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Are You a Wigg or Tory? :o) Walt W2TQK 57/4 <mailto:[log in to unmask]> | -----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? | | | People, people: | | What are we doing? | | 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. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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? | | 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 | | | | Margaret Tuchman | Princeton, NJ | H (609) 921-1696 | Fx(609) 921-1613 | [log in to unmask] | The Parkinson Alliance | We take responsibility for OUR future! |