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| Local Advocates To Meet With Representative Braley and Senators Grassley and Harkin To Discuss Substantive Breast Cancer Legislation | ||||||
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Breast Cancer Activists Gather in Washington, D.C. to Demonstrate the Importance of Grassroots Advocacy in the Fight to End Breast Cancer
(Washington, D.C.) On Tuesday, May 1, 2007 in the nation’s capital, Christine Carpenter, Sue Witwer, and Cindy Harris from Cedar Valley Cancer Committee’s Beyond Pink Team will join breast cancer advocates from across the country to lobby Representative Braley and Senators Charles Grassley and Tom Harkin on the National Breast Cancer Coalition’s (NBCC) highest priorities for legislation in 2007. After three days of extensive advocacy training during the National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund’s Annual Advocacy Training Conference from April 28 to April 30, members of the Beyond Pink Team will join breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to eradicate this deadly disease. They will discuss breast cancer public policy issues with their elected officials on Capitol Hill during NBCC’s annual Lobby Day. The hundreds of dedicated breast cancer survivors, family, and friends attending this year’s conference in Washington, D.C., will learn about the latest in breast cancer research and science, explore emerging issues in public policy and medical practice, and build and strengthen political advocacy skills. Leading scientists and researchers will discuss and debate new and often controversial issues in the struggle to diagnose, treat, cure — and ultimately end — breast cancer. “Almost everyone is sympathetic to the cause of breast cancer. But, we need more than sympathy to end the disease. All politicians must be held accountable for their action — or inaction — on substantive breast cancer policy that will make a difference. Our own Representative Braley and Senator Harkin are supportive of the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act,” Christine Carpenter, of the Beyond Pink Team Executive Board said. “There is still more work to do on the federal and state levels. We must continue our activism until women no longer fear this devastating disease.” This is the 11th time that members of the Beyond Pink Team have participated in NBCC’s Lobby Day and discussed substantive breast cancer public policy issues with members of Congress.) The National Breast Cancer Coalition is a grassroots organization dedicated to ending breast cancer through the power of action and advocacy. NBCC has hundreds of member organizations and tens of thousands of individual members. |
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