^^^^^^GREETINGS FROM^^^^^^^^^^ Ivan Suzman 47/10 [log in to unmask] Portland, Maine land of lighthouses 43 deg. F showers and daffodils *********************************************************** Are you ANGRY about the fact that there are four new drugs that the establishment (doctors, TV, media0 keep raving about, BUT WE PEOPLE WITH PARKINSON's CAN'T GET THEM? ROPINEROLE, PRAMEPEXOLE, CABERGOLINE, and TOLCALPONE are dangled like big candy apples but where the h*** are these drugs? In the storerooms of big DRUG COMPANIES, STASHED AWAY UNTIL THE MONEY-MAKERS LET ONE OF THE DRUGS OUT TO TEASE US... the AIDS ACTIVISTS (act-UP) ARE RIGHT--SILENCE EQUALS DEATH... There's something wrong with the picture: THEY WON'T GIVE US DRUGS, SO WE HAVE TO GET OUR SKULLS SAWED OPEN SO THAT SURGEONS CAN MAKE MONEY AND PLAY GOLF ON WEDNESDAYS. excuse me, but to put it bluntly, "THIS SUCKS!" I am sooooooo angry.....WE NEED an ACT-UP for PD. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. ARRESTS AT THE FRONT DOORS OF THE DRUG COMPANY OFFICES. wHY THE h**** DOESN'T Upjohn release Pramepexole? PROTESTS at the FDA offices... WORLDWIDE PARKINSONIAN ANGER... PICKETS AT TV STATIONS that ignore our exhausted telephone calls and pleas for coverage of Muhammad Ali's April 23 Udall testimony.. Sorry, folks, but balls of string and tulips are too POLITE!!! LOOK at AIDS in the UNITED STATES: $2,400.00 per patient spent on research. But for parkinson's disease: $24 per patient. AIDS ACTIVISTS screamed and screamed, and laid down on streets and blockaded federal buildings and printed T-shirts and pins and buttons and were VISIBLE and GAY MEN and LESBIANS came OUT OF THE CLOSET snf JESSE JACKSON included AIDS on the AGENDA and OPRAH and JESSE and BARBARA Walters and whoever must be BLITZED with PARKINSONIAN ANGER BLITZED WITH PARKINSONIAN ANGER and people PRAYED and held SIT-INS in the 60's and people hold PRAYER VIGILS and CANDLELIGHT VIGILS and PRAYED and PARKINSONIANS might as well MARCH ON WASHINGTON AND PARIS and LONDON and is it SYDNEY IN AUSTRALIA?? and people said they weren't waiting any more and Fanny Lou Hamer marched and fought from the cottonfields of MISSISSIPPI "Cancer took her body, but the STRUGGLE took her soul, down on the white man's FARM>> ,,,and she lived and ided in the state of MISSISSIPPI>>> "I am so tired of being sick and tired" WE YOUNGER PARKINSONIANS (of whATEVER AGE) gOD bLESS dAVID bOOTS AND lisa CRUMRINE IN THE tropics, and Barb Mallut and Dennis Greene and Jacob Drollinger and the tireless JIM CORDY and the PARKELISTE and feisty Heather in Canada.... DO WE HAVE TO WAIT??? WAIT FOR SUICIDES AND ALLCOHOLISM AND EXHAUSTION?? a FRIEND JUST TOLD ME OF the SUICIDE of a New Hampshire Young Parkinsonian and BEth LEslie of Australia lost her brother and we must be VISIBIBLE WHO0OPPSSS visible and DON< IYQ2 IYQ2!! > and GET MY DRIFT, friends????? IT IS TIME TO BE LOUD and SEEN aND WHOEVER SAID "march on wASHINGTON" i AM GETING CHILLS DOWNmy spine, WHY NOT??? WHAT HAVE WE GOT TO LOSE???????? What have we got to GAIN???????????? MARCH, VIGIL AND ACT UP ACT UP ACT UP ACT UP FOR THE CURE FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND LET'S SIT-IN i FOR ONE WOULD SIT-IN IN NEWT GINGRICH'S OFFICES, WHO HELD UP THE UDALL BILL LAST YEAR AND PREVENTED A VOTE. and robbed us of another year of life and $100 million of RESEARCH MONEY tHAT's it for now friends I am so PI**ed off I am ANGRY ru2??? ARE YOU??