OWL SF Calendar

Monthly Meeting - Guests Welcome
Saturday May 24, 2008
(Note Location: 870 Market St., Room 1185)

Living For Now: Preparing for Later

What are the choices you might want to make about end-of-life issues that would ease your mind now?
Fran Moreland Johns, an OWL member, is a freelance writer who has covered a wide variety of topics, including end-of-life issues. She is the author of Dying Unafraid, a book designed for the lay reader, which grew out of her experiences as a writer, a hospice volunteer and a volunteer with AIDS groups and the elderly. She is currently on the boards of both the San Francisco Interfaith Council and Compassion & Choices of Northern California.

Compassion and Choices of Northern California seeks to educate terminally-ill individuals and their families about their rights to a dignified, humane, and peaceful death.

Guests welcome. Refreshments. JOIN US!

After the meeting, you are invited to join us for a no-host lunch at a nearby restaurant

Next Meeting: June 28, 2008

Other Activities

May. 14, Wednesday - IMOW-Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga in conversation, THE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN PRESENTS
Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change
Speaker Series
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2008
A Special Evening with the former President of Latvia
Dr. VAIRA VIKE-FREIBERGA
in conversation with award-winning broadcast journalist Sydney Kohara
VENUE
OMNI SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL
500 California Street at Montgomery
San Francisco, CA
REGISTRATION / RECEPTION / 5:00 P.M.
PROGRAM / 6:00 p.m.
PURCHASE TICKETS By MAY 11, 2008
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Visit: www.imow.org
Email: events@imow.org
Call: (415) 487–6447
Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga is appearing in
conjunction with I.M.O.W.'s Women,
Power and Politics online global exhibition
at www.imow.org.
Described as exhibiting a combination of strength, determination, vision and care in her leadership style, Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga has demonstrated that women can be both "tough" and "compassionate." As President of the Rrepublic of Latvia from 1999 to 2007, she worked to reduce corruption in Latvia, helped grow its market economy, secured Latvia’s membership in NATO and the European Union, improved relations amongst minority groups and increased Latvia’s standing as a dedicated democracy in the world.
Named Special Envoy on the Reform of the United Nations in 2005, Dr. Vike-Freiberga was an official candidate of the Baltic States (Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania) for the position of Secretary-General in 2006. She has received many medals and awards, including the 2005 Hannah Arendt Prize for political thought, as well as 27 Orders of Merit and ten honorary doctorates.

May. 15, Thursday - EASING IN & OUT OF RETIREMENT: Working, Volunteering & Entrepreneurship, 1 p.m. – 7 p.m.
San Francisco State University Downtown Campus
835 Market Street, 6th floor
Served by MUNI and BART
Parking at the 5th and Mission Street Garage
415-817-4243
More Americans are working into their retirement years than at any time in the past half century. Fifteen percent of Americans 65 and older are in the workforce today. Some are realizing lifelong dreams of setting up their own business, others have changed jobs or even careers, and many continue to work for their previous employer. The May 15th conference - Easing In & Out of Retirement: Working, Volunteering & Entrepreneurship - will introduce options to help you meet your employment needs. Panels will be offered on identifying career goals, starting a small business, new approaches to volunteering, strategies for overcoming age discrimination, and financial planning.
The conference is presented in collaboration with the Bay Area Career Center, City College of San Francisco Older Adults Program; OWL, SF Chapter; Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center; RSVP; SCORE; The Transition Network; United Administrators of SF - Emeritus; and the United Educators of SF – Retired.
The registration fee of $25 includes basic membership in OLLI through Summer 2008. For further information contact Debra Varner, OLLI Director, 415-817-4243, dvarner@sfsu.edu or visit our web site at www.cel.sfsu.edu/olli/events.cfm
(OWL SF has helped in the planning and is a co-sponsor. President Allyson Washburn will introduce OWL, and Past President Catherine Pinkas will be one of the workshop leaders.)

May. 16, Friday - OWL book club, noon-2:0 pm, 870 Market, room 911; we are discussing "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA", by Tim Weiner

May. 17, Saturday - NATIONAL HEALTHCARE with SINGLE-PAYER FINANCING and the RACE for the PRESIDENCY, 3pm Sat., 626 Pacheco St., San Francisco(Corner of 10th Ave—#6 bus)
Featured Speaker:Quentin Young, M.D.
National Coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program and a past president of the American Public Health Association
Sponsored by the California Universal Health Care Organizing Project
For more information, please call 415-695-7891 or email dbechler@value.net
www.singlepayernow.net

May. 20, Tuesday - Where are we now? Immigration and Labor, Gray Panthers monthly meeting; 12:30 - 3:00 pm; Fireside Room, Unitarian Universalist church, 1187 (at Geary)Bring a snack to share.
On immigration, a legislative stalemate exists between reactionary interests that hope to simply expel immigrants versus liberal business interests, which hope to exploit more immigrants through a Guest Worker program that recreates the 1950s bracero program. So, instead, immigration police are sweeping the nation in workplace raids, and workers are marching on May Day to support immigrant rights.
In labor, a huge fight is developing. Workers will need strong and united action against layoffs and wage cuts as the country goes into recession, yet one of the country’s largest unions is rolling out a strategy of growth through cooperation with corporations and employers.
It is becoming clear that workers’ needs and immigrants’ needs are the same. We will explore these connections and how we can work together to build a movement that improves life for us all.
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/

Jun. 19, Thursday - Rally to Get Insurance Industry Out of Healthcare, Health Care YES
Insurance Companies NO
Rally at the June 19th Convention of the
American Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), San Francisco
From June 18 - June 20, 2008 the health insurance industry (AHIP) will be meeting at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center. Their Thursday, June 19 program features former US Senators John Breaux and Jim Frist; past Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson; former Counselor to President Bush, Dan Bartlett, and former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Terry McAuliffe. All these speakers oppose health proposals that remove the insurance industry from our health care.
Join us at noon for a rally in support of HR 676 and
SB 840, and against the insurance industry.
WHEN Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 12:00 Noon
WHAT Rally for SB 840(Kuehl) and HR 676(Conyers)
WHERE Moscone Center West, 747 Howard St. at 4th St.
San Francisco
Directions
Transportation available from various locations. Call CARA at 510-663-4086
Sponsored by: The Single Payer Health Care Coalition
For more information visit www.singlepayernow.net or call 415-695-7891
Transportation available from various locations. Call CARA at 510-663-4086
Sponsored by: The Single Payer Health Care Coalition
For more information visit www.singlepayernow.net or call 415-695-7891

Jun. 19, Thursday - Rally for: Health Care YES, Insurance Companies NO, 12:00 noon, Moscone Center West, (747 Howard @Gough)
From June 18-20, the American Health Insurance Plans convention is meeting at Moscone Center- West. On June 19, there will be many well-known speakers who oppose eliminating health insurance companies. (Included are formers senators John Breaux and Bill Frist, Tommy Thompson, and Terry McAuliffe.) We will be rallying to oppose having the insurance industry involved in health care and to advocate for SB 840 and HR 676.
This will be a huge rally, and OWL San Francisco will have a contingent there. Please write to kpiccagli@gmail.com, if you can join

Jun. 20, Friday - OWL book club, noon - 2:00 pm, 870 Market, Room 911; "The Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein.
For more information, contact Shirley Sidd at 440-5672 or shirl.4@juno.com.

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