The March of 40,910, Washington D.C.

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Bimmer
Bimmer Member Posts: 248
edited June 2014 in Comments, Suggestions, Feature Requests

This is directed at the moderators.

I would like to request that you have your people figure out a way to set up a seperate forum for The March on Washington that is to happen in June 2008.

This is a non-profit, non-fundraising, non-supported, not backed by anyone grass roots movement that got started right here in the "Recurrence and Metastatic Disease" threads of Breastcancer.org.

This is a real, live movement that is going to accomplish this task in honor of the 40,910 women who die each year from this plague.

We need your help. Please set up a forum exclusively for this use.

Sincerely,

Bimmer (husband of one of the 40,910)

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  • badboob67
    badboob67 Member Posts: 2,780
    edited January 2008

    Bimmer's right. There needs to be a separate section for these posts. I know requests were made back in December and the response from the mods seemed favorable.  If there is a reason for the delay, please let us know. If the mods have decided against creating a separate forum/subforum, it would be nice to know that, too. 

    It is really important to many of us that this march occurs. I imagine if we are unable to get a forum here, there are other places to set one up. If we need to do that, fine....BUT LEAVING US HANGING IS REALLY UNACCEPTABLE. WE DESERVE AN ANSWER TO THIS REQUEST THAT HAS BEEN MADE NUMEROUS TIMES. Affirmative or negative, we WILL go on with the plan. BCO will lose visitors if they must visit another site for planning/updates.   The purpose of the march seems in line with BCO's mission statement. Spreading information and support to as many poeple possible is the goal, right?

    PLEASE AT LEAST GIVE US AN ANSWER.

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited January 2008

    Mods,

    Please set up a forum for our Memorial March 2008.  We really need the space and availability of the threads to organize all the details.

    The permits have been sent to DC already and talk is now underway of setting up a Memorial Fund account, t-shirts are being planned, and committees are being formed.

    I have emailed Melissa numerous times about this and she said she contacted her techs to get started on this for us.

    Please, please help get this forum started for us.

    Thanks for all your hard work!! We really appreciate it!

    Brenda in VA  aka Bren

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  • ravdeb
    ravdeb Member Posts: 3,116
    edited January 2008

    Amen. Please set up a special place for us on the boards so we can organize. It will really help for those people who'd like to be a part of this and honor those whom we've lost to breast cancer.

    Thanks. (I suspect this is just a technical problem and nothing more...hopefully it will be taken care of.)

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  • SunshineSmiles
    SunshineSmiles Member Posts: 769
    edited January 2008

    Yes, having our own place to discuss and organize would be so helpful.  If we are going to do this, and I think we will, it's going to take a huge amount of time, organization and commitment from many people's families and schedules.  I am certainly willing to give my time and energy to this.  Please, moderators, give us a place to share ideas and work!

    Thanks!

    Susan

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2008

    Please please set up another forum for this so that we can organize this march ...  it will really help to raise awareness that bc and the pink ribbon are not pretty ...  we lose way to many of our sister/brothers each year to this disease and need awareness that the pink ribbon is not pretty !!

    Thanks mods ....

    Doreen  

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  • Bimmer
    Bimmer Member Posts: 248
    edited January 2008

    I wonder if they ever actually read any of this???

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  • prayrv
    prayrv Member Posts: 941
    edited January 2008

    PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • snowyday
    snowyday Member Posts: 1,478
    edited January 2008

    Your right I wonder if they get a chance to read this, I did as Bimmer asked two days ago and asked right in the Comments, Suggestions and Features requests and still haven't heard back. But trying Bimmer. Pearl49   And how are you doing Bimmer?

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited January 2008

    Dear Mods,

    Our application for a permit for the Memorial March for 6/22/08 is currently being reviewed.  We now have a contact person at the permit office in DC.  I will be discussing the March with him tomorrow.  Time is of the essense in getting our own forum for planning purposes. 

    Please try to set this up soon.  We have so much planning to get started on.

    Thanks for all your help.

    Bren and all the Memorial Marchers!!!

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  • badboob67
    badboob67 Member Posts: 2,780
    edited January 2008

    Well, they are obviously reading something because they posted a response on the "improved search" thread here yesterday.

    Mods, it is very important to so many here!  I see that you started a "singles" forum; I had only seen a handful of requests for that one (I agree that it was needed!). So, it doesn't seem like such a big deal to add one for the March.  If the date goes through, we're talking less than 6 months of planning that will be very hard to do without a dedicated forum here.

    PLEASE at least let us know if you are going to start a forum for the march. If you aren't, we need to move on other options ASAP!

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  • bco-admin34667
    bco-admin34667 Member Posts: 46
    edited January 2008

    All, the moderators are aware of this request and are trying to find the best way to make this happen.  Thanks for your patience.

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited January 2008

    Thank you so much!!!   You guys are the best.

    Bren

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