WELCOME TO GRAY PANTHERS OF MARIN
We can make a difference: Age and Youth in
Action
Contacts (co-convenors):
Louise Aldrich, 57 Meadow
Drive, San Rafael 94903 (415)
491-0113 louise@sonic.net
Yvette Wakefield, 3 Main
Court, Fairfax CA 94930 (415) 453-1550 yvette_wakefield@yahoo.com
Web address: http://graypanthersmarin.org
webmaster: jwseps@comcast.net
Gray
Panthers of Marin, P.O. Box 133, Fairfax, CA 94978-0133
Next Meeting: Jan. 21st, 1:30-3:30,
activities room
at The Redwoods,
40 Camino Alto,
Mill Valley, CA
Why
Environmentalists are Opposed to
Industrial
Wind Farms in Marin County
Speakers:
Helen Kozoriz and Beverly Childs Macintosh
A power point
presentation about the
West Marin/Sonoma
Coastal Advocates
fight to prevent an industrial wind
turbine farm.
Note: The West Marin/Sonoma Coastal Advocates are sponsoring
an award winning documentary ÒWINDFALLÓ
by Laura Israel as a public service for the community
on Friday, Jan 20th at 6:30pm at the Dance
Palace, Point Reyes.
Free, refreshments provided. 510-336-0499
FUTURE MEETING
On Feb. 18th, Prof. Mike Whitty
will speak on
ÒWhen Corporations No Longer Rule the
WorldÓ
(same
location and timing as above)
GRAY PANTHERS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION OR RENEWAL
Annual fees are $30 for individuals and $40 for
couples
Name: ____________________________________
email: ________________________________________
Address: __________________________________
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Gray Panthers of Marin
P.O. Box 133
Fairfax, CA 94978‐0133
Gray
Panthers National Meeting was in San Francisco this year
April
30, 2011
Pickwick Hotel, San Francisco,
CA
Photos courtesy Patricia
Jackson, Catherine Dodd & Sally Brown
Elinor
and John Severinghaus with Susan Murany (retiring Exec Dir)
John and California Senator
Mark Leno, 3rd Distr
Awardees, National Meeting at
Pickwick Hotel, San Francisco
Judy Lear, Natl GP
Chairman. Awardees Susan Murany,
Caroll L. Estes, PhD (UCSF Faculty), Cal State Senator Mark Leno and Charlotte
Flynn, Former Natl Chair lead audience in the
GRAY PANTHERS ROAR - AWWWWWW!!!
September 18th 2010
Sue Severin projected many interesting photos of Afghanistan
taken on her several trips there to help by planting trees.
Marin Gray Panthers Picnic at the Redwoods, Mill
Valley, July 24 Ô10
Catherine Jones, a Marin
member, suggests visiting a comprehensive guide to housing and mortgages for
seniors.
It's located at
http://www.mortgageloan.com/seniors/ and covers the housing options available
to seniors etc.
The
Gray Panthers is an organization for seniors so we need to be visible and we
need to recruit new members. Also,
it really is a lot of fun!
We
ask members to pay their membership fees by January 1st for the
year. Any membership starting
after January will be pro-rated.
There is no charge for anyone who cannot afford to pay.
Become a
Member!
Dues:
Couple $40, Single $30, Donor Couple $45, Donor Single $30
50% paid to National, 50% paid for
Sacramento representation, and local
needs
Mail your name, address, telephone and
email address to:
Gray Panthers of Marin, PO Box 133,
Fairfax, CA 94978-0133
Attn: Membership
As always, if it is hard
for you to pay the regular amount, pay what you can;
No one has
ever been denied membership.
See Michael MooreÕs web
regarding Gray Panthers National opinion
on raising age for social
security to 70 from 65.
http://michaelmoore.com/tag/gray-panthers
NATIONAL GRAY PANTHERS
RESOLUTION RE: NEAR EAST CONFLICT
GRAY PANTHERS are progressive environmentalist, anti racist, and anti-war.
We advocate and endorse positions and actions for peace and social justice, universal health care, electoral reform, non-privatiza-tion of public resources, civil rights, human rights, and civil liberties.
Gray
Panthers of Marin:
Organize to save Social Security;
Support a universal single payer health care system that covers all equally;
Defend the Bill of Rights;
Wish to repeal the Patriot Act;
Act to eliminate environmental racism.
GRAY
PANTHERS USA STATEMENTS
<info@graypanthers.org>
Gray Panthers has been accepted into the Combined Federal Campaign.
That means if your employer participates in the campaign, this provides you with a unique opportunity for you to contribute to our important justice and peace work.
We are listed under Human and Civil Rights, CFC #12480.
If you participate in the Campaign, we hope you choose the Gray Panthers as your organization of choice to help us to advocate for the needs of people over profits through intergenerational, international, national and local campaigns for health care, social justice and economic security.
Thank you for your support.
HEALTH
CARE STATEMENT
Gray Panthers strongly support public action to:
Create and fund a
single-payer, nonprofit and universal health care system.
Regulate Health Maintenance
Organizations comprehensively, for the protection of patients and health care
providers.
Legislate a PatientÕs Bill
of Rights.
Provide funding for
scientifically-based sex education and reproductive health care.
Legalize medical marijuana.
Remove barriers to stem
cell research.
Give health care consumers
a seat at the table in setting Federal health research priorities.
Return to the public a
proper share of pharmaceutical profits, reflecting public investment in basic
medical and health research.
Repeal any privatization of
Medicare and Part D prescription drug program.
Provide gap-free coverage
under Medicare at fair, affordable prices.
End constraints on
government negotiations, e.g. on obtaining large volume reduced bulk drug
rates.
LINKS
SICKO-Michael
MooreÕs film of our broken healthcare system
WHAT CAN
I DO NOW IN RESPONSE TO SICKO?
Scrap
the Medicare Modernization Act!
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