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A woman in her 70s opens her Wonder Woman umbrella to shield herself Grannies in Oregon the sun on a sweltering Saturday at the community parade Good in the Hood.

She's about to join a dozen other women around her Grannies in Oregon in a march through the streets of Portland, wearing garden hats pinned with "Black Lives Matter" and "Protest Like It's " buttons. It's easy to think protesting is the province of the young, and also easy to dismiss it as the folly of youth.

They don't think we're dangerous," says Megan Esler. The Raging Grannies began in British Columbia 26 years ago to protest nukes.

The Portland "gaggle" was started five years ago during the Odegon Movement. Besides appearing at social Grannies in Oregon events, the women also show up at Portland City Council meetings, where at a recent Tenants United rally they performed a five-minute rGannies dance to Black Eyed Peas' "One Tribe. Megan says the Portland Grannies in Oregon has particularly taken off since the election.

While the women used to meet in houses, they now have to rent out larger spaces for their monthly meetings.

Many of these women were activists when much Grannies in Oregon in Oregn '60s, and now the Raging Grannies give them a platform to get back into activism. Many are also new to Portland, having moved here from places like Texas or Tennessee when their kids did, and have found a haven for liberal ideals in the Grannies.

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