Do nothing today and A-CHAMP may not be around tomorrow

[Guest guest]

Dear ACHAMP supporter,

We rarely ask our community for help, but we need your help now.

ACHAMP has launched a fundraising effort in conjunction with Autism

United to support our highly effective online advocacy efforts. Your

donation to the ACHAMP team participating in Autism United's Hope

Walk '08 will go directly to defray the cost of our online advocacy

efforts, and it will be 100% tax-deductible.

If you received this email that means you have also used Capwiz, our

online email system we use to barrage elected officials with

messages from our community. It is a key tool we use to both alert

you about what is going on, and to communicate with decisionmakers.

It is highly effective, but it is also expensive: $12,000 per year.

Yet we have always made Capwiz available free-of-charge to any group

who shares our values and needs help fighting for our community.

If you support ACHAMP we need you to make an online donation at our

web page: http://www.firstgiving.com/achamp. You can even set up

your own fundraising page to encourage others to participate. And

everyone is invited to the Hope Walk which will be held September 28

at Belmont Lake State Park in Babylon, New York. Registration starts

at 9 the walk starts at 11, rain or shine. Take exit 38 off the

Southern State Parkway.

Last year ACHAMP joined with other advocacy groups and service

providers in New York to form Autism United (www.autismunited.org),

a coalition created to strengthen the individual advocacy efforts of

the group. The Hope Walk is Autism United's key fundraising event

for the year, and funds raised by ACHAMP teams will be used to pay

for Capwiz.

One advantage that ACHAMP has is that we are a 501c4 organization,

which means we can devote all of our effort to lobbying for

political change, that's also a problem for us because contributions

to ACHAMP are not tax deductible. Contributions through the ACHAMP

team are 100% tax deductible. Your tax deductible contribution will

assure that this vital tool remains ready and available for our

community.

We are all volunteers and we have a tiny budget, none-the-less this

is just some of what we accomplished and worked on in the last year

alone:

· We were the only Autism group able to get autism and vaccine

safety questionnaires answered by most of the presidential

candidates. We are working to get more in depth commitments from the

remaining two major party candidates

· We are fighting to pass the `Kid-Safe Chemical Act " in

Washington DC

· We fought threaten mass arrests in land of parents of

children who did not have mandated vaccines.

· We fought threatened mass expulsions of school children in

New York who did not have all mandated vaccines

· We fought for passage of Rep. Maloney's H.R. 2832 to study

Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated Populations

· We got a philosophical exemption to vaccine mandates bill

introduced in the New York legislature which we hope to pass this

year

· We took a key role in fighting to stop the FDA from

regulating, and putting out of business, compounding pharmacies

· We played an integral role in publicizing the Hannah Poling

story to make sure it didn't disappear off the radar screens. Our

efforts resulted in a live press conference on CNN, front page

coverage around the globe, and made sure that everybody knows that

the federal government is paying damages to a child who developed

autism as a result of a vaccine injury.

· We led the fight for autism insurance reform in New York,

West Virginia, Oklahoma. And supported efforts in Pennsylvania and

California.

· We led the fight and stopped every new vaccine bill proposed

in New York

· We fought for thimerosal-free vaccines in Congress and

legislatures in New Hampshire, land, Ohio, New Jersey and North

Carolina

· We fought for legislation to get heavy metals out of

products in Washington State.

· We fought against mandatory HPV shots across the country

· We are fighting to stop County imposed vaccine requirements,

in addition to state mandates, in Pennsylvania

· We fought slurs against people with autism and lies about

people with autism and their families broadcasted by the Big Brother

program on CBS and The Savage Show which resulted in the

programs losing dozens of advertisers.

ACHAMP is active in all 50 states, and fighting for us in

Washington, DC as well. And we will continue to speak out, and

fight, and speak truth to power as long as we can.

So please help us continue this vital work; Please make a tax-

deductible contribution at www.firstgiving.com/a-champ

Donations can also be mailed to:

Autism United

100 West Nicholai

Hicksville, NY 11801

Make checks payable to " Autism United-ACHAMP team "

Thank you.

Sincerely,

The ACHAMP Board of Directors

Anne Dachel

Gilmore

King

Krakow

Bobbie Manning

Wayne Rohde

Webster