3/3/14 Media Advisory: Green Hassig Asks St. Lawrence County Legislature to Make 3 New Laws

Green Hassig Asks St. Lawrence County Legislature to Make 3 New Laws

Monday, March 3, 2014, 7:00 PM

Legislative Board Room, St. Lawrence County Courthouse, Canton, NY USA

The county legislatures of NY-21 and all other county legislative bodies in New York State have a great deal of power to bring change.  New York is a Home Rule state.  This means that local governments can adopt legislation that stands alone without the need for any supporting legislation on the state or federal level. In cases where there are related state and federal laws, if the local law is more stringent, it stands.

There are 3 new laws that I want St. Lawrence County government to set in place.  These laws will change things for the better.  Without these laws, life in St, Lawrence County and the rest of our country will continue to become worse.

(1) A prohibition against the sale and consumption of fracked gas in St. Lawrence County

Fracking is a technology that causes serious and irreparable harm to the Earth.  Fracking contaminates water, air and land.  Fracking will not continue if people can’t buy and burn fracked gas.  The county legislature can help with bringing an end to fracking by prohibiting the sale and consumption of fracked gas in St. Lawrence County.

(2) Establish public financing for all local election campaigns

Publicly financed election campaigns in which it is illegal to spend any money other than what is provided by law would go far to eliminating corporate money and influence in local government.  With publicly financed election campaigns the field of candidates would expand beyond those who have sufficient wealth to mount their own campaigns and the candidates of major parties, which now fund much of campaign spending.  Political parties should not be able to buy elections by outspending their competition.  Public financing of election campaigns will bring better candidates into public office.

(3) Require the St. Lawrence County Public Health Department to provide residents with information on all known and suspected human carcinogens

The National Toxicology Program (NTP) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) publish lists of carcinogens that are classified for human carcinogenicity.  Many chemicals are now classified as known or suspected human carcinogens.  Dioxins, PCBs, hexachlorobenzene, benzene, formaldehyde, arsenic, lead, cadmium, chromium and mercury are among the chemicals known or suspected to cause cancer in humans.  With knowledge of these chemicals comes the ability to avoid exposure and thereby minimize cancer risk.  The St. Lawrence County Public Health Department is not providing this information now because it depends upon the New York State Department of Health (DOH) for cancer information and the DOH is controlled by corporate influences that oppose informing the public on the subject of chemical exposure cancer causation.  This is wrong.  Lack of information is causing people in St. Lawrence County to get cancer and die.  We can change this by enacting a county law that requires public education on chemical carcinogens.

9/28/13 Calendar Notice: Motivating Government Action for Environmental Protection

Motivating Government Action for Environmental Protection

Saturday, September 28, 2013, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Potsdam Public Library Meeting Room, Potsdam, NY USA

This meeting is for planning activities that will motivate government to act upon its responsibility to protect the environment.  Protecting the Earth must become a high priority for all levels of government.  Citizens in concert with good government can bring the changes that will make possible the restoration of the healthfulness of our environment.  Everyone who is interested in environmental activism is welcome.  For more information:  donaldhassig@gmail.com

9/17/13 Media Advisory: NY-21 Green Party Candidate Hassig Visits Potsdam College to Speak on Free Education and Safe Chemical Use

NY-21 Green Party Candidate Hassig Visits Potsdam College to Speak on
Free Education and Safe Chemical Use

Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 2:30 PM

Plaza South of Barrington Student Union

Potsdam, New York USA

As a Green Party congressional candidate, it is important to bring
forward new proposals that are of benefit to the electorate. Free
education through graduate school and safe chemical use are two such
ideas.

American youth should have the opportunity to learn free from the
repressive burden of high education costs. Operating a motor vehicle
and obtaining housing impose a considerable demand upon a student’s
finances. Free college tuition can help make education more
affordable for all. It is reasonable and good that our society would
use its wealth to make intellectual growth a reality for large numbers
of young people. This is one of the best investments that we can
make.

Safe chemical use will usher in a new era of environmental restoration
and improved health. The best way to begin using chemicals safely is
to recognize the harm that has been caused by unsafe chemical use. I
propose to create thousands of new jobs in the field of environmental
health education. There should be one environmental health educator
for every one hundred Americans. Educating on past unsafe chemical
use and strategies for transitioning to safe chemical use is of such
critical importance to our future that such a favorable educational
ratio is well warranted.

It is with new ideas that we will enter into a New Age of happiness
and well being. Government can take a leading role in making new
ideas reality. Government can foster change. Good government can
help make things better. Let’s get started.

