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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