Gray Panthers

The Gray Panthers is an elder rights organization in the United States, which was founded in 1970 by Maggie Kuhn in response to her forced retirement at age 65.

As of 2005, the organization supported a single-payer healthcare system, as well as an increase in welfare payments, pacifism, "lifelong public education", the rights of workers, reproductive rights, abolition of the death penalty, legalization of same-sex marriage, the legalization of medical marijuana, and environmentalism through advocacy, education and action.