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Modified: April 23, 2008

 

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

Links

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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:

  • 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.
  • Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles: Sacramento office
    (916) 319-2046; e-mail speaker.nunez@assembly.ca.gov.
  • 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.
  • Senate Republican leader Dick Ackerman of Irvine (Orange County):
    Sacramento office (916) 651-4033; e-mail senator.ackerman@sen.ca.gov.
  • Assembly Republican Leader Mike Villines of Clovis (Fresno County):
    Sacramento office (916) 319-2029; e-mail assemblymember.villines@assembly.ca.gov.

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.


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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.

Gray Panthers Networks
Info for sending postcards (what you can say, where you can send it...)

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.

 


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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