Subject:  Touching base (fwd)
Date:     Mon, 20 Jul 1998 153200 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:59:40 +0100
From: Christopher Beaver 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Touching base

Dear Roy:

I was very happy to see word of our public forum featuring Dr. John
Goldsmith in circulation on your forum. We are proceeding with our
planning and will continue to up-date everyone. 

In the meantime, I have a request. I seem to have noticed a great many
victories recently in local efforts to combat the unfettered and to my
way of thinking environmentally unregulated siting of cellphone towers.
Some headway even seems being made with regard to television
transmitting antennas as well.

I'd like to collect these victory stories and begin circulating the word
that we at the grassroots level have not rolled over and are not playing
dead. I'm beginning to think we may actually prevail...and this is with
regard to exposures from powerlines and other electromagnetic sources as
well.

Might people be willing to share with me stories of their victories in
preventing the siting of cellphone antennas where they would be
hazardous to the public? I'd love to bring these stories to the John
Goldmith forums, one of which I'll be moderating — we now have
presentations scheduled on the 22nd and the 23rd!!

In the larger picture, a friend predicted that when our current level of
environmental destruction has gone even farther than today, there would
come a time when people would struggle not over forests or species, but
over individual trees and animals...between those who would preserve and
those who would destroy for personal gain. 

With one in eight plants now facing extinction according to a study
group of which the Smithsonian Institution was a contributor...with the
merest outside possibility that electromagnetic pollution has
contributed to the disastrous plunge in the frog population...perhaps
we're closer to that point than we think.

Which is why I would include delays in construction as a victory. One
day's delay is one day less of exposure to the public. A good fight in
defeat may also be victory; defeats here in San Francisco certainly
paved the way for our victory in Noe Valley.

Over the past couple of weeks, I've begun to believe we can win. I'd
like to be one of the people collecting the stories. Very best,
Christopher Beaver



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