Thank you to Dr. Larry Rose and Dr. Richard Philp for publishing their crucial analyses of the dangerous toxicity of the ingredients in LBAM spray. These good and abundantly qualified doctors take their professional responsibility of protecting public health very seriously!

Thank you to Foster Gamble and CASSonline.org for amassing the amazing data on the BILLIONS of dollars of economic damage aerial spraying will inflict on the real estate, tourism and organic farming industries in California. This was wonderful work!

Please, everybody, keep on adding your personal thank yous to all these friends and neighbors who are working at our side to stop the spray.

Thank you for taking the time to mention them here! Please, come back again soon, and feel free to add anyone else you can think of to this ‘thank you note’ post.
Mim

I celebrate Helen with you!
Mim

She has been amazing, using her connections to generate awareness and support. But today she outdid herself: she turned each of the 20,000 + signatures and petition comments into a fax and sent them off to some particularly hard hearted Assemblymembers… after a few hundred faxes the machines were jammed or turned off and Helen was called by angry aides and asked to please stop! But Helen said: Each one of these faxes represents a person that needs to heard! Go Helen.

You know what I’d like to do? Get a phone book for each of the 9 spray counties and send them in a bundle to Governor Schwarzenegger with a note: “These are all of the people the spraying will harm.” It would be quite a big package!

We’re a bit confused that this article strikes you as exclusive. Please, re-read the following paragraph, as we think it will change your mind:

“Many, many more individuals belong on our list. The city council members, representatives and senators who have asked the tough questions, trying to pin down the slippery A.G. Kawamura and his cohorts. The members of CASSonline.org and LBAMspray.com who are working so tirelessly in this effort. The doctors and nurses who have stepped forward to declare that the actions of the government threaten public health. And all of the un-named individuals who are devoting hours every day to educating their communities about the jeopardy in which we are all being held.”

I’m unsure of you cause for complaint, and if there are folks you’d like to see honored here, this is your opportunity to praise and thank them, as this part of the above article indicates:

“Know Someone Who Should Be On This List? Please Feel Free To Mention Them In the Comments”

I appreciate you taking the time to share your feelings on this, but your comment has an awfully negative tone in light of the fact that we wrote this to thank everyone for all of the hard work they are doing.

We realize this is your first comment here at Vegan Reader, and hope you will be better pleased by some of our other and future offerings. Like everyone else in this crisis, we are voluntarily doing what we are doing, in any free time we can find, in hopes of being of service to the community.

We hope you’ll reconsider the passages of the article we’ve copied here, and see if they appear exclusive in nature upon reading them carefully a second time.

Thanks.
Mim

There are many, many, many heros in this movement, including every dedicated individual that have ALREADY been sprayed and have worked tirelessly to stop the next round of spraying for everyone, including for those in the Bay Area that have just recently found out about the issue. The previous person commenting tried to list many key individuals but has still excluded countless people.

I really think that this posting is a slap in the face and does nothing to further the movement or encourage those that have given every hour of their day to this movement, which aren’t mentioned here. It’s disappointing to see this posting on your website. Please reconsider it’s inclusion on your site.

The first goes to all the people in the Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties. All of them have been impacted the most by this horrendous war. Unfortunately and sadly they were the canaries in the mine and they warned us about all the health and environmental consequences that happened to them and their environment. Out of their sorrows they have given us the truth about the LBAM Project. Additionally, many of them became activists for their own survival and that of their families and also of the Central Coast and beyond. Because of all of these things they are the truest of true heroes.

Let us not forget all the other heroes:
Paul Schramski, California Director, Pesticide Watch - he has tirelessly helped this fight for all of us;
Dr. James Carey, UC Davis, Entomologist. Dr. Carey has brought a well-respected scientific voice that told us that LBAM is wide spread and has probably been here for 40+ years, is well established, and there would be a zero probability of eradicating LBAM; Jeff Rosendale, Horticulture Consultant in Watsonville, published reports along with Dr. Daniel Harder, UC Santa Cruz; California Senator Joe Simitian who worked with California Senator Carol Migden to present a panel of experts to the public to inform us about LBAM; California Assembly members who drafted and have pending LBAM related legislation coming before the Agriculture Committee on April 16 - those members are: Loni Hancock, John Laird, Mark Leno, Jared Huffman, andSandre Swanson; all the organizations that have publicly opposed the LBAM Project; all the people who have taken their time to attend meetings and speak on others’ behalves, as well as, their own; all City and County elected officials who have and continue to oppose the LBAM Project for the safety and well-being of their communities; all County Public Health Officials who have actively spoken at meetings and who have written letters opposing the LBAM Project; all website administrators who have devoted their time to keep all of us informed on every move and action every minute of the day so all of us can be educated and involved in order to stand up for ourselves and others opposing the LBAM Project: veganreader.com, stopthespray.org, California Alliance to Stop the Spray, Hope for Truth, lbamspray.com, North Coast Rivers Alliance (also a special thank you Frank Egger, Sandra Ross, and to Keith Andrews); and a very special thank you to environmental attorney Stephen Volker who will seek truth and justice for the environment and all living things.