Hear~Their~Silence rally - contacting your senators - GAS OUT!!!!

[Guest guest]

Hello listmates, (Please read the GAS OUT statement at the end!!)

The home stretch is finally here for the first ever rally for National

Autism Awareness! This rally is to support each other and to raise

awareness of Autism! Not to protest, not to demand - but to simply raise

awareness of Autism and all the issues that go with it.

I hope everyone took part in this event by sending in their childs picture,

sending in a quilt square for the quilt that is now 6 feet high by 249 feet

long!! I believe has enough pictures to create 100 picture display

boards that are 3 feet wide by 6 feet tall!! I hope that all Autism

organizations have contacted us to help support this event!

It is not too late to help us out by donations for this grass-roots effort -

contact The Autism Resource Konnection's website at www.ark-inc.org to

purchase items, or call Joanne Fradkin the President of the organization at

1-877-no-autism for the address to just send in $25.00 or so - it is

tax-deductible! Please help that way!! What we accomplish at this rally,

will benefit the entire Autism community - please help us out with your

donation!!

Unlocking Autism is also in need of donations to help in the creation of

these permanent display boards that will no doubt be traveling across the

country to " Open Your Eyes to Autism!! " . Please contact them to perhaps

sponsor a board!! What a great way to help out the cause of Autism and to

raise the Awareness!! They also have T-shirts and other items for sale.

www.littleangels.org or call Reynolds the President of that

organization at 1-.

Please also make your voice heard in your own community and with your state

legislatures!! We not only need media in Washington, D.C., but we need

media representation from as many cities in as many states as possible!

Please participate in that way by contacting your local media - T.V. and

newspapers and tell them of the event. Contact your legislatures about

being at the hearings April 6th, and at the rally April 8th.

One of my motivational quotes I have on the top of my computer screen is

this: " It's better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness... "

To me, that is so true - Let's face it, right now Autism is basically still

in the darkness - we still learn more to help our children from internet

discussion groups than from our own doctors! We still depend on each other

and list groups for ways to battle the school systems for appropriate

education!! Whatever list your are reading this from - what we accomplish

at this rally can help you! Perhaps " Open the nation's eyes to the need for

better education " , perhaps " Open the government's eyes to the need for

quicker, more unbiased studies on secretin " , " Open the insurance company's

eyes to cover our expenses!!! " - whatever your area of concern - raising the

awareness of autism in any way, can help us all and the issues we face

daily.

This rally is our way of lighting that one small candle in hopes that more

and more candles will be lit by that!! This rally in itself will probably

not cure autism or make great strides in research, - but the awareness

raised from it will! The government will know the unstoppable desire and

dedication of " mere parents " to get help for our children!!

You can choose to help Lead us to more Awareness, you can be supportive and

Follow us to D.C. in our efforts to create more Awareness, or you can

choose to Stay out of the way and do nothing and just wish there were more

awareness to help you.......

Those parents who have committed the better part of the last year in

planning and working for this event will see it through no matter how big or

small. We will raise as many funds as we can, contact as many media

personnel as we can......... Please, join us if you have not, and help

in terms of getting the media involved, local, national, world - get your

Senators and Representatives informed. Send them your story and concerns on

Autism....tell them about the rally............

Here is a web link to all the members of the Senate and their phone numbers

and E-mail addresses. It took me 40 minutes to type them ALL in my

computer. I sent them information on Autism and why I would like them to

know about the rally...

http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm for the representatives

http://clerkweb.house.gov/106/mbrcmtee/members/teledir/members/MCapDir.htm

no E-mail addresses here, and I only called my State's Representatives.

Here are some national contacts I have been contacting for media coverage,

please help in calling them about the rally, the Quilt, and the " Open Your

Eyes to Autism " project:

C-Span - viewer@...

The Saturday Early Show - would be great if they did their show live

Saturday at the rally - SAT@...

Face the Nation - ftn@...

60 minutes II - 60II@...

The Today Show -

Weekend Today Show - again, great since the rally is on a weekend -

Health on MSNBC - Health@...

The News on MSNBC - TheNews@...

Living news - Living@...

Public Events you want C-Span to cover - BIG TIME CALL!! -

events@...

C-Span - , events coordinator -

CBS news Saturday edition - AGAIN, A GREAT ONE AS THE RALLY IS ON A

SATURDAY - weekends@...

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AND ON THE GAS OUT - PLEASE !!!! IT ONLY MEANS THAT SOMEONE SOMEWHERE

WANTS YOU NOT TO BUY GAS DURING THOSE DAYS - NOT NOT NOT THAT THERE WILL BE

NO GAS!!!

PLEASE DON'T CHANGE YOUR PLANS ON ATTENDING THE RALLY BECAUSE OF THE STUPID

GAS OUT!!!

IT JUST MEANS THAT TO MAKE A STATEMENT TO THE OIL INDUSTRY - PEOPLE DON'T

WANT YOU TO BUY GAS FOR THOSE 2 OR 3 DAYS!!

THERE WILL BE GAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It may be $2.00 a gallon by then,

but THERE WILL BE GAS!!

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See you at the rally!

Hear~Their~Silence rally for National Autism Awareness April 8, 2000 in

Washington, D.C.

on the mall between 3rd and 4th Streets

9am until 5pm

Featuring Unlocking Autism's " Open Your Eyes to Autism " pictoral tribute

of individuals with Autism.

Unveiled for the fist time be the first ever " A Call to Action " Quilt for

Autism Awareness by LeGendre.

1 in 500 children may be silent - but we don't have to be!!!

Guppy - tguppy@...