In order to plan ahead for 2023, OWLSF polled our Members.
Click the link below to view the results of the OWLSF January 2023 Member Survey.
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OWL ANNOUNCEMENT : IT’S TIME TO NOMINATE BOARD MEMBERS FOR 2023 Serving on the OWL Board is a great way to meet new people and get involved with meaningful activities. We urge you to contribute to OWL’s future by nominating candidates to serve on the OWL Board. RESPONSIBILITIES FOR INDIVIDUAL BOARD MEMBERS:
NOMINATING CANDIDATES FOR BOARD MEMBERSHIP:
DEADLINE for Nominations is the January Planning meeting on January 28, 2023. Nominations from the floor can be made at that time. The list of nominees with brief bios will be sent by email or mailed to members who are not online. ELECTION OF BOARD MEMBERS will be held at the beginning of the February 25 Membership Meeting. Up to 8 people may be elected. |
Sheila Malkind, the Founder & Director, as well as her Board of Directors and reviewers, selected 40 long and short films, almost entirely documentaries–some whimsical, others serious—covering diverse themes on Friendship, Vitality, Later Life, Love, Creativity, Caregiving, and, inevitably, Death—and more.
Also included in the upcoming festival, are recorded interviews with several of the filmmakers–their chosen subjects, their challenges, and the messages their films impart. Director Norman Jewison explains his film adaptation of Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen, while Director Barbara Schock talks about her 2000 Academy Award as Director for Best Short Film (Live Action), My Mother Dreams The Satan’s Disciples in New York.
CLICK HERE FOR TIME AND PRICE DETAILS
The Legacy Film Festival on Aging celebrates the aging process as profound and meaningful, often challenging, and always courageous. Malkind: “Our films portray some of the many facets of this unique, ever-changing experience, honestly and artfully, and always with compassion and love for the subjects.”
Sheila Malkind, MA, MPH,
LEGACY FILM FESTIVAL ON AGING
(415) 515-2708
info@legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org
The Board of OWLSF is delighted to share
this inspiring project.
We invite and encourage you to
partake of this virtual tour,
an exhibit at the Houghton Library
for Rare Books at Harvard
CLICK HERE TO VIEW 500 YEARS OF WOMEN AUTHORS
Join OWL-SF for our
2022 Planning Meeting
The Future of OWL-SF
Saturday, January 22nd
11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Call (415) 712-1695 or email info@owlsf.org for Zoom info
We need people to step up and help lead us into the future,
to keep our mission relevant,
and continue to make our organization one that uniquely serves
midlife and older women.
*Join us to plan for 2022 and beyond
*Share your thinking and commitment to our work
for midlife and older women
The 10th Legacy Film Festival on Aging, May 24-31, 2021 – the only international screen event exploring life in the world of new aging – will take viewers from Australia to Sweden, from Hungary to Cuba and across the US with over 25 feature-length and short indie films. The festival will screen online, reaching audiences across the nation and the globe.
See legacyfilmfestivalonaging.org for details.
February 5th ・ February 19th ・ March 5th
CARA is planning a series of FORUMS on Fridays, beginning on Feb. 5th at NOON PST to engage our members and friends on the key issues we will be working on over the next year. Some of these FORUMS will be policy focused, some more performance oriented, and some skills-building. All of these forums will be held at NOON PST and will be held via ZOOM and Teleconference. All events will have an organizing focus and share opportunities to TAKE ACTION. And each one will have some element of fun and surprise.
You must register in advance for these events. You can register for one, two, or all of them. You will be sent a link for the Forum upon registration. We are proud to announce the first 3 Fabulous Forums. Register here https://californiaalliance.org/3473-2/
OWL SF can join Evolve on August 20th at 5 pm to phone bank for Prop.15 – Schools and Communities First.
The phone bank on August 20th is going to be from 5:00 – 7:30 pm. We will send out the Zoom link that day so be ready to click that link at 5 pm. Volunteers will first be trained and then they will start calling voters in the Bay Area.You will need your phone, computer, and access to a Chrome browser for this phonebank. Along with that, you can quickly share your story about why you support Prop. 15 using this link https://www.evolve-ca.
org/share-your-story.
Effective July13, 2020 Francisco Covid-19 rules and guidance for businesses was revised and released to allow customers to bring reusable bags back into stores, provided customers follow specified measures to bag their own items and ensure reusable bags do not touch employees or check-out conveyors.
CA ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS and SENIOR DISABILITY ACTION
Voting forum Sept 10 on Medicare, Medi-Cal, Mental Health, SSI, SS, Affordable Housing, Long Term Services. Meet candidates for SF Supervisors and State Senator Dist 11. FREE on Zoom. Register here
CARA is holding their virtual Celebration and Town Hall on July 31. There are many anniversaries to celebrate for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, U.S. Postal Service, ADA and Women’s Right to Vote: You must rsvp to CARA by July 27th by sending an email to July31.cara@gmail.com.
