ANH-Intl eBlast: Social networking towards global change — be part of it!

6th August 2010

(For Action Steps, scroll to the end of the eBlast)

The time is now

Are you ready to take action? We feel that many of you are, and now is absolutely the time for it.

With the ever-persistent threats to our freedom to choose natural food, natural health products and natural methods of healthcare, including an EU herb law that effectively discriminates against 4000 year old medicinal traditions, we the consumer, have to make a stand and make ourselves heard. The first and most important step is to educate yourself, then spread that knowledge to as many people as possible. Education is a prime focus for the ANH-Intl team, but we urgently need your help to keep that information circulating throughout the world. So many people are still unaware of the major infringements to our ability to live our lives in concert with nature and we need their voices too. 

European legislation in particular is way down the road in terms of major infringements of basic human rights, like freedom of speech and the right to access natural modalities of healthcare.

With networking in mind, we have been concentrating on improving our lines of communication. The ANH-International website is a portal to the two regional offices, ANH-Europe and ANH-USA. If you have a website or know someone with a website, please link to our sites. To make it as easy as possible we have a downloadable banner on both the ANH-Intl and ANH-Europe websites and we’d love to share links.

We hear you 

We have been listening closely to your comments and requests and have been taking steps to clarify and simplify the mass of, sometimes very complex, information we post. We also understand that everybody is busy and some of you only have a short window to sift through a lot of information. So in future we will aim to have both a short version and a long version of important documents, like the following:
 
Summary of Key Challenges to Natural Methods of Healthcare in Europe:

Short version 

Full summary 

Social Networking 

ANH-Intl now also has its own dedicated Facebook page, and we would love to see you become our ‘friend’ and follow our work. We will regularly be posting information and Dr Robert Verkerk is keen to start blogging and being on hand to answer some of your more burning questions!
 
Don’t forget you can also follow us on Twitter. 

Action Steps

Many of you have also been asking us what you can do as individuals, so here are a few ideas to help you be proactive, but please feel free to be creative and come up with ideas of your own.…And never underestimate what can be achieved with people-power! 

  • Use our simple templates to email/write to your MP/MEP with your concerns about decreasing access to natural health products
  • Sign our petition regarding the unfair restrictions on vitamin and mineral levels, and encourage others to do so
  • Follow us on Twitter
  • Become a friend on Facebook and invite your friends to do the same 
  • Email us to share links 
  • Download our banner onto your website
  • Forward our eBlasts and links to any sites, bloggers, and other interested parties – pass on the knowledge you have as widely as possible
  • Donate to the campaign. We welcome any size of donation – they all add up when there are lots of them and we can’t do this without you!

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