Subject: Re Conference Up-date (fwd)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 183734 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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What a metaphor!!!! ..... A candle that turns into a snowball!!!!
Chris.... I like it!!!
Keep us informed, we will broadcast to the whole world....
Guru....
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:39:03 +0000
From: Christopher Beaver
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Re: Conference Up-date
Dear Roy:
Your candle has ignited a snowball...if that's possible. There's a great
deal of news to up-date everyone on our Antenna Free Zones conference.
Hopefully some of this will be appearing in media coverage of what has
turned into three conferences.
I will be brief with more news to come.
In San Francisco, Dr. Cherry's appearance and the conference has
occasioned
a committment from Supervisor Tom Ammiano to announce proposed
legislation to regulate cellular antenna construction in San Francisco.
This will probably take the form of a proposed moratorium on further
construction of antennas in San Francisco until the Board of Supervisors
has approved a permanent Telecommunication Plan.
The process will entail public hearings and, according to California
State Law, environmental impact statements. Former supervisor, John
Bardis, organizer of the citizens' group, The Telecommunication Master
Plan Coalition, has pointed out that environmental impact statements are
advisory in nature, that state law mandates them, and that federal
pre-emption cannot pre-empt their preparation.
Dr. Cherry has been scheduled for several radio shows and thus far, one
live television discussion on the "Take Issue" show, Thursday March 19
from 8–9:15 PM, on Bay TV, a cable feature of broadcast Channel 4, KRON.
The producers are trying to schedule Dr. Jerrold Bushberg to appear as
part of the discussion. Dr. Bushberg, from the University of California
at Davis, is a scientist-lobbyist for PacBell. He appeared in our
neighborhood when PacBell presented their proposal to place cellular
phone antennas in the steeple of the Presbyterian, Noe Valley Ministry.
His line was that thousands of studies proved the antennas were safe
while only maybe a handful, maybe one or two showed the possibility that
microwave exposures could produce some behavioral effects, like
distruption of sleep. It will be worth the price of admission if these
two men speak face to face.
A third conference has been added, this one in Denver. Co-ordinated by
Carole Lomonde of the Canyon Area Residents for the Environment, the
public forum will take place on March 18, from 2-5 pm at the Jefferson
County Administration and Court building. The Canyon Area Residents
(known as CARE) face existence, now, today, of more than 500 microwave
antennas within one to two miles of their homes. For more information,
please contact Carole Lomond at 303-526-2420.
And the catalyst for Dr. Cherry's visit to the US, the "Microwaving
America: Does the '96 Telecom Act Jeopardize Our Health, Property and
Democracy?" takes place this Saturday, March 14, from 12:30–5:30 at the
Concord-Carlisle High School, 500 Walden Street, Concord, Massachusetts
(dare I say, home of the American revolution as a precedent?). For more
information, please contact Susan Clark at 978-369-1107. Susan Clark has
already given one interview to WBAI radio in New York.
The San Francisco conference takes place at the Booker T. Washington
Community Center (Presidio Street at Sutter) on Saturday, March 21, from
9:30–5:00 including an ample networking hour and a half built into the
conference from 3:30–5:00. We also have a public information
presentation with Dr. Cherry at Rainbow Grocery (where 13th Street and
Folsom Street meet at Division Street) on Friday, March 20 from 3:30 to
4:30, and a second public forum with Dr. Cherry at the Metropolitan
Community Church of San Francisco (150 Eureka Street between 18th and
19th streets) on Sunday, March 22 from 2:00 until 4:00. All of these
locations have significance in terms of the cellular and other microwave
antenna issue, but the Sunday presentation is in my neck of the woods,
one valley over, directly in the shadow of Sutro Tower, a massive
television transmission antenna.
We will have more news as it develops. I'm a bit breathless with all the
planning and events and news. Everything is going very well. The task
now, for me, is to stay as centered as possible, be careful driving and
crossing the street, and just stay steady on our course.
Dr. Cherry is in the air and will arrive in Boston this evening. Let's
all send him our best thoughts for a safe and informative visit. I hope
people will make the trek to San Francisco. Our feeling here, as my
partner, Judy Irving, wise-cracked is that our movement is so
grassroots, we don't even have the grass. But we do have some lovely
people involved, it's worth the trip just to meet them, and we hope you
can attend. (Free coffee and danish to all attendees.)
Roy, thank you again for everything. Your internet forum and your
financial contribution made this possible. Very best for now,
Christopher Beaver
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