by George Snyder source: Sonoma West Times Feb 18, 2011
A united city council had no problem supporting AB 37 — which would allow electric customers to opt out of having a SmartMeter installed in their homes — but divided sharply in turning thumbs down on a local moratorium on the controversial devices.
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Posted by Brian
There are concerns about health, privacy and corruption regarding the SmartMeters: A stand against the SmartMeter is a stand against the entire SmartGrid. I will be at the City Council meeting making my stand again.
source: Petaluma 360 Feb 14, 2011
The debate over PG&E’s controversial SmartMeters will be renewed Tuesday by the Sebastopol City Council, with opponents hoping that this time, with two new council members, a yearlong moratorium will be enacted.
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Posted by Brian
April 6, 2010
Fellow Advocates:
Today we head into our seventh meeting with a member of the New York City Council. Your phone calls and faxes made this meeting happen, and they are making a tremendous difference in paving the way for honest and courageous council members to raise the discussion with their colleagues on the City Council. If you want to get glimpse of the action, scroll down to the bottom of this email to read the cover letter of the packet we leave with the council members.
Please remember we need your help tomorrow to reach our goal of 1,000 phone calls the City Council Speaker, Christine Quinn.
Thank you!
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Posted by Brian
April 5, 2010
Fellow Advocates:
Here we are, heading into the fourth and final week of the Building What?! campaign! Thank you for sticking with it.
As this campaign comes to an end, we would like you to contact us and let us know your thoughts about what worked, what didn’t work, and your suggestions for where we should continue to channel our collective voice.
Please remember, whether you’ve been participating for the last three weeks or not, we need you to make that one all-important phone call this coming Wednesday to the Speaker of the City Council, Christine Quinn. When it comes to the Speaker, we must establish ourselves as a force to be reckoned with, or it’s not even worth contacting her office. So please help us reach our goal of 1,000 phone calls.
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Posted by Brian
Fellow Advocates:
Please note that City Council offices will be closed tomorrow, Friday, April 2 in observance of Good Friday. Building WHAT?! will resume full force on Monday, April 5, and culminate on Wednesday, April 7 with the Speaker of the City Council, Christine Quinn, who will be the only council member we contact that day. Our goal for the Speaker’s office is 1,000 phone calls and faxes, so please be sure to participate on Wednesday, April 7 – with only one person to contact it’s very easy!
Also, just to reiterate, please be sure to direct the aides to “A Message From Bob McIlvaine” on the NYCCAN.org homepage so that they see footage of Building 7 and learn what the pursuit of truth is all about.
Thank you!
Day 14 Council Members
Council Member Albert Vann
Phone: (718) 919-0740 (718) 919-0740 or (718) 919-0741 (718) 919-0741
Fax: (718) 919-0744
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Posted by Brian
March 31, 2010
Fellow Advocates:
Day 13 Council Members
Council Member James Vacca
Phone: (718) 931-1721 (718) 931-1721
Fax: (718) 931-1605
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Posted by Brian
March 30, 2010
Fellow Advocates:
Thank you for making Day 11 another eye-opening day! One caller had this to report:
“Called all three today – ladies at Reyna and Rivera’s offices were very receptive to the news about Building 7… None of the three had even heard of Building 7 before this calling campaign. I did my best to inform – got some “wow” responses!”
Day 12 Council Members
Council Member Deborah Rose
Phone: (718) 556-7370 (718) 556-7370
Fax: (718) 556-7389
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Posted by Brian
March 29, 2010
Fellow Advocates:
Thank you for sticking with it and making it easy for the City Council to listen to us with your polite and focused manner! So far all of the offices have told us they were pleased with how we have been communicating our message. Rest assured they are taking notice of what we have to say.
As we head into the final seven days of our campaign, we will be contacting some key council members whose support we will be counting on to make the City Council address Building 7, The Salomon Brothers building. So please be sure to continue what you are doing and make the effort end with a crescendo.
If you haven’t gotten involved yet, please consider doing so. One participant had this to say on Friday: “I’m pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to make a few simple calls to the Council Members. Their aides seem friendly and sincere, and are telling me they’re getting over 100 calls per day. They all promise that the Members will be looking into WTC 7. It feels good to help spread the word.”
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Posted by Brian
March 26, 2010
Fellow Advocates:
Day 10 Council Members
Council Member James Oddo
Phone: (718) 980-1017 (718) 980-1017
Fax: (718) 980-1051
Council Member Annabel Palma
Phone: (718) 792-1140 (718) 792-1140
Fax: (718) 931-0235
Council Member Domenic Recchia, Jr.