8/31/13 Calendar Notice: Akwesasne/Massena Public Forum Leading to Actions on PCB Exposure

Akwesasne/Massena Public Forum Leading to Actions on PCB Exposure
Saturday, August 31, 2013 from 2-4 PM
Massena  Community Center, Conference Room
Massena, NY USA

The purpose of our forum is to build community involvement in actions
that address both past and ongoing PCB exposures.  Several actions
that have great merit follow:  (1) removal of the PCB contaminated
wastes of the Toxic Mound, an illegal hazardous waste landfill on the
GM Powertrain Superfund Site, (2) educational outreach on the subject
of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) exposure minimization, and (3)
creating a team of tutors for children experiencing learning
difficulties residing in the Town of Massena and on the Akwesasne
Reserve.

We will have a panel discussion and take input from anyone who wishes
to speak.  David O. Carpenter, MD, Director of the State University of
New York University at Albany Institute for Health and the Environment
will provide scientific expertise.  Dr. Carpenter will be joining us
via telephone connection.

By integrating scientific knowledge with community activism, we can
move forward with accomplishing the actions listed above.  Once we
have created a critical mass of public involvement, we will begin to
see strong progress toward fulfillment of our dreams for environmental
protection in the St. Lawrence River Valley.

7/13/13 News Release: US Constitution Missing from Massena “Justice”

US Constitution Missing from Massena “Justice”

On July 12, 2013, I faced a Trespass charge in the Massena Village
Court.  My defense strategy was based upon the most powerful law in
America, the US Constitution.  The First Amendments of the
Constitution guarantee our freedoms, including freedom of speech.  My
free speech can not be labelled as Trespass and stopped.

I was exercising my freedom of speech at the Massena Memorial Hospital
on the October day last year when hospital administrator Mark
Brouillette and Massena Police Chief Tim Currier teamed up to deny me
that freedom.  In the courtroom, my opponents were Andrew Botts an
assistant district attorney in the St. Lawrence County District
Attorney’s Office and Hon. James Crandall, Massena Village Justice.
None of these men give any consideration whatsoever to the protection
of free speech.  It is as if the Constitution does not exist in their
world.

Judge Crandall found me guilty of Trespass despite the fact that I
established beyond any reasonable doubt the lawfulness of my actions
in the Massena Memorial Hospital.  The US Constitution trumps all laws
and regulations in the United States.  Americans are free to say what
they want to say in government buildings so long as they do not
disrupt the work of the people employed in those buildings.  The
Massena Memorial Hospital is owned by the Town of Massena.  It is a
public building.  The Constitution guarantees me free speech there.  I
did not disrupt the work of Massena Memorial Hospital employees.
Nevertheless, Judge Crandall found me guilty of Trespass.

The Massena Police Department and the Massena Village Court serve the
purpose of maintaining the status quo in the Village of Massena.  When
a person in a position of authority, such as Mark Bouillette at
Massena Memorial Hospital wants to stop an environmental health
protection activist from educating Massena residents about the risk of
cancer, heart attack and diabetes that is imposed by PCB exposure and
the ongoing PCB exposures entailed in consumption of supermarket foods
containing animal fats, the police and the court are quick to join
forces with the authority figure.  None of them give a single thought
to the right of the activist to speak freely.

The hospital is the perfect place to educate Massena residents about
minimizing the harm to health caused by past and ongoing exposures to
PCBs.  I tried for many months to speak with Mark Brouillette and
Zachary Chapman, Director of the North Country Veterans’ Clinic about
educating on the subjects addressed herein.  They refused to discuss
this.  After they gave me no satisfaction in my efforts to move
forward with public educational outreach on PCBs, I decided to go to
the hospital and hand out pamphlets describing the PCB exposure health
hazard.  This is what I did.

The founding fathers created the US Constitution to insure that
Americans were free to do what needed to be done to keep the country
vital and free.  I use my free speech to warn fellow citizens of the
harm that has been caused and continues to be caused by careless use
of chemicals by people with positions of power in corporations.  This
information is of critical importance to the health and happiness of
Americans.  The people need to know that the corporations have
poisoned the air, land and water of America and that in so doing they
have poisoned the people of America, causing much sickness and death.
Only when large numbers of Americans know this Truth will it be
possible to hold the corporations and their government allies
accountable.  The corporations and government must be held accountable
if we are to have a strong, healthy, just country.

