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
NEXT MEETING :
July 11, 2009. 12:00
– 3:30 p.m.
Fairfax Library, 2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd
TOPIC AT 1:00pm:
ENDING THE DRUG WAR AND HELPING
CALIFORNIAÕS BUDGET
SPEAKER: Professor Mike Whitty
Member of the board of Metro
Detroit Gray Panthers.
A business professor
discusses a tax on marijuana which would help balance CaliforniaÕs state budget, reducing the deep cuts, and on
medicinal marijuana as part of driving down the cost of medicine.
NATIONAL GRAY PANTHERS RESOLUTION RE: NEAR EAST CONFLICT
Draft of proposed Resolution on Israel & Palestine May 29,
2009
Whereas, Gray Panthers are appalled by
continuing violence in Israel and Palestine and aware that this conflict
endangers peace and stability in many countries; and
Whereas, Gray Panthers recognize that roots of
the conflict trace at least to the end of World War I, the dissolution of the
Ottoman Empire and subsequent European governance of the area then known as
Palestine ; and
Whereas, the United States among other nations
supported establishment of the State of Israel and has continued its support
for more than 60 years; and
Whereas, during the past 60 years, countless
reciprocal injustices and grievances have accumulated as a result of wars,
territorial disputes, allocation of resources, land and water, terrorist
attacks and reprisals, unresolved property and resettlement issues; and
Whereas, Gray Panthers recognize that the United
States has a continuing moral obligation both to Israelis and to Palestinians
to work for a settlement which will bring them all justice, safety and
lasting peace; and
Whereas, Gray Panthers believe that diplomacy,
not war, is the surest and speediest way to a just Middle East peace.
Therefore, be it resolved
that Gray Panthers:
1. Support the role of the United States
as an honest broker for peace, working for a comprehensive settlement that
assures the security of both Israeli and Palestinian people; and
2.
Appreciate and support efforts by the Obama administration to seek
common ground in the Middle East, to promote dialogue between and among all
parties to current conflicts, and to foster democratic institutions, respect
for human rights and economic prosperity which will serve the people of Israel
and Palestine; and
3.
Urge the U.S. government to work with all parties to assure that
humanitarian relief, such as food, medical care, clothing, education and
shelter, can be received by all who need it; and
4.
Call on all parties to honor the territorial integrity of both
Israel and Palestine and to affirm a United Nations call for a halt to new
Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory; and
5.
Urge all parties, as soon as possible, to take all necessary steps to
enable trade, commerce and the free movement of people between Palestine
and Israel; and
6.
Support the work of non-governmental groups which favor peaceful
solutions, provide humanitarian support to relieve acute human needs for
housing, health care, food, rebuilding of public infrastructure such as
schools, roads, clinics, etc. which have been damaged or destroyed in the
conflict; and
7.
Call on the United Nations for a ban on further weapons sales by
any party, public or private to any of the nations or other parties involved in
this conflict; and
8.
Call on Gray Panthers individually and in their networks 1) to research
and understand the complexity and political, economic and social roots of
conflict in the Middle East and; 2) to encourage and participate in local
education programs which offer the public balanced explorations of the
conflict; and
9.
Continue to conduct a frank and open and respectful conversation within
and among Gray Panthers Networks about peace and justice in the Middle East
.
Comments,
please, before 1 July to:
Susan
Murany, Executive Director, Gray Panthers, 1612 K Street NW, Ste. 300,
Washington, DC 20006.
202-737-6637,
ext 28. Or 800-280-5362, x28.
http://www.graypanthers.org/ email: smurany@graypanthers.org
Suggested letter re need of MGH
and Marin Healthcare District Board for more time to upgrade or retrofit
Assembly Member Jared Huffman State Capitol, Room 3120 Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: AB 523 (Marin General Hospital) – SUPPORT
Dear Assembly Member Huffman,
I am writing to express my/our strong support for AB 523,
which would allow the Marin
Healthcare District to request a two-year extension to
their seismic safety retrofit deadline.
Marin General Hospital, located in Greenbrae CA, is
currently operated under lease by Suffer
Health, but will transition back to Marin Healthcare District control in 2010.
As a part of the
Settlement and Transfer agreement reached between Suffer
and the Marin Healthcare Distinct in
2006, Suffer Health is not responsible for the structural upgrades and
retrofitting necessary
to be seismically compliant. Because of this transition, the Healthcare
District is now faced
with an extremely short time-frame to complete the process of approving
architectural
designs, conducting environmental and safety studies, and completing
construction.
Marin General Hospital is the county's safety
net hospital and the largest acute care hospital in
the county. It serves the vast majority of indigent and MediCal patients
receiving care in the
county. The loss of Marin
General Hospital would
create a severe shortage of acute care services
for all residents of Marin and would result in the loss of the county's only trauma,
obstetrics and
inpatient mental health services.
AB 523 would provide the Marin Healthcare District an
extension to allow them to conduct
necessary reviews and submit design plans for retrofitting of hospital
buildings.
Thank you for your work on this important issue.
Sincerely,
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GRAY PANTHERS PROTEST HEALTH CARE INSURANCE COMPANIES
MOSCONE CENTER WEST AT NATIONAL MEETING, SF, JUNE 19, 2008
SINGLE PAYER ADVOCATES PROTEST PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANY
HUGE PROFITS AND INADEQUATE COVERAGE
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.
MarinÕs Gray Panthers protest Iraq war – June 21, 2007, San Rafael
Marin Gray Panthers Monthly meeting Healthcare For All Marin Demonstrate For Single Payer SB840
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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