Community | January 06, 2012 | 22 comments

Pepper spray this! Power to the Geezers, rock on! Wild Old Women make a slow run on B of A

source: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/05/wild-old-women-close-san-francisco-bank-of-ameri...

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"SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – It was a slow-moving Occupy Wall Street protest, but it was an effective one. A dozen senior citizens calling themselves “the wild old women” succeeded in closing a Bank of America branch in Bernal Heights Thursday.

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Since I was about 9 and first heard of a California law against protests in the State Capitol, a law that was tailor made to stop the pointed remarks of one old gent who reminded reps that voters, not them, were actually in charge, I have always wanted to be an elderly protester. How I yearned for wrinkles, a stooped back and a cane to raise in anger, swaying it to punctuate my rants. It is still a goal, the last check on my own weird bucket list.

Living in a capitol city of one state made me even more sure of my childhood dream. And I plan to retire to the capitol city of another state where I might realize a life long dream of pissing off enough guys in suits that they consider a law tailor made to slow me down.

Bless the young people who first decided to OWS. Bless all the middle-aged and older folks who joined them. Bless those 'Raging Grannies' I had forgotten about, until a dear friend recently reminded me, who years ago started raising bloody hell at various recruitment centers, knowing what eager young people did not, that war IS hell and the young should not be so wasted. Bless the geezers with canes and walkers who are old enough to recall then banks were well regulated, and why that was so.

Bless us all, and keep us in the will to fight until the passion for justice, economic and other, leaves our bones with our last breaths.

Power to the Geezer People!
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