I was doing the right thing handing out pamphlets about PCB exposure
and damage to health at the Massena Memorial Hospital.  The people
need this information.  The governmental public health entities will
not give the public this information because they are controlled by
the corporations that used the PCBs.  I plan to appeal the guilty
decision to County Court.  I am going to keep right on speaking freely
about PCBs and the other persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the
meats, fish, diary products and eggs purchased in the supermarkets.
Speaking freely about these things is an environmental revolution in
the making.  It is good that environmental revolution is taking shape
in the St. Lawrence River Valley of New York State.  Good people
taking action can save America.

5/27/13 Letter to Mayor Steve Yurgartis and the Board of Trustees, Village of Potsdam Concerning Fluoride Exposure and Damages to Health

5/27/13

Mayor Steve Yurgartis
Board of Trustees
Potsdam Municipal Building
Potsdam, New York USA
Transmitted by electronic mail

Dear Mayor Yurgartis and Members of the Board of Trustees,

Cancer Action NY has become active in an effort underway in Watertown
to bring an end to fluoridation of city water.  We are a member of
Watertown Anti-Fluoridation Action.  Please visit the Facebook page
for this group.  The page provides access to a great quantity of
information on the subject of damages to health caused by fluoride
exposure.

The Jefferson County Public Health Department takes the position that
fluoridation has been proven to be safe.  Director Jean Bilow and
Steve Jennings of that department have provided Cancer Action NY with
the several  documents that they consider to constitute the foundation
for this position.  These documents are listed below.

“Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: The Impact
of Fluoride on Health”
http://www.eatright.org/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=8423

“Review of Fluoride: Benefits & Risks”; Report of the Ad Hoc
Sub-Committee on Fluoride of the Committee to Coordinate Environmental
Health and Related Programs – U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services
http://www.health.gov/environment/ReviewofFluoride/default.htm

Institute of Medicine Dietary Reference Guidelines
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5776&page=288

National Academy of Sciences on Fluoride in Drinking Water
http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/safety/nas.htm

“National Research Council Report on Earth Materials and Health:
Research Priorities for Earth Sciences and Public Health”
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11809#toc

I have read “Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: The
Impact of Fluoride on Health”.  This document contains no information
that constitutes a basis for concluding that fluoridation is safe.
The document includes the following sentence, “Fluoride research of
more than 65 years has shown that fluoride is safe and effective at
the levels used for water fluoridation (0.7 to 1.2 mg/L).”  However,
the document presents this claim without offering any support for the
claim.  The position paper named above fails to address the matter of
total fluoride exposure.  It fails to address the endocrine disruption
effects of fluoride.  It fails to address the increased risk of bone
cancer imposed by fluoride exposure.

In “Review of Fluoride: Benefits & Risks” a report of the Ad Hoc
Sub-Committee on Fluoride of the Committee to Coordinate Environmental
Health and Related Programs an entity of the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, three health risks are assessed:  cancer, dental
fluorosis and bone fractures.  This report states that existing animal
studies fail to establish an association between fluoride exposure and
cancer.  However, it states that two animal studies have demonstrated
increased cancer risk associated with fluoride exposure.  Clearly, the
matter of fluoride exposure and cancer risk has not been studied
sufficiently to conclude that fluoride exposure does not increase
cancer risk.  The report states that evidence exists for increased
risk of dental fluorosis and bone fractures in populations receiving
fluoride exposures in the range
utilized by fluoridation programs in the United States.  I find this
report to provide a basis for the conclusion that fluoride exposure
has not been proven to be safe.

The 2007 National Research Council report “Earth Materials and Health:
Research Priorities for Earth Sciences and Public Health” does not
provide any in depth review of the scientific literature of fluoride
exposure and damage to health.  It is not a suitable document for use
as a foundation for the claim that fluoridation is safe.

The webpage titled, National Academy of Sciences on Fluoride in
Drinking Water presents information on several reviews of the
scientific literature that have been conducted over the course of many
years by the National Academies of Sciences (NAS).  The most recent
document found on this webpage, which constitutes a scientific review
is the 2006 National Research Council report titled, “Fluoride in
Drinking Water:  A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards”.  I have
reviewed this document and found information therein that raises
concerns about the endocrine disruption effects of fluoride exposure,
especially adverse impacts upon the thyroid gland.  It is incorrect to
claim that this document serves as a basis for concluding that
fluoridation is safe.  The document serves as a basis for concluding
that fluoridation has not been proven to be safe and that there is
reason to conclude that it is not safe.

Based upon all that is stated above, a reasonable person would reject
the claim of the
Jefferson  County Public Health Department that fluoridation has been
proven to be safe.  Fluoridation has not been proven to be safe.  Much
to the contrary, fluoridation has been shown to cause harm.
Furthermore, so little research has been conducted on total fluoride
exposure and endocrine disruption effects that no reasonable person
would conclude that fluoridation was safe.

