From The Associated Press, 10/17/05:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-brf-antiwar-grandmothers,0,5629792.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

Grandmothers Arrested at Iraq War Protest

By Associated Press

NEW YORK --

Eighteen antiwar grandmothers were arrested and face disorderly
conduct charges after they showed up at a military recruiting center
in Times Square and said they wanted to enlist, a protest group said.

Police arrested the women, ranging in age from 49 to 90, after they
sat down Monday in front of the recruiting station to protest the war
in Iraq, police said.

When the women, including Marie Runyon, who is 90 and blind, tried to
enter the station, they found it locked, said Joan Wile, 74, director
of Grandmothers against the War.

"We tried to ring the bell at the booth, but no one answered," Wile
said.

"I saw a head poke up from behind the counter every once in a while
and then duck back down. I don't know what they were afraid of. Maybe
they don't know how to deal with a bunch of grannies."

Grandmothers against the War joined the New York City Raging Grannies
and the Gray Panthers to form a coalition called the Anti-War
Grandmothers, which organized the protest.

The group said about 100 people attended.

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Harry