Portland’s surge protection brigade, which is now calling itself the Seriously Pissed-Off Grannies (they’re the people who’ve been protesting outside military recruiters’ offices and Gordon Smith’s office of late) added 1000 extra pages to as many copies of the Oregonian in the early hours of this morning:PRANKSTER ACTIVISM…

The extra pages, headed, “Ignorance or liberty—which do you choose?” challenge readers to better inform themselves about the war in Iraq, and contain a pull-quote from PBS journalist Bill Moyers saying:

So if we need to know what is happeneing, and big media won’t tell us; if we need to know why it matters, and big media won’t tell us; if we need to know what to do about it, and big media won’t tell us—it’s clear what we have to do; we have to tell the story ourselves.

A press release put out by the grannies this morning reads: “A vigilant press is necessary to a vibrant democracy; at the moment, we have neither. When the “Voice of the Northwest” (The Oregonian) fails us, it is time to speak for ourselves.” You can download a pdf of the extra page by clicking here.