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[Guest guest]

Forwarded...

 

From Rob, in advance of a more official type " press " release,

 

 

Well I'm almost finished moving into my new old house, Old Yeller Part

Deux.

Have to give the place a name after all. So far in all my travels this is

the

best MCS safe for me house I've found. My closest neighbor is over 120 feet

away, so dryer vents are not a problem. Did have a bit of an issue with

somebody's cow the other night, she was on the other side of the hedge

bellowing

like crazy. All I could think of was some kid saying; Mom can we keep it?

 

Just before I went offline to move there were some issues with the radio

and I'd

pretty much decided to shut it down. While I was away the web design people

added a donate link to the site to try and keep it going and some people

responded. So DTOX Radio is still online for now.

 

Being offline for a while gave me time to think about the future of the

radio

and raising awareness in general. I'm sure we could all think of some

great,

hard working people who have tried to raise awareness of MCS and our

situations

in general over the years. But as they say on Monty Python, it's time for

something completely different.

 

As I was eluding too in a post a week or so ago, the accident I and my

coworkers

were in is very political and I've had to learn more about politics then I

ever

wanted to know. The most important thing I've learned is that the old

adage: The

squeaky wheel gets the grease is very true. Our biggest problem, and with

that I

mean all of us with an environmental illness along with my own personal

situation is that no news organization will let us squeak. What that means

is

that those within the political " system " don't have to pay any attention

to us

as individuals or a group.

 

I have also spent quite a bit of time dealing with and learning about the

main

stream media with our story. A thousand people being exposed to chemicals

at my

old job, close to fifty disabled because of it so far and now children

being

born with birth defects, I think is worthy of a news story. But as it was a

policy produced under a Liberal government, ignored under a Conservative

government that caused this accident, along with the rumor that the

president of

the company is the son-in-law of the richest man in western Canada, means

that

no news organization will touch us with a ten foot pole. They'll lose

money and

or support if they do, tells me a lot about the integrity of these

organizations.

 

So I started DTOX. We're already broke and don't have any support anyways,

so

why not make some noise? It took me a while, but I've figured out that

while

writing a letter to the editor or politician is good, putting a voice to

those

concerns is much more significant. It makes the situation personal and

puts fear

in the hearts of politicians everywhere when they " hear " someone saying

they

asked for help and were ignored. Especially with the chance more than one

person

could say the same thing.

 

I'd like to open up the radio for a while to see what happens. I've opened

an

account on Skype if anyone wants to talk and be recorded, my address is

therobnetwork. The idea with this is to record MCS'ers with this and put

them on

the radio. There are rules to this though, it's important to keep

everything

credible so no rants allowed. I'd really like to hear from those who have

been

dealing with MCS for a while. I'm looking for life after MCS stories etc.

the

idea behind this is twofold. One to let MCS'ers of the world know they are

not

alone and to let the politicians of the world know these MCS'ers are not

alone.

 

I was surprised to finally figure out that there are more people with an

environmental illness in Canada then who voted for the Green Party in the

last

election. That makes us the largest political force for change that I know

of

that no one has ever heard of. I'm trying to find a way to change that and

I'm

wide open to suggestions.

 

I was thinking of how to create a letter/phone call campaign and keep an

online

score card of how who responded. But I'm not quite sure how to arrange

that yet.

Voting is a right, responsibility and privilege for anyone of age. In my

eyes

you can belong to whichever political party you want to so I'm not trying

to

push anyone in any particular direction. What I'm thinking of here is to

find a

way to lay out the parties and show which one is willing to respond to our

needs.

 

My thoughts are that if we can make these political types realize what a

large

group of voters we are, and these people could win or lose an election

based

solely on our vote. It will help raise awareness of our situations along

with

the fact that if they don't pay attention to us, they'll be out of a job.

 

Anyways, this is getting very long. DTOX Radio is still online and I'll

have

more programs uploaded and a proper schedule on the site by the end of the

week.

 

Rob

 

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