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I wish I had written that, but all I did was agree that the hourglass, ia fitting symbol, and on some other post I objected to the tulip because they are pretty and PD is not. Thanks, Nita Andres William Heitman wrote: > In a message dated 8/7/98 11:09:32 AM Central Daylight Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > << > > an hourglass with its accompanying slogan, "Time is running out". > Therefore, > > as nice as it would be to adopt an international symbol, I vote for the > > hourglass. > > > > Regarding ribbons: Yellow, purple, silver, puce....it really doesn't > matter. > > Every group has its ribbon nowadays. If we really want to stand out, we > > should do something different, for example, we could tie a balloon > (imprinted > > with an houglass and slogan) on walkers, wheelchairs, canes, antennas of > cars, > > doorknobs, mailboxes, etc. > > > > I keep bringing up this idea, but no one ever replies to my suggestion. > > However, I'll trot it out once more because I think it would work. > > 1. Pick a day in September when all the congressmen will be back from > > vacation. Proclaim it PD Awareness Day. > > 2. On that day we make a great effort to see that every PWP and caretaker > > sends a nominal donation (could be as little as $1) to their favorite PD > > organization. > > 3. Then we each send a letter (and a balloon?) to our senators and > > congressman and to our local newspaper saying that time is running out and > > we're tired of waiting for Congress to appropriate the money promised to us > > and the NIH to stop playing games. Therefore, we have sent in our own > > donations to keep research going until Congress stops procrastinating. > Send a > > photo of yourself or a group of Parkies and caregivers holding balloons. > > Include a fact sheet about Parkinson's and the inequality of funding. > > 4. Try to get additional spots on radio, TV, etc. Hand out balloons to > all > > your friends and family. Ask them to display them on that day. Support > groups > > could hand out balloons and literature at local malls. There are lots of > > things we could do. The thing is to do it on one designated day and be > sure > > that the press, radio and TV are informed. > > > > Any comments? > > Mary Sheehan > >> > > Mary, > I like this idea. Could we include another feature? For years I have wanted > to flood congressional offices with fax (what is the pleural of fax anyway)? > If everyone on the list who has a fax capability sent one fax to each member > of the appropriations committee. I think they would be flooded. So much so > that we would probably need to send in waves by time zone .to avoid > conflicting and unnecessarily blocking other peoples fax. If the list > consensus is to do this, someone needs to work out something akin to the > Single Integrated Operation Plan (SIOP) of Strategic Air Command fame. That > was the plan that was supposed to keep nuc bombers from blasting each other > out of the skies. > > What do you think? > > Regards, > WHH