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Ilena Rosenthal is the Director for the Humantics Foundation, a non profit corporation and an advocacy group for women harmed by breast implants. She has been a woman's health advocate for several decades. While earning her Psychology degree at the University of Colorado, she worked with early Planned Parenthood and issues of reproductive rights. In the 1970's, she was on a small team of women who created the first woman's shelter in their county. After the death of her father, she was a part of a hospice team, working with patients in the last months of their lives. In 1995, she had several conversations with women with serious breast implant related health problems. As she began to research on the internet (far less wild those days), she discovered an enormous cover-up of the dangers and basically nowhere that implanted women could gather. She created the first newsgroup, alt.support.breast-implant in November, 1995 on usenet ... and it's been an E-ticket ride for the next 11 years. Speaking out on the dangers of something so desirable, so profitable, so well-funded, so controversial and so personal, made her a target for industry voices. She continues to head an international support group with women (and family members and widows) harmed by breast implants. She has been quoted for her work on breast implants and corporate scrutiny in Wired Magazine [1] Chemical and Engineering News, MyDNA, WebMD, US Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Scientist: Corporate Collaborations Washington Times, Glamour Magazine, among many others. She self published, Breast Implants: The Myths, The Facts, The Women, and was published in WomensENews honoring the 90th birthday of one of her heroines, Happy Birthday, Rosa Parks! Because of comments she posted and reposted on usenet, The Wild West of the Internet, she was sued in 2000, in a classic SLAPP suit that was recently decided in her favor for the third of three plaintiffs in the Supreme Court of California. [2] In the days following the unanimous decision in her favor, over 300 news articles were published. She was interviewed by Fintan Dunne on Break For News, A Victory over Internet Free Speech [3], and again on Breast Implants: The Smoking Gun by Fintan Dunne [4] along with Kim Gandy, President of NOW and Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Scot Glasberg. Interviews are also archived at The Progressive News Network, and the Sally Kirkland show on Healthy Life. Since the ruling in Barrett Vs Rosenthal, [5] she believes that the plaintiffs in this case are trying to change history on various medium on the internet ... including blogs, lists, and websites and even Wikipedia. She has been very pleased to see checks and balances working within Wikipedia at this time. Defeating a team led by Stephen Barrett, who calls himself, The Media, unleashed a classic smear campaign of phenomenal proportions that continues to this moment. The Supreme Court reiterated that not one comment she had made about Stephen Barrett was defamatory. She had never mentioned Christopher Grell when he sued her for libel. All have been ordered to pay her attorney costs. The seven Supreme Court justices ruled unanimously that she could not be held liable for re-posting one comment about Terry Polevoy. This victory will protect ISPs, blog owners and individuals from meritless SLAPP (nuisance) lawsuits for posting other people's comments. The Remittitur for this case was issued in December. Despite all of this, the Plaintiffs continue to publicize disinformation throughout the media. From the Supreme Court of California decision, November 20, 2006:[2]
Ms Rosenthal has been a free spirit and a world traveler for decades. Despite her opposition claiming she is in exile, she travels the world freely and con mucho gusto. References | |||
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