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Gray Panthers

Gray Panthers

Roger Sanjek

Copyright 2009 University of Pennsylvania Press

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher.

Published by

University of Pennsylvania Press

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sanjek, Roger, 1944

Gray Panthers / Roger Sanjek.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8122-4137-2 (alk. paper)

1. Gray PanthersHistory. 2. Older peopleUnited States. 3. AgeismUnited States. 4. Kuhn, Maggie. I. Title.

HQ1064.U5S265 2009

305.26097dc22

2008032914

For Lillian Rabinowitz and Frances Klafter,
and Maggie of course

Contents

Abbreviations

AAA	Area Agency on Aging
AARP	American Association of Retired Persons
ACTS	Aging Continuing the Struggle
ADA	Americans with Disabilities Act
AFL	American Federation of Labor
AGE	Action Group for the Elderly
AMA	American Medical Association
AOA	Administration on Aging
BANHR	Bay Area Advocates for Nursing Home Reform
BARF	Berkeley Anti-Reagan Festival
BORP	Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program
CARD	Coalition against Registration and the Draft
CARIP	Coalition against Rent-Increase Pass-alongs
CETA	Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
CIL	Center for Independent Living
CIO	Congress of Industrial Organizations
COLA	cost of living adjustment
CNN	Cable News Network
C-SPAN	Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network
CUNY	City University of New York
DFTA	Department for the Aging
DHEW	Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
DIA	Disabled in Action
DRG	Diagnostic Related Group
FEMA	Federal Emergency Management Administration
HMOs	health maintenance organizations
IDI	Issue Dynamics Inc.
IMF	International Monetary Fund
IRA	individual retirement account
JPAC	Joint Public Affairs Committee for Older Adults
MAD	Mobilization against Displacement
MAD	Mobilization against the Draft
MCHR	Medical Committee on Human Rights
NAACP	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NARFE	National Association of Retired Federal Employees
NCCNHR	National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform
NCOA	National Council on Aging
NCSC	National Council of Senior Citizens
NGO	non-governmental organization
NOW	National Organization for Women
NPR	National Public Radio
NSC	National Steering Committee
NSCLC	National Senior Citizens Law Center
NWRO	National Welfare Rights Organization
NYNAM	New York Network for Action on Medicare
NYNAMSS	New York Network for Action on Medicare and Social Security
NYPIRG	New York Public Interest Research Group
NYSARA	New York State Alliance for Retired Americans
OWL	Older Womens League
PBS	Public Broadcasting System
PhRMA	Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
PIRG	Public Interest Research Group
PSC	Public Service Commission
PSS	Presbyterian Senior Services
RAM	Retirees Associated in Ministry
RCFE	Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly
RIMM	Retirees in Mission and Ministry
RPU	Retired Presbyterians United
SAFE	Seniors against a Fearful Environment
SASS	Seniors for Adequate Social Security
SDS	Students for a Democratic Society
SEIU	Service Employees International Union
SOCC	Save Our City Campaign
SOS	Save Our Security
SPAN	Stop Patient Abuse Now
SRO	single room occupancy
SSI	Supplemental Security Income
RPAG	Retired Professionals Action Group
UHCAN	Universal Health Care Action Network
UN	United Nations
UNA	United Neighbors in Action
U2K	Universal Health Care 2000
TA	Transit Authority
VISTA	Volunteers in Service to America
UCLA	University of California, Los Angeles
WHCoA	White House Conference on Aging
WTO	World Trade Organization
YWCA	Young Womens Christian Association

Preface

I will never forget my first Gray Panther meeting. It was held at the West Berkeley Library on a February afternoon in 1977. I was struck immediately by the voluble energy of some two dozen gray-haired women and men talking about political issues and the activities of their network. I quickly realized, first, that I had never been in a room with so many older people before and, second, that whatever stereotypes of senior citizens I held had just flown out the window. I was thirty-two, and for Lani Sanjek and me the Gray Panthers transformed our notions of what our sixties, seventies, eighties, or nineties could be.

In the 1970s the elderly were still widely seen as impotent, frail, disabled, demented, or dependent. They were expected to disengage (which was also a prominent gerontological theory), not enter the public sphere. The Gray Panthers similarly shattered dominant cultural expectations by appearing in locations and undertaking actions that were out of place.

Lani and I had gone to Berkeley five months earlier for my one-year postdoctoral fellowship in quantitative anthropology and public policy at the University of Californiamainly to escape threatened layoffs at Queens College in New York following that citys 1975 fiscal crisis. She had just completed the nurse practitioner program at Lehman College,

Health care visionary and activist Lillian Rabinowitz, convener of the Berkeley network, was our Gray Panther mentor. In Berkeley we also met Gray Panther movement founder and leader Maggie Kuhn (pronounced koon), whom we had seen on the Johnny Carson television show a few times and who in 1981 was our houseguest on a visit to New York.

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