Protect Our Water Alliance

Got this today, something we are concerned about.

Dear POWA Signers,

We wish everyone a happy, and fluoride-free new year! With just a few
hundred more signatures, we will be reaching the 10,000 mark! BRAVO! And
thanks again to all of you who have signed and have helped get more
signers. We anticipate 2006 to be a major watershed year for water
fluoridation. The POWA petition will certainly be a big part of that!

We have a three important messages for all of you:

1) PLEASE HELP US GET MORE SIGNATURES! The momentum of signature
gathering has slowed considerably. We will need many more signatures to
submit to Congress, and we want to be ready if things come to a head this
spring. If everyone on this list made sure only ONE more person signed,
we would double our numbers immediately! If everyone got just 2 more,
we'd be nearing 30,000! We know for a fact we will reach 10,000 within
just a few days and go way beyond that, if everyone reading this message
would please (a) ask one, two, or more people you haven't asked before;
AND/OR (b) follow up on people you have already asked, to make sure they
have signed already. (Sorry, we have no way to help you determine that.)
Remember - you can use our automated ask-a-friend system or our sample
letter (http://www.powalliance.org/campaigns.htm), or just do it on your
own, sending people to: http://www.powalliance.org/petition/index.html.
PLEASE HELP!

2) MDs, PHDs, DENTISTS, SCIENTISTS, other professionals, and non-fluoride
organizations: PLEASE ALSO SIGN SECOND LOOK'S STATEMENT OF CONCERN ON
FLUORIDATION! We consider this SoC so important that we have adopted it as
our third campaign (see our Campaigns page at:
http://www.powalliance.org/campaigns.htm). There are several reasons for
its importance: (a) there's strength in diversity; having 2 different
efforts toward the same end can only strengthen both - in fact, the POWA
petition was originally created to complement the SoC; (b) it is not an
online petition, although information for how to sign can be reached
online; this document is backed up with actual signatures, often
considered
desirable; (c) it concentrates highly credentialed signers together, making
a clear and reasoned statement; (d) it is a learning tool in itself for
anyone who reads it (ultimately government officials).

Go to http://www.slweb.org/socintro.html to learn more about the SoC and
how to sign it. If you are not a professional with a higher degree,
PLEASE HELP GET SOME to sign!

3) Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has a request for POWA signers. They
have created a "National Dream Team" of individuals who are connections in
particular states - there are currently 28 states that have NDT
representatives - whose purpose is to organize more support for a
congressional hearing. If you wish to do more to secure a congressional
hearing on this matter, please contact the NDT member in your state. If
you live in one of the other 22 states and want to help, please contact
FAN at paul@fluoridealert.org.

Below is a list of the NDT and email addresses of the representatives in
each state.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SIGNATURES AND FOR YOUR FURTHER HELP!

The POWA Team

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THE NATIONAL DREAM TEAM


ARKANSAS: Crystal Harvey crystalthepink@gmail.com
CALIFORNIA: Gene Burke burkegene@msn.com; Maureen Jones maureenj@pacbell.net
COLORADO: Pati Caputo mtncentre@aol.com
DELAWARE: Alan Muller amuller@dca.net
FLORIDA: Jo Anne Johnson punkinpie@adelphia.net
HAWAII: Hesh Goldstein monkeyman157@hotmail.com
ILLINOIS: Taylor Moore taylorgenemoore@yahoo.com; Joyce Baunach jbaunach@rcn.com
KANSAS: Deanna Havens FAT-KS@cox.net
LOUISIANA: John-Christopher Ward jc8ward@cox.net
MARYLAND: Bernie Miltenberger Bernie_Miltenberger@msn.com
MASSACHUSETTS: Kathy Fontane kfont12416@msn.com
MICHIGAN: Gladys Mitchell gmitchell10@verizon.net
MONTANA: Sarah Rollins rollinsarah@imt.net
MISSOURI: Mary Ann Wilson mawilson@planetkc.com
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Gerhard Bedding gbedding@verizon.net
NEW JERSEY: Nancy Coleman NJnoFluoride@aol.com
NEW YORK: Eleanor Krinsky NYSCOF3@aol.com; Carol Kopf NYSCOF@AOL.COM; Paul Connett paul@fluoridealert.org
NORTH CAROLINA: Elizabeth O'Nan pace@mcdowell.main.nc.us; Don Walski Darwal31@wmconnect.com
OHIO: David and Debbie Catrow dcatrow@coxohio.com; PIZZAROLL@aol.com
OREGON: Lynne Campbell ocsdw@pop.earthlink.net
PENNSYLVANIA: Bill Smedley bsmedley@kcnet.org
TENNESSEE: Dan Stockin dan@thelilliecenter.com
TEXAS: Earle Cobb EarleCobb@cs.com
UTAH: Lorna Rosenstein lorna@xmission.com
VERMONT: Mary Lou Alberts loulou@together.net
WASHINGTON: Shirley Jacobson retiredlady_04@yahoo.com;
Betty Fowler fowler6704@comcast.net
WEST VIRGINA Terri Swearigen tswearin@verizon.net
WISCONSIN: Dan Zupon blazercommunications@hotmail.com