For those of you that aren't familiar with us, WRCC is an activist collective, operating out of Denver, Colorado, that has been active for well over a decade. In that time, we have taken on many focuses, in an attempt to inform the masses, limit government control, and do everything we can to make the world a more peaceful, healthy, loving place. Some of the banners we've taken up include GMO labeling, the TPP, mandatory vaccinations, and of course water fluoridation.
Water Fluoridation, what is it? Why don't we want it?
There is already SO much available online about this topic, so we're just going to touch on the basic points really quick, offer you some further reading links (bottom of the article), and then go on to our specific struggle to remove this poison from Denver's public water. The arguments we have focused on are:
The argument the government is using to fluoridate is that it "improves oral health", meaning that this is mass medication, without consent or knowledge of those being medicated.
There is no way to measure how much fluoride any given person is taking in through water fluoridation, with infants and 30-year-olds drinking the same medicated water.
Municipalities don't use elemental fluoride/fluorine, they use fluorosilicic acid, sodium fluorosilicate, and sodium fluoride, most of which are industrial waste products, which businesses would be penalized for letting into the air, water, or soil.
The improvements in oral health quoted by advocates are THE SAME in nations that do use water fluoridation and those that don't.
Our battle with the Denver Water Board began in earnest March 2011, when WRCC teamed up with the Fluoride Action Network, and rallied 20 folks to attend the Board's meeting and give a brief presentation on the potential harms of fluoridated water, including lots of research.
About a month later, we had another chance to address the Board, with a 10 minute time-limit, and far more of our crew in attendance. This time around, we had a chance to make a full presentation, explaining why fluoride is not a nutrient, why it is a neurotoxin, various medical effects, global statistics, and MUCH more. The board cut our presenter off at the 7.5 minute mark, and promptly disregarded everything that was said.
While these actions didn't change the Water Board's minds, they did start the conversation, got WRCC better versed on the talking points, and even got us mentioned on Info Wars. For the next few years, we directed our primary focus elsewhere, while continuing to spread knowledge to our wider community.
2015: Round Two... Fight!
Fast forward 4 years; WeAreChangeColorado has grown in numbers many times over, more and more experts have spoken out against water fluoridation, and Denver just keeps on adding it. In early 2015, we once again attended a Water Board meeting, with many WRCC members took the podium to give their thoughts and read off statistical & historical facts.<c/enter>
Penfield Tate III, vice president of the water board said:
"a couple of you mentioned information that seemed more current than when the last time we were together. If you could leave us copies of that, with our staff so they can look at it and brief us on it, I'd just appreciate it. Things change a lot quickly, so if there's more research or information, I'd appreciate having access to that."
We got pretty fired up from this event, and the Water Board's apparent unwillingness to actually listen to us, so we stepped our game in a big way...
In addition to local residents & activists, there were also experts speaking about the topic, including Dr. Paul Connett, author of "The Case Against Flouride". Here is his entire presentation:
After 6 months of non-stop work from our members, medical experts, and other activists around Colorado, we finally got the Water Board to take a vote on the issue. Not surprisingly, they completely disregarded everything that they had "learned", and decided to continue medicating a million people without their knowledge or consent. Of the 5 board members, only 3 attended, one was on the phone, and all 4 voted in favor of continuing the program. Here's our video of the vote itself, as well as their reasons for the decision.
What can you do?
Get yourself a reverse-osmosis filter, drink well/spring water, live somewhere that doesn't fluoridate their water, support organizations like WRCC (donate via BTC: 18Mi2J8Xm1dwfM1X9B6UR2GekkKa5eGV9T), and help educate your friends & family.
Thanks for spreading awareness of this vitally-important topic!
I gave (to my knowledge) the only TEDx Talk about the dangers of Fluorosilicic Acid, specifically about how it concentrates in the calcifying tissue of the Pineal Gland. Anybody who wants to watch it can find it here:
Again, thanks for sharing these presentations WRCC (: It is of the utmost importance that we get this info OUT THERE, right in peoples' faces!