Phone: (718) 373-9673 (718) 373-9673
Fax: (718) 373-0195
Please email us at info@nyccan.org to share what you learned from your phone calls!
As always, two simple rules for participating in this campaign:
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Posted by Brian
Fellow Advocates:
March 23, 2010
Thank you for keeping Building What?! going full blast. Our numbers are high and the simplicity of our message is opening eyes. Think about it this way: two weeks from today the entire New York City Council and all of their staff will know that 1,100+ architects and engineers are calling for a new investigation into the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. Almost all of them will have seen footage of WTC 7, and a vast majority, those capable of being honest with themselves, will know that office fires did not bring it down. That in itself is a remarkable accomplishment, but more importantly, we are creating the kind of awareness that leads to unforeseeable and uncontrollable developments.
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Posted by Brian
Thank you to everyone who helped make Building What?! Day 4 an amazing success.
12 down. 39 to go.
We’ve decided to continue sending email blasts. To make it possible, we kindly ask you to donate to help cover the extra $250 it will cost to send 12 more email blasts, AND, your donation will go toward a new NYC pubic opinion poll. Please donate a manageable amount of $25 – or more if you can manage. The poll will allow us to show the City Council that a majority of New Yorkers support a new investigation, and that a vast majority who’ve seen footage of Building 7 collapse do not believe office fires were the cause. Showing the Council that its constituents would support a new investigation is an essential part of this campaign. We have raised $1100 of the $4850 needed for the poll. If you have $25 to spare, this is an opportunity to send a powerful message to the City Council at a critical moment when they will be listening – please don’t pass it up. Go to NYCCAN.org right now and help us by donating what you can.
An important update to the instructions from yesterday: tell aides to go to NYCCAN.org, rather than YouTube, to watch “A Message From Bob McIlvaine”.
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Posted by Brian
1) Starting tomorrow, Day 5, instructions will no longer be sent through email blasts. Please go to NYCCAN.org, where instructions for that day will be posted.Repeat: there will not be an action alert in your inbox on Friday. Please be sure to go to NYCCAN.org on your own to get the instructions.It is crucial that the same number of people participate once we stop sending out email blasts, so, on Friday, we will ask you to send an email to info@nyccan.org notifying us that you participated that day.2) It is increasingly clear the staffers we speak with are extremely receptive and in most cases they have not seen footage of Building 7. If you get into a conversation with them, ask if they have seen footage of Building 7. If they haven’t, offer to send them the link to “A Message From Bob McIlvaine” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH9meDbrlP8 – which will show them the two most impressive angles of Building 7, and it will show them what the honest pursuit of truth is all about. Encourage them to share the video with everyone in the office. Winning the staff will help immeasurably in winning the council members.
If they give you their email address, please send it to info@nyccan.org so that we can add it to our list of contacts within the City Council. If they don’t want to give their email address, tell them to go to YouTube and search for “Message From Bob McIlvaine”.
Please email us at info@nyccan.org if you do get a staffer to watch the video.
“The gentleman who answered was exceedingly polite and understanding – he indicated that they had been inundated with telephone calls this morning.”
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Posted by Brian
I’m sorry for missing Day 2, I was out of town and out of wireless range. I am trying to catch up with the news, but I am bummed I missed Day 2 of the Building What campaign. Please support Day 3′s efforts and spend 15-25 minutes today helping out to make it that much bigger of a success! -ed
source: NYCCAN March 17, 2010
Fellow Advocates:
Thank you to everyone who helped make Building What?! Day 2 a great success.
6 down. 45 to go.
Quotes from Day 2:
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“I cannot tell you how happy I am that you are doing this extremely smart campaign… Nothing can be more important at this point. The aides tell me they’ve been inundated with calls from all over the country.”
“She was very nice, she was unaware and said it makes you really think about it … [Another] said all the council members are aware the calls will be made to them over the next couple of weeks. Said they have not decided what kind of statement to make, though they are all aware of it.”
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Day 3 Council Members
Council Member Mathieu Eugene
Phone: (718) 287-8762 (718) 287-8762
Fax: (718) 287-8917
Council Member Lewis Fidler
Phone: (718) 241-9330 (718) 241-9330
Fax: (718) 241-9316
Council Member Helen Foster
Phone: (718) 588-7500 (718) 588-7500
Fax: (718) 588-7790
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Again, there are two simple rules for participating in this campaign:
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