OWS
Disrupts Greentech's
Smart Meter, Grid
Conference/Our
Protest/Al Gore's Response
to Our Protest...
Sometimes people
don't make it to the
end of an email if it
is not short, so I
have posted the only
interviews I have been
able to get a hold of
up front. Please
watch, listen and
read them and then
please read the rest
of the email for
info on our smart
meter/smart grid
protest. I
am now on a new
server, Earthlink and
Hotmail had blocked my
emails in the passed,
so If you are getting
this email and do not
want it, my apologies
and just hit the
unsubscribe button at
the bottom of the
email.
Part
of my interview with
GreenTech - special
thanks to Glendale
Action for footage.
Press
TV also did a story
- Really great to
have OWS finally
involved in this
issue!!!
Julie
Levine's FANTASTIC
interview on
Progressive Radio
Network - starts at
8:22 - 25:50 -
Julie, who had to
sell her home due to
smart grid, helped
organize this
protest with me and
brought in OWS!
GreenTech
article - (they
sponsored the
conference - for an
industry article,
the reporter gave us
some fairly unbiased
coverage so kudos to
them!!)
Before
The Protest
Not sure where
to start with the
endless drama around
our recent little
event...how about Go
Daddy blocking my
press release a few
days prior so I was
unable to send to you
or any press about
it. Their
explanation?..."Government
crackdown"! What the
government is cracking
down on I have no
idea, but every dark
cloud has a silver
lining...am in the
process of leaving Go
Daddy over this and am
now with an awesome
new list service -
thus the fancy shmancy
news letter format :)
A word to the wise,
NEVER USE GO DADDY (or
should I say
government henchmen)
for emails!!
The
Protest
Our protest had
a fabulous turn out
with members from
OWSLA (Occupy Wall
Street LA), The Tea
Party, Citizens For
Property Rights -
Ventura, Topangans For
A Radiation Free
Community, Citizens
For A Radiation Free
Community, Topanga
Peace Alliance,
plaintiffs from our
Edison/smart meter
lawsuit and others who
just don't want to get
cancer, heart attacks,
seizures and other
health effects, have
their house burned, be
overcharged or have
their privacy invaded
by these dangerous
meters and grid!!
 
We gathered in
front of the Four
Seasons Hotel for the
conference sponsored
by
http://www.greentechmedia.com/
with attendees
(including presidents
of these corporations)
from Edison, PG@E,
SDG@E, SMUD, Arizona
Public Service and
other national smart
players gathered to
discuss how to further
financially and
otherwise exploit the
deadly smart meters
and equally deadly
smart grid.
OWS
Disrupts
"GreenTech"
Conference
We had some
audience plants
(dressed up Occupiers)
inside the conference
who bravely spoke out
and when one was
escorted out by
security, the next
would stand and
speak. There were 3
of them. We met them
when they walked out,
in front of the Four
Seasons where our
protest was already in
full force. The hotel
staff were quick to
call the police and we
respectfully obeyed
their demand to get
off the Four Seasons
property. But prior
to this, we made a big
enough stink that a
couple of reporters
came out to interview
us, so that helped
make up for lack of
emailing out a proper
press release.
 
After we were
kicked off the Four
Seasons property, we
went to the streets at
a very busy
intersection and just
started shouting to
passers by and drivers
with our bullhorn and
holding our signs.
After
The Protest
A very
interesting thing
transpired from one of
the interviews. A
reporter from
"GreenTech"
interviewed me, posted
it on Green Tech's
blog site and
evidently, Al Gore who
is HEAVILY invested in
this technology (to
the tune of
$75,000,000 with
Silver Springs -
manufacturers of smart
meters) commented on
our protest! I have
posted the GreenTech
interview above (4th
link from top) that
drew the Al Gore
response, along with a
(very poor version) of
a copy of the page
that had his comment
on it, which has since
been removed from the
site. Here is the
comment prior to his
and his is below it...
"But I guess
smoking is an
acceptable health
hazard, as can be seen
by the protester in
the picture."
...and here is
what Al Gore wrote
above...
"Right.....and
even though we can opt
out as individuals wrt
smoking what about
the secondhand smoke?
Unbelievably
hypocritical........"
(wrt stands for with
regards to).
Al Gore
basically likens smart
meter and smart grid
emissions to second
hand smoke!!! How's
that for "green
technology"?!
Al
Gore is one of the
largest stake
holders in smart
meters/smart grid
and has a LOT at
stake were this
carcinogenic
surveillance
endeavor to fail.
He also was in LA this
week for we believe
this event and an LADWP
event. We do
not think Green Tech
would ever allow for
it's users to
impersonate their
"Grand Poobah" of
smart meters/smart
grid on it's website.
So we do believe
this to be the real
deal. Also in an
effort at damage
control, his posting
was removed almost
immediately after it
was posted. I just so
happen to have a very
bad habit of leaving
about 50 windows open
on my desktop, so I
still had it and took
a screenshot of it
above. (his comment)
and below made a
sloppy and very hard
to see PDF of the
entire web page (his
comment in connection
with our protest - I
had to downsize it due
to space on this
server).
I can email a
legible looking copy
of this pdf if anyone
would like it. We
will be following up
with Al Gore to try
and get his opinion on
how a carcinogenic
product and
infrastructure can be
considered "green".
Although I have held
Al Gore in very high
esteem in the passed,
my opinion on that
changed when I found
out about his vested
interest in this
damaging and invasive
technology. Smart
meters and smart grid
are just another
"Inconvenient Truth"
that Al Gore must
eventually come to
terms with.
 
I realize the
above picture on the
left is graphic, but
that was the sign I
held for our protest.
Cancer is not pretty,
not smart, not green,
it hurts and can
kill. If anyone would
like to use these or
any other signs in a
protest you are having
please contact me and
I will send you the
pdfs.
Special thanks
to "Food Not Bombs"
for our delicious
lunch! Have a
wonderful day (or
evening) and remember,
"smart is the new
dumb"!
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