What Are We?
The Grave Panther Stamp of Approval We are an organization aiming at an appropriate nonviolent form of public activism. We are the ones with many rings in our wrinkled-bark trunks. It’s illegal to discriminate on the basis of age and so we will not do that here. But it is fair to say we don’t expect much interest or participation from people who do not remember the gas lines and ugly rattletrap cars of the mid-1970s. About our name. It’s a tribute and a kind of update. Back in 1970, a lady from Philadelphia (I’m a Philly boy) was inspired by the times to create “The Gray Panthers,” a union of the elderly who fought against age discrimination in its many manifestations. Her name was Maggie Kuhn. There’s more information about her brainchild on one of the Pages here. I liked the panther imagery, the choice of gray as a color for a generation, and I admired her willingness and confidence to rely on the most seasoned among us as a resource for intelligence, effort, and persiste...