Come and bring a friend – bring a carload! – to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Social Security with U.S. Senator Patty Murray as our featured speaker!
Toast Social Security with sparkling cider. Enjoy your slice of the birthday cake provided courtesy of the retired teachers of AFT Washington. Bear witness to our determination to defend our nation’s premier social program!
The event will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday, August 16, at the Greenwood Senior Center, 525 N. 85th Street in Seattle. Overflow parking and free shuttle service are available at the nearby Greenwood Market, 8500 2nd Avenue N.W., courtesy of the Wallingford Community Senior Center.
Sponsoring the event are the Greenwood Senior Center, the Puget Sound Alliance for Retired Americans, and the 18 organizations affiliated with “Social Security Works – Washington,” the new coalition organized to defend the integrity of Social Security – and to make it better.
The anniversary observance is more than a “feel good” occasion. It will take place at a time of political peril, with members of the President’s Bipartisan Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform determined to use the federal budget deficit as a pretext to raid the dedicated Social Security Trust Fund.
“We’re shooting for a capacity audience of 300,” said PSARA President Robby Stern. “Please make a special effort to build this anniversary celebration. We’ll invite everyone to sign a mass letter to President Obama and to place cell phone calls to the White House and to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.”
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Monday, April 5, 2010
‘Rebel Voices’ at Will’s 90th
“Rebel Voices,” one of the great singing duos of our time, will be featured artists at Editor Will Parry’s gala 90th Birthday celebration Saturday, April 24.
The event runs from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Best Western Executive Inn. Tickets are $50, with proceeds benefiting the Puget Sound Alliance for Retired Americans. Subsidized scholarships are available.
Susan Lewis and Janet Stecher, who perform as Rebel Voices, have been singing as a duo and with other artists for more than 20 years. Their repertoire of “one hundred songs of the last one hundred years” expresses the struggles and triumphs of workers from countries the world over.
The speaking program will sketch highlights of Will’s life and work from childhood and youth, through college, service in World War II, work as a labor reporter, union activity, and leadership in the retiree movement.
Seats are still available, but better reserve yours quickly, using the coupon on page 7 of this newsletter. Note: Since publication, the event has been sold out!
I want some presents!
Newsbreak: I’ve got a birthday coming up. And for the first time since I was about 12 years old (that would be in 1932), I want some presents.
No, not a tie. I’ve got one. Not a new car. The old ’88 Nissan is still running. I neither need nor want anything that’s being commercially advertised.
As my birthday present, I’m asking each of you to actively search out a boomer or a retiree and enlist her/him as a member of the Puget Sound Alliance for Retired Americans. You’ll be doing that friend, relative or neighbor a big favor – 12 issues of The Retiree Advocate! – and you’ll add muscle to our leading-edge advocacy.
As I write, we have 44 new members toward our goal of 250 in the year 2010. Let’s guarantee – maybe not a tsunami, but certainly not a mere trickle – a steady flow of new members in April.
That’s the present – the only present --I really want!
-- Will Parry
The event runs from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Best Western Executive Inn. Tickets are $50, with proceeds benefiting the Puget Sound Alliance for Retired Americans. Subsidized scholarships are available.
Susan Lewis and Janet Stecher, who perform as Rebel Voices, have been singing as a duo and with other artists for more than 20 years. Their repertoire of “one hundred songs of the last one hundred years” expresses the struggles and triumphs of workers from countries the world over.
The speaking program will sketch highlights of Will’s life and work from childhood and youth, through college, service in World War II, work as a labor reporter, union activity, and leadership in the retiree movement.
Seats are still available, but better reserve yours quickly, using the coupon on page 7 of this newsletter. Note: Since publication, the event has been sold out!
I want some presents!
Newsbreak: I’ve got a birthday coming up. And for the first time since I was about 12 years old (that would be in 1932), I want some presents.
No, not a tie. I’ve got one. Not a new car. The old ’88 Nissan is still running. I neither need nor want anything that’s being commercially advertised.
As my birthday present, I’m asking each of you to actively search out a boomer or a retiree and enlist her/him as a member of the Puget Sound Alliance for Retired Americans. You’ll be doing that friend, relative or neighbor a big favor – 12 issues of The Retiree Advocate! – and you’ll add muscle to our leading-edge advocacy.
As I write, we have 44 new members toward our goal of 250 in the year 2010. Let’s guarantee – maybe not a tsunami, but certainly not a mere trickle – a steady flow of new members in April.
That’s the present – the only present --I really want!
-- Will Parry
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