About Us |
Liberty. Equality. Equity. Community! The Gray Panthers is a network of social justice semi-organization welcoming all people. Why "Semi-organization"? Because each group is an independant entity and there is no national over-seeing entity although there is a council. Forcibly retired at age 65, Maggie Kuhn, the founder of Gray Panthers in the 1970s, saw the work of the Gray Panthers as focused on the rights of elders to be useful, productive, working members of society beyond the then traditional retirement age of 65. Read more about Maggie on Wikipedia. The start-up (upstart?) Multnomah Gray Panthers promotes inter-generational change and cooperative effort with no limits. As Dr. King once said, "An injury to one is an injury to all." We see that maxim as a starting point for information dissemination, legislation advocacy, community mobilization, and other efforts which empower those disenfranchised by the existing "norms" of society. After all ... who's to say who is "normal"? |