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Thanks so much, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I’m also surprised you live in Denver if they add fluoride there! I’m actually moving to Colorado Springs because the only fluoride in the water is naturally-occurring calcium-fluoride instead of the super-toxic fluorosilicic acid (which literally even sounds like a chemical invented by an evil scientist)... But I grew up on .08ppm F (in Gainesville FL) and the CDC announced a year or 2 ago that anything over .07ppm is an overdose... So that was a pretty huge slap in the face! I felt suffocated there in Florida, so it’s good to GTFO finally and now into a place that doesn’t waste money buying poison to illegally Dose us with! Please let me know the next time you have a meetup or a council hearing or ANYTHING I can be of assistance with (: I will be there because I agree, this is the #1 thing people need to WAKE UP about! Once people realize there is poison in the water, they’ll start asking what else is poisonous and when they do that, will be the day we hit a critical mass of awareness and there’s no going back from that revolutionary point in time! Thanks for everything you do and I look forward to hearing from you in the future! ❤️
Well actually, I ( @kennyskitchen here, I wrote this article) lived in Portland for over a decade before I started traveling.
As for the folks in Denver, everybody pretty much drinks either Manitou water, El Dorado Springs water, Uncle Charlie's water, or RO :-)
Getting people to care about what they're putting in their body to begin with is the key. Cultivating the awareness of how it affects your life experience, the simple fact that we have so much control of our realities, and practicing the self-love to actually choose to make it better. As long as folks are apathetic, disempowered, and disconnected, it doesn't matter if they have the knowledge or not.
Wow Portland is such a beautiful place, and no fluoride there too (:
And wow I didn’t know you wrote for WRC (: @lpfaust has had very great things to say about you and I look forward to meeting at one of the upcoming Colorado events!
This sucks that the battle is never-ending. I'm lucky. I live in a tiny community (Crestone, CO) where everyone agrees and our water is kept clean and safe. I even know the Water Lady who EVERYDAY checks to make sure we are where we should be. Oh! And no fluoride. 😍
I moved here only 5 years ago and the water was already clean. I do know they had to fight... but the good news? They won. And so can we all.
Keep it up! I wish you all the luck! Together, it's possible.
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Fluoridation .. government control its nothing more than to make us sick and make more money. Sick. Crypto's will change all of that here's to sooner rather than later. Nice post, great awareness, this is a global issue, enough. Cheers ;)
But... local government works! har har Isn't that funny, right? No, it does not. Even local county and city "councils" and sheriffs are often bought and paid for. There's no point trying to convince them to side against their political handlers either. They rule against the local oligarchs? They lose their next election. It's pretty easy to control them. Trying to fight that system, within the system, is never going to work.
Ya, you cannot expect a system to take steps toward disassembling itself. The thing is that there really isn't any other way to get the same kind of reach to the masses that you can by going against the system that way.
The added bonus being that people who haven't realized how inherently evil the system is quickly wake up to it after watching a showdown like this play out.
off the subject - @lpfaust cannot add you to the steemit.chat because you do not have a steemit.chat account - please go to steemit.chat and create an account so we can all discuss the upcoming meetups. Thanks!
Thanks for your hard work @wearechange-co! Once the rose colored glasses are removed, folks start to realize the deception and lies more readily. It isn't pretty but necessary for real community involvement and change!
Thanks @yoginiofoz! We've definitely seen our numbers swell with every campaign we've done, as more people decide to take responsibility for their lives, and realize that change can only come from within them.
Thanks for spreading awareness of this vitally-important topic!
I gave (to my knowledge) the only TEDx Talk about the dangers of Fluorosilicic Acid, specifically about how it concentrates in the calcifying tissue of the Pineal Gland. Anybody who wants to watch it can find it here:
Again, thanks for sharing these presentations WRCC (: It is of the utmost importance that we get this info OUT THERE, right in peoples' faces!
Upvoted & Resteemed to spread awareness (:
What a great talk! We'll definitely spread that video :-)
Water fluoridation is definitely one of the most important things for people to become aware of and to protect themselves from.
