The good news is that we have written to 297 members of Congress to tell them we want them to attend the Congressional Codex Briefing , http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw, at noon on September 20, 2005, Room 2220 Rayburn. The bad news is that we have written to only 297 members of Congress to tell them that we want them to attend the briefing.
We are definitely on the right track and if you have sent your emails, thank you. And if you have sent the information out to your circle of influence, thank you for that, too. And if you are about to start a meetup, http://healthfreedom.meetup.com, (a local group of people who share you interest in health and health freedom and meet in a convenient spot like a Starbucks) I thank you deeply.
Grass roots is the name of the game. Numbers is the name of the grass roots game. Numbers will do it. Period. Thousands of emails and calls to the Congressional Switchboard, 202-224-3121, will get Congress to the Codex Briefing. Just thinking about it will not.
I have to tell you that I was thrilled to see that we are working the system so vigorously and so well. We are on the right track, to be sure. But, sad to say, Congress still needs more prodding. There are a whole lot of Congressional offices which have nowhere near the necessary 100 emails and calls yet.
We are building a movement to take back our health autonomy and our health freedom. We will NOT allow anyone to take away our right to make our own health choices.
And, by the way, for those of you who have supported our fund raising drive, once again, I thank you profoundly. Once the total for today is added, we will top the half way mark. Won’t you please add your donation to the others that sustain and support the Natural Solutions Foundation today? Every penny goes for the work of health freedom, there is no fat, only working muscle in this part of the body politic.
Yours in appreciation, health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
I just received a really nice email from a lady in Asheville, NC who said that when she contacted one of her Congressmen, Senator Burr, she was told that there was no Codex problem since “ThenNational Institute of Medicine will take care of us”! Holy Jumpin’ Gehosephat! Senator Burr apparently swims around in a cognitive stew with pieces of information brushing his nose and getting swatted away without ever being processed or digested.
Senator Burr and his prickly ilk are exactly the people who need to be at the Congressional Codex Briefing on September 20 at noon in Room 2220 Rayburn. How do we get them there? You tell them you want them to attend the Codex Briefing! If enough of you say it, they will get the idea and they will show up. We’ll tell them what Codex really is and what it means.
I was told today by a Washington insider that if just 100 people in each state email Congress , http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw, or call the Congressional Switchboard at 202-224-3121 Congress would see the groundswell and get themselves and their senior aides (very important) to the Codex Briefing. Just 100 in each state! We have supporters in every single state. This is an achievable goal!
I ask you to please take the responsibility seriously to let your Congressional Delegation know that you want them to attend this briefing. And share the task with your circle of influence by email so that they can go to http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw and do the same.
And, at the health freedom meetup, http://healthfreedom.meetup.com, you start (hint, hin!) you can help everyone else to do the same. If you are ready to start a meetup, go to http:/healthfreedom.meetup.com, sign up and we’re off! Contact me at info@healthfreeomusa.org for organizing materials, etc.
Thanks for your help!
Yours in activated health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Have you set up your local meetup yet for September 13, 2005 at 7:30? Yes? Congratulations! No? Well, now would be a really good time to do that. It’s really easy and will put you in touch with others who feel the same way you do about health freedom. Here’s how: Go to our meetup page, and start a meetup. Why? Because protection our health freedom is going to take a lot of us and meetup.com is a perfect way for us to find each other.
What to do at the meetup? The purpose of our first Health Freedom Meetup is to
1. Get to know each other around health freedom
2. Help everyone there to notify Congress to attend the Congressional Briefing on Codex on September 20, 2005 at noon, Room 2220 Rayburn
3. Enlist everyone to notify their circles of influence about the Congressional Briefing so that Congress gets a lot of input on this Briefing
4. Have a discussion about local action that you can take to raise awareness about health freedom in your community
5. Make realistic plans to carry out one project in your community which can inform other people about the issue.
The perfect meetup would have a computer (Starbucks are often configured for wireless) to allow people to send their request to their Congressmen to attend the Congressional Codex Briefing,
No computer? No worry. The meetup (computer or no) is a wonderfully effective means to getting your personal convictions up and running as a general item of social awareness to protect our rights to natural health and clean, unadulterated food.
Contact me at info@healthfreedomusa.org and I will email you materials to make your meetup easier to organize including Action Steps, Talking Points, Members List, membership forms, etc. I have postponed my local HealthFreedomMeetup so that I can be available to you by phone or speaker phone to say “Hi” and offer support. If you are running a meetup we can schedule a call. That would be terrific!.
Being a Meetup organizer costs $20 bucks a month, but I suggest you share the cost with the folks who come. If that’s not comfortable for you, the Natural Solutions Foundation will help you work it out. Just email me at info@healthfreedomusa.org and we’ll make it work. There is no way we are going to let $20 stand in the way of your community meetup! No way, no how! This is too important!
Awake, aware people standing up and making themselves heard: that’s how we will keep, and expand, our health freedom. Don’t believe it? Look at DSHEA, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 which was passed by unanimous Congressional consent in 1994 when no Congressman in the country dared to oppose what was clearly the will of the people. We did it then, we can do it now. Before the population of this country rose up in clear political action saying, “Don’t you dare touch my health freedoms!” Congress was getting set to ban them all together. Congress was told in no uncertain terms that they could do that but it would end their political careers. They backed off.
