WELCOME TO GRAY PANTHERS OF MARIN

Web address: http://graypanthersmarin.org

May 31^st, Sat. Business Meeting, 12:30PM to 1:30 PM. Program 1:30-3:00 PM.	Contacts (co-convenors):.
San Rafael Community Ctr, B St	Louise Aldrich	Yvette Wakefield
San Rafael, CA 94901	57 Meadow Drive	3 Main Court
Bring finger food to share, drinks, lunch, etc.	San Rafael 94903	Fairfax CA 94930
	(415) 491-0113	(415) 453-1550

Email: louisealdrich@sbcglobal.net, juneswan@yahoo.com, yvette_wakefield@yahoo.com, webmaster: jwseps@comcast.net

PROGRAM: LARRY BRAGMAN will speak about the plastic bag ban in Fairfax.

Become a Member!

To join: send your name, address, email address and/or phone number with a check to:

Gray Panthers of Marin, PO Box 2874, San Rafael, 94912

Attn: Rudy Kupfer (415) 479-2849 or Membership (415) 225-8116.

Couple Dues $40

Single Dues $30

Single Donor $35

Couple Donor $45

As always, if it is hard for you to pay the regular amount, pay what you can;

No one has ever been denied membership.

Frank Egger discusses the plan to spray pesticide in Marin to eradicate the Apple Light Brown Moth

April 12, 2008

24 attended the Gray Panthers of Marin meeting to learn what is known about the effects of the planned spraying based on what happened in Santa Cruz with similar spraying last year. It is probable that the result is death of bees, butterflies, insects that birds eat, perhaps of birds and other animals, and a loss of the plant fertilization for which insects are essential.

On April 23rd, the governor agreed to defer for a year plans to spray awaiting a Santa Cruz EIR.

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-privatization 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

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17 Oct, 2007:

Gray Panthers has recently 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 Patient’s 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.

California Gray Panthers meeting

Saturday May 24 from 9:30 to 3:00

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.

GRAY PANTHERS NATIONAL CONVENTION

September 25-28, 2008

Sheraton Detroit Riverside Hotel

2 Washington Blvd., Detroit

Convention Highlights:

· Panel of top leaders in labor, civil rights, education, faith, & peace tell how to Turn America Around;

· Workshops on environment, anti-military recruitment

· Skills workshop on publicity, influencing elected officials, membership recruitment & funding raising

· Dr. Robert Butler, national/international aging leader

· Gray Panthers vote on their stands on issues

· Governor Granholm invited keynote at banquet

· Rally to Turn America Around in Hart Plaza