Subject: City-Wide Demonstration Against Antennas (Beaver).
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 191255 -0500
From: Roy Beavers
To: guru
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.........Important announcement from San Francisco......
I wonder -- do you suppose the U.S. "press" will publish anything about
this???
I would almost bet that you will get better coverage in Paris or London
than you will in the U.S........guru........
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Subject: City-Wide Demonstration Against Antennas
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 16:15:42 +0000
From: Christopher Beaver
Reply-To: idgfilms@earthlink.net
To: roy@emfguru.com
References: <39D75928.BC84DE9@emfguru.com>
Dear Roy:
I have attached a press release that the San Francisco Neighborhood
Antenna-Free Union will be issuing tomorrow announcing a city-wide
demonstration against improper siting of cellular antennas and other
wireless transmitters such as our own Sutro Tower cluster.
We are calling for all of our allies throughout the world to participate
in this demonstration. March with us in person or march with us in
spirit.
>From New Zealand to South Africa, Brazil to Denmark, Spain to the United
Kingdom, Ireland to Russia, Israel to China, Portugal to Japan, wherever
people seek to protect their neighborhoods, we ask for your solidarity
with our demonstration. If you cannot attend in person, we request that
you send endorsements and notes of support. Please help with your words
and with your thoughts.
Since this forum is the first place to see this release, I would like to
ask if there have been other city-wide demonstrations against the
antennas. This would help place us in context for the press. Are we the
first or are we the fifteenth? A small detail but something for for my
own curiosity.
As always, Roy, thank you for providing a line of communication for
those concerned about our increasingly blue world.
Very best from me and the Antenna-Free Union,
Christopher Beaver
[release begins here]
OCTOBER 15, 2000
CITY-WIDE DEMONSTRATION
AGAINST CELLULAR PHONE ANTENNAS
EMBARGOED UNTIL OCTOBER 2, 2000 — TWO PAGES
Contact: Doug Loranger 885-1981, Enid Lim 923-5232,
or Christopher Beaver 824-5822.
The San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna-Free Union has called for a
city-wide demonstration against improper siting of cellular phone
antennas. The demonstration and walking tour will begin at 1335 Pacific
between Leavenworth and Hyde at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday October 15, 2000
ending at a second proposed antenna site at the Broadway Manor Motel on
the corner of Van Ness and Broadway.
Doug Loranger, who organized the Antenna-Free Union with veterans of
antenna fights throughout San Francisco stated, "Our goal is for the
City of San Francisco to enact legislation that would protect
residential neighborhoods from cellular antennas and other wireless
transmitters like Sutro Tower." The group's concern is based on
independent scientific studies that have substantiated the threat from
the microwave radiation continuously emitted by the antennas. Seniors,
children, and those with compromised immune systems are particularly vulnerable.
"Even though our building is zoned for commercial use, we are surrounded
by residential buildings," said long-time Chinatown activist, Enid Lim,
a resident of the 1335 Pacific site. "And our apartment building itself
is primarily residential, with nearly eighty housing units, seniors and
families; even though many of them speak little or no English, we were
never notified by Sprint in any language other than English." In
addition the site is one and a half blocks from the Helen Wills
Playground, one and a half blocks from the Spring Valley Elementary
School, and one block in a straight line from the Washington-Hyde
Playground.
The Antenna-Free Union is inviting all San Francisco Supervisors and
supervisorial candidates to attend the demonstration on a fact-finding
mission. Among the first to accept are Supervisor Tom Ammiano and Agar
Jaicks, candidate for election in District 5.
At 1:30 pm, participants will begin a walking tour of the surrounding
radiation-threatened area, passing by the Helen Wills Playground, ending
at a second proposed antenna site: the Broadway Manor Motel on the
northwest corner of Broadway and Van Ness.
(one page more)
OCTOBER 15, 2000
CITY-WIDE DEMONSTRATION
AGAINST CELLULAR PHONE ANTENNAS — PAGE TWO OF TWO
The proposed Broadway Manor site would host an unusually powerful array
of Sprint PCS antennas. According to Mark Longwood, a researcher who
lives near the motel:
"My review of numerous scientific studies by authoritative scientists
has led me to conclude that it would be imprudent to assume that
continuous electromagnetic radiation from these antennas would not have,
over time, serious adverse health consequences to its neighbors.
"I am particularly concerned for the senior residents of Notre Dame
Apartments located directly across Van Ness Avenue from the site, the
students residing in the Academy of Arts College dormitory adjacent to
the site, and the children attending St. Brigid School, a Catholic
elementary school located across Broadway diagonally from the proposed site."
Christopher Beaver of the Antenna-Free Union hopes that "we can forge a
national and international alliance to insist on adequate environmental
and health controls over wireless telecommunication systems."
In the words of Dr. Neil Cherry, a biophysicist and one of the world’s
public health authorities on wireless telecommunications:
æradiofrequency/ microwave radiation is a highly probable
carcinogen...this should require the placement of telecommunication
transmission sites — radio, TV, cellular antennas — some considerable
distance from residences, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, etc."
SCHEDULE: The demonstration begins at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 15,
2000 at 1335 Pacific between Leavenworth and Hyde. At 1:30 we will walk
to the Broadway Manor Motel to express our concerns over that site and
our solidarity with the residents who live near the proposed antenna
cluster.
(end)
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Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.emfguru.com