Wichita’s Race Against Fluoridation

Travis Crank
Infowars.com
July 8, 2012

The Kansas Health Foundation is the latest player in a long-history of attempts to both bribe city leaders and dupe the public into approving the introduction of fluoride chemicals into our public water system; as Wichita is now ranked as the 4th largest city in the nation to have resisted prior efforts up to present-day and with a county population of about a half-million people, the majority of which are concentrated right here in Wichita – we’re a big fish to fry indeed.

And fry, they are. Complete with local media propaganda and a steady stream of endorsements from the local medical community, all in concert and with the crescendo likely to be their presentation of proponent signatures – alongside their listing of endorsements by the local medical tyranny, later this month. Time is short!

This video has been reported by Christopher Power, Vice President of Communications of the Kansas Health Foundation as a copyright violation; because it is a reverse hit-piece on their own propaganda and not in violation of Fair Use under copyright law for criticism, education and news reporting.

Nothing new to info warriors! How do we respond? Readers are encouraged to download the original MP4 here, and upload it to their own YouTube channels. A counter-claim is pending at this time, the Kansas Health Foundation may file suit if desired, and we will certainly invite the public to attend. This video meets the most important requirements to be considered Fair Use; highly critical of the original work (parody), highly transformative, not-for-profit or commercial use and is for the purpose of both news reporting and education.

Even prior to the ‘thumbs down’ assault on our YouTube channel combined with the copyright battle, the Kansas Health Foundation has engaged in legal threats to single-out their most effective opponents. You can read the whole threatening letter as well my response on behalf of all Wichita activists, here. Our organization has conducted over 28,000 warning calls to the public, the audio of which can be heard on our website. The Kansas Health Foundation has illegally ‘spoofed’ the domain names of Wichitans for Pure Water and our own web site with the dot-com counterparts.

Other organizations involved in this latest thrust include the Visioneering Health Alliance, the Medical Society of Sedgwick County and a handful of ‘pseudo-entities’ and web sites created by the Kansas Health Foundation in order to project a wider presence with less support than exists in reality. Our local City Council members were recently interviewed by the local media concerning where they stand on the issue.

Fluoride Free Kansas is an organization formed to create unity among all state opposition groups and to provide a centralized resource of news, articles, videos, reports and studies relevant to the opposition, with an immediate focus on Wichita due to our imminent threat – and destined to lead the charge for eliminating water fluoridation throughout all communities in the state.

Most importantly a place for all state and local city opposition groups to find each other, share information and organize the resistance. We’re pleased to have formed a new alliance with Michael Hicks and associates of Wichitans for Pure Water. And online petition is now available – to be augmented soon with a physical petition drive for Wichita, KS and our surrounding areas. Get on board!

The forced-medication proponents have announced a formal kick-off of their own ballot effort on Thursday, July 12 at 5:30 p.m. at GraceMed Clinic in Wichita. The clinic is located at 1122 N Topeka, Wichita, KS and a protest is scheduled – be there!

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Fluoride Free Kansas and Wichitans for Pure Water conducted their first official meeting on July 2nd, as covered here by KWCH 12 Eyewitness News on July 3rd. And we’re so grateful for the ‘equal time’. It should be noted that KWCH is among three or more local media outlets that have enjoyed the additional revenue from multi-thousand dollar 30-second TV propaganda spots, funded by the Kansas Health Foundation.

Kansas residents please sign the petition that will be presented to city leaders in the coming weeks. Signatories from all other areas are welcomed; petitions from other areas of Kansas will be used to assist those from other areas of the state, in the coming months. Please visit our web site for more information – and support the opposition!

Travis Crank is an activist with FluorideFreeKansas.org

Tags: Domestic News, Environment, Eugenics, Legislation, Natural Health, technology

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Taking Action Against Offensive TV Show that Continues to Air Anti-Gay Language

Taking Action Against Offensive TV Show that Continues to Air Anti-Gay Language

Today, GLAAD and the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) stood with members of Latino  community service and advocacy organization Bienestar at a press conference outside of Liberman Broadcasting, Inc. (LBI) to deliver thousands of signatures about its show 'José Luis Sin Censura," which, despite promises to take the show off the air, continues to run its violent and offensive content during the daytime, unaltered. Click here for a timeline overview of the year-plus long campaign.

In fact, as recently as May 30, despite commitments from LBI to clean up the show and to take it off the air, episodes aired in which audiences chanted “puta" ("Whore! Whore! Whore!") at a female guest and "“puto! puto! puto!” (or "f*ggot") at a man they thought to be gay; the terms “puñal,” “maricón” and “joto” (or "f*ggot") were also used.  For photos of the Change.org petition delivery visit: http://flickr.com/glaad

Today the organizations also announced that that they will be contacting advertisers like AT&T and Time Warner Cable, both of which pulled their support for José Luis Sin Censura last year, as well as McDonald’s and Dish Latino, to pull their support from the program.

Today's announcements follow a joint formal FCC complaint filed last year and a meeting yesterday between GLAAD, NHMC and Rocky Delgadillo, former City Attorney for Los Angeles and counsel to LBI. On the call, Mr. Delgadillo revealed that LBI would stop airing the show on owned and operated stations in late September, and he also stated that advertiser support was preventing LBI from pulling the show any sooner.

But these statements were strikingly similar to those he had made on behalf of LBI when he met with GLAAD and NHMC over six months ago, as well as those of LBI executives made more than a year ago during a meeting with GLAAD and NHMC, that promised the show would be taken off the air. These commitments were not honored.

In a time of growing violence against women and LGBT people, José Luis Sin Censura and LBI are sending a horrible message to society.

An overview of the year-plus long campaign by GLAAD and NHMC:

On June 17, 2011, GLAAD and NHMC met with the principals of Liberman Broadcasting, Inc.: Chair José Liberman; his son, President and CEO Lenard Liberman; and Chief Operating Officer, Winter Horton. The Libermans own EstrellaTV Network and a number of broadcast stations across the country that air EstrellaTV, including its Los Angeles-based flagship KRCA. While representatives from LBI offered an apology for anti-LGBT content that aired on the show, they did not take immediate action, had no response to other issues raised by GLAAD and NHMC concerning the use of anti-Latino slurs or misogynistic content, and offered no proposals for how to rectify this situation.In June 2011, national advertisers including AT&T and Time Warner Cable as well as affiliate stations in Miami, Florida and Wichita, Kansas pulled support for the program.In April 2011, more than 30 organizations including the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the Southern Poverty Law Center, United Church of Christ, and the Women’s Media Center, sent a letter to the FCC, urging swift action. On February 28, 2011, GLAAD and NHMC filed the original FCC complaint demonstrating that KRCA (and all of the stations that air "José Luis Sin Censura") are in violation of federal law. The complaint documented over twenty episodes that aired between June 18 and December 7, 2010, which contains images and language of the nature that is never displayed or is bleeped out of pre-taped English-language programs of the same nature, including the words  "pinche" ("f*cking" in English) and "culero" ("assf*cker"), anti-gay language, including epithets such as "puto," "maricón," "joto" and "puñal" (or "f*ggot"), anti-Latino slurs, such as "mojado" ("wetback"), and anti-female terms such as "piruja" and  "puta" ("whore"). The program frequently features blatant nudity and female guests have been shown in violent fights. Guests and audience members are often incited to engage in verbal and physical attacks. Many episodes show the audience standing and shouting anti-gay epithets and profanity at guests.

For more information, including past videos and letters of support, please visit: http://www.glaad.org/jlsc.

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