I am hopeful that the Village of Potsdam will carefully consider the
information provided above and on the Watertown Anti-Fluoridation
Action Facebook site in taking a hard look at the health risks
associated with fluoridation of municipal water.  I would like to make
a ten minute presentation on the subjects of fluoride exposure and
damages to health with focus on total fluoride exposure and endocrine
disruption at an upcoming meeting of the Board of Trustees.  Can an
agenda spot be made available?

Thank you for your attention to this correspondence.

joyous in Nature,

Donald L. Hassig

4/18/13 News Release: Town of Russell Helps Residents Access WHO Report Recommending POPs Exposure Minimization for Children

Town of Russell Helps Residents Access WHO Report Recommending POPs Exposure Minimization for Children

http://www.russellny.org/

The Town of Russell now provides assistance to residents in accessing the 2010 World Health Organization (WHO) report, “Persistent Organic Pollutants:  Impact on Child Health”.  A PDF file for this report can be accessed from the town’s website.  This landmark WHO report recommends action to minimize the exposures that children around the world receive to persistent organic pollutants (POPs).  POPs are industrial chemicals that exhibit certain properties, which make them particularly dangerous to humans, including:  resistance to breakdown, solubility in fats and accumulation in the body.  POPs are contaminants of all animal fats.  POPs exposure has been found to cause chronic diseases including: cancer, diabetes and heart disease.  POPs are endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).  Much harm to wildlife and human populations has been caused by POPs exposures.

“The Town of Russell is taking a strong, leadership role in raising public awareness of the POPs exposure health hazard.  Former Town Board Member David Whitford deserves recognition for his efforts to create educational outreach on POPs exposure minimization.  Supervisor Robert Best and the members of the current Russell Town Board demonstrate their love of children, good health, good government and scientific knowledge by their work building POPs exposure minimization education.  It is truly wonderful knowing these good Americans.  I believe that the goodness in the American people will overcome all of the bad energies and actions of the greedy corporate people who are damaging our nation.  We live in an exciting time of great good change coming.”-Donald L. Hassig

4/18/13 News Release: Town of Lisbon Will Place Information on WHO Report Recommending POPs Exposure Minimization for Children on Town Website

Town of Lisbon Will Place Information on WHO Report Recommending POPs Exposure Minimization for Children on Town Website

On April 15, 2013, the Lisbon Town Board adopted a resolution that authorizes Supervisor James Armstrong to place information on the subject of the 2010 World Health Organization (WHO) report, “Persistent Organic Pollutants:  Impact on Child Health” on the town’s website.  This report recommends action to minimize the exposures that children around the world receive to persistent organic pollutants (POPs).  POPs are industrial chemicals that exhibit certain properties, which make them particularly dangerous to humans, including:  resistance to breakdown, solubility in fats and accumulation in the body.  POPs are contaminants of all animal fats.  POPs exposure has been found to cause cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

POPs are endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).  Diseases associated with EDC exposure include breast cancer, prostate cancer, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).  WHO published a second landmark report in 2013, “The State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals”.  Many of the human and wildlife diseases that are occurring at increasing rates have been associated with endocrine disruption.

POPs exposure minimization is of critical importance to the health of America’s children.  The most important step in minimizing children’s POPs exposure is making parents and those who provide food to children such as school lunch program personnel aware of the POPs exposure health hazard.

“Honor to the Lisbon Town Board and Supervisor Armstrong.  These good Americans have the best interests of children at heart.  They have demonstrated their willingness to help with bringing changes that will reduce the cancer problem in St. Lawrence County.  Local American government is good government.  Here in St. Lawrence County we are moving steadily ahead with using scientific knowledge to prevent cancer.  This is great!”-Donald L. Hassig

4/11/13 News Release: Hassig Stalking Charge Dismissed–Applying Reasonable Pressure Upon Government to Start Using Scientific Knowledge to Prevent Cancer Caused by Exposure to Pollutant Carcinogens Upheld–Viva American Justice!

Hassig Stalking Charge Dismissed–Applying Reasonable Pressure Upon
Government to Start Using Scientific Knowledge to Prevent Cancer
Caused by Exposure to Pollutant Carcinogens Upheld–Viva American
Justice!

