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Letters to Portola Reporter Editor Over Josh Hart’s Disconnect
Dan McDonald, Editor of the Portola Reporter told us he received a ton of e-mails from out of the area in response to their erroneous article published last week, but was sadly unable to print any of them due to space limitations. We are grateful that our extended supporter network is standing with us in the face of extortion, illegal behavior and coercion. Thank you! We will not stand for it, even if it means we have to rough it for a while until this rogue utility is held to account and made to obey the law.
“WhistleStop Smart Meters” Take Back Your Power US Tour
Despite the turmoil of having our electricity disconnected on February 19th, and being embroiled in dispute with our local utility company, the show must go on! We’ll be taking Stop Smart Meters! and the Take Back Your Power film on tour starting March 28th. I’ll be riding the rails through 16 states, stopping in Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to speak to groups about resisting “smart” meters, screening the film Take Back Your Power, and advising on the most effective ways to organize in your local area. These states are home to some of the worst-behaving utility companies in the country, but also burgeoning resistance movements. This should be fun!
If your area is not on the list, and you are interested in a visit, please drop us a line. We are working with Josh del Sol, producer of Take Back Your Power and some local Stop Smart Meters! groups to plan an extended tour in late June. This is a good opportunity to rally the public, gain media exposure and increase awareness of the hazards of “smart” meters in your area.
Here are the details & dates for the WhistleStop Smart Meters! Take Back Your Power screening/talk series March 28th- April 5 2014- please spread the word!
Fort Collins, CO
Contact: Virginia vfarv@hotmail.com
Friday, March 28th- 3-6pm
Old Town Library Community Room
201 Peterson Street
Chapel Hill, NC
Contact: Andrew andrewmcafee1@icloud.com
Tuesday, April 1st 7pm
UNC Chapel Hill Kenan Music Building 2131
Flyer: http://www.raleighes.info/Support/Events.html
Savannah, GA
Contact Terri info@stopsmartmetersgeorgia.org
Thursday, April 3, 2014, starting at 4:00 p.m., with movie screening at 4:30 (latecomers welcome!)
Southwest Chatham Library, 14097 Abercorn St, Savannah, GA 31419 (next to the Savannah Mall). (NOTE NEW TIME AND LOCATION)
Stuart, FL
Contact: Shari sranker@me.com
Saturday, April 5th, 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Unitarian Church, 21 SE Central Parkway, Stuart, FL 34994
To host your own screening of Take Back Your Power, fill out a request form here. Download flyers about these events at Take Back Your Power’s site and spread the word!
Local Paper Publishes Highly Biased Article On Our Disconnect
Our land line phone quietly complains of the lack of electricity
Our electricity remains off more than two weeks after PSREC illegally disconnected us on February 19th. It has been a real challenge to continue living in an all-electric house with no electricity. But we refuse to be coerced or agree to fees based on a medical condition — when such fees clearly violate state law. Why should we pay more when other PSREC customers use analog meters at no extra charge?
We are drawing a line in the sand and saying enough is enough. Charging a fee to protect your health and safety is literally extortion and we will not participate in it.
I went away for a few days to the Bay Area this week. We did a Take Back Your Power screening in San Rafael, and had a productive meeting with local advocates. I also went to visit my good friend and activist powerhouse Deb Hubsmith, a national leader advocating for Safe Routes to Schools for our children– a program long overdue. Deb and I worked together more than a decade ago to open the old railroad tunnels to bicyclists and pedestrians in Marin County (the Cal Park tunnel was opened in 2011 and has been a huge success providing commuting options for thousands of people. It came very close to becoming a parking lot for the Golden Gate Ferry).
Deb and I have also worked together to stop “smart” meters from being installed in the area. The town of Fairfax is still mostly smart meter free 4 years after PG&E’s deployment began, due to a pro-active and educated town, and a council who passed the state’s first ordinance banning smart meters. It doesn’t hurt to have a tough police chief willing to enforce that ordinance. Don’t let anyone tell you that local government or local action is not effective. It is!
Deb was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) in October 2013 and has been in treatment for the last several months. She believes her illness was likely caused in part by wireless radiation exposure from smart meters and other wireless devices. Meanwhile utilities are charging people to keep these off their homes.
Please donate to her mounting medical expenses if you can afford to help a little.
When I returned home yesterday, there was a story on the front page of our local paper, the Plumas News, about our dispute with PSREC. The story consisted almost entirely of the utility’s talking points.
Needless to say, this is plain bad journalism, and amounts to an attack piece on us and our work. We have provided the following facts to the paper, and yet these were not included:
- I am Director of StopSmartMeters.Org (they did not even name our organization in the article)
- My physician wrote a letter to PSREC telling them that because of my medical condition of Electro-Hyper-Sensitivity (EHS) I should not be exposed to radiation from PSREC’s “smart” meters.
- The radiation emitted from PSREC’s meters is considered a possible human carcinogen by the World Health Organization (WHO)
- Dozens- perhaps hundreds- of PSREC electric customers self-read their analog meters at no extra charge- including in our neighborhood. We are simply asking for the same treatment. We are being singled out and penalized because of our advocacy.
- The “threats” alleged by Bob Marshall were never identified in the article and we were not given a chance to respond to this absurd allegation. The only “threat” we have ever made to Bob or PSREC is bad publicity. Which they bring upon themselves.
- In truth, it was Bob Marshall who rudely interrupted my wife during her comments and was the first to raise his voice at us. This can be verified by watching the video we took at the meeting.
- Bob is not being truthful when he says it is “against state law” to video someone without their permission. The law says you can photo or video any place you are allowed to be. We were allowed to speak at the meeting and there were no signs saying “no photography.” There is nothing in PSREC’s bylaws that prohibits filming, and to our knowledge they have never asked anyone else not to film an open ratepayers meeting. What is so bad about recording a meeting for the public anyway? What are they trying to hide?
- The article also conveniently neglects to mention that we caught PSREC staff photographing into our home with a telephoto lens the day after they disconnected us. This is a 100% certifiable double standard on the part of PSREC.
Should utilities have the right to disconnect someone’s essential utilities because of their political beliefs or a medical condition? PSREC is doing just that, and now they are getting cover for their abusive treatment by the local “newspaper” who are publishing misleading, incomplete, and inaccurate stories as news on their front page.
Letters to the Portola Reporter Editor can be sent to: dmcdonald@plumasnews.com The deadline for the weekly edition that comes out Wednesday is Friday at 3pm
Call PSREC and demand that they re-connect our electricity and drop the fees. It’s toll free- there is no excuse not to:
Plumas Sierra Rural Electric “Co-Op” (PSREC) (800) 555-2207
PSREC Comes Clean About Their “Smart” Meters
You’ve got to hand it to PSREC– at least they are being straightforward about the health risks of their constantly transmitting “smart” meters. Ummm….we’ll take the Safe Analogs That Won’t Kill You- at no extra charge please. 😉
OK we admit that’s not actually what’s on their sign. But it IS what they are selling. And we’re not buying it. Smart meter opt out fees are not acceptable in any way, shape, or form. We’d rather live without electricity than participate in an extortionate relationship, paying $300/ year to protect our health, privacy and safety.
PSREC- Turn our electricity back on. Drop the fees.
And hold the free wi-fi please- though high speed ethernet sockets in your waiting room would be nice…..
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