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Empowering Citizens, Monitoring and Halting the Nuclear Industry

Ed Ellsworth has been working hard the past two months to help citizens monitor the radiation spewing at Fukushima and tonetwork online. He is uniquely qualified to be playing such a heroic role in empowering people and challenging the nuclear industry.

His considerable technical skills have been put to good use over the past several decades, when he teamed up with one of the great philanthropists of San Francisco, Henry Dakin. Ed worked with Henry on book projects like Information Moscow. Ed started The Dolphin Network newsletter at the at Henry's famous 3220 offices, using the new Postscript printing technology. Ed purchased his Linotronic typesetter and Oscar-Fisher film processing equipment in 1989, and used it to start Pinnacle Type (near the TransAmerica Building, San Francisco). He worked with Henry on various projects with Washington Research Institute and the 3220 Gallery penthouse gathering space. They used to monitor the Molniya satellite, and help various citizen-to-citizen peace and environmental projects. At 3220, Ed managed the building's T1 internet connection and supported many groups that started or came through there.