The Gulabi Gang of Uttar Pradesh in northern India have been taking matters into their own hands since 2006.
Members of the gang, whose numbers range from 200 to a thousand, depending on your sources, wear pink (gulabi) saaris and carry sticks and other implements in an effort to protect their sisters from violence and occasionaly wreak revenge on male abusers or keep local officials honest.
Sampat Pal Devi (pictured in foreground), the founder and a mother of five, told the BBC last fall that "we are a gang for justice." Lately I've been wondering if, should we (God forbid) fail to stop McSame-ness in November, people will react, you know, decisively against corruption and inequality?
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