Extinction Rebellion

On May 22nd, the Portland Raging Grannies joined XR PDX for an occupation of the Morrison bridge. We will not give up our disruptive nonviolent civil disobedience until the city comes to the negotiating table to begin a process of healing for Portland and the planet, to face our collective denial on no uncertain terms – and to confront a global genocide project that’s destroying us all in plain sight. We demand a citizens assembly and goals that align with the science – beginning with Net Zero by 2025.

Earth is Dying Day

Extinction Rebellion held an action called Earth is Dying Day, and the Portland Raging Grannies were there to support the group and their important message.

The Grannies sang a dirge as XR artists walked slowly through Saturday Market. Once completed, a die-in was held. Action by the government and corporations to stop this climate emergency is being demanded! 

Stop Federal Executions

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The Portland Raging Grannies take a compassionate stance against the death penalty and execution. After a 17 year hiatus, Trump began federal executions in July 2020. Since July, the federal government has executed nine people and states have killed eight. Other federal executions are scheduled for January 2021. This must be stopped!

We ask you to stand with us:

To support a rehabilitative justice system.

To terminate privatized prisons and the for-profit prison system.

To advocate for police reform.

To demonstrate to abolish the death penalty.

Holiday Stockings to ‘Our House’

The Portland Raging Grannies’ Gender Equity Team delivered stockings full of cheer, handwritten cards, useful sundries, and panda bears to Our House, a local AIDS hospice. Our hopes are that everyone struggling with health or connection with others in this holiday season know that we are thinking of them and sending our caring wishes to you all.

Pandas for Our House

Rise Up for Medicare for All

November 10, 3:45pm, Pioneer Courthouse Square

On November 10th, the Supreme Court will decide whether to strip health insurance from millions of Americans in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic – the same pandemic that has already claimed approximately a quarter of a million American lives, and left millions with long-term health effects. It’s clear that the American healthcare system is at a tipping point.

At this moment of change, we must fight to defend protections for pre-existing conditions and the Medicaid expansion. However, we must also seize this moment to demand a system that leaves no one behind. We can’t go back. We must move forward to Medicare for All.

Join us at this socially distanced rally and press conference in support of Medicare for All. Bring a mask, bring a sign (if you have one), and bring a friend. Together, we can win this fight.

This event is co-sponsored by Health Care for All Oregon – Action, Portland Democratic Socialists of America & Portland Jobs with Justice.

Defend Democracy Uprising

No one should be disenfranchised because of where they live, the color of their skin or their income. But we have witnessed a strategic and sustained effort by the President and his political allies to suppress the vote and undermine our electoral process – all with the intention of illegally maintaining power and subverting the will of the people. But we won’t let him divide us. Already we are joining together across our differences to vote in record numbers, and, if necessary, we are prepared to take to the streets to defend our democracy.

This action was organized the the Defend Democracy Coalition. We are joining together across our differences to vote in record numbers, and, if necessary, we are prepared to take to the streets to defend our democracy.

The Portland Raging Grannies attended to support the marches through dance.

No Military Drone Testing in Portland

Verizon wants to bring a drone testing facility to North Portland, near Cathedral Park. They don’t think there is any problem with testing drones up and down the Willamette because, as they told neighbors, “no one uses the river anyway.”

After a summer when racial justice protesters were surveilled by military drones, a coalition of community groups has come together to resist this plan—which would include testing of technology that could be used by the Department of Defense in their surveillance drone program. We showed up to tell Verizon, the Port of Portland, and Verizon’s lobbyists at Strategies360 that this misuse of land, threat to wildlife, and impact on North Portland neighborhoods is absolutely unacceptable. The potential for this drone technology to negatively impact human rights both at home and internationally is another major reason to oppose this facility.

On Sunday, November 1 at 12 pm we gathered for a rally and kayak flotilla at the Cathedral Park Boat Launch to show that we use the river, and Verizon’s creepy drones aren’t welcome in Portland!