FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.FluorideAlert.Org
FAN Bulletin 2010: Plans for the New Year
December 26, 2009
Our fundraising effort to raise $50,000 to support our 2010 campaign efforts to end fluoridation has picked up some momentum over the last few days.
As of Dec 23 we had received $15,966 from 115 donors
As of Dec 24 we had received $16,416 from 124 donors
As of Dec 26 we had received $19,076 from 139 donors
To help continue this momentum two angels have stepped in with two separate challenges. One is challenging us to raise another $1000 by Dec 28 midnight, and that will be matched $ for $. The other will donate $1500 if we can get 300 donors by December 31 midnight.
Are we asking too much?
Think what we are up against - according to Beth Sussman (National Journal, Sept 2, 2009) the ADA's total revenue for 2007 was $111 million.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics the ADA gave $1,947,490 to members of the US Congress in 2008, with slightly more to Democrats.
The ADA has about 157,000 members and is capable of reaching every town in the country with their propaganda. The CDC has 30 employees in the Oral Health Division for which their main goal is to increase the number of US communities fluoridated, including mandatory statewide wherever they see the opportunity. Likewise every state has a dental director dedicated to promoting and defending this practice. Similar situations pertain in the main fluoridating countries. Internationally there is an international dental lobby spearheaded by the World Dental Federation (FDI) which is funded largely by industrial interests, as well as the World Health Organization, which has been captured by the dental lobby on this issue.
Fluoridation promoters will not be happy until they have fluoridated every town in every country in the world (according to them access to fluoride is a basic human right!).
We only have one weapon against all this - the truth. But even the truth only works if we can get people to read and acknowledge it. In that respect we have some tools - FAN's webpage - the Professionals' Statement - the Professionals' DVD and our other videos.
Here are other things we are planning for 2010 (more details to follow over the next few days):
1) We want to hire a full-time campaign organizer.
2) We will be organizing The 4th Citizens Conference on Fluoride at St. Lawrence University from July 23-27: SAVE THE DATE!
3) We hope to produce another key video.
4) We will be supporting a lawsuit in Washington State at the request of Dr. Bill Osmunson.
5) We will be pursuing answers from the US EPA pesticide division - in court if necessary - on their outrageous health risk assessment on the fluoride residues left by Dow AgroSciences' use of sulfuryl fluoride as a fumigant on food in warehouses and processing plants (and recently proposed for soil).
But we need to have the budget to do these things.
FAN began in 2000 with the odds strongly against us. It has come a long way, and if we can continue, we can win. But only with your help. This is a people's campaign.
A huge thank you to the 139 people who have already contributed the $19,000 to FAN's 2010 budget. Your contributions have been enormously generous and we are extremely grateful, but 139 is only a small total out of the thousands who have received this appeal.
Please validate our efforts with a small financial contribution. This is one way you can tell us we are not wasting our time.
Paul Connett
http://www.FluorideAlert.Org
FAN Bulletin 2010: Plans for the New Year
December 26, 2009
Our fundraising effort to raise $50,000 to support our 2010 campaign efforts to end fluoridation has picked up some momentum over the last few days.
As of Dec 23 we had received $15,966 from 115 donors
As of Dec 24 we had received $16,416 from 124 donors
As of Dec 26 we had received $19,076 from 139 donors
To help continue this momentum two angels have stepped in with two separate challenges. One is challenging us to raise another $1000 by Dec 28 midnight, and that will be matched $ for $. The other will donate $1500 if we can get 300 donors by December 31 midnight.
Are we asking too much?
Think what we are up against - according to Beth Sussman (National Journal, Sept 2, 2009) the ADA's total revenue for 2007 was $111 million.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics the ADA gave $1,947,490 to members of the US Congress in 2008, with slightly more to Democrats.
The ADA has about 157,000 members and is capable of reaching every town in the country with their propaganda. The CDC has 30 employees in the Oral Health Division for which their main goal is to increase the number of US communities fluoridated, including mandatory statewide wherever they see the opportunity. Likewise every state has a dental director dedicated to promoting and defending this practice. Similar situations pertain in the main fluoridating countries. Internationally there is an international dental lobby spearheaded by the World Dental Federation (FDI) which is funded largely by industrial interests, as well as the World Health Organization, which has been captured by the dental lobby on this issue.
Fluoridation promoters will not be happy until they have fluoridated every town in every country in the world (according to them access to fluoride is a basic human right!).
We only have one weapon against all this - the truth. But even the truth only works if we can get people to read and acknowledge it. In that respect we have some tools - FAN's webpage - the Professionals' Statement - the Professionals' DVD and our other videos.
Here are other things we are planning for 2010 (more details to follow over the next few days):
1) We want to hire a full-time campaign organizer.
2) We will be organizing The 4th Citizens Conference on Fluoride at St. Lawrence University from July 23-27: SAVE THE DATE!
3) We hope to produce another key video.
4) We will be supporting a lawsuit in Washington State at the request of Dr. Bill Osmunson.
5) We will be pursuing answers from the US EPA pesticide division - in court if necessary - on their outrageous health risk assessment on the fluoride residues left by Dow AgroSciences' use of sulfuryl fluoride as a fumigant on food in warehouses and processing plants (and recently proposed for soil).
But we need to have the budget to do these things.
FAN began in 2000 with the odds strongly against us. It has come a long way, and if we can continue, we can win. But only with your help. This is a people's campaign.
A huge thank you to the 139 people who have already contributed the $19,000 to FAN's 2010 budget. Your contributions have been enormously generous and we are extremely grateful, but 139 is only a small total out of the thousands who have received this appeal.
Please validate our efforts with a small financial contribution. This is one way you can tell us we are not wasting our time.
Paul Connett
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