FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.FluorideAlert.org
FAN Bulletin 1012: The Great Annual Fundraiser begins.
December 9, 2008
2008 has been a fantastic year for those fighting fluoridation around the world and with your help FAN will continue the momentum into 2009. Today we begin our fund-raising for next year's important work. Please give as generously as you can to this.
Donate online or send a check. Making a secure, tax-deductible donation online is very easy and quick to do. Simply click here. However, we pay a commission on each donation for this excellent service, so if you wish to make sure we get every cent of your donation please send us a check made out to FAN and send to Paul Connett, 82 Judson Street, Canton, NY 13617.
Here are some of the highlights from 2008:
• Nearly 1000 new professionals signed the Professionals' Statement that calls for an end to fluoridation worldwide. The total is now 1,994. Italian and French translations of the Statement are online thanks to Stefano Montanari of Modena, Italy, and Jimmy Siles of Quebec City.
• Over 10,000 signers to Online Petition to Congress - for a total of over 16,700.
• 74 communities said no to fluoridation in 2008. 53 of these communities voted in referendums held on November 4th.
• 4 FAN videos in the new series Professional Perspectives (approx length 4-5 minutes each). Interviews with
-- Bill Osmunson DDS, MPH: Over 87,000 people have watched this powerful 5 minute video.
-- Dr. Vyvyan Howard, President, International Society of Doctors for the Environment, addresses fluoride's adverse effect on the brain.
-- Brent Foster, JD, Conservation Chair for the Oregon Sierra Club, on fluoride's effect on salmon.
-- Risks to kidney patients with Kathy Thiessen, Phyllis Mullenix, and Paul Connett
• An exciting video compilation of statements from over a dozen professionals will be released at the end of December (see A special thank you gift below).
• FAN paid for the translation of 19 Chinese published studies on fluoride's effect on the brain and IQ. 11 of these studies have been published in the journal Fluoride (April-June 2008 issue), with more in the works. There are now 23 studies from 4 countries which indicate an association between high fluoride intake and lowering of IQ in children. Note: there is no adequate margin of safety to protect all children in a fluoridated community.
• FAN provided information to reporters, local officials, researchers, and the groups and individuals fighting fluoridation in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, UK, and the US.
• In August, FAN held its third Citizens' Conference on Fluoride in Toronto. It was an enormous success and generated a great deal of attention in the Canadian national media. By linking our conference with that of the International Society for Fluoride Research we armed our activists from several countries with some of the best science on this issue available.
• Following in the wake of the Toronto presentations on fluoride and the brain by Dr. Vyvyan Howard, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment produced a statement opposing fluoridation in September. In 2009 we hope to get more national organizations to do likewise.
• FAN has worked this year to get a US Congressional hearing. It is too soon to give any details at this point.
• FAN continues to fight EPA's outrageously unscientific and illegitimate approval of DOW's use of sulfuryl fluoride as a food fumigant in mills, warehouses and processing plants (this will greatly increase fluoride exposure). We agreed to a mediation effort and have had two meetings with EPA officials. Our efforts (along with the Environmental Working Group and Beyond Pesticides) have been greatly assisted by the availability of a pro bono lawyer. We might well be in court on this in 2009.
But we do need your financial help to keep ALL our battles raging. Compared to the giants we are fighting, who have multi-million dollar budgets of taxpayers' money at their disposal, our budget requirements are relatively modest. Our estimated expenditures for 2008 to date are approximately $76,000. This is so low because we only offer token salaries and we receive a great deal of pro bono support from many of our supporters.
So one way and another, we get a great deal out of a small budget. Nevertheless each year we still have the task of raising that budget and we realize with the current economic crisis that this year, this is going to be tougher than ever. So please give what you can.
Our goal: $80,000 by midnight EST on Dec 31, 2008.
Raised to date: $600.00
Donations are tax-deductible. FAN is a project of the American Environmental Health Studies Project, which has 501(c)(3) non-profit status, so your donations are tax deductible. Make sure FAN gets some of your hard earned money not Uncle Sam! If you can't help us financially this year, we know many of you are helping us in many other ways in your local communities and we are grateful for all that you are doing for this important cause.
Donate online or send a check. Making a secure donation online is very easy and quick to do. Simply click here. However, we pay a commission on each donation for this excellent service, so if you wish to make sure we get every cent of your donation please send us a check made out to FAN and send to Paul Connett, 82 Judson Street, Canton, NY 13617.
A special thank you gift. A brand new 28 minute DVD, consisting of a compilation of comments by over a dozen distinguished professionals explaining why they oppose fluoridation, has been produced by Kevin Hurley and edited by Michael Connett. We believe that this video will be a tremendous help in convincing academics, doctors and local officials that fluoridation must be halted. According to Michael, this will be FAN's best video yet. The DVD will be ready at the end of December and we will be sending it as a thank you gift to all those who donate over $100 to our 2009 fundraising campaign.
Meanwhile, please make as generous donation as you can afford. And if your budget is very low please do not feel bad if you can't help us financially this year as we know many of you are helping this fight in many other ways.
As we report back on the progress of this fundraising effort over the next few weeks we will attempt to summarize our many achievements and efforts in 2008 and reveal some of our plans for 2009.
Paul Connett
http://www.FluorideAlert.org
FAN Bulletin 1012: The Great Annual Fundraiser begins.
December 9, 2008
2008 has been a fantastic year for those fighting fluoridation around the world and with your help FAN will continue the momentum into 2009. Today we begin our fund-raising for next year's important work. Please give as generously as you can to this.
Donate online or send a check. Making a secure, tax-deductible donation online is very easy and quick to do. Simply click here. However, we pay a commission on each donation for this excellent service, so if you wish to make sure we get every cent of your donation please send us a check made out to FAN and send to Paul Connett, 82 Judson Street, Canton, NY 13617.
Here are some of the highlights from 2008:
• Nearly 1000 new professionals signed the Professionals' Statement that calls for an end to fluoridation worldwide. The total is now 1,994. Italian and French translations of the Statement are online thanks to Stefano Montanari of Modena, Italy, and Jimmy Siles of Quebec City.
• Over 10,000 signers to Online Petition to Congress - for a total of over 16,700.
• 74 communities said no to fluoridation in 2008. 53 of these communities voted in referendums held on November 4th.
• 4 FAN videos in the new series Professional Perspectives (approx length 4-5 minutes each). Interviews with
-- Bill Osmunson DDS, MPH: Over 87,000 people have watched this powerful 5 minute video.
-- Dr. Vyvyan Howard, President, International Society of Doctors for the Environment, addresses fluoride's adverse effect on the brain.
-- Brent Foster, JD, Conservation Chair for the Oregon Sierra Club, on fluoride's effect on salmon.
-- Risks to kidney patients with Kathy Thiessen, Phyllis Mullenix, and Paul Connett
• An exciting video compilation of statements from over a dozen professionals will be released at the end of December (see A special thank you gift below).
• FAN paid for the translation of 19 Chinese published studies on fluoride's effect on the brain and IQ. 11 of these studies have been published in the journal Fluoride (April-June 2008 issue), with more in the works. There are now 23 studies from 4 countries which indicate an association between high fluoride intake and lowering of IQ in children. Note: there is no adequate margin of safety to protect all children in a fluoridated community.
• FAN provided information to reporters, local officials, researchers, and the groups and individuals fighting fluoridation in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, UK, and the US.
• In August, FAN held its third Citizens' Conference on Fluoride in Toronto. It was an enormous success and generated a great deal of attention in the Canadian national media. By linking our conference with that of the International Society for Fluoride Research we armed our activists from several countries with some of the best science on this issue available.
• Following in the wake of the Toronto presentations on fluoride and the brain by Dr. Vyvyan Howard, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment produced a statement opposing fluoridation in September. In 2009 we hope to get more national organizations to do likewise.
• FAN has worked this year to get a US Congressional hearing. It is too soon to give any details at this point.
• FAN continues to fight EPA's outrageously unscientific and illegitimate approval of DOW's use of sulfuryl fluoride as a food fumigant in mills, warehouses and processing plants (this will greatly increase fluoride exposure). We agreed to a mediation effort and have had two meetings with EPA officials. Our efforts (along with the Environmental Working Group and Beyond Pesticides) have been greatly assisted by the availability of a pro bono lawyer. We might well be in court on this in 2009.
But we do need your financial help to keep ALL our battles raging. Compared to the giants we are fighting, who have multi-million dollar budgets of taxpayers' money at their disposal, our budget requirements are relatively modest. Our estimated expenditures for 2008 to date are approximately $76,000. This is so low because we only offer token salaries and we receive a great deal of pro bono support from many of our supporters.
So one way and another, we get a great deal out of a small budget. Nevertheless each year we still have the task of raising that budget and we realize with the current economic crisis that this year, this is going to be tougher than ever. So please give what you can.
Our goal: $80,000 by midnight EST on Dec 31, 2008.
Raised to date: $600.00
Donations are tax-deductible. FAN is a project of the American Environmental Health Studies Project, which has 501(c)(3) non-profit status, so your donations are tax deductible. Make sure FAN gets some of your hard earned money not Uncle Sam! If you can't help us financially this year, we know many of you are helping us in many other ways in your local communities and we are grateful for all that you are doing for this important cause.
Donate online or send a check. Making a secure donation online is very easy and quick to do. Simply click here. However, we pay a commission on each donation for this excellent service, so if you wish to make sure we get every cent of your donation please send us a check made out to FAN and send to Paul Connett, 82 Judson Street, Canton, NY 13617.
A special thank you gift. A brand new 28 minute DVD, consisting of a compilation of comments by over a dozen distinguished professionals explaining why they oppose fluoridation, has been produced by Kevin Hurley and edited by Michael Connett. We believe that this video will be a tremendous help in convincing academics, doctors and local officials that fluoridation must be halted. According to Michael, this will be FAN's best video yet. The DVD will be ready at the end of December and we will be sending it as a thank you gift to all those who donate over $100 to our 2009 fundraising campaign.
Meanwhile, please make as generous donation as you can afford. And if your budget is very low please do not feel bad if you can't help us financially this year as we know many of you are helping this fight in many other ways.
As we report back on the progress of this fundraising effort over the next few weeks we will attempt to summarize our many achievements and efforts in 2008 and reveal some of our plans for 2009.
Paul Connett
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