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Gray Panthers
Sacto. Monthly Meetings: 2nd Tuesday of
every month, Hart Senior Center
Steering Committee Meetings: 4th
Tuesday of every month, Hart Senior Center
Officers
Joan B. Lee: Convenor
(916) 332-5980
Margie Cummings: Historian
Pat Naylor: Secretary
Lola Young: Treasurer
Dr. Karl Stoffers: Environment
Terrelle Terry: Disabled issues
Lola Young and Joan Lee: Aging & Disability
Task Force
John Bernier, Pallo Defternos:
Peace/Nukes
Nell Ranta, Hospitality
Linda Roberts and Karen Raasch
(CIDs), Housing issues
Nell Ranta, Labor/Wage/ Women issues
Betty Merle: Civil Rights, Death Penalty
Karen Raasch and Marjorie Murray: CIDs and Mobile
Homes
Linda Roberts and Joan Lee: Urban Sprawl Issues
Joan Lee and Margie Metzler: Medicare/ MediCal
Geri Esposito: Single Payer
Newsletter Editor: Betty Cooper Youngren
Writers: Joan Lee, John Bernier, Margie Metzler
Printing, Paratransit: Richard
Seyman
Mailing: Pat Naylor
Labels and Mailing List: Margie Metzler
Local Press Releases: John Bernier
Peter D'Anna, SS/Medicare Advisor
Cordia Wade, County Commission Rep.
Dale Kooyman, Richard Seyman, Transportation Issues
Edie Poole, Pat Naylor, and Jean
Mellberg, Members at Large
Margie Metzler, Computer
Assistant
Margie Metzler, Medicare Part D/ Healthcare Reform
Program Coordinator and Webmaster, www.gpcal.org
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Gray Panthers Sacramento
Newsletters
GRAY PANTHERS GENERAL MEETING
 
May 13, Tuesday, 1:00 - 3:00
P.M.
Hart Center Cypress Room
27TH and J Streets
ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS
CAUSE A NEW LOOK AT NUCLEAR ENERGY
Presenters:
Rick Nadeau, former Director, Green Peace San Diego —
Opposed
Linda Banta, retired Professor, Sierra College — Support
in Interim
These two committed environmentalists will present their
differing views. Added Attractions:
Patrick Johnson, Sacramento Housing Alliance, will update
us on
CORE, the Coalition for Regional Equity
PLUS an outstanding brief video, THE STORY OF STUFF. You
will love it!! Come and join in the discussion, friendship
with like minded folks, and light refreshments.
Info: 916-332-5980 |
Note: Please see our
new page, devoted to single-payer healthcare issues!
Spring
Quarter Gray Panthers California Meeting
The
next Gray Panthers California meeting will be in San Lorenzo,
hosted by the South Alameda network, Betty Moose convenor.
She has reserved the San Lorenzo Library for Saturday May 24
from 9:30 to 3:00..
The address is 395 Paseo Grande, San Lorenzo (south of Oakland)
off 880.
The best way
to get there is to take the Hesperian Blvd off ramp from 880
South.
Continue past the light (Llewelling) and turn right on Hesperian..
Turn left at the second traffic light (Paseo Grande) and the
Library is on your left. There is a parking lot in front of
it.
You may call Joan B. Lee
at 916-332-5980 for more details. Everyone is
welcome!
PowerPoint
Presentation: Gray Panthers National Issues
Non-PowerPoint
users click here.
To comment on the governor's proposed
budget, contact:
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Sacramento
office (916) 445-2841; San Francisco office (415) 703-2218;
e-mail from the governor's Web site at gov.ca.gov.
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Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata,
D-Oakland: Sacramento office
(916) 651-4009; district office (510) 286-1333; e-mail senator.perata@sen.ca.gov.
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Senate Republican leader Dick Ackerman
of Irvine (Orange County):
Sacramento office (916) 651-4033; e-mail senator.ackerman@sen.ca.gov.
