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Click below in case you didn't hear this story which included StateWide's outreach work on the Medicare drug law in Albany:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/
2005/11/14/PM200511144.html

Read about Paul Sauerland, one of our Medicare monitors, who is paying more for drugs with Medicare Part D Click the link below from the AFLCIO website or go to www.aflcio.org and click on AFLCIO Now at the top of the home page and scroll down to the story. Click here for the story.

The mission of the New York State Alliance for Retired Americans is to ensure social and economic justice and full civil rights for all citizens so that they may enjoy lives of dignity, personal and family fulfillment and security.

The Alliance believes that all older and retired persons have a responsibility to strive to create a society which incorporates these goals and rights; and that retirement provides them with opportunities to pursue new and expanded activities with their unions, civic organizations, and their communities.

A primary objective of the Alliance is to enroll and mobilize retired union members and other senior and community activists into a nationwide grassroots movement advocating a progressive political and social agenda; one that respects work and strengthens families. The long-term goal of the Alliance is to become the voice for all older Americans.

In pursuit of these values, the Alliance will:

  • build a strong organization of seniors with a viable structure, ample resources and clear objectives; a structure compatible with that of the labor movement and community-based groups at local, state and national levels.
  • create programs and membership organizations designed to promote a commitment by retired workers and older persons to the concept of lifelong participation in their unions, and in their community, political and civic organizations.
  • encourage all segments of the senior population to act with unity on legislative, political and policy issues of importance to retirees and their families in order to maximize their influence on federal, state and local governments and on private organizations that affect their interests.

 

  

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