Hello Everyone,

A number of you have asked where to send letters to express your dismay at
the formula companies' attempts to derail the National Breastfeeding Awareness
Campaign. I have composed a partial list as follows. If you belong to a task
force or coalition, please alert them and ask that a letter be sent from the
coalition as well as each individual person. Please also include your Senator and
Representative in Congress in your letter writing. They need to hear about
this. Consider alerting the media so that mothers know that breastfeeding
information is being suppressed and what they hear may be censored. Withholding
information from the public is serious "business." Please feel free to use any of
my posts to forward to others you work with. A number of you have asked for
permission to do so. Permission granted!


Direct letters regarding the postponement of the National Breastfeeding
Awareness Campaign to:

Honorable Tommy G. Thompson
Secretary
Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20201

Senator Bill Frist, M.D.
461 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
202 224-3344
Fax 202 228-1264
(Senate Majority Leader
Member Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions)

Senator Lamar Alexander
302 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
202 224-4944
(Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Chair, Subcommittee on Children and Families)

Kevin Keane
HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs
DHHS/OS/ASPA
200 Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20201
202 690-7850

To obtain contact information for the media should you wish to inform the
various newspapers, television stations, and reporters about the delay in the
launch of the breastfeeding awareness campaign use the following URL for finding
both national and local media:
http://capwiz.com/awhonn/dbq/media/

To lodge a complaint regarding the actions of the formula companies:
The Council of Better Business Bureaus
4200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22203-0100
703 276-0100
Fax 703 525-8277

Office of the Inspector General
Office of Public Affairs
Department of Health and Human Services
Room 5541 Cohen Building
330 Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20201
202 619-1343
Fax 202 260-8512
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To complain about the actions of the American Academy of Pediatrics write to
Dr. Carden Johnston, President of the AAP and Dr. Joe Sanders, Executive
Director of AAP who were instrumental in sending the letter of protest to the
Secretary of Health.

American Academy of Pediatrics
141 Northwest Point Blvd
Elk Grove Village, IL 60009-0927

A letter of support would probably be much appreciated by the AAP's Section
on Breastfeeding whose Executive Committee and Chair (Lawrence Gartner) deserve
a cyber hug and congratulations for their bold stand and firm belief in the
value of breastfeeding and the importance of their ethics and principles.

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Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
Weston, MA

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