Thanks so much, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I’m also surprised you live in Denver if they add fluoride there! I’m actually moving to Colorado Springs because the only fluoride in the water is naturally-occurring calcium-fluoride instead of the super-toxic fluorosilicic acid (which literally even sounds like a chemical invented by an evil scientist)... But I grew up on .08ppm F (in Gainesville FL) and the CDC announced a year or 2 ago that anything over .07ppm is an overdose... So that was a pretty huge slap in the face! I felt suffocated there in Florida, so it’s good to GTFO finally and now into a place that doesn’t waste money buying poison to illegally Dose us with! Please let me know the next time you have a meetup or a council hearing or ANYTHING I can be of assistance with (: I will be there because I agree, this is the #1 thing people need to WAKE UP about! Once people realize there is poison in the water, they’ll start asking what else is poisonous and when they do that, will be the day we hit a critical mass of awareness and there’s no going back from that revolutionary point in time! Thanks for everything you do and I look forward to hearing from you in the future! ❤️
Well actually, I ( @kennyskitchen here, I wrote this article) lived in Portland for over a decade before I started traveling.
As for the folks in Denver, everybody pretty much drinks either Manitou water, El Dorado Springs water, Uncle Charlie's water, or RO :-)
Getting people to care about what they're putting in their body to begin with is the key. Cultivating the awareness of how it affects your life experience, the simple fact that we have so much control of our realities, and practicing the self-love to actually choose to make it better. As long as folks are apathetic, disempowered, and disconnected, it doesn't matter if they have the knowledge or not.
Wow Portland is such a beautiful place, and no fluoride there too (:
And wow I didn’t know you wrote for WRC (: @lpfaust has had very great things to say about you and I look forward to meeting at one of the upcoming Colorado events!
Keep up the good fight!
Up-voted & Re-steemed
Thanks for the support!
This sucks that the battle is never-ending. I'm lucky. I live in a tiny community (Crestone, CO) where everyone agrees and our water is kept clean and safe. I even know the Water Lady who EVERYDAY checks to make sure we are where we should be. Oh! And no fluoride. 😍
I moved here only 5 years ago and the water was already clean. I do know they had to fight... but the good news? They won. And so can we all.
Keep it up! I wish you all the luck! Together, it's possible.
Hugs!
❤️
Crestone is such a beautiful place, of course the water there would stay clean :-)
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Fluoridation .. government control its nothing more than to make us sick and make more money. Sick. Crypto's will change all of that here's to sooner rather than later. Nice post, great awareness, this is a global issue, enough. Cheers ;)
Thanks so much for your support & comment. Definitely agree about government, and we are so excited to see solutions popping up to render it obsolete.
But... local government works! har har Isn't that funny, right? No, it does not. Even local county and city "councils" and sheriffs are often bought and paid for. There's no point trying to convince them to side against their political handlers either. They rule against the local oligarchs? They lose their next election. It's pretty easy to control them. Trying to fight that system, within the system, is never going to work.
Ya, you cannot expect a system to take steps toward disassembling itself. The thing is that there really isn't any other way to get the same kind of reach to the masses that you can by going against the system that way.
The added bonus being that people who haven't realized how inherently evil the system is quickly wake up to it after watching a showdown like this play out.
That is true. It highlights the absurdity of it as Ron Paul's campaign did.
Hi - (upvoted and resteemed!) And
off the subject - @lpfaust cannot add you to the steemit.chat because you do not have a steemit.chat account - please go to steemit.chat and create an account so we can all discuss the upcoming meetups. Thanks!
Ya, everybody that uses it have got their own steemit.chat accounts, we didn't create one for this communal account.
ok
Thanks for your hard work @wearechange-co! Once the rose colored glasses are removed, folks start to realize the deception and lies more readily. It isn't pretty but necessary for real community involvement and change!
Thanks @yoginiofoz! We've definitely seen our numbers swell with every campaign we've done, as more people decide to take responsibility for their lives, and realize that change can only come from within them.
Agreed! I couldn't have said it better myself!
Holy shit. I saw this on the Denver news. I had no idea fellow Steemians were behind the project. Keep up the fight y'all