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Title: 5 of the Most Influential Senior Activists


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5 of the Most Influential Senior Activists
  • Senior activists are enthusiastic in many ways,
    and they range from political to individual
    cause. Regardless of whether seniors start
    activism in early or later years, they have made
    quite a mark. Home Care Lemon Grove feels proud
    to share the stories of 5 senior activists who
    have pushed important issues into the spotlight.

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1. Doris Day, A Lifelong Fighter for Animal
Rights
  • Doris Day established an Animal Foundation in
    1978. She made the foundations with a direct
    mission to help animals and support people who
    love them. Doris did remarkable work in helping
    animals which is still carried on after all those
    years. She also developed a sister organization
    named the Doris Day Animal League, which devotes
    itself to battling for the compassionate
    treatment of animals. Her organizations are
    working with the government to lessen the abuse
    of animals.

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2. Sister Megan Rice, Nun, Teacher, Activist for
Peace
  • While Megan was an educator in Nigeria and Ghana
    for several decades. Sister Megan Rice ended up
    noticeably occupied with the Anti-war movement.
    In the 1980s, she is intensely engaged with the
    challenges an extensive variety of American
    military activities. She was arrested more than
    36 times because of her protests. Her latest
    demonstration of civil disobedience should be
    applauded. Alongside three of her countrymen, the
    84-year-old nun has been captured. The state
    condemned her to three years of jail for breaking
    into an atomic weapons complex.

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3. Ann A. Stewart, Transit, and Community
Activist
  • As an 89-year-old hospital employee, Ann Stewart
    was happy to have been captured for doubling of
    the par transit toll in Boston. She said
    protesting feel fulfilling because the protest
    became successful. Ann spent two hours in jail,
    but she held an extremely solid position in the
    heart of people. Stewart and her kindred
    protesters erected a phony jail in the middle of
    Boston's bustling Stuart Street. Her protest
    blocked the traffic and went about as a symbol of
    the charge increment's impact on disabled riders
    on settled earnings.

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4. Maggie Kuhn, Founder of the Gray Panthers
  • Maggie Kuhn, who called herself the little old
    lady commended her constrained retirement in
    1970. She established the Gray Panthers, whose
    part she depicted as being "the guard dogs that
    bark when danger is close by." Kuhn passed away
    in 1995 at the age 89. She devoted the last years
    of her life driving the battle against age
    discrimination and social injustice. She
    celebrated her freedom from the bureaucratic
    limitations that once held her back. The Gray
    Panthers keeps on being a promoter for
    "fundamental social change."

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5. Grace Lee Boggs, Social American Activist
  • Conceived in 1915, Grace Lee Boggs is the little
    girl of Chinese foreigners. She has been an
    extremist, author, and speaker for over seven
    decades. This 98-year-old Asian American lobbyist
    was a piece of the dark power development amid
    the Civil Rights era. Her distributed work
    incorporates Revolution and Evolution in the
    Twentieth Century and Living for Change An
    Autobiography.

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    trained caregivers.
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