Celebrating 100 August 3 1905 MAGGIE KUHN

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Celebrating 100 - August 3 1905MAGGIE KUHN
Carroll Estes with Elena Portacolone
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Do something outrageous every day
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Modus Operandi

• Rigorous research
• Identify root causes
• Constructive criticism
• Go to the people at the top
• Networking
• Simple and precise language
• Leading by empowerment
• Media are key, high visibility
• Age youth together
• Use your limits as your strengths
• Guerrilla Theatre

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MAIN ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Raised Key Issues For The First Time

• Wrinkled babyhood
• Racism and Agism
• Age segregation
• Gerontologists as agents of social control
• Sexual pleasures

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Issues ReframingParadigm Changing
Fight retirement, enjoy sex and dont become a
wrinkled baby!
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Involved Empowered

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THE KING IS NAKED
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Gerontologists neglect the socioeconomic
structures forces that segregate, stereotype
and victimize old people
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Our economy ought to serve human needs. Our
economy ought to be directed by democratic means
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Gray Panthers believe that the major causes of
the current economic deficit are the BLOATED
MILITARY BUDGET and INEQUITABLE TAX CUTS to
corporations and individuals
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Gray Panthers believe that Social Security is a
contract between the American people and their
elected government to provide every citizen with
the dignity of financial independence. It is
based on the constitutional to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness for all Americans.

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National Health Reform

Over 60 Health Center
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Gray Panthers Reaching Out
We are working for basic social change to
improve the quality of life for people of all
ages
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MAGGIES LEGACYWe are a new breed of old
people
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• Testers

• Builders

• Watchdogs

• Advocates

• Monitors

• Critical analysts

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Instead of avoiding all the worlds problems or
being overcome by them, I like to see them as an
invitation Maggie Kuhn