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April 22, 2024

Knitting Nannas: ‘Are you OUTRAGED?’

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Lismore KNAG will take their box and their pussies to the streets on Saturday to stand up and sit and knit for a better future for the kiddies. Photo Judi Summers.

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The local loop of Knitting Nannas Against Gas are readying their box and their pussies for a placid protest of the loud and partially pink kind this weekend in preparation for the tough times ahead, and the inauguration of Donald Trump in the US tomorrow our time.

Nanna Jally is a little bit outraged. Photo Judi Summers.
Nanna Jally is a little bit outraged. Photo Judi Summers.

The Nannas have just one question: ‘Are you outraged?’

If you’re as mad as hell and you’re not going to take it any more, if you are fed up with the way our country’s ‘leaders’ deal with the environment, centrelink, health, education, pensions, politicians’ perks, sovereignty, police, the courts, privatisation, climate change, sexism, racism, unionism, taxation, asylum seekers, refugees and anything else that you find incomprehensible, then the Nannas are inviting you to be part of the community to stand up and have your say on the box.

Nanna-Lou-Photo-Judi-Summers-DSCN3656The forum will literally pop-up at 10.30am, tomorrow Saturday 21 January on the corner of Molesworth and Magellan Streets in Lismore.

Speakers will have three minutes to stand on the box air their grievances.

As well as the forum, the Nannas will don their knitted pink pussy ears as a show of solidarity and support for the Women’s March on Washington, and event that will happen this Saturday (US time) in America.

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Double stitch, Nanna Rosie sitting and knitting for a better future with a reminder that Donald Trump needs to keep his hands off our pussies. Photo Judi Summers.

The Women’s March on Washington is a march and rally featuring nationally recognized advocates, artists, entertainers, entrepreneurs, thought leaders who are sending the message: ‘Hands off our pussies! We deplore the president-elect’s revolting description and assessment of women, and his encouragement of their objectification and sexual violence against women.

This forum is being encouraged by the Knitting Nannas – it’s for the kiddies and they ask that speakers please be nice, and they won’t abide by any hates speech or rude words – thank-you.

 

 


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2 COMMENTS

  1. Trump may be bad, but Hillary Clinton is a mass murdering psychopath, quite provably responsible for the destruction of at least 3 entire countries for her own profit – as can be clearly seen from her very own emails (which she attempted to hide by deleting 3 terabytes of them) and she quite literally has the blood of millions of children on her hands… There is no way a war mongering career criminal like Clinton should even have been allowed to run for office, and the fact that she was makes a complete mockery of the US political and judicial systems. The Clinton Foundation needs to be thoroughly investigated and it is my great hope that she will be prosecuted for her untold crimes. Hillary Clinton should be in jail before she can destroy any more lives. Im not at all impressed with Trump, but anyone who is actually supporting Hillary is grossly misinformed and simply voting by gender and quite frankly anyone who protests Trumps inauguration is not protesting against him, they are protesting against democracy. And no, this not “Fake News”

  2. Donald Trump intends to make America great again.A flow on affect from this will eventually come to Australia.To single out individual issues to critisise this man for is not very intelligent.We as a country need to get back on track so organizations such as yours don’t have to whinge about things you obviously have no idea about.

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