Showing up is half the battle.
- If you are a parent, relative or friend of the autism community we need your help.
- If you read David Kirby’s book, Evidence of Harm, and felt outrage at the lack of government assistance to suffering children, we need your help.
- If your child has benefited in any way biomedically or legally through the advocacy of others, we need your help.
- If you are angry that the Combating Autism bill gives $560 million to the CDC to count our children AGAIN yet only $30 million a year to be split among 10 autism centers to study toxicology, gastroenterology, immunology, genetics, neurobiology and endocrinology BEGINNING JULY 2008, then we need your help.
- If you felt like your pediatrician is clueless to help you with your child’s needs because his/her pediatrician community is uninformed about the biomedical needs of your child, we need your help.
A RALLY IS BEING HELD in Washington, D.C. October 7th and 8th.
WHY COME? Because we need to show force! We need to show unity! We need to show passion for our children’s health!
If you think Congress does anything out of the kindness of their hearts without any advocacy, think again. If you don’t come and show support who will? If you expect others to fight your kid’s battles, maybe other parents are thinking the same thing. And guess what? All of our children lose.
Come to the rally on the morning of Oct. 7th. That afternoon, go visit your Senator and Member of Congress’s offices. Tell them we need more biomedical research and treatments for our children. Endless dollars to the CDC and a few pennies to NIH is NOT the way we want our research funding spent! On Oct. 8th, come to the convention center and picket the American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Meeting. Let’s tell them our children’s bodies are sick. This is NOT a mental problem! We need real help if our children are going to get better!
We are continuing to add to our speaking line-up and will add more names as we receive confirmations. The following are tentatively scheduled to speak during Friday’s press conference, although activities in Congress sometimes prevent legislators from being available at a specific time.
David Kirby
U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney
U.S. Representative Dave Weldon, M.D.
U.S. Representative Dan Burton
U.S. Representative Barak Obama (statement to be read by constituent)
To purchase from a wide variety of rally t-shirts, go to www.cafepress.com/ACHAMP
More conference details, times, locations, hotels, etc. available at www.nationalforce.org
Think Autism. Think Cure.
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