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We invite you to our next Gray Panther program: More on this program View some of our recent programs.	Recent Posts 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 for vital health services the City wants to cut. More posts
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 vetos 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.
Fighting Cuts in MediCal Services

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.
More posts 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 Propostions 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 Calfornia Seniors Demand Restoration of State Programs Gray Panthers Resolution against Efforts to Privatize Social Security, Pensions, Medicare and Medicaid No to the Bailout! 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 "Witchhunt at Lodi"

July 5, 2009

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/

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
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