The so called ‘Peace Grannies’, a group of elderly American women, many in their eighties, were recently acquitted in a New York court after conducting an anti-war ‘sit in’ at Times Square.
In the UK, two grandmothers in their sixties await a decision on whether they be charged for deliberately trespassing onto an American military base.
Protest, it seems, is no longer the domain of the young, but are older people now in the vanguard of protest and if so, why? |
