Fluoride Action Network

Fluoride Action Network
http://fluoridealert.org/
FAN Bulletin 2028: Ending Fluoridation "One Town at a Time"
August 8, 2010

We are getting close to making a decision on an appointment of a Campaign Director for FAN. We have been a little delayed interviewing candidates because of the intensive activities we have had on two other fronts - last minute edits on the new book and the July 23-27 FAN Conference.

As always these conferences have a way of paying us back over and over again in the renewed energy and enthusiasm they generate. This conference was no exception. As one participant wrote to us:

I don't remember ever attending any conference or meeting where I found something significant, interesting, intelligent and worthwhile in just about every person I met. Somehow our issue brought together a very caring and diverse group of people that exuded an honest cohesion through whatever differences our backgrounds may have created. That does not happen very often.

You can see a photograph of the participants at the conference (taken by Jack Cook from Nashville TN) at http://fluoridealert.org/fan.conference.july.2010.jpeg

One of the positive outcomes of the conference has been the willingness of several attendees to volunteer to be the FAN point persons for their respective states, in the effort to end fluoridation in Canada and the US "one town at a time." (We will be expanding the list to other countries later). We will be passing these names along to FAN's new campaign director when he or she is appointed.

The ideal sequence we envisage will be:

• Individual point person to facilitate formation of local group.

• Local groups to get help and advice from state point person and/or FAN's campaign director.

• Eventually, we hope that these individual groups can be networked into a statewide coalition (e.g. NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, NYSCOF) along with the formation of alliances with other groups (e.g. ActionPa.org).

So if you live in one of the provinces or states listed below, and you want to see an end to fluoridation in your town or state, please contact the relevant person in this list and give them your contact details. If no one is listed as a point person for your state please contact us and we will forward your information to a state point person when we find one. If you have already contacted me or FAN wishing to be a point person for your town I will be forwarding your details to the relevant person on this list.

Please help us maintain the tremendous momentum generated by the Mercola appeal and consolidated by the FAN conference. Over 300,000 people have now watched the interview he had with me. See http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/07/03/paul-connett-interview.aspx . This is just one of the sites covering the hits on this video.

Paul Connett

Canada

Alberta - James Beck
Ontario - Diane Sprules
Quebec - Gilles Parent

United States

Arkansas - Crystal Harvey
Colorado - Cathy Justus
Florida (St. Petersburg area) - Kurt and Marcia
Florida (Miami area) - Heinz Dinter
Georgia -Dan Stockin
Louisiana - Vic Hummert
Massachusetts (Central & South) - Mike Dolan (Central and South Mass)
Massachusetts (Boston area) - Bill Patenaude
Minnesota - Jason Kreuger
New York - Carol Kopf
Pennsylvania - Mike Ewall
Tennessee - Jack Cook
Texas - Rae Nadler-Oelnick
Vermont - Karl Novak
Virginia - Ken Case