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	activism alerts september 2004

• Child And Environmental Advocates Urge U.S. Youth Soccer To Give Trugreen/Chemlawn Partnership The Boot
• What Do Kerry And Bush Say About Autism?
• Maybe Your Kids Are Too Young To Vote...What's Your Excuse?
• Show Us the Vaccine Data Petition

Child And Environmental Advocates Urge U.S. Youth Soccer To Give Trugreen/Chemlawn Partnership The Boot

Citing concerns about exploiting children to market toxic products to their families, thirty prominent children’s and environmental organizations sent a public letter this week to US Youth Soccer (USYS) asking them not to renew their sponsorship agreement with TruGreen/ChemLawn.

Since the partnership was announced in May, 2003, TruGreen/Chemlawn, using address lists provided by USYS, has sent mailings addressed to “The Family of” young soccer players touting ChemLawn’s services. The mailings explicitly state several times that TruGreen/ChemLawn will donate a percentage of each purchase to USYS.

ActForChange, one the nation's leading activist websites, has set up an action based on SCEC's letter. If you believe that children's love of soccer should not be exploited to market toxic products to families, please let USYS President David Messersmith and Marketing Director Chris Branscome know. Click here to take action.

Source: www.commercialexploitation.org

What Do Kerry And Bush Say About Autism?

In May, Unlocking Autism presented the 2004 Presidential Candidates with a series of seven questions regarding various autism issues. A deadline for their reply was set for August 15th, 2004. Senator John Kerry replied within that time frame. When President Bush did not, Unlocking Autism urged people to flood the president with calls, and his response has since arrived.

The only place to read the accurate responses is at www.unlockingautism.org. Visit the site to check them out and to get your ROCK THE 2004 VOTE t-shirt today.

Source: www.unlockingautism.org

Maybe Your Kids Are Too Young To Vote...What's Your Excuse?

Women's voices could make all the difference this November. Together, we are 51% of America's population. Yet 50 million of us didn't vote in the last election. And more than 50 million eligible women are not even REGISTERED to vote! Some states have early October registration deadlines, and some states require you to re-register if you have changed addresses. To secure your chance to cast your ballot, click here to check details in your state, and get current: https://secure3.ctsg.com/act/ovr/index.asp

Be sure you are ready to be vote and be counted, on November 2nd!

Women Should Vote Because:

We are 51 percent of the population, and with this majority voice we CAN influence the direction of critical policies important to us -- like childcare, choice, personal safety and economic security, and a healthy environment.
We are not effectively exercising our hard-earned constitutional right. It was not until August 26, 1920, that the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granting most women the right to vote in national elections. This excludes American Indians, who were later given the right to vote at different times by different states.

A poll last year of some 3,000 women of diverse backgrounds conducted by the women's voting project Women Voices Women Vote found that 65 percent of the women polled believe this country is going in the wrong direction.
Based on the findings of a recent survey by Business and Professional Women USA, retirement security, job opportunity, good schools and housing costs are all of HIGHER importance to women than homeland security.

Voting statistics among all women can be improved. According to the U.S. Census bureau, in 2000, some 30 percent of eligible women were not registered to vote.
Registering is only half the battle. Almost half of registered unmarried women don't vote. If they turned out in numbers, unmarried women would be the largest voting bloc and would be the deciding "X" factor in close elections.

Source: www.moveonpac.org

Show Us the Vaccine Data Petition

READ AND SIGN THE ON-LINE PETITION
www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/896046564

The national on-line "Show Us the Vaccine Data Petition" was announced by the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) at an August 23, 2004, meeting of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), National Academies of Sciences in Washington, D.C. At that meeting, parents of vaccine injured autistic children protested that the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) was being used by federal health officials to cover-up vaccine risks associated with mercury preservatives in vaccines. That day, the National Vaccine Information Center, as well as SAFEMINDS, National Autism Association, Moms Against Mercury, CoMed, NoMercury.org and Unlocking Autism, all called for full public disclosure of all government-held vaccine risk data in the VSD.

The federally operated VSD electronic database has collected information on vaccination and children's health in cooperation with large Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO's) for more than a decade. The CDC has conducted its own analysis of the data and published articles, most of which have denied a causal link between vaccines and chronic brain and immune system dysfunction. During the past two years, independent researchers were repeatedly denied access by CDC officials to the publicly funded VSD for the purpose of replicating and validating the CDC's analysis of the data.

The hallmark of good science is replication and the hallmark of good government is transparency. Signing the "Show Us the Vaccine Data" petition will add your voice to the tens of thousands of other citizen voices who know how important it is for government-held vaccine risk information to be open to independent analysis.

For more information on the VSD and vaccine risks, click the link to read a presentation made by NVIC President, Barbara Loe Fisher, at the August 23 IOM Meeting. www.NVIC.org/Loe_Fisher/blf0804vsd.htm

source:
Kathi Williams
National Vaccine Information Center
421 Church St., Suite E
Vienna, Va 22180
703-938-DPT3
www.NVIC.org