{"id":527,"date":"2013-10-03T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T16:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/?p=527"},"modified":"2013-10-03T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T16:01:19","slug":"tbyp-brunswick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTake Back Your Power\u201d to premiere 9 October in Brunswick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Subject:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> Take Back Your Power<\/span><\/em>, Maine Film Premiere<\/b><\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TBYP.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-529\" alt=\"TBYP\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mainecoalitiontostopsmartmeters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TBYP.jpg?resize=180%2C121\" width=\"180\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Director:<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <b>Josh del Sol, Director &amp; Producer<\/b><\/span><b><i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i>When:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wednesday, October 9, 7:00 p.m.<\/b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Where:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Join Friends of Merrymeeting Bay (FOMB) on Wednesday, October 9 at 7 p.m. for the 1st presentation of their 17th annual Winter Speaker Series. This program features the Maine premiere of the newly released thought-provoking film on smart meters, <i>Take Back Your Power<\/i>, directed and produced by filmmaker Josh del Sol. Run time is 1:47.<\/p>\n<p>Around the world quietly using billions in taxpayer funds, corporate utilities and governments are racing to replace electricity, gas and water meters with new-generation surveillance-capable \u201csmart\u201d meters. But at what cost to human rights, finances, security, and health? With compelling insight from insiders, government representatives, whistle-blowers, lawyers, doctors, and environmentalists, <i>Take Back Your Power<\/i> investigates claimed benefits and emerging risks of this ubiquitous \u201csmart\u201d grid program affecting all of us in Maine.<\/p>\n<p>Transparency advocate Josh del Sol takes us on a journey of revelation and discovery while asking:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2022 Are \u201csmart\u201d grid technologies effective, safe and eco-friendly?<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Or are corporations violating foundational rights and privacy\u2014without providing benefit\u2014in the name of \u201cgreen\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 What truly sustainable solutions are now unfolding that can meet the great challenges faced by our civilization?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What he uncovered will surprise, unsettle, and inspire you.<\/p>\n<p>After two years of interviews and post-production, <i>Take Back Your Power<\/i> is a documentary film that both deeply shocks and inspires audiences. The issues uncovered here are of critical importance, directly affecting our lives, wallets, privacy, health, security and even basic rights to life. An array of experts raise credible questions about a widespread risk to public health quite possibly intentionally covered up by utility and telecommunication companies. The accelerated unveiling of truth is activating people everywhere, who are increasingly asking questions such as \u201cWhat&#8217;s truly going on here?\u201d and \u201cWhat can we do?\u201d In making this film, del Sol and his partners found firsthand this is a <i>uniting <\/i>issue, where people from all walks of life agree something dangerous happening. In this film, it&#8217;s exposed for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Josh del Sol is the director and producer of <i>Take Back Your Power<\/i>, his first feature film. Born and raised near Vancouver, British Columbia, Josh is passionate about the growing movement of social awakening. He has a vision for a more equitable and transparent social structure, with foundational values which honor the sanctity of life and human rights. Josh finds inspiration in those of courage who speak truth to power, from a place of non-violence and vision, laying the foundation for necessary solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The FOMB Winter Speaker Series takes place monthly from October to May on the second Wednesday. The series, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Friends of Merrymeeting Bay with support and valuable door prizes from Patagonia Outlet in Freeport. The next FOMB presentation of this season on November 13th at the Bridge Academy in Dresden is titled <i>Col. John Allen, Revolutionary War Hero<\/i> and features historian Chris Groden.<\/p>\n<p>To receive more information on FOMB\u2019s programs, call Dup Crosson, Coordinator\/Organizer, Chair, Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, at 666-1118 or <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fomb@comcast.net<\/span>. Full speaker schedule and speaker biographies are available on the web at <a title=\"FOMB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofmerrymeetingbay.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.friendsofmerrymeetingbay.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo caption: \u201cA so-called \u2018smart grid\u2019 that is as vulnerable as what we\u2019ve got is not smart at all. It\u2019s a really, really stupid grid.\u201d\u2014Former CIA Director James Woolsey, in <i>Take Back Your Power<\/i><b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subject:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Take Back Your Power, Maine Film Premiere Director:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Josh del Sol, Director &amp; Producer When:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wednesday, October 9, 7:00 p.m. Where:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick \u00a0Join Friends of Merrymeeting Bay (FOMB) on Wednesday, October 9 at 7 p.m. for the 1st presentation of their 17th annual Winter Speaker Series. 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