Subject:  Concord Journal, letter to the editor (fwd)
Date:     Tue, 25 Jan 2000 171841 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:34:06 -0500
From: "by way of JNewton at EMRNetwork " 
To: rbeavers@llion.org, 
Subject: letter to the editor

Greg Turner,
Editor, Concord Journal

Dear Greg

On Sunday  January 30, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the Alcott School, 91 Laurel
Street, Concord, an educational program, open to the public and free of
charge, will be held, entitled, "Microwaving Communities: The Link Between
Cell Phone Antennas and Your Health."  A panel of presenters and concerned
scientists, will discuss the health issues and the ethics related to placing
PCS microwave antennas close to schools, residences, businesses and where
people congregate.

The timeliness and local relevance of this issue pertains to a February 4,
2000, meeting of the members of the Trinitarian Congregational Church at 54
Walden Street, to decide whether to allow the continuation of an April 1997,
contract with Sprint Spectrum to house an array of cell phone antennas in
their steeple.  (This site is out of compliance with the current Concord Town
Bylaw voted on at Town Meeting in April,1998.)

This church, my beloved church, sits in the middle of three nursery schools,
a residential neighborhood, very close to many businesses, and in the heart
of town.  We offer this forum to the church community as well as to the
community at large to allow all of those potentially affected by the
microwave emissions from the antennas in the steeple, a larger understanding
of the issue.

It is the usual custom for churches to conduct their business in the privacy
of their houses of worship.  However, when a decision is made which directly
affects the community at large, without the communities informed consent, it
ceases to be just church business.

I'd like to end my letter with a quote from Dr. Helen Caldicott, an
internationally acclaimed physician and cofounder of Physicians for Social
Responsibility, a group which received the Nobel Peace Prize.  She is by
training a pediatrician and has worked as an instructor in pediatrics at
Harvard Medical School.

"Radiofrequencies emitted from mobile telephone towers will have  deleterious
medical effects to people within the near vicinity according to a large body
of scientific literature.  Babies and children will be particularly sensitive
to the mutagenic and carcinogenic effects of the radiofrequency radiation."

Sincerely,
Virginia Hines
       

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