Barb P.: Such excellent ideas. Such obviously
effective ways to make our voices heard it makes me
wonder why I didn't think of them. Guess that's why
you're the ListMom.              Carole H.

--- Barbara Patterson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Now, that I have had my Canadian vote counted re the
> US election, I would
> like to expand on it a bit.  I think we have to try
> anything and
> everything to continue to bring pd out in the public
> eye.  I don't know
> if this effort will result in good things for the pd
> community, but I DO
> know that if we sit back and be complacent about our
> situation, no one is
> going to fix it for us.  The 'what's in it for them'
> question has many
> answers, I'm sure.  One of the answers is 'votes';
> another 'publicity'
> which again = 'votes'.
>
> This cyber-medium of communicating and sharing is
> just beginning to flex
> its muscles.  We don't know its power yet.  But if
> we don't use it, we'll
> never know.
>
> So, instead of endlessly discussing just precisely
> what this list is for,
> let us USE it in any way we can to get pd right in
> the face of
> candidates, elected officials, the guy next door,
> the local newspaper ...
> anyone who can influence and increase research
> dollars.  If each of us
> does something, or influences another to do
> something, there will be at
> least 1800 occasions where at least one other person
> learned what living
> with pd is like.
>
> We may not have as big an audience as Michael J. Fox
> or Janet Reno or
> Muhammed Ali but we can't expect them to do it all.
> We have to capitalize
> on their publicity.  When MJF appears on tv talking
> about pd, let the
> show/network/sponsors know how much you appreciate
> it.  When Janet Reno is
> interviewed and questions are asked about how pd
> affects her life, rather
> than try to decide how she 'should' have replied,
> write a letter to the
> network/newspaper letting them know how pd affects
> YOUR life and the
> lives of other pwp's.  When Muhammed Ali appeared on
> 'Touched by an
> Angel' and when he lit the Olympic Flame, he showed
> many people all over
> the world what pd looks like (and his own personal
> courage).
>
> I hope each one of us is praying for MJ Fox, Joan &
> Jim & Ivan that the
> most powerful, effective words will come to them to
> use on Monday.
>
> Barb
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Barbara Patterson
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