Subject:  San Francisco and Salzburg Demonstrations (Beaver)
Date:     Thu, 12 Oct 2000 203202 -0500
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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Hi Everybody:

Chris Beaver has put a great deal of effort and "heart" into this project
and this message.....  Please give it your full attention....guru.....
 
It is better to light a single candle
    than to curse the darkness..

People are more important than profit$$


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Subject: San Francisco and Salzburg Demonstrations
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:10:46 +0000
From: Christopher Beaver 
Reply-To: idgfilms@earthlink.net
To: roy@emfguru.com
References: <39E4E74C.4B3386D8@emfguru.com>

Dear Roy:

The situation has continued to develop here in San Francisco. 

I wanted to send our up-dated press release so people can see the
progress we've made in the last few days: more support from Tom Ammiano,
President of our Board of Supervisors; more support from supervisor
candidates; and forward movement on the appeal to the Supreme Court. The
San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna-Free Union is now part of the Vermont
Delegation! As is Mr. Ammiano!!

Hooray for those who have never given up on the Supreme Court appeal of
the FCC's guideliness! I have often been faint of heart, but they have
stayed the course. They have given the demonstration a sense of unity
and momentum.

Furthermore, Eva Marsalek has reinforced her solidarity with our
demonstration. And we in turn have expressed our solidarity with the
Salzburg demonstration scheduled for tomorrow, Friday the 13th (now
there's a TGIF Friday date to remember). 

Eva Marsalek writes to us: 

[quote]

...as defined in the WHO-definition of health:  "Health is a state of
complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity." These democratic human rights are not
respected when mobile phone antennas are installed! So we express our
best wishes for your demonstration on Sunday and will mention your case
in our demonstration of tomorrow Friday 13.10. in Salzburg, Austria!

[end quote]

Following is our latest press release. We feel prepared for the
demonstration, hopeful that we will be eloquent in our speech and witty
in our chants, and ever mindful, as Enid Lim constantly reminds us, that
it's okay if the demonstration is a little ragged around the edges,
after all, we're the grassroots people not the money people.

Best always, and as always, thank you, Roy, for providing the means for
us to connect with one another around the world, you'll definitely be
with us in spirit!

Please don't hesitate to remind me if any group has inadvertently been
omitted from our list of official group endorsements.

Chris Beaver

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2000 CITY-WIDE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST CELLULAR PHONE ANTENNAS

IMMEDIATE RELEASE — THREE PAGES — NEW INFORMATION Contact: Doug Loranger
885-1981, Enid Lim 923-5232 , or Christopher Beaver 824-5822. Hotline: 1-415-77-TOWER.

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 with a rally at
1335 Pacific between Leavenworth and Hyