro labor singing on many occasions since. Granny Ann Bjorndahl (on left in front) led the charge back in the day.  Granny Ann passed last month and is very much missed. 

Wal-Mart workers rise again! Workers Crash Wal-Mart’s Party 

Photo above: Raging Grannies Marched on Mountain View, California Wal-Mart in 2004. We have pestered Wal-Mart at that location with our pro union pro labor singing on many occasions since. Granny Ann Bjorndahl (on left in front) led the charge back in the day.  Granny Ann passed last month and is very much missed. 

Arrests at the San Francisco Westin Hotel on June 12, 2013. At Facebook’s first shareholders meeting, environmentalists protested Mark Zuckerberg’s support of XL Pipeline.

Granny Catherine, daughter of Granny Trudy, and sometimes our Granny two headed chicken!

Granny Catherine, daughter of Granny Trudy, and sometimes our Granny two headed chicken!

3 Grannies at Facebook Shareholders Meeting protest June 12, 2013.

3 Grannies at Facebook Shareholders Meeting protest June 12, 2013.

GRANNIES Say to Mark Zuckerberg:

Hey Mark,

As your neighbor (many of us Grannies live in Palo Alto where you do, and Menlo Park where Facebook HQ is) we ask the following:

Mark, would you refrain from bankrolling any more pro-fossil fuel industry Keystone XL and drilling ads?

Can you just admit that it was a mistaken effort to attract conservative support for immigration reform? That is, the kind of immigration reform that serves your needs best, the expansion of H1B visas. Not the kind we Grannies are concerned about that keeps families from being separated across borders.

Mark, you COULD make amends by committing the same amount of money already spent on funding these ads to support education about negative climate, economic and public health impacts recognized by the EPA and many well known scientists of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

We join our colleagues in the XL Pipeline Action Council in making these requests.

Grannies on Politico.com June 6, 1013. NO REST FOR THE WEARY: A note to President Obama: The anti-Keystone XL protestors you keep seeing all over the place are not part of your security detail. Continuing their string of protests outside fundraisers attended by the president, some 300 activists from groups including 350.org, the Sierra Club and the “Raging Grannies” will be around when Obama stops in Palo Alto, Calif., for a fundraiser tonight. Protestors most recently popped up outside a DCCC event Obama attended last week in Chicago. Photo: Granny Nancy joins up with Grannies and friends at the demo, despite recent foot surgery. She made her way on crutches. That is dedication, Granny Nancy!

Grannies on Politico.com June 6, 1013.

NO REST FOR THE WEARY: A note to President Obama: The anti-Keystone XL protestors you keep seeing all over the place are not part of your security detail. Continuing their string of protests outside fundraisers attended by the president, some 300 activists from groups including 350.org, the Sierra Club and the “Raging Grannies” will be around when Obama stops in Palo Alto, Calif., for a fundraiser tonight. Protestors most recently popped up outside a DCCC event Obama attended last week in Chicago.

Photo: Granny Nancy joins up with Grannies and friends at the demo, despite recent foot surgery. She made her way on crutches. That is dedication, Granny Nancy!

Some of our favorite hats. XL PIpeline demo in Palo Alto June 6 on the occasion of President Obama’s visit.

Seen here….Honorary Granny Trudy who is 92.  Trudy helped us rehearse for our gig next week at the Facebook Shareholders meeting, calling out the key word in this verse to the tune of Goodnight Irene:

We say to Zuckerberg, We say to Zuck

You support the XL Pipeline

Hey we say what the f**k!

photo by Steve Rhodes via flickr.com Grannies belted out some new songs at Justin Herman Plaza as marchers arrived to rally against Monsanto and GMO’s on May 25, 2013

photo by Steve Rhodes via flickr.com

Grannies belted out some new songs at Justin Herman Plaza as marchers arrived to rally against Monsanto and GMO’s on May 25, 2013

First Grannies greeted one another then (two hours later) it was face the blustery wind and take the stage to sing! For more photos of March Against Monsanto march and rally in SF scroll down, also see this report on indybay.