What a load.....

I kept thinking last night, the biggest impact anything has had on getting the publics attention on this matter was the full page ad Generation Rescue took out in USA Today, I think last year. More people came to question me after that than anything I offered. The second was Jenny McCarthy on Oprah, and the third was Jenny on Larry King Live in spring of 08. It's like the American Public is so consumer driven we have to have it either in mass media or advertising before anyone pays attention.
I really think we will have to continue to fight Pharma advertising with our own advertising. I will help in any way I can! Can't wait! It's on like Donkey Kong!

I'm in too. Great job Safe Minds.

This is a great idea. I'm donating and I'd like to sponsor it in my area as well.

Love this idea! I'm with you all and donating too! Every amount helps.

I'm sponsoring at a local theater =)
Pass the popcorn! Thank you, SafeMinds!

I am torn.

I kind of agree that baby steps are the only steps that work.

But I would much rather have seen something like:

"Did you know that there have been 1297 cases of vaccine-caused brain damage where it was actually ADMITTED that the vaccines caused the brain damage?"

"Did you know that in 1996, more infants DIED from the hepatitis B shot than the combined national total of reported CASES of hepatitis B in all children under 14?"

"Did you know that you are ALLOWED to research and question the vaccines that are injected into your baby's body?"

"Did you know that the companies who make those vaccines have blanket protection against any and all liability, even if they cause death? And that every study that supposedly says that they are safe was actually produced by the company that profits from it?"

"Did you know that you are allowed to say no to any and all vaccines, and in most states, you are still legally allowed to send your child to school?"

(Cut to picture of young woman in front of flapping autistic child, or in front of gravestone.)

Young woman: "I wish I had known."

Just bought a showing.

I'm in for a week!

I just donated. Thanks for the opportunity to live in a small (maybe not so small) way my "anti-Hg-billboards-across-the-country" fantasy. Hope this causes some to at least think twice and others to look into vaccination more than that.

i think big pharma and the public health establishment have given us a "gift," horrible as it is, by keeping thimerosal in flu shots. it's happening now, and so it's a good sharp target to go after. i think safeminds' approach is smart and right on the money.

I just love this and also just donated. A great idea!
Last week while picking up a med for Joshua at the pharmacy-a woman about 60ish- was filling out a sheet for the flu shot. Every part of her body was shaking(Parkinsons--some form of palsey?-definitely neurological).
She asked the pharm technician(I call them beauty school drop-outs) if she thought it would be ok if she got the shot as she has a health condition). The tech told her she didn't think it would be a problem altho it might be better to ask the nurse doing the jab(she didn't say jab tho). At this point my gut was spitting like my power juicer without the lid on. I made some comments about Joshua's med and vaccine injury(the best I could do). You don't want to know the ending to this story so I leave it blank.
Go Safe Minds and G-- help the lady with the shakes.

maurine

Age of Autism has been advocating for a study that compares vaccinated to nonvaccinated populations.

The first study of this kind has just been published and found that in males who were vaccinated with the hepatitus vaccine in the first month of life had a threefold higher risk of being diagnosed with autism than nonvaccinated male newborns.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21058170

@ Kim - I understand how you feel, and you must do (or not do) whatever you feel you must. We must all stay within our comfort zones. I do not fault you, or question you, or judge you at all. You are entitled to your opinion on this matter (and all others).

I personally feel a bit differently - that the only way to get through to any larger audience is through baby steps. People are so thoroughly indoctrinated by doctors and everyone around them to accept every vaccine as perfect and wholesome. I believe that only by questioning one aspect of a single vaccine is anyone even likely to give another thought to the other shots and the other dangerous ingredients they contain.

I remember my watershed moment at a Ruby Tuesday's eating lunch with a friend. We were eating turkey burgers when she asked me what I was going to do about all the other shots (beyond the 2nd MMR which I had just thoroughly researched and rejected) for my children. It was at that moment, and only at that moment, that I was able to have the painful epiphany that they were all bad for my children's health. As we all know, it is a huge moment when we cross from vaccine believers to vaccine rejectors, unless, of course, we were lucky enough to be told the truth from an osteopath, or homeopath, or chiropractor before our children could be harmed. I donated, and I am glad that I did. It is my holiday present to myself.

I love Safeminds and I love this concept of advertising in theaters for HP, but if we've got the audience, why just advocate finding thimerosal-free (WITH trace amounts) flu shots? I'd donate if it were a more broad message about childhood vaccines. Sorry.

Bravo! Considering all the Gardasil promo ads I had to gag at and watch at my local movie theater a couple of years ago, I think this is a great idea. All's fair in love and war, right?