Where can you see us on the Internet?
Progressive News Network (PNN) taped a program where we sing and talk about why we do what we do. It will be cablecast on local public access stations in Westchester County. You can watch it online at http://blip.tv/file/1179393. If you've seen it, please let us know what you think.
Pete Seeger played banjo for us and two other gaggles at The Clearwater Festival - The Great Hudson River Revival, June 17, 2007. Youtube has a 10-minute video of the event at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpdH20tiJPI. We are also shown about five minutes into another video at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6231559274565687640
MidHudson News covered a meeting held on July 15, 2008, where we sang to protest a report by Entergy's hand-picked panel declaring that the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant was safe. http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/August08/01/IP_ISE-01Aug08.html. The "Raging Grannies" entertain during the public comment was the caption for our photo, but we were not there to entertain. For the MidHudson News photo and the songs, click here.
In 2007, Greg Clary of the Journal News quoted our Indian Point song in his environmental
blog. http://nature.lohudblogs.com.
He introduced it this way:
I got this via e-mail today and thought it was creative enough to put up on
the blog. Perhaps the other side will compose a ditty of their own – in the
interests of equal time and all. I don’t believe these ladies have a record
deal, but the song’s lyricist, Sunny Armer of Croton-on-Hudson, said she
added a verse (on retraining) at Pete Seeger’s suggestion after singing the
song with him at Clearwater. She said she also changed it a little to fit
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s meeting on re-licensing the plant
tomorrow night.
Where have you seen us on television?
Watch for us on Progressive News Network (PNN) cablecasts on your local public access station. We taped a program where we sing and talk about why we do what we do. If you've seen it, please let us know what you think. It has been shown on channel 76, the Community Access Channel of White Plains. If you missed it, tell them to put it on again! If you want the program on your local public access station, find out how to get it, and let us know about it.
At a meeting held on July 15, 2008, we sang to protest a report by Entergy's hand-picked panel declaring that the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant was safe. News 12 had a crew at the meeting, and they interviewed Granny Sunny and Granny Alice. A snippet of the interview was aired that night and the next morning. There was no footage of us singing. For more about Indian Point, click here.
Where have you seen us in the newspaper?
We sang at a Sustainability Fair to celebrate Earth Day on April 20, 2008.
This event made the local newspaper, The Gazette. Here's what the editor wrote: Members of the Westchester Raging Grannies (above) sing their ‘environmentally friendly’ but pointed lyrics to popular melodies at Sunday’s ‘Sustainablifty Fair,’ held at and hosted by the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Briarcliff, Croton and Ossining in Montrose. The point of the songs - and the event itself - was to get people to think more about the amount of energy they consume, and identify ways they can conserve (as easily as screwing in a compact fluorescent light bulb).
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