Using creative and humorous protests for political education.
By Jo-Hanna Read · Seattle Gaggle · to the tune of Iko, Iko by the Dixie Cups
Gaggle action reports coming soon. This section will feature dispatches from gaggles in the field.
It started on a damp Tuesday in Victoria, BC when a handful of older women decided the best way to get attention for peace was to put on flowered hats and sing.
Read the full herstory →The Raging Grannies are a loose international network of women over fifty who use satirical song as a tool for political education.
There is no membership card. No dues. No central committee. Just gaggles — autonomous local groups who write songs, don flowered hats, and show up.
Eighty-plus gaggles across the US and Canada, from Victoria to Halifax. Find one near you — or start your own.
We are not a club, a party, or an organization. We are a loose network of autonomous gaggles united by a shared method: writing satirical songs about the issues that matter and singing them in public.
No. You have to be a woman (broadly defined) willing to put on a hat and sing in public. Many Grannies are grandmothers, but it's not a requirement.
No. Each gaggle is autonomous. The international network is deliberately disorganized — there are no dues, no bylaws, and no central committee.
Find two or more like-minded women, pick an issue, write a song (or borrow one from the songbook), put on hats, and show up somewhere. That's it.
The Raging Grannies are a women's movement. Men are welcome to support, cheer, carry signs, and start their own groups — but the gaggles are for women.
