EARTH DAY 2010
Shamefully late though it is, I still want to say something about Austin's Earth Day Festival last month (April 21) at Triangle Square Park. The event, held concurrent with the park's regular Wednesday farmers' market, was the first of its kind for Fluoride Free Austin: an event bringing health- and environmentally-consciousAustinites together for an afternoon and evening of learning, organic foods, music and film. The weather was glorious if windy, and from our table - nestled cozily between Bat Conservation International and Texas Green Builders, we distributed flyers, played our power point (see www.fluoridefreeaustin.com, "handouts") and, most important of all, talked to dozens of people about the importance of putting an end to water fluoridation in our city. Not surprisingly - in view of the nature of our audience - many people were already aware of the toxic nature of the fluoridation chemicals so cavalierly dumped into our drinking water, and those who weren't proved very open to education on the subject. Among our visitors was a UT Daily Texan reporter named Alex Geiser who, after chatting for a while, managed to produce a fine story on a tight deadline.
Two of the major sponsors were the Wheatsville Food Co-Op (where, incidentally, we purchase our reverse-osmosis filtered water), and Austin Green Art, which handled the registration. From the latter I had pre-ordered a hand-painted banner, which arrived just in the nick of time. The design was hardly what I had anticipated!
It served nicely for the occasion, however. The day passed pleasantly and so quickly that I never had time to leave the table to check out the other exhibits. Next year! Linda Greene, Rob Love, and Mat Wood (editor of the Austin Free Press) did a great job of circulating, interfacing with the other vendors and handing out many more flyers. All in all a worthwhile day, and one we look forward to repeating in other venues.
Posted by M. Rae Nadler-Olenick at 5/28/2010 10:34 PM 
Categories: environmenthealth wellness
Tags: fluoride water fluoridarion green earth day follies
Categories: environmenthealth wellness
Tags: fluoride water fluoridarion green earth day follies
I am so happy with the great exposure your group is getting. The DC blog article was fantastic and gave some good snapshots of activists.Seem to stick to just the PHD MD types who do great work. The bedrock is usually just some concerned people lacking the advanced degree but with a Phd in effort. The dental community and health department have showed degrees can be used for evil promotion and avoiding science just using your title. Keep up the excellent full court press Rae. This is what keeps this rolling foreward and one on one contacts wins converts. News coverage speeds it up greatly. I had 5 talk show hosts willing to do local debate and even a city building donated and the biggest show willing to do a prime time hour. The health department refused to talk to me then for over 6 months , return calls or emails. I kept on commenting on talk shows they were unwilling to defend their policy in real debate. I was even banned from speaking at a city workshop on fluoridation as only professionals promoting were allowed. I get get a copy of the video.
What clowns they are with old talking pointsand safe for all and everyone benefits. They even showed a picture of a young girl with horrible cavity destroyed teeth and warned that would happen more if fluoridation ended. For the children and everyone. They never mentioned dental fluorisis or any potential health effects could happen at the magical optimal dose. They did not mention babies and formula.
On earlier news show very anti fluoride the health department guy even said there had never ever been a study showing fluoridation hurt anyone teeth young or old. Tarrick Minor on Local 6 New Orlando did a reprort because I always give packets to new people when I can catch them and he listened. I was in it but never saw it as I was speaking that night and the DVd did not record. It was actually in 3 segments that night. Not just a couple comments. I only saw one segment which they had as a video with the H Department dummy. statement.
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