Are You a Wigg or  Tory?   :o)

Walt W2TQK 57/4
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: Parkinson's Information Exchange
| [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Margaret Tuchman
| Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 8:53 PM
| To: [log in to unmask]
| Subject: Question - how do the rest of the members of the Listserv feel?
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| People, people:
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| What are we doing?
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| There is merit in everyone's suggestions in how to improve the state
| of the PD orgs. And, by the way, that is why the Alliance got
| started - we wanted to unite the "biggies", have everyone sit at the
| same table and work out differences and present a united front. Well,
| it didn't work then. Perhaps there is a chance to make it work now -
| let's go for it.
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| But, NOT instead of raising funds for research grants, and
| NOT by threatening to withhold support from ALL until the orgs. "make
| nice" and play together!
|
| I don't know why we should be so cavalier about sacrificing, or at
| least postponing getting cured? We are sabotaging our welfare to win
| points in this rhetoric.
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| We can chew gum and walk at the same time - and I am willing to crawl
| and drool as long as we are moving forward with an immediate and
| workable plan.
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| A few days ago Phil Tompkins put forth "the theory known as "six
| degrees of separation". According to which, if you contact everyone
| you know, and each of them contacts everyone they know, and this is
| done six times, just about everyone on earth gets contacted. I don't
| know the math behind this, but it's a suggestive concept.
|
| Is it possible to identify and involve more PWPs and their families by
| using this theory?  The procedure would be to ask everyone you know
| who they in turn contact everyone they know, that you don't who has PD
| (or who they in turn know who knows someone, etc.)." Does anyone else
| have a suggestion?
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| One last point - it is not the organizations that will benefit from
| our fundraising efforts - it is the PWPs!
|
| One last question - how do the rest of the members of the Listserv
| feel?
|
| Margaret
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| Margaret Tuchman
| Princeton, NJ
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