FLUORIDE FREE AUSTIN YOU TUBE CHANNEL DEBUTS
Admittedly, we should have gotten to it sooner. . .we're way overdue. But better late than never.
Quietly and without fanfare, the FluorideFreeAustin You Tube channel officially launched on Thursday August 4 with the upload of five new clips and an old favorite. There will be many more to come.
What took us so long? Good question. Pure inertia, perhaps. For the past several years, we've enjoyed outstanding support from other activists who have covered our work on their channels, including Texans4AcctGovt, TheAlexJonesChannel, Lonestarpolitics and - in particular - the MikeHansenArchives (owing to the energy and creativity of its Tubemaster, a term I just coined). We owe every one of them a huge debt of gratitude.
Their achievements have finally stirred us to efforts of our own. There's been some call, over time, for all our members' 3-minute citizens communication talks to be systematically gathered in one place. For, although all open city meetings are archived on the Channel 6 website, not everyone has the inclination to cull through long agendas to locate a few items of interest. So - for the time being at least - our mission will be simply to collect the footage promptly, assemble the clips (which, following a crash course in Stream Transport/Pazera/Windows Movie Maker, I'm now nominally qualified to do), and store them on the You Tube channel for posterity. This audio-visual documentation will spare future generations the frustration of dealing with the City's garbled transcripts and will also ensure that each clip carries the FluorideFreeAustin name. We'll also continue to gladly accept appropriate videos from others who might want to share them and, of course, make our own freely available to others to post. It's a win-win situation.
And now, sit back and enjoy the show.
JULY 28, 2011
Philip Greene 7-28-2011 Rae Nadler-Olenick 7-28-2011
Darcy Bloom 7-28-2011 Travis Tybor 7-28-2011
AUGUST 4, 2011
John Bush, Exec. Dir.TAG 8-4-11
Quietly and without fanfare, the FluorideFreeAustin You Tube channel officially launched on Thursday August 4 with the upload of five new clips and an old favorite. There will be many more to come.
What took us so long? Good question. Pure inertia, perhaps. For the past several years, we've enjoyed outstanding support from other activists who have covered our work on their channels, including Texans4AcctGovt, TheAlexJonesChannel, Lonestarpolitics and - in particular - the MikeHansenArchives (owing to the energy and creativity of its Tubemaster, a term I just coined). We owe every one of them a huge debt of gratitude.
Their achievements have finally stirred us to efforts of our own. There's been some call, over time, for all our members' 3-minute citizens communication talks to be systematically gathered in one place. For, although all open city meetings are archived on the Channel 6 website, not everyone has the inclination to cull through long agendas to locate a few items of interest. So - for the time being at least - our mission will be simply to collect the footage promptly, assemble the clips (which, following a crash course in Stream Transport/Pazera/Windows Movie Maker, I'm now nominally qualified to do), and store them on the You Tube channel for posterity. This audio-visual documentation will spare future generations the frustration of dealing with the City's garbled transcripts and will also ensure that each clip carries the FluorideFreeAustin name. We'll also continue to gladly accept appropriate videos from others who might want to share them and, of course, make our own freely available to others to post. It's a win-win situation.
And now, sit back and enjoy the show.
JULY 28, 2011
Philip Greene 7-28-2011 Rae Nadler-Olenick 7-28-2011
Darcy Bloom 7-28-2011 Travis Tybor 7-28-2011
AUGUST 4, 2011
John Bush, Exec. Dir.TAG 8-4-11
Posted by M. Rae Nadler-Olenick at 8/8/2011 3:10 AM 
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Categories: health environment politics wellness
Tags: austin dillo dirt sludge biosolids toxic waste drugs sewage
Great to get 5 speakers on topic for one meeting. All did a excellent job. James Robert Deal tried to speak at Seattle monday but was told only those agenda topics would be allowed. He had been assured he could speak before he drove there. He kept asking how he could speak but was told only if put on agenda by a commissioner. Another also put it on the record he had wanted to speak on fluoridation but would not. Attorney Deal did share his letter of intent to litigate and not destroy records. It has great detail of documentation especially on the electronic version with lots of links to data and peer reviewed data.
So in Seattle you can not speak unless they allow it as an agenda item. Then 2 minute limit. They circle the wagons to protect public from the whole story and citizen comments.
Another great job by anti fluoriation people in Austin. The commission seems committed to acting stupid or at least ignoring proven risks. The debate proved how pathetic in knowledge the pro fluoride experts were. Could anyone not notice how short they came up except for repeating basic talking points. It was trust us because we are the real experts. Ignore them because its google science when they say it. Yet they gave no science. Just claims. What big bozos. The smart ones stay clear of being proved fools.
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Congrats on getting these videos up and running. Nice, smooth presentations. For now, it seems your words are falling on deaf ears but as the anti-fluoride momentum accelerates, they'll listen. We're fighting the battle here in Everett, Washington and having very similar issues with the city council. They aren't operating on logic. There are other factors abounding that their decisions are based on. One can only wonder.
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Thanks...it's been fun learning a bit about video and not having to rely completely on friends - though we have plenty of them - to do it all for us.
I was watching some of the Everett clips and was struck by the almost identical reactions of the council members there to ours here when confronted by anti-fluoride speakers who refuse to go away. Almost as though everybody was reading from a single script (they probably are). James is really getting to them! By contrast, the city council of College Station, Texas which is about the same size as Everett, were a model of logic and civility as they calmly debated the evidence and arrived at the appropriate conclusion.
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