Women Make Movies Virtual Film Festival
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Thursday, May 14th, 11 AM
Please join advocates for elders and people with disabilities, public health advocates, concerned community members, and City officials in an online Town Hall on problems of care in nursing homes and other congregate facilities (group homes, board & care homes, assisted living facilities, homeless shelters, SROs, jails etc).
More information about the issue:
The huge concentrations of COVID cases and deaths in care facilities has been a national disgrace. San Francisco is no exception. Contributing factors include no provision of social distancing, the lack of testing, lack of formal or informal oversight, lack of transparency in reporting cases and deaths to families and the public, and the long-standing low-staffing, low pay, and lack of safe conditions and PPE for care workers.
In California, these problems are made worse by (1) the state’s order that nursing homes accept recovering COVID patients, (2) proposed immunity for nursing homes from criminal or civil penalties for COVID deaths during the pandemic, and (3) proposed state triage guidelines if hospitals become overwhelmed that could discriminate against older people, people with disabilities, poor people, fat people, and people of color.
Nursing facilities are nearly all for-profit, and money must not be a motivating factor in whether or not to provide the best care possible. In addition, local and state government must step in more aggressively to protect people. The low priority placed on the lives of older people and disabled people living in facilities is a sign of ageism and ableism, oppression based on age and disability.
Please attend to learn about these problems, declare that ageism and ableism are unacceptable in our community, and join the dialogue to prevent future tragedies.
Sponsored by the California Care Rationing Coalition:
Senior and Disability Action, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, Gray Panthers, California Alliance of Retired Americans, Hand in Hand, and many more
In view of continued concerns about the coronavirus, new revelations, all the uncertainties and lack of testing, we are canceling our May 23 general meeting.
Hopefully over the coming weeks, we will have better information about what is risky and what is reasonable.
Meanwhile follow the restriction guidelines and stay safe.
I am writing to ask for your help in cosponsoring H.R. 82 (Graves-LA and Spanberger-VA) since you were one of the cosponsors of this bill in the 117th Congress. This bipartisan bill will repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO), penalties that financially harm millions of retirees across our nation.
The WEP and GPO cut or eliminate Social Security benefits that retirees have paid for. The WEP cuts the earned benefits of public service workers that they paid for during their time working in the private sector. The GPO eliminates the Social Security survivor benefit, even for those with a modest pension. Retired educators can be forced into poverty when their spouse dies, even though their survivor benefit had been paid for by their spouse.
Now is the time to take action to repeal these two unjust penalties. The nation has been seeing an exodus of teachers who are either leaving the profession or retiring earlier than planned. The repeal of these two offsets is an important step to help to turn the tide in favor of teachers remaining in the classroom.
Please cosponsor the bipartisan bill H.R. 82 (Graves – LA and Spanberger – VA) and move this issue to the forefront.
In view of continued concerns about the coronavirus, new revelations, all the uncertainties and lack of testing, we are canceling our April 25 general meeting.
Hopefully over the coming weeks, we will have better information about what is risky and what is reasonable.
Meanwhile stay safe.
Friday, May 1st at 12:00 noon CARA (CA Alliance of Retired Americans) is holding a virtual sing-a-long to celebrate INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY in honor of workers all over the world. (click on link at noon): https://zoom.us/j/8308420049
or Dial by Phone 888-475-4499, Meeting ID for both computer and phone is 830 842 0049
Union Maid (v.1/2 Woody Guthrie, v. 3: Capple Israel, v.4: Nancy Katz; m:trad “Redwing”)
There once was a union maid, who never was afraid
Of goons and ginks and company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid.
She went to the union hall when a meeting it was called,
And when the company boys come ’round
She always stood her ground.
Chorus: Oh, you can’t scare me, I’m sticking to the union,
I’m sticking to the union, I’m sticking to the union.
Oh, you can’t scare me, I’m sticking to the union,
I’m sticking to the union ’til the day I die.
This union maid was wise to the tricks of company spies,
She couldn’t be fooled by a company stool, she’d always organize the guys.
She always got her way when she struck for higher pay.
She’d show her card to the National Guard
And this is what she’d say (Chorus)
You women who want to be free, take a little tip from me;
Break out of that mold we’ve all been sold, you got a fighting history
The fight for women’s rights with workers must unite
Like Mother Jones, move those bones to the front of every fight! (Chorus)
A woman’s struggle is hard, even with a union card
She’s got to stand on her own two feet and not be a servant of the male elite
It’s time to take a stand, keep working hand in hand
There is a job that’s gotta be done and a fight that’s gotta be won! (Chorus)
Solidarity Forever (lyrics by Ralph Chaplin, v.3 Steve Suffet. music: Battle Hymn of the Republic)
When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run,
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
But the union makes us strong.
Chorus: Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong.
It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade;
Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;
Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made;
But the union makes us strong. (Chorus)
They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong. (Chorus)
They divide us by our color, they divide us by our tongue
They divide us men and women, they divide us old and young
But they’ll tremble at our voices when they hear these verses sung
For the union makes us strong
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong. (Chorus)