Excerpt from the December 1996 Parkinson's Action Network "Action Reporter", an Advocacy Report for the Parkinson's Community- Advocacy Materials Available Need materials for your next support group meeting? PAN has the following materials available to assist your advocacy efforts. For more information or to place an order, please call (800) 850-4726. -- Video tape of Senate Aging/appropriations hearing September 26th on biomedical research, including testimony by Norman Schwartzkopf, Rod Carew, and PAN President Joan Samuelson. -- Video tape of CNN health story on patient/advocate Terrie Whittling: her pallidotomy, and lobbying efforts in support of the Udall bill. -- Video tape of speeches by Joan Samuelson at: -1996 New York City Unity Walk - PAACI Indianapolis Symposium "96 - Michigan Parkinson's Foundation's - 1996 Support Group Leaders Training -- Advocacy materials Including: - Congressional Data -NIH Funding Information - Sample Letters to Congress -- Cost of Parkinson's Evaluation Forms Parkinson's Action Network 800-850-4726 Headquarters: 818 College Ave., Suite C Santa Rosa, CA 95404 phone 707-544-1994 fax 707-544-2363 email: [log in to unmask] Washington, DC office 601 13th St. NW., Suite 310 Washington, DC 20005 phone 202-628-2079 fax 202-628-2077 Brad Udall, Chair Joan I. Samuelson, President John L. Dodge, Treasurer Bonnie K. Mioduchoski, Administrator Michael Claeys, Community Coordinator The Action Reporter is a free publication of the Parkinson's Action Network, a non-profit charitable foundation for a cure for Parkinson's. Use of this material in other publications is welcomed. We ask that the Network be identified as the source of the material, and notified how, when and where the material is used. Simply call 800-850-4726