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PSARA led the effort of many organizations and individuals who gathered at the Seattle City Council meeting on Monday, June 13, and provided public comment in support of the resolution to expand Social Security and Medicare. The resolution that was sponsored by Councilmember Lorena Gonzalez was passed unanimously by the council! The advocates and supporters gathered with CM Gonzalez after the vote to celebrate the successful effort. We look forward to bringing the resolution to the Martin Luther King County Council next.
There was a very large turn out at PSARA’s general membership meeting at the Greenwood Community Senior Center. The membership heard and participated in a spirited debate on I-732, the Carbon WA initiative. The membership also voted to elect Jessica Bonebright as our Membership VP, and elected Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney and Mauricio Ayon to the PSARA Executive Board. They also voted to call for the reinstatement of the Assault Weapon ban and to inform our congressional delegation of that decision. The meeting began with a moment of silence to remember the victims of the Orlando massacre and to express our solidarity with the LGBTQ community. The food was also excellent!
Photo by Garet Munger – April 19
Photo by Garet Munger – April 19
Photo by Garet Munger – April 19
Tuesday, April 19 PSARA members and members of several other organizations protested at Zoomcare’s newest Seattle-area clinic in Ballard.
ZoomCare, a new Oregon for-profit clinic network, plans to expand to 16 clinics in King County. They refuse to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients. Their business model is to serve younger and healthier people, putting more pressure on other providers. The next picket will be at the Fremont clinic on Monday, July 11. Join us!
PHOTOS BY PSARA MEMBER GARET MUNGER
More than 40 PSARA leaders and leaders from other community organizations met with Nora Super, the Executive Director of the White House Conference on Aging and Elisa Walker, Special Assistant to the Social Security Administration’s Deputy Commissioner for Retirement & Disability Policy. We discussed with these high ranking officials the need to expand Social Security and Medicare benefits and the necessity that the Social Security field office be moved out of the Jackson Federal Building to eliminate the access barriers that presently exist
Civic Engagement: It’s Our Middle Name
We’ve been through wars and depressions, presidents decent and lousy, political defeats and victories. We love our country, and we believe the best way to show it is to raise hell about its shortcomings.
Our operating principle was expressed by a wise rabbi nearly two millennia ago: “You are not required to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to abstain from it.”
We are Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action. Civic engagement is our birthright and our middle name. If it’s yours as well, come join us. We need you.
