Newsletters > Winter 2000 > Urgent, Funds Needed Now!

• For Lobbying and Grass Roots Mobilization Efforts
• Legal Reforms to Protect Consumer Access to Natural Health
• Legal Reforms to Assure Natural Health Practitioners the Right to Practice

Consumers are in danger of losing access to complementary and alternative health care practices because criminal prosecutions and civil disciplinary actions have been brought against practitioners for practicing the healing arts. Actions have been based on “practice of medicine without a license” or practicing “outside the accepted and prevailing” standard of care of medicine.

Legislation has been introduced in Minnesota to allow complementary and alternative health care practitioners to practice. House File 537 and Senate File 689 create a solution to the problem by allowing practitioners to practice and protecting the right of consumer to access these practitioners.

For further information, contact Leo Cashman at 612-721-3305. Send contributions of $20, $200, $1,000 – whatever you can afford – to MNH-LRP at 3236 17th Ave. So., #1, Minneapolis, MN 55407.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895
From a speech delivered August 3, 1857