Sounds good to me re: Codex and any restriction on natural health options. How about you? If you like the idea of a bunch of foreign bureaucrats telling you that you can’t have nutrients at clinically effective doses because they have declared nutrients to be toxins (!) but you have no choice but to eat contaminated foods ( e.g. , deadly banned pesticides, hormones, veterinary drugs and antibiotics, irradiation, etc), then, by all means, do not organize a meetup. If, on the other hand, that does not appeal to you, here’s your opportunity to make yourself heard!
See you at the First Health Freedom Meetup, September 13, 7:30 PM!
Yours in health and popular support of freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
PS: “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. — Edmund Burke
I just did something that I can’t wait to share with you! One of our challenges in a grass roots, global village is finding each other. We now have a sophisticated electronic way to hook up with other people in our own locals in the same way that we can via the internet. It’s called meetup.com (URL: http://www.meetup.com/) Go there and enter “Health Freedom”. You will be directed to The Health Freedom Meetup. If you join the Meetup in your town, let me know and we will help you organize it.
Here’s how it works: if you would like to have a Health Freedom Meetup in your area (even if you don’t know anyone else to invite to your Meetup), look for a Health Freedom meetup in your area (you’ll be asked for your zip code). Go to “Fnd a Meetup Group” and enter “Health Freedom”. If there isn’t one in your area, become an organizer. It’s simple and it’s easy. That let’s you organize a Meetup on the same day and at the same time as all the other Health Freedom Meetups (or at another time if you can’t make that one although it is best if we all meet on the same day).
Meetup.com let’s us all communicate with one another, organize events that are bigger than our local meetings and share information and experience, fliers, ideas, etc. with each other. Privacy is assured and no one needs to travel long distances to meet with people who care about health freedom, too. Ask your local Starbucks or similar site if you can meet there once a month (or more often as the need arises). Make your meeting short, focused and to the point and let us know what happens so we can help coordinate what you are doing with others around the countries who are doing the similar things.
An urgent priority is getting people in your Meetup active so that they and everyone they know tells their Congressmen and women to attend the Congressional Codex Briefing, September 20 (time TBA) Room 2220 Rayburn by going to our email engine, http://tinyurl.com/c5jmw. (I’m now including URLs because when the email gets forwarded, sometimes the link does not transmit).
There is a $19 per month Meetup fee which people can help the organizer cover through dues (payable by paypal). I would suggest a meeting fee of $19 divided by the number of people at the Meetup for starters.
I am really excited about using global electronic communication to help us act locally and keep America Codex free!
Let me know that you are having a Meetup and we will provide material which will make your task easier and more effective. So let’s Meetup on Tuesday, September 13 at 7:30PMshall we? See you then!
Yours in health and well-met freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Perhaps you have noticed that this blog has a new appearance and a new name: we’ve changed it from “Daily Codex Update Blog” to “Dr. Laibow’s Health Freedom Blog” for good reason. When the Natural Solutions Foundation began the HealthFreedomUSA Campaign, Codex Alimentarius was virtually unknown to Americans despite the fact that it was 43 years old. So we concentrated on bringing it to America’s conscious level of awareness. Last week, for example, I was on 6 different radio shows talking about Codex to who knows how many people? Codex awareness is jousting with Codex Coma. You know who is in favor of which one! But, as I have said from the first day that I began writing and talking about America’s health freedom, Codex is one big, bad dude but there is a whole posse of bad freedom foes out there. It would be nice if we could ignore all but one until we solve that problem, but that’s not how it works. So the blog, while bringing you all the Codex news that the major media apparently feels is not fit to print, will now be covering all the other important health freedom issues along with Codex.
Our web site, however, will continue to focus heavily on Codex because it is such a complex and confusing issue. (That’s why I had to read so many thousands of pages before I began to get it straight!) If you have not visited www.HealthFreedomUSA.org lately you will find a brand new, updated and reorganized website waiting for you when you do, which I hope will be very soon.
The site has been totally rewritten with pages that are easier to read, large link buttons and an easier to use navigation structure. We have new articles, like the one about the effort to discredit nutrients by a poison press of bogus “science”. We have new sections, too, that we are very proud of and hope you will find useful. We invite your suggestions and comments, of course! Please take a moment to check out our new
Reccomended Books List with convenient direct purchase links to Amazon.com
We have added some new buttons and sections to help make the Health Freedom and Codex issues clearer. You can easily see what the Natural Solutions Foundation stands for and take a quick, 5 minute Codex tour and, if you like, follow that up with a 7 point summary of Codex.
You won’t be surprised that our legislative action page, “Bills to Support and Oppose” is easier to use so you can send a personalized letter on each of the bills your Congressional Delegation with a few mouse clicks. Of course, we will keep this page updated so when new bills are added you can take action right away on them as so many thousands of you do regularly. Thank you, by the way!
And for those of you who need and want more detail, our In Depth Information section will provide an abundant amount of detailed documentation and background for you.
You will find both more and less action on the site. The previous 6 action steps have been reduced to 3 action steps and we have added an Easy Activism page with things to do alone and in your community. Please take time to read and act on all of these options if you can, or, if not, as many as you can. Your health and health freedom really do depend upon it!
And, of course, there’s the Donation page. I know, I know. Everybody asks you for money. We have added a page to let you know how we spend the money you donate and one to let you know what we have accomplished and what we are up to next.
This is an expensive campaign; there is just no way around it. Websites of this caliber cost money. Airfare, hotels, consultations, each has a real life price tag attached. I can promise you that every single penny sent as a donation (and you can use your credit card, Paypal, a check or a money order to support of health freedom by making a secure donation now and, if you can, on a monthly basis.
We are here for you. Won’t you be here for us?
Please show your support now!
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director