Subject: (Kelley) Re (Loew) Movement Activists (fwd)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 153528 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 12:57:10 -0700
From: Libby Kelley
To: eidos@eidos.org, rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: Re: (Loew) Movement Activists (fwd)
Brenda:
I laughed with you at your question! Sometimes movements are so amorphous
that it is hard to know! Only afterwards, when there is some hindsight
persepctive do we know what that movement was all about. In this issue, we
already know what it is all about. This is a citizen-led movement - a
truly spontaneous grassroots movement. The impact of the wireless telecom
buildout in this country is activating people like I haven't seen in a
couple of decades. People do not like it when they dfind out that their
rights are impaired or preempted and local governemnt is unable to
represent them. They find it hard to believe that no one is "minding the
store".
It can be any of those "titles" you came up with. The one I prefer is
"concerned citizen".The other titles you suggest are limiting, overly
technical or superflous, in my opinion. Concerned citizen fits best in my
opinion as we are seeking to make democracy work. We are in a debate about
the future - questioning the validity and the wisdom of a set of values,
expectations, a major business plan - about the way the future should be.
Telecommunications is a major puzzle piece in that future scenario.
As Roy and many others on this list point out - we already know that this
future is here and it is causing serious problems. We need to get the
facts, network, educate and inform others - promote and elect political
representatives who can make a difference, etc. Make this a major
campaign issue for the upcoming coming elections. Support campaign reform
legislation.
Libby Kelley
aAt 05:24 AM 4/8/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Brenda:
>
>.......I believe it is a community of people who seek the truth about
>possible EMF/EMR public health hazards ... and who seek an honest
>government to serve the needs of the PUBLIC, not the special interests,
>on that issue.....
>
>Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
>rbeavers@llion.org................
>...It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness...
>.................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS...............
>
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>Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 22:53:43 -0400
>From: Brenda Loew
>To: rbeavers@llion.org
>Subject: Movement Activists
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>Roy, Help! I need a clarification. This may sound like a ridiculous question
>and some people may actually laugh at me for asking it but what's the best
>way to describe activists woring in this movement as well as this movement?
> Is this the wireless movement? The EMR movement? Would activists best be
>described as anti-EMR activists? I'd appreciate some feedback from
>everybody. Thanks. Brenda Loew
>
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