Monthly Meeting - Guests Welcome
Tuesday August 17, 2010
(Note Location: 582 Market, 1st Floor (Montgomery BART)

Health Disparities in America

A presentation of the film "Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and in Wealth"

Learn more about the inequalities in both health and health care in America. A showing of the film Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and in Wealth will explore the relationship between economic resources and health. The showing will be followed by a discussion facilitated by Ellen Shaffer, Co-Director for the Center for Policy Analysis.

Wine and Cheese reception
6 - 8 pm Tuesday

Sponsored by SF League of Women Voters, Co-Sponsored by KQED, SFWPC and OWLSF



Handicap Accessible

Other Activities

Oct. 15, Friday - OWL Council, Regional Mtg., Annual Mtg., Oct. 15 - 17. Sacramento. See OWL-CA newsletter for registration materials.

Oct. 12, Tuesday - CARA Convention, October 12-13, Oakland, see website to register---www.californiaalliance.org

Sep. 2, Thursday - CARA CAT meeting, Community Action Team; 1 pm. ILWU Building, 1188 Franklin St. 4th Floor, San Francisco

Aug. 14, Saturday - Live Poets Society Workshop, with Sally Love Saunders
Saturday, August 14th, 1100 am at
Cultural Integration Center
2650 Fulton @ 3rd Street, SF
Mark your calendar for future workshops:
September 11, 2010
October 2, 2010
November 13, 2010
See you there! Bring your friends.

Aug. 4, Wednesday - Bus to Sacramento for SB 810, Leave from SF at 6:45 or from Ashby BART at 7:15
You Must RSVP
Dear SB 810 Healthcare Activist,
You are invited to campaign for SB 810, the California Universal Healthcare Act in Sacramento on Wednesday, August 4th.
SB 810 will be heard in the Assembly Appropriations Committee at 9am.
We want a room full of single payer supporters at the hearing.
And we will deliver letters of support from Single Payer Now and the California Alliance for Retired Americans to all 80 assembly members.
If you have letters of support from other groups, please bring them.
In San Francisco, our 6:45 departure will be on Fulton between Hyde and Larkin.
Our 7:15 East Bay pick up will be at the Ashby BART.
We should be back by 2pm.
You must RSVP.
Our bus plus lunch costs $1500. We pass a hat on the bus to cover expenses. Donate what you can. Your support is very important.
Thank you.
Don Bechler
Chair—Single Payer Now
415-695-7891
cell 415-810-5826
www.singlepayernow.net

Aug. 3, Tuesday - GIRLS GOTTA DO BUSINESS: THE RISING FORCE OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS, Alison Covarrubias, Co-founder, The Hatch Network, SF
Baat Enosh, Entrepreneur Alliance Program Director, NCWIT; VP of Operations, Women 2.0
Ayesha Mathews-Wadhwa, Director, Savor the Success, SF Bay Area
Julie Abrams, CEO, Women's Initiative for Self Employment
Cathy Curtis, Financial Advisor, Curtis Financial Planning - Moderator
The exponential growth of women-owned businesses has been in the news for well over 20 years. More than a quarter of a million women in the U.S. own businesses with revenue exceeding $1 million. Demographics have played a role: female empty nesters, corporate escapees and the newly laid off are flexing their entrepreneurial muscle. However, there are some studies that indicate that women-owned businesses on average generate less revenue than businesses owned by men. Panelists will explore this issue and more, and give insight on how women entrepreneurs can get to the next level of success.
MLF: Business & Leadership
Location: SF Club Office
Time: 5:30 p.m. networking reception, 6 p.m. program
Cost: $8 members, $20 non-members, $7 students (with valid ID)
Call Commonwealth Club for Details

Aug. 2, Monday - OWL Board Meeting, 3:30 - 5:30, 870 Market, Room 975

Aug. 2, Monday - POPULATION AGING AS A FEMINIST ISSUE, Adele M. Hayutin, Senior Research Scholar and Director of the Global Aging Program, Stanford Center on Longevity
Older women face particular challenges due to gender differences in life expectancy, labor force participation and income levels. Hayutin will provide a global demographic framework for understanding historical changes in the status of women as well as future challenges and opportunities that older women face. She will highlight women's living arrangements, care-giving responsibilities and potential social isolation.
Location: SF Club Office
Time: 5:15 p.m. networking reception, 5:45 p.m. program
Cost: MEMBERS FREE, $20 non-members
Program Organizer: John Milford
Call Commonwealth Club for details.

Jul. 31, Saturday - Expand Medicare, Stop Wall St. Attacks, Medicare's 4thAnniversary, Protect and Expand Medicare
Stop Wall St. Attacks on Healthcare
Celebrate Medicare's 45th Anniversary
For 45 years, Medicare has provided healthcare to seniors.
Medicare spends our resources wisely and allows seniors to live with dignity. We want to expand this program by supporting national legislation that would deliver Medicare to everyone (HR 676).
In California, we campaign for SB 810, the California Universal Healthcare Act.
But Medicare is under attack from Wall St.
A National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform has been selected to weaken Medicare and Social Security.
The Commission is being financed by Wall St. investor Peter Peterson. You are invited to a discussion on how to protect Medicare and Social Security.
3pm Sat. July 31
255 Ninth St—SF
At ILWU Local 6 Union Hall
2 blocks south of Market between Howard and Folsom
Civic Center BART/MUNI Stop
Speaker:
Claudia Chaufan MD, PhD, Vice President of the Physicians for a National Health Program - California and Assistant Professor of Health Policy at UCSF.
Sponsored by Single Payer Now & the California Alliance for Retired Americans.
For more information please call 415-695-7891 or email dbechler@value.net
www.singlepayernow.net

Jul. 29, Thursday - films about WPA art, Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of NEW DEAL ART!
Our WPA Film Festival shows 1930 films of WPA art programs,
as well as Artists at Work, Bernard Zakheim's Living Art and WPA Murals in San Francisco. Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the NEW DEAL, and appreciate its legacy--art here today! With Harvey Smith, Gray Brechin, Margot Smith and others...
Thursday, July 29th at 7 PM
Berkeley City College Auditorium
2050 Center Street, Berkeley
1 Block from the Berkeley BART Station.
CONTACT
Margot Smith
1300 A Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-486-8010
GrayPanthersBerk@aol.com

Jul. 29, Thursday - OWLPolitical Advocacy Committee meeting, 2:00 pm, 870 Market