Community Currency - 07/28/11

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Community Power versus Corporate Power - No to Smart Meters

Mary Beth Brangan and Jim Heddle founded The Ecological Options Network over a quarter of a century ago and have been producing documentaries and helping with media campaigns to safeguard human health and human rights for decades. In this interview, we look at the evolution of Smart Meters and the opposition that has arisen to oppose this new technological threat to our health and democracy. This is a global problem. Communities are rising up against the measurably harmful effects of smart meters.

Award winning filmmakers, Mary Beth Brangan and James Heddle have had their videos broadcast internationally, on PBS, Link TV and Free Speech TV, and screened in the US Congress, many Parliaments and at the UN, as well as used by activists worldwide.

They have produced fifteen documentaries and over 100 YouTube posts of courageous and creative responses from across the world to injustice, greed and violence. These stories of people's movements are examples of what they call deep democracy and a new worldview they've dubbed the planetarian paradigm. As media activists, they hold a mirror which reflects citizens stepping up, committing themselves and joining in to stop the destruction of the planet and create solutions. EON has partaken in a vibrant variety of collaborations. These include: the international Nuclear Free Zone; stopping electromagnetic pollution from wireless technologies; stopping proposed radioactive waste dumps in California and Texas; as well as California's Community Choice Energy, the Election Protection, and the Stop the Pesticide Spray campaigns. EON interweaves stories from national to village levels by documenting the beginnings of a new culture, from alternatives to capitalism, to taking part in Transition Towns and permaculture movements.

They completed a book in 2009 entitled "The Enlightenment Imperative: Meditations on Spiritual Awakening, Social Engagement, Sexual Maturity and Cultural Creation at the Turn of the Millennium."

Additional Resources on the struggle against Smart Meters -
StopSmartMeters.org
EMFSafetyNetwork.org
EON blog - eon3emfblog.net
SmartMeterDangers.org
DirtyElectricity.org
Countering the harmful health effects - Dr. Magda Havas