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Use the new Action
Network on the new and improved national Website. Go here
to see the site; go here for instructions
on how to use the Action Network; go here (http://graypanthers.e-actionmax.com/signup.asp)
to sign up to use the Action Network; go to http://graypanthers.e-actionmax.com/
to use the Action network.
The Sierra Club action center sent us a great site where
you are able to see a map of your personal home's geographic location
and determine how "walkable" it is. As we continue to
work with the Sacramento Mobility Coalition on this and other
transportation issues, this is good information to have. You can
find it at http://action.sierraclub.org/site.
Photo
Albums of Gray Panthers at Local Events
If you have photos of any of our events you would like to
share, please contact our
Webmaster.
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Documents
Read our Newsletters
Each month our network puts out a newsletter,
which contains original articles and commentary, as well as
information about our meetings and events.
We would love to know what you think! Please
tell us by emailing our convenor: joanblee@sbcglobal.net
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Why Should You Belong to the Gray Panthers?
Joining our local group can be the first step
in helping us make a difference. As a member of Gray Panthers,
you can participate more effectively as part of a group, in
rallies, petition drives, advocacy efforts and campaigns,
or in developing informational programs and unified strategies.
Print our form,
fill it out, mail it in to join!
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Gray Panthers bring about changes through testifying
at hearings, getting petitions signed, and belonging to local
task forces. They help with the newsletter or belong to focus
committees, join advocacy efforts and provide financial support
with their dues. Each member is free to choose their own level
of involvement. Whatever your interests and concerns, we have
a spot for you!
Call your Senator: 866-808-0065 (TOLL-FREE)
or 202-225-3121 (NOT TOLL-FREE)
List of new committee heads
etc. and California Congresspeople (no excuse for not contacting
them!)
WHO ARE
WE?
Gray Panthers is a local and
national organization of individuals dedicated to social change.
We welcome members of all ages who wish to work together on
the tough problems which effect everyone of all generations.
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Info for sending
postcards (what you can say, where you can send it...)
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Maggie Kuhn, Gray
Panthers Founder
“Stand before
the people you fear and speak your mind—even
if your voice shakes…. Well-aimed slingshots
can topple giants.”
--Maggie Kuhn
In the 1970’s
Maggie Kuhn was often a guest on the late lamented
Phil Donohue Show. She was scrawny and fragile in
appearance, but when she opened her mouth you heard
her roar (and believe me, her voice did not shake!)
She was one of the most powerful and articulate women
of any age, and many of us wanted to be just like
her. Her newly minted organization, soon dubbed the
Gray Panthers, showed extraordinary passion in the
highly principled stands they took on many issues.
Maggie Kuhn was born
in 1905 and spent most of her life working in socially-active
jobs and social activism. She never married or had
children; in her later years she acknowledged that
“when I look back on my life, I see so many
things I could not have done if I had been tied to
a husband and children.” At age 65 she was forced
to retire, and then she really got busy. She organized
other retirees and formed the Gray Panthers Movement.
This group believed then, as it does today, that injustice
affects everyone. Members involve themselves in senior
issues, but they also focus on issues including peace,
clean elections, the environment, poverty and civil
liberties. The organization's motto is “Age
and Youth in Action”, and they welcome anyone
into their ranks.
Maggie believed fervently
that old age is not a simple preparation for death
or adapting to increasing fragility, but that it is
a time of continuing sexuality (“Love and sex
until rigor mortis”). She stated that “old
age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship,
triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments,
trials and illnesses.” She also remarked that
“the ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan
by a stranger who calls you by your first name.”
Kuhn continued to be
a fervent activist until she died at age 89.
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Contact
Information
Gray
Panthers of Sacramento
P.O. Box 19438, Sacramento, CA 95819
For more information contact
Joan B. Lee, President, at (916) 332-5980
Email: joanblee@sbcglobal.net
Website: http://www.gpcal.org/indexsac.htm
Meetings:
Monthly Meetings: 2nd Tuesday of the month, 1-3
Steering Committee, 4th Tuesday of the month, 1-3
Hart Senior Center, 915 27th Street, Sacramento, CA 95816
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