It’s been five years since StopSmartMeters.org was founded. Our early efforts together to get 57 California municipalities to stand against smart meters was a spark that ignited an international rebellion against the red-herring technology. This anniversary is about all of you who give so much to the cause. Thank you.
It was the summer of 2010 when we received a notice from California utility PG&E that they would be installing a “smart meter” on our home. No one really knew back then what a “smart meter” was, but the more we did our research and heard the 
stories of people whose health was devastated, heard about those who lost their lives in smart meter fires, and realized that this was all being covered up, we decided there was no way we would permit the installation of such a device under any circumstance. When PG&E told us with a straight face that “you have no choice,” that really crossed a line, and boiled our blood. We realized we had to drop everything and mobilize against the threat. With calls for residents in California to establish and defend “smart meter free zones,” we launched our fledgling group, immediately generating significant media coverage.
Five years later, “smart meters” have spread across the planet, despite a widespread and potent resistance and a few notable holdouts. Truly a trojan horse technology, smart meters include an ongoing and deadly serious fire risk, health problems from dirty electricity and pulsed RF, invasive surveillance, inflated bills, and the loss of thousands of steady meter reader jobs. The “deployment” and the bullying it has required, has left a bad aftertaste of corporate rule, but it has also inspired a potent resistance movement.
California residents return unwanted smart meters en masse to the utility in one of our early direct actions
One thing is for sure: the utilities had no idea of the scale of rebellion they would encounter when they started deploying these meters. The strength of our movement is reflected in the more than 175 local groups around the world now engaged in the fight to stop and roll back the smart meter installations, according to our Global Stop Smart Meters Directory. If your group isn’t listed, please submit it by contacting us.
A culture of resistance to the smart grid has spread like a viral immune response, and we will be forever grateful to those who have put so much of their time and energy toward this cause. We acknowledge the love and the empathy toward neighbors and friends that has shone like a light through these dark, scary times. That love will carry us through, and is more powerful than greed or hate or fear. While we cherish the community that has sprung up around this cause, we also grieve for the losses and injuries to our compatriots, and the divisions that the smart grid has ripped through our communities.
In 2015, the work of Stop Smart Meters! has grown and diversified.
Some of the services we provide:
– Printed outreach material and low-cost EMF testing meters through our online store
– Website coverage of smart meters and related issues
– A Monthly Bulletin Highlighting Latest News and Developments
– Technical and organizational assistance to those fighting smart meters
– Public speaking engagements in your community, in person, or via phone/ skype
– Accurate and relevant information to elected officials and the media
– Exposés of government/utility collusion and corruption
– Practical and emotional support for injured and Electro-sensitive people
– A place for whistleblowers to discreetly report info about smart meter hazards.
First International Day of Action to Stop Smart Meters Oct. 4th 2012
We started StopSmartMeters.org in the Summer of 2010 with a vision of an informed public rising against the corrupt and arrogant utility bosses, rejecting their disastrous, wasteful green-washed false solution to the real and present danger of climate change, with local communities taking a stand and determining their own energy futures. That vision is palpably within reach, if we demand it.
The decision to toss smart meters (and the ideology that spawned them) in the dustbin of history is ours to make. It’s a decision that utility companies have tried to convince us is out of our hands. But we know better now— that people can and do stand up to the powerful utilities and win. With this knowledge, and with love and empathy for all those who have suffered as a result of this misguided technology, we will never back down.
Stop Smart Meters!
Now, help us mark five years of our work together by:
1. donating any amount to our international outreach fund
2. volunteering your talents to the cause
3. getting a friend to sign up for our news bulletin
4. ordering an EMF meter and outreach cards from our store
Hi guys, Just thought I’d let you all know what I just got from PG&E in my mail today. It’s a notice telling me that “to help cover the costs of providing safe, reliable, clean energy to your home-including maintenance of solar connectivity to the energy grid-the monthly Minimum Delivery Charge is being adjusted from $3.60 to $5.00 starting September 1, 2015”. What a load of BS this is, for starters they threaten me with a smart meter and if I don’t want one it’s $5.00 to opt out pr month which I went for rather than let them put one of those dumb meters on so they don’t have to read it, they aren’t providing me with anything as far as clean energy goes my panels do that. Maintenance? What a laugh that is, what maintenance? Last time I looked it was Me out there cleaning off My panels which during the day provide Them with “safe, clean, reliable energy” while the sun is shining, They don’t do Any maintenance or did they sneak in and check my battery bank and make sure it has enough water in the cells which they do since I do that task. And now they’re acting like this is ?natural gas they’re providing me with, is that the cause for a minimum amount, so you can fleece me a little more if I should ever reach total zero bill from their energy? They’ll get $5.00? Believe you me, when I can I’ll have enough panels to one day cut them off totally. This is how PG&E responds to their ever dwindling bank accounts due to solar being so popular. Good one huh?
Thanks aplenty to you and your team for leading the way against stupid “smart” meters for all these years! When I first found out about them, it was such a relief to know there were responsible, reliable, super-informed people we could turn to to fight this scourge against our society. You all are a major blessing as you continue to help people around the world save themselves from these fire-starting, cancer-causing, bill-raising, totally hackable murder meters. Happy Anniversary, and keep an eye out for your present. 🙂
Terri
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Stop Smart Meters Georgia Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/415080751852326/)
Josh,
Just think of all the people you have helped by giving them information that saved their life or health here on Earth.
You gave everyone a forum to learn and by not censoring the naysayers it has tuned our skills to expose the lies most have been told. I remember waking up with the answers to the questions posed and finding the mechanisms to my misery available in published studies and reviews. Since understanding the dangers and learning how to protect, I have never felt so good in all my life. Thank you Josh!