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Ashley Carson, Older Women's League Executive Director, tells Obama's Deficit Commission about the importance of Social Security, especially to women.
Read Mumia's SF BayView piece demanding freedom for Lynne Stewart
SF Gray Panthers support MUNI drivers resisting concessions that would lead to more service cuts.
What's wrong with MUNI's "saturation" raids on bus passengers?
SF Immigrant Legal & Educational Network (SFILEN) Platform for the Rights of New Americans, December 2009
No MUNI service cuts! No MUNI fare increases! Make downtown business pay for what MUNI gives them.
Alliance for Retired Americans pamphlet, Social Security, Medicare, & the Fiscal Commission, a valuable resource
Watch Senate testimony by Single Payer advocate Marcia Angell M.D., that targets profits of entire health industry, not just insurance companies.
Watch Bill Moyers interview with Single Payer advocate Marcia Angell M.D., on what's wrong with Obama's health plan.
Solidarity with Students: Demonstrate against dismantling of public education. Thurs, March 4, 5 PM, SF's Civic Center. Read leaflet relating these cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid cuts.
FLASH! Obama proproses his own Commission to make fast-track cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
ALERT! Tuesday, January 19, National Call-In Day against forming a Task Force to cut Social Security and Medicare.
Gray Panthers writes Obama criticising his paying $780,000 to economist Jonathan Gruber to write articles supporting Omama's private-insurance-based health plan.
Gray Panthers and CARA demand IHSS be preserved.
Iraq Vet: Our real enemies are not ones living in a distant land, they are here in front of us. Racism is their weapon.
SF Immigrant Rights Activists Prepare for national
campaign in immigration reform.
KPFA's Courageous radio program "Flashpoints" is
under attack by station management. Please help.
Lifetime Attorney-Activist Lynne Stewart is back in jail.
Free Lynne Stewart!
Gray Panthers Sit-In at Pelosi's office for single-payer
Medicare is endangered by healthcare "reform" that's based on private insurance. Single Payer Now!
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Fighting City and State Budget Cuts: Make the Bosses Take the Losses!
SF Gray Panthers at the November 19, 2008 demonstration against Schwarzenegger's elimination of the Renter's Rebate. The largest of Schwarzenegger's personal line-item vetoes after the budget had been settled with the legislature, this program had existed for decades to give hundreds of thousands of California's poorest seniors and disabled people a few hundred dollars per year to help buy food, medicine, or maybe even a Christmas present for their children. SSI and SSDI recipients have already lost a $200 cost of living adjustment. Medicare-MediCal recipients have lost $96 in assistance for Medicare Part B premiums. Read more from BeyondChron. More from Senior Action Network. See videos of this demonstration. See earlier demonstration against state cuts.
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Fighting Cuts in MediCal Services |
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San Francisco, Feb. 18, 2009. Over 200 people protested California’s renewed attempt to make a 10% cut in payments to doctors, pharmacies, clinics, dentists, and adult day health centers that provide care for Medi-Cal patients. Dozens of patients, many in wheelchairs, gave moving testimony that the cuts would either kill them or destroy their quality of life. Read more.
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Why Afghanistan? It's pipelines, not terrorism.
SF Gray Panthers activities over past 6 months
Should we endorse a National Health Service?
These Medi-Cal Benefits are NOT Optional!
SF and national Gray Panthers join Immigrant Rights groups to demand end to Homeland Security's 287(g) program and its racial profiling
Governor's line-item cuts devastate State's healthcare and human services on top of murderous budget
Mumia Abu Jamal on the victory of the SF 8
Victory for SF8! DA admits it: Insufficient Evidence!
Gray Panthers letter in Daily Planet: The War on Medi-Cal
Conditions in Gavin Newsom's Homeless Shelters.
Cutting Fat: Huge growth in SF's high-pay managers;
10% salary cut could free up millions for needed services.
Update on State budget fight and cuts for seniors, children, people with disabilities, and low-income workers
SF tells HHS's Kathleen Sebelius, "Stop fronting for private insurance! Single Payer Now!" -- TV coverage
New GP Leaflet: Health Care and Human Services are Human Rights. We Need a Fair San Francisco Budget!
Stopping these corporate tax giveaways could restore the State's health, education, welfare, and park cuts.
Budget Justice Rally Rocks SF City Hall
Cost containment has replaced concern for the uninsured in driving healthcare restructuring. What does this imply?
San Francisco's corporate and individual wealth is enough to pay for the vital services the City wants to cut.
Where should they cut the San Francisco budget?
Newsom's SF City Budget figures don't add up
SF Rally: Nancy Pelosi, Put Single Payer on the table!
On Dr. Tiller's murder, a Gray Panther recalls her experience defending a clinic.
On Proposition 8 and Gay Marriage
Listen to "Dismantling the New Deal in California," KPFA's May 28th Special program on the California Budget
Brutal Schwarzenegger Health Cuts Floated
David Binder poll shows Californians oppose a cuts-only budget (p. 7) , oppose health and home care cuts (p.10), support a variety of revenue-generating measures (p. 9)
Stop CPMC's plans to strangle St. Luke's Hospital, gentrify it medical facilities,
and abandon skilled nursing care.
California's Cavernous Corporate Loopholes
Norman Solomon Remarks on Obama's First 100 Days
Budgets and Ballot Propositions that Kill
NO on Prop 1A, the Suicidal Spending Cap on the May 19 Special Election
Mayor Newsom's approach to SF budget crisis is to shred the social safety net
SF Gray Panthers meeting on fighting the State and City budget cuts
San Francisco Demonstration: Stop Medi-Cal Cuts
SF Gray Panthers report to state-wide Gray Panthers meeting
SF Gray Panthers letter to Obama
Support Gray Panther friend Dee Allen, arrested for protesting the racist and xenophobic Minutemen.
FLASH! Students shut down ICE operations in San Francisco, police shut down BART stations to try to prevent action.
SF Youth Commission passes resolution to restore Sanctuary City protections for immigrant youth
Report on Gray Panthers National Convention in Detroit
Enraged California Seniors Demand Restoration of State Programs
Gray Panthers Resolution against Efforts to Privatize Social Security, Pensions, Medicare and Medicaid
No to the Bailout!
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What Happened to Sanctuary City, Attacks on Immigrants and Youth in the US and SF
Gray Panthers and others' suit against 10% cuts to Medi-Cal providers wins a round in court
Read the resolutions we have submitted to the Sept 2008 National Gray Panthers Convention on:
Human Rights, the Patriot Act, Media Reform, Single Payer Healthcare, Medicare Modernization Act, Immigration, and Mumia.
June 19: Healthcare YES! Insurance Companies No! Protest at national health insurance convention in San Francisco.
Save Rent Control in California: NO on Prop 98, YES on Prop 99!
Taxes: We Can't Afford the Rich!
The Savage Bush Budget
California, Cutting to the Bone
Support anti-racist latin and black carpenters fighting AIMCO's racism at Bayview Hunters Point
Say NO! to the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007"
Youth need jobs, education, housing, medical care and recreation! NOT GANG INJUNCTIONS!
Free the Jena 6, No Jim-Crow Justice for Youth
Support the SF8, on trial based on police torture.
No Justice, No Peace! US Out of the Middle-East!
Hunters Point Shipyard: its toxic history and polluted present
A talk on Eleanor Roosevelt's relations with the labor movement
A birthday message from Leonard Peltier
August 8th Demo: Healthcare YES! Insurance Companies NO!
Reclaim and Strengthen Medicare, Health Care for All
Video Available: "Privatize Medicare? NO WAY!" We want Equal, Comprehensive, Low-Cost Healthcare for All
April 14 2007 SF Gray Panthers Quarterly Report on Activities
SF Gray Panthers Resolution on Immigration, April 14, 2007
The 2003 Medicare Modernization Act Threatens Medicare Recipients and Medicare itself.
A Progressive Platform for the US, we want a NEW New Deal!
SF Gray Panthers Statement on Immigration
Senate Bill S 2611 (immigration) and commentary
Gray Panthers at May Day march for immigrant rights and solidarity
Gray Panthers at March 27 and April 10 Immigrant Right Marches
Visit the Gray Panthers Medicare Part D Project website
SF Gray Panther Statement on Hurricane Katrina
Read the People's Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition's flyer on Justice After Katrina
How Can We Survive Medicare Drug "Benefits"?
Download a petition to scrap the Medicare Modernization Act
Feb 14, 2007 demo, Feinstein, Don't Cut the Heart out of Social Security.
Jan 18, 2005 demo, HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY! in SF
Jan 26, 2005 Hands Off Social Security demo at Charles Schwab
May 10, 2005 Hands Off Social Security demo in Stockton
Reports on Global Economic and Military Issues
SF Gray Panthers Position on Laguna Honda Hospital
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