I attended the Green Our Vaccines rally in Washington, D.C. this past Wednesday.
This was one of the most beautiful autism related events I have ever seen. Folks turned out by the thousands to ask our government to clean up the vaccines we are forced to inject ourselves with. Mostly for their children, and those children that are not yet with us.
When I first learned of this event I was very excited. Why I would have done anything to help promote it, and drive as many people as possible to attend. At some point though, I realized that there was a strong opposition out there who would do anything in their power to portray this event as an “anti-vaccine” event.
While I can’t speak for the organizations running the event, I knew that most of those who would attend were not anti-vaccine, rather anti-toxins. So at that point I tried to raise the concern to the organizations running the event. Unfortunately, I met with resistance, and was basically told not to be so negative.
When I got the feeling I was being hushed, I got a little worried. I still had nothing more than that to lead me to believe this would be anything but a rally for safer vaccines, but it told me they might not be doing enough to ensure that their message was understood.
At that point, I became a regular pain in the ass. Pressuring Lisa Ackerman to make more statements about this not being an anti-vaccine rally, and to bring the concerns to Jenny. I think I pretty much alienated TACA, as well as the Jenny camp in the process.
I’m glad.
Do you know why? Because there was nothing at the Green Our Vaccines rally that would allow me or anyone else to call it an “anti-vaccines” rally. They mentioned it so many times throughout the morning I thought the crowd was going to repeat it as a chant. Even Jenny is now making sure to state “we are not anti-vaccine” during every interview.
Did I have something to do with that? I hope so. If not, I’m still glad for the change.
There is nothing anyone can point to that would make a case for this being an anti-vaccines event, and that is exactly how I wanted it.
So I say to Lisa Ackerman, Jenny McCarthy, Sarah, and all of the folks involved with the event, thank you.
Thank you for making this a landmark event, and not affording anyone the opportunity to denigrate our cause.
I have posted a few pictures for those who were not able to attend. If you wish to use any of them, please ask permission first as they are to be considered copyrighted material.
To view more photos, see this slideshow…
http://family.webshots.com/slideshow/563704961bRhSXH
