Exciting News - Birt Center Launch for 5/09

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We hope you will join us in May 2009 at Autism One for the Launch of

the Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy!

Birt (1956 – 2005) is one of the heroes of the Revolution.

Liz epitomized all that is right and strong and true about our

collective movement. She helped bring to life a vibrant urgency of

change.

Liz was an attorney, a co-founder of SafeMinds, a founding member of

the National Autism Association, a co-founder of A-CHAMP, and a

principal author of Mercury in Medicine, the 2003 report by the House

Government Reform Committee that found mercury in vaccines was toxic.

Most importantly, Liz was a mom. In 1996 Liz's son, , then 15-

months old, was diagnosed with autism. Liz spent the rest of her life

helping her son and other affected children and families. Read more

about how Liz helped all of us here.

As certainly as Bernie Rimland was the father of the modern autism

movement Liz was the mother. The Birt Center is founded in her honor

to continue her work.

The Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy

Autism is a human rights violation privileged in denial of origin,

increase, and remedy, existent in the absence of justice, manifest in

institutional discrimination.

The long struggle endured daily in securing medical treatment,

obtaining educational opportunity, affording care, and safeguarding

the future of our children continues.

The idea that all vaccines are safe for all children presupposes a

population entirely free of irregularity is a speculative belief not

a sustainable one. It is reality idealized to uniformity.

In failing to acknowledge its own speculative underpinnings, the

vaccine program denies children their most basic rights. Children are

not free when their pain is denied, future foreordained and lives

limited to failed theories. Parents are not free when their fear of

tomorrow outweighs their hope for today. Families are not free as

most end as the consequences arrive.

There is no freedom or justice. There is only denial. It is going to

take legislative and legal action to end the epidemic, to help heal

our children, to establish proper boundaries and oversight, to

investigate the impunity of inaction, and to provide justice.

LAUNCH

The Birt Center launches at Autism One 2009, Thursday, May 21, at the

Westin O'Hare Hotel, in Chicago. Legal training will be open to

attorneys, paralegals, and parent advocates.

The Center will offer Continuing Legal Education Units.

Steering Committee:

Krakow, Esq.

Holland, Esq.

Keefe, Esq.

Jim Moody, Esq.

Ed Arranga

The Birt Center will consist of:

1. Legal Training;

2. A think tank;

3. A resource center (including a referral service and pro bono

network).

Some of the presenters/participants include:

Tim , Esq.

Silvia Cheng-Kaplan, Esq.

Barbara Loe Fisher

Holland, Esq.

Mark Geier, MD, PhD

Gilmore

Keefe, Esq.

Krakow, Esq.

Louise Habakus

Jim Moody, Esq.

Cliff Shoemaker, Esq.

Tom Powers, Esq.

Rick Rollens

F. Ruggio, Esq.

Wakefield, MD

LEGAL TRAINING

Thursday, May 21

1:30 - 1:45:

1:45 - 2:45:

3:00 - 4:00:

4:15 - 5:15:

Introduction

The Science of Autism

Vaccine Court: A colorful past, an opaque present, a questionable

future

Omnibus Proceeding

Friday, May 22

9:00 - 10:00:

10:15 - 11:15:

11:30 - 12:30:

12:30 - 1:30:

1:30 - 2:30:

2:45 - 3:45:

4:00 - 4:30: 4:45 - 5:45:

Parental Rights

Special Education Law

Insurance Issues

Lunch

Legislation, Advocacy and Action in Autism

Dangerous Profession: Practicing Medicine in the 21st Century

Vaccineography 101: A semi-coherent mapping (CDC, NIH, IOM, FDA, HHS,

DOJ)

Panel discussion

MISSION STATEMENT (evolving)

The mission of the Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy

is to address the immediate and ongoing legal and advocacy needs of

the autism community. The Center seeks to provide:

- Legal education on autism issues

- Resources for legal practitioners and advocates

- A " think tank " to strategize about the legal and advocacy needs of

the autism community

Autism affects children, parents and their communities with medical,

legal, social and educational challenges. Serious unmet needs often

begin before a formal diagnosis and extend throughout the lives of

the affected individuals, families and communities.

Government leaders and agencies have failed to explore and identify

autism's causes, at-risk populations, and impact.

Using legal and advocacy tools, the Center seeks to identify and

address these systemic failures and to achieve greater justice for

the injured and their communities.

Specifically, the Center seeks to educate lawyers, parent advocates

and others in state-of-the-art legal and medical aspects of autism.

Leading attorneys, scientists and advocates will review the most

current and critical issues affecting the autism community at

periodic conferences. The Center also seeks to make resources

available to assist lawyers and advocates in their work on autism.

Over time, we expect to offer a referral service and facilitate pro

bono legal services for the autism community.

The think tank will try to map new legal and advocacy strategies to

meet the challenges of autism. It will identify and promote

practical tools and techniques, develop original legal approaches,

partner with existing organizations, produce legal guides, cultivate

broader participation and work to improve the Center.

The Vaccination Choice Rally Of October 16th Is Available For Viewing

On Autism One Radio!

Click the link at the top of the information box on the Autism One

Radio home page.

Thanks to Manette Loudon, Null & Assoc. Null is a world-

renowned health advocate, author, filmmaker, and provider of

alternative health care solutions.

Thanks to Louise Kuo Habakus and the NJ Coalition for Vaccination

Choice (www.njvaccinationchoice.org) for organizing this huge and

important rally.

What: Vaccination Choice Rally

Why: Rally For Vaccination Choice

Where: State House in Trenton, NJ, outside Gov. Corzine's office.

When: Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 12:00 p.m.

Speakers Include:

Assemblywoman Charlotte Vandervalk, primary sponsor, Conscientious

Exemption to Mandatory Vaccination bill, A260/S1071;

Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder, National Vaccine Information Center,

long-time vaccine safety and informed choice activist;

Dr. Larry Palevsky, board-certified pediatrician, President, Holistic

Pediatric Association;

Null, world leading health advocate, author, filmmaker, provider

of alternative health care solutions.

NJ Assemblywoman Charlotte Vandervalk, Board-certified Pediatrician

Dr. Lawrence Palevsky and National Vaccine Information Center co-

founder Barbara Loe Fisher, joined NJ parents and professionals at a

rally in Trenton for vaccination choice. The speakers represent a

cross-section of society including medical doctors, nurses,

chiropractors, scientists, clergy, educators, soldiers, politicians,

journalists, autism activists, homeschoolers and many parents. The NJ

Coalition for Vaccination Choice (NJCVC) opposes the four new vaccine

mandates including an annual flu shot for children ages 5 and under,

required for daycare and pre-school. NJCVC supports the passage of

bill A260/S1071, a conscientious exemption to mandatory immunization

which will permit parents to select all, some or no vaccinations for

their children. A form of this parental right already exists in 19

other US states.

The Autism File USA for the Holidays

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As always please let us know if you have any questions, comments,

suggestions, or ideas. Thank you.

Our Best,

Ed and Teri Arranga

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Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

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