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Thurs, July 2: Gray Panthers Newsletter Committee meets at the office
Wed, July 8: Gray Panthers Civil and Human Rights Committee meets at the office
Wed, July 8: Gray Panthers Program Committee meets at the office
Tues, July 14: Gray Panthers Health Committee meets at the office
Wed, July 15: Gray Panthers Mid-East Study Committee meets at the office
Tues, July 21: Gray Panthers monthly program
Mon, July 27: Gray Panthers Book Club meets at the office
Wed, Aug 5: Gray Panthers Board meets at the office
Thurs, Aug 6: Gray Panthers Newsletter Committee meets at the office
Tues, Aug 11: Gray Panthers Health Committee meets at the office
Wed, Aug 12: Gray Panthers Civil and Human Rights Committee meets at the office
Wed, Aug 12: Gray Panthers Program Committee meets at the office
Sun, Aug 16: SF Gray Panthers Day at the SF Mime Troupe at Yerba Buena Gardens
Wed, Aug 19: Gray Panthers Mid-East Study Committee meets at the office
Mon, Aug 24: Gray Panthers Book Club meets at the office
Other Important Events
Thurs-Sun, July 2-5: Socialism 2009 Conference
Sun, July 5: Procession in commemoration of Bloody Thursday and the SF General Strike
Mon, July 6: Preliminary Hearing for SF-8 scheduled to begin, reviving a trial based on torture
Thurs, July 9: Town Hall meeting on future of St. Luke's Hospital.
Sat, July 11: Film Showing & Discussion “Cuba, An African Odyssey”
Tues, July 14: Discussion Group on Labor's Giant Step, a book on the formation of the CIO
Fri, July 17: Meeting of San Francisco CAT, CARA's SF group
Sun, July 19: Living Wage Video Festival, featuring Race to the Bottom
Thurs, July 16: Senior Action Network meeting
Sat, July 25: Staying in the City: Housing as we age
Please send notices of similar San Francisco events to mlyon01@comcast.net with "CALENDAR" in subject line
| Thurs July 2 12 noon |
Gray Panthers Newsletter Committee meets at the office. (back to top) |
| Thurs July 2 - Sun July 5 |
Socialism 2009 Conference: Sponsored by International Socialists. Complete schedule of speakers, costs. Location: Women's Building, 3543 18th St. (betw. Valencia & Guerrero Sts., map, # 33, 26, 14, 49 buses or 4 blocks southwest of 16th St. BART station) (back to top) |
| Sun July 5 9 AM |
Procession in commemoration of Bloody Thursday and the SF General Strike. More on the event. Location: Assemble at Steuart & Market St. (foot of Market St., one block from the Embarcadero, map, all Market St. Muni, Embarcadero BART/Metro) (back to top) |
| Mon July 6 8 AM |
Preliminary Hearing for SF-8 scheduled to begin. Save the Day. The San Francisco Eight (SF-8) are eight former Black Panthers on trial for the killing of a SF police officer in 1971. In 1973 several Black Panthers were tortured by New Orleans police into making false confessions, as part of the FBI’s COINTELPRO program. Charges based on the forced confessions were dropped in 1975, but reinstated as part of post-9/11 repression, so now, 36 years later, the SF-8 are on trial here. No substantive new evidence has emerged. Read more. Read recent SF Bay Guardian article. Sign the open letter to drop the charges. Read letter to SF Chronicle condemning recent article. Come to the demonstration (8 AM) and the hearing (9 AM) demanding justice for the SF-8. Location: Hall of Justice, 850 Bryant St, Department 22, 3rd Floor (betw. 6th & 7th Sts, map, # 27, 47, 19 buses) (back to top) |
| Wed July 8 11 AM |
Gray Panthers Civil and Human Rights Committee meets at the office. (back to top) |
| Wed July 8 noon |
Meeting of Healthcare Action Team, a project of Planning for Elders in the Central City. Location: Bayanihan Center, 1010 Mission (at 6th St. map, # 14, 26 buses) (back to top) |
| Wed July 8 1 PM |
Gray Panthers Program Committee meets at the office. (back to top) |
| Thurs July 9 6-8 PM |
Town Hall meeting on future of St. Luke's Hospital. Join Supervisors David Campos and John Avalos to discuss Sutter Health/CPMC’s plans for the future of St. Luke’s Hospital. Under community pressure, CPMC has abandoned plans to close St. Luke's, as a hospital, but it still plans St. Luke's as a downgraded facility subordinate to CPMC's planned luxury mega-hospital on Cathedral Hill. Since CPMC is a private entity, how can the public influence CPMC’s plans both to ensure a viable hospital that provides access to healthcare for all and livable neighborhoods? Location: Precita Valley Community Center, 534 Precita Avenue, SF (betw. Alabama & Florida, Bernal Heights, map, # 27, 67 buses.) (back to top) |
| Sat July 11 7 PM |
Film Showing & Discussion “Cuba, An African Odyssey” Egyptian-French filmmaker Jihan El-Tahri traces the history of Cuban solidarity with African liberation movements in the 1960s and 70s. It begins in 1965 when Che Guevara led a group of Cuban revolutionary fighters in an unsuccessful attempt to support the struggle for true independence in the Congo. It then moves to Cuban’s role in the struggles against Portuguese/NATO colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Angola. $5-20 requested. Sponsor: Party for Socialism and Liberation. Location: 2489 Mission St. #28 (at 21st St., map, # 14, 49 buses or 24th St. BART) (back to top) |
| Tues July 14 1 PM |
Gray Panthers Health Committee meets at the office. (back to top) |
| Tues July 14 7 PM |
Discussion Group on Labor's Giant Step, a book by Art Preis on the formation of the CIO. Participants will discuss passages from the book Labor’s Giant Step, which chronicles the explosive struggles and political battles leading to unions that spanned entire workplaces and positively changed the lives of the working class. More on the event. Location: New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street, Suite 202 (at Eddy Street, map, near Civic Center BART, and on/near Muni lines #19, 38, 47 & 49) (back to top) |
| Wed July 15 11 AM |
Gray Panthers Mid-East Study Group meets at the office. |
| Thurs July 16 10 AM |
Senior Action Network meeting. See SAN's website. Location: MLK room, Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin St. (at Geary, map, # 38 bus) (back to top) |
| Fri July 17 1 PM |
Meeting of San Francisco CAT, CARA's SF group. San Francisco members of CARA, the California Alliance for Retired Americans, to further our work on healthcare, housing, Social Security, Medicare, and other important issues for seniors and their allies. See CARA's website, CARA's priorities. Location: ILWU Building, 1188 Franklin St. (betw. O'Farrell and Geary, map, # 38 bus.) (back to top) |
| Sun July 19 4-7 PM |
Living Wage Video Festival, featuring Race to the Bottom, a 20 minute film on the 2,000 independent truck drivers working at the Port of Oakland, from the viewpoint of 3 truckers struggling to provide for their families and preserve their health in a toxic atmosphere responsible for causing asthma in 20% of children in the area. The film shows how drivers and community members came together to demand action. See the video, meet the videographers, and see a documentary on the SF Living Wage Coalition and their campaign for higher wages for workers at SF-funded non-profit agencies. Free admission; food, drinks sold seperately. See more. Location: 522 Valencia (betw. 16th, 17th Sts, map, # 26, 22 buses, or 3 blocks west of 16th St. BART) (back to top) |
| Sat July 25 10 AM |
Staying in the City: Housing as we age. Second in the series related to innovative housing solutions for older adults, discussing Planning, Financial and Legal Issues related to housing options. More on the event. Location: Main SF Public Library, 100 Larkin (at Grove, map, Market St buses and Civic Center BART/Metro) (back to top) |
| Mon July 27 10:30 AM |
Gray Panthers Book Club meets at the office. (back to top) |
| Wed Aug 5 12:30 PM |
Gray Panthers Board meets at the office (back to top) |
| Thurs Aug 6 12 noon |
Gray Panthers Newsletter Committee meets at the office. (back to top) |
| Tues Aug 11 1 PM |
Gray Panthers Health Committee meets at the office. (back to top) |
| Wed Aug 12 11 AM |
Gray Panthers Civil and Human Rights Committee meets at the office. (back to top) |
| Wed Aug 12 1 PM |
Gray Panthers Program Committee meets at the office. (back to top) |
| SF Gray Panthers Day at the SF Mime Troupe at Yerba Buena Gardens. Enjoy a picnic and Mime Troupe performance "Too Big to Fail" Told in the tradition of the West African Griots, this modern day epic follows Filije, a man in love with his family, his village, and most of all, his beloved goat, Bamusa, on an odyssey through the twists and turns of banking bureaucracy and international finance to find out how all the greed got started, and more importantly, how the hell we turn it off. (back to top) | |
| Wed Aug 19 11 AM |
Gray Panthers Mid-East Study Group meets at the office. |
| Mon Aug 24 10:30 AM |
Gray Panthers Book Club meets at the office. (back to top) |
SF Gray Panthers, 1182 Market St, Room 203, San Francisco CA 94102
Phone: 415-552-8800, fax: 415-552-8801
e-mail: graypanther-sf@sbcglobal.net, web: http://graypantherssf.igc.org/
Phone: 415-552-8800, fax: 415-552-8801
e-mail: graypanther-sf@sbcglobal.net, web: http://graypantherssf.igc.org/
Location: Market Street, at Hyde and 8th Streets,
One door downtown from Orpheum Theater box office. Map
Surface transit: MUNI 5, 6, 7, 9, and 21 buses, and F streetcar
Underground transit: Civic Center Station for BART and MUNI Metro lines J, K, L, M, and N
More information on getting to our office.
For regular membership, committee, and Board meetings, click here.