Honorable Cathleen O’Horo, Town of Canton Justice Court has set forth
a Decision that dismisses the November 7, 2012 Stalking in the Fourth
Degree charge that I faced.  This is good.  Judge O’Horo has
demonstrated that she is a most honorable and just judge.  St.
Lawrence County government attempted to use this charge to stop me
from applying reasonable pressure for action that would utilize
scientific knowledge on the subject of the persistent organic
pollutants (POPs) exposure health hazard to prevent cancer, type 2
diabetes and heart disease by making known the facts of the POPs
exposure health hazard to county residents.  Judge O’Horo states in
her April 9, 2013 Decision that I had a legitimate purpose in engaging
in a course of conduct focusing upon Dr. Susan Hathaway, Director of
the St. Lawrence County Public Health Department.  I certainly did
have a most legitimate purpose in doing so.  My purpose was to
pressure Dr. Hathaway into acting upon her responsibility to protect
public health regardless of the opposition that such action would face
from county legislators.  Dr. Hathaway was failing in her duty to
protect the public health.  She was expressing criticism of the very
scientific knowledge that serves as a foundation for POPs exposure
minimization education.  She expressed this baseless criticism to
curry favor with the county legislators who opposed warning the public
of the avoidable POPs exposure health hazard constituted by the
presence of POPs in the animal fat containing foods of the mainstream
food supply, including:  meats, fish, dairy products and eggs.  Dr.
Hathaway chose to help the bad county legislators hide the Truth of
industrial chemical animal fat contamination from the public.  Dr.
Hathaway was very wrong in doing this.  I stood up to her and the bad
county legislators and made known my strong disapproval of their bad
behaviors.

“Honor to Judge Cathleen O’Horo for valuing the right of American
citizens to petition government for much needed action.  She clearly
portrays the Stalking charge for what it was, an attempt by county
government to stop me from continuing to express strong criticism of
the county government’s decision not to provide the residents of St.
Lawrence County with a warning of the POPs exposure health hazard.
Thank you, Judge O’Horo for defending the right of American citizens
to express criticism of government and to continue expressing that
criticism long after the bad government has grown tired of being
criticized.  I will forge ahead with pressuring St. Lawrence County
government to warn residents of the harm that is imposed by POPs
exposures at current levels of food supply contamination.  Viva the
Good American Revolution!”-Donald L. Hassig

—
Donald L. Hassig, Director
Cancer Action NY
Cancer Action News Network
P O Box 340
Colton, NY USA 13625
315.262.2456
www.canceractionny.org

Speaking Freely is Exhilarating!! Viva the Revolution!!

3/6/13

Speaking freely is exhilarating!!  I exercised my freedom of speech in the Roselle Plaza on the State University of New York Canton College campus today and experienced a great sense of satisfaction in moving forward with creating revolution.  I felt great pleasure, actual joy, in my rapidly growing ability to give an exciting spoken word/environmental dance performance as a new American Revolutionary.  It felt wonderful saying what I wanted to say.  I said, “The federal government of the United States is the most evil government that has ever existed on the Planet Earth.”  I said, “I am for taking down the federal government of the United States of America.  It is an evil government and it needs to be taken down.”  I said corporate greed had ruined our federal government and it was the responsibility of the good American people to take down that corrupt government.  It felt so good to speak these Truths.

One of the young women passing by stopped to say that I was right about the federal government being evil as a result of corporate control.  There is no denying the rightness of this position.  Hallelujah.  The days of bringing an end to bad government and bad corporate control of government are upon us.

I said, “I am the Revolution.”  I said that everyone who heard me saying this could say the same thing with confidence if they would just begin to speak out in public places as I was speaking out here now.  What a beautiful, non-violent, free speech revolution could evolve out of growing numbers of people speaking out against corrupt corporate controlled government.

I called upon all of those who came within the range of my loud voice to find the telephone number of the New York State Department of Health (DOH) on the internet, call the DOH and ask about industrial contaminants of animal fats causing children to be born with cancer in America.  I asked that they pursue this line of attack on the corrupt DOH by requesting that the DOH participate in a public forum on the subject of chemical exposure and cancer, which would be conducted on the Canton College campus.  What a great impact many such calls would have on the DOH.  If all of the people who work and study at Canton College would make this call and request that DOH participate in such a public forum, the stage would be set for taking a great leap ahead on the path of revolution.  Oh, the exciting hour when a public forum on chemical exposure and cancer was about to commence with participation by hundreds of St. Lawrence County residents and representatives of the governmental public health entities:  New York State DOH, the National Cancer Institute, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Food and Drug Administration.  Cancer Action NY could go far with bringing the Truth out at such an event.  This Truth has the potential power to spark a full-fledged non-violent revolution in the United States.

I will persevere in causing such a public forum to take place.  I will begin to circulate a petition that calls upon the above named entities to participate in a Public Forum on Chemical Exposure Cancer Risk.  This is a step further in the bright light that was shining on Canton College campus today.  Viva the Revolution!!