FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK

FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.FluorideAlert.Org
FAN Bulletin 1074: Good News, ADA$ Website, Important California Meeting
May 21, 2009
GOOD NEWS:
MAY 20: GREAT LAKES UNITED pass resolution that supports the end of water fluoridation

Great Lakes United is an international coalition dedicated to preserving and restoring the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River ecosystem. Great Lakes United is made up of member organizations representing environmentalists, conservationists, hunters and anglers, labor unions, community groups, and citizens of the United States, Canada, and First Nations and Tribes.

Carole Clinch (email), Research Coordinator for People for Safe Drinking Water (Ontario, Canada), submitted a resolution to Great Lakes United for the members to vote. The results were announced May 20, 2009 during an electronic, annual general meeting.

The resolution (at http://fluoridealert.org/glu.resolution.passed.5-20-09.pdf ) states:

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United supports the United States Environmental Protection Agency unions (US EPA Unions), Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) statements and professionals world-wide that the practice of artificial drinking water fluoridation be terminated.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United supports the United States Environmental Protection Agency unions (US EPA Unions), Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) statements and professionals world-wide that the practice of artificial drinking water fluoridation be terminated.

This resolution passed with a vote:
16 for the resolution
10 against the resolution
62% voted in favor of the resolution.

53% of GLU members participated in the online voting.
The results are available at http://www.glu.org/meeting09

THANKS to Carole for her continued outstanding efforts as one of Ontario's dynamic fluoridation activists.

GOOD WEBSITE: OpenSecrets.org on ADA's Congressional contributions for 2008

See the list of US Congressional representatives who received contributions from the American Dental Association (ADA) in 2008 which totaled $1,940,490 at OpenSecrets.org . (Thanks to Danny Gottleib for finding this.)

See also ADA's May 13 press release thanking Congressman Mike Simpson (R-ID) for sponsoring -- and the House of Representatives for passing -- a resolution on May 12, 2009, congratulating the ADA on its 150th anniversary. Simpson received $10,250 from the ADA in 2008 (from OpenSecrets.org)