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, 51 Berry
Trail, 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:
Saturday, May 19th
Place: The Redwoods, 40
Camino Alto, Mill Valley, activities room
Speaker at 2:30pm (new time!)
Pamm Larry from the Committee for the Right to Know
will talk about the California initiative to Label GMO foods
On May 2nd 971,126 signatures were
delivered to the 58 county registrars in California for this initiative to be
on the ballot in November. In a recent San Francisco Chronicle poll more than
70% of respondents want GMO foods labeled in California. And 50 countries with over 40% of the
worldÕs population already label genetically engineered foods, including the
entire European Union. Pamm Larry will address what the issues are. Time for questions and answers.
GRAY PANTHERS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION OR RENEWAL
Annual fees are $30 for individuals and $40 for
couples
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Gray Panthers of Marin
P.O. Box 133
Fairfax, CA 94978‐0133
Gray
Panthers National Meeting was in San Francisco
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
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
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.
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:
Support a universal single payer health care system that covers all equally;
GRAY
PANTHERS USA STATEMENTS
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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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