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Dear Celebrities: If You Want To Support Autistics, Then The Time Is Now To Stop Silencing Us & Listen Up
By Eve Reiland, InternationalBadassActivists.org In the past two decades celebrities, some knowingly and many unknowingly, have consistently spoken over Autistics to support Cure Autism Now, Autism Speaks, and their cohorts in the name of ’autism awareness’ or to ’save a generation of children’ from being Autistic. [Jump To The Most Recent Celebrity List >>] Some…
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Anthony Edwards: Autistics have a voice. When you testified for the Children’s Health Act of 2000, you silenced us. | October 2000 #AutisticHistory
AutisticHistory | October 2000 Image description: Square image divided. Left side features blue background and an image of a man with some hair wearing a lab coat, green scrubs and a stethoscope. Quote: “Celebrity is a strange commodity. You can’t live in it or put it in the bank. And it doesn’t last all that…
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Cure Autism Now: President Clinton Signs Children’s Health Act, Will Provide $200 Million for Autism Research | Oct. 17, 2000 #AutisticHistory
President Clinton Signs Children’s Health Act, Will Provide $200 Million for Autism Research CAN Parents were Key to Success “At 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 17, 2000 President Clinton signed the Children’s Health Act of 2000 into law. The United States government has spoken with compassion and vision for a large group of suffering Americans,…
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Gorton Bill Seeks $46 Million for Autism Research | Feb. 23, 1999 #AutisticHistory #StopBigAutism
Gorton Bill Seeks $46 Million for Autism Research FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 23, 1999 Washington, D.C. — Senator Slade Gorton (R-WA) introduced the Advancement in Autism Research Act today, a bill that would target $46.5 million in federal research dollars to help autistic children. “Even today, with advances in therapy and early intervention, few autistic children…
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Updates on Cure Autism Now Activity | 1996 – 1999 #AutisticHistory
UPDATE ON CAN ACTIVITY We’d like to take this opportunity to share with you some of the highlights of CAN’s first four years of operation. Many of these are milestones that would have been unheard of just a few short years ago. All of them are thanks to the unending support and dedication of thousands…
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Cure Autism Now Government Affairs: Vaccine Compensation Reform Update | 2002 #AutisticHistory #VaccinesDoNotCauseAutism
Cure Autism Now Government Affairs Vaccine Compensation Reform Update We received word this afternoon that in consideration of a request from Cure Autism Now, Senator Frist has decided to unlink legislation on Vaccine Compensation Reform from newly introduced Senate S 15 (Bio-Shield legislation) and introduce a separate bill this week, which will be marked up…
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Cure Autism Now Government Affairs | July 31, 2002 #AutisticHistory
Cure Autism Now Government Affairs Government Relations Alert July 31, 2002 Congress has recently been kind to the autism community and Senator Frist in particular was a prime supporter of the pediatric health act, which is why it is particularly disappointing to have the effort on S2503 led by a man who has always been…
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