Dear Friends in Pain, and Chronic Illness,

Please note two very signficant and important events
provided me by Cyn of OPCM.

1. A chance to help Dr. Bill Hurwitz
2. The march on Washington

I am providing the links below many of the Yahoo
groups do not provide posts in html format meaing
you can cut and paste the links into your browser
to get the full story.

You can make a very important change here yes
YOU. We face the DEA destruction of pain management
due to the unsavory and illicit tactics of jailing good
doctors for life, hence destroying the lives of many.

Please take the time to open these links and learn

more of your ability to take part and make change.

Thank you in advance!!

Karen G.

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Screening of "The Chilling Event" and contact your Senator

Please get the word out that the Senate screening of

"The Chilling Effect"
a film by PRN Pres. Siobhan Reynolds

will be on Tuesday, April 12th-at 11:00M

The exact location (room) soon to be announced.
(It WILL BE in a room in a Senate office building)

Call and fax your Senators and elected officials beginning tomorrow.

Senator Stabenow will be inviting her colleagues but your calls this
week to your Senators will help boost interest in the patient side of
this story and galvanize all our representatives.

Please ask everyone you know to call!

Such an outcry could quite possibly generate the attention needed
going into Dr. Hurwitz's sentencing - which is April 14th!!

Let's light up the switchboards this next week!

Check here for information on how to reach your Senator.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

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To Supporters of "America's in Pain!" - MARCH ON WASHINGTON - "Silent
No More!" 2nd Annual National Pain Rally:

TAKE ACTION!
TAKE ACTION!
TAKE ACTION!

We need everyone to contact your local media (newspapers, radio,
etc.) about publishing an article on the 2nd Annual National Pain
Rally, "America's In Pain!" - MARCH ON WASHINGTON - "Silent No
More!". Click below and send them the following PRESS RELEASE:

PRESS RELEASE I
Pain Advocacy Grass Roots Leaders Call For Congressional Hearings
2005 "America's In Pain!" - MARCH ON WASHINGTON - "Silent No More!"
http://www.americanpaininstitute.org/pressreleaseI.html

If you are participating in the march, MAKE SURE THAT YOUR LOCAL
MEDIA INCLUDES THAT IN THE ARTICLE!

THE TIME HAS COME TO MAKE THE RIGHT FOR AMERICANS TO RECEIVE
COMPASSIONATE PAIN TREATMENT FROM CARING PHYSICIANS A POLITICAL ISSUE
FOR EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT TO RESPOND TO AND
STATE THEIR POSITION CLEARLY FOR ALL VOTERS! Either your members of
congress support the status quo of the DEA War on Physicians,
Pharmacists and Pain Patients or they understand that something has
gone seriously wrong with pain care in America and there needs to be
full Congressional Hearings on the Pain Crises in America!

Continue to contact your congressman and two U.S. Senators about
supporting the MARCH ON WASHINGTON and Congressional Hearings on the
Pain Crises in America. CALL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS BY TELEPHONE
AND TELL THEM THAT WE NEED CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS! SEND THEM A
HANDWRITTEN LETTER AND KEEP A COPY FOR YOUR RECORDS! KEEP THOSE
CONGRESSIONAL PHONE LINES RINGING!

Congressional switchboard information line to call your members of
congress in Washington, DC:

202-224-3121

Find out who the health issues staff person is for your member of
congress, write their name down and talk with them about the issue.
If you are a chronic pain patient and cannot attend the march, tell
your member of congress that you would like to attend the march, but
your chronic pain condition may not allow you to attend.

If your chronic pain condition will not allow you to attend the
march, send a person or group of people to the march in your name!
When they arrive at the march in your name, make sure that they let
me know that they are at the march in your name, so we can announce
your name and where you are from.

We still do not have a host hotel in Washington, DC. Last year we
used the Sheraton Hotel in Arlington. However, we remain open to
suggestions. Perhaps you know of a hotel that will serve our
purposes well in Washington, DC.

The National Pain Rally Speakers List can be found on the American
Pain Institute (API) web sites (www.AmericanPainInstitute.org or
www.PainCoalition.us):


http://www.americanpaininstitute.org/speakers.html


KEEP THOSE PETITIONS COMING IN!
On-line PETITIONS - 1481

27 DAYS TO GO BEFORE THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON!


PAIN MARCH UPDATE (April 3, 2005)

NATIONAL PAIN RALLY
Saturday, April 30, 2005
11:00am - 3:00pm
US Capitol Reflecting Pool Area
(Below the west front of the US Capitol)
Washington, DC

Speakers:

Laurie Barbosa
President, PALM
Toms River, New Jersey

Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D., President
Baptist Medical Missionary & Family Practice
American Pain Institute (API)
National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF)

Frank McCune, M.D., M.B.A., Chairman
General Surgeon
National Juneteenth Medical Commission
American Pain Institute (API)

Robert Kale, M.D.
Anesthesiologist & Pain Management Specialist
American Pain Institute (API)

Terry Brackman, D.O., RPh., ACOFP
Family Practice & Pain Management
American Pain Institute (API)

Mike Gutman, M.D.
Pain Management
Orlando, FL

Michael Jackson, M.D., AAPM
Pain Management Specialist
Auburn, AL


Other speakers will be added as they are confirmed. Please keep
those petitions coming in
(http://www.racedepot.com/api/admin/petition_form.asp)! Also, please
write, call, e-mail and fax a letter to your congressman and two U.S.
Senators. You should also make an appointment with them to express
your concern personally about the need for congressional hearings.

Donate to the
AMERICAN PAIN INSTITUTE



DONATIONS TO DATE FOR THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON: $0.00!


America's In Pain!
MARCH ON WASHINGTON
Silent No More!

April 30, 2005
11:00am - 3:00pm
U.S. Capitol Reflecting Pool
Washington, DC

March Objective:

"Congressional Hearings on the Pain Crises in America!"


"Don't give up the fight!"










Karen Hallenbeck~Sikorsky~George BS,RN,UM,QC
Interqual Certified
Published Psychiatric Researcher
Advocate for those in CIP, HIV, Psychologic Pain
http://hometown.aol.com/anewplanforyou
http://hometown.aol.com/anewplanforyou/sb.html



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"ADayWithoutPain"
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Ya'll are special you truly are, and to be the
catalyst for this group is a miracle for I know
in my heart that God's will created this group(s)
and each of you are very very special to me, always
no matter what I AM SO PROUD to a "part of" what
this family has become..AND WILL BE!!!!

"God will do for you what you cannot do for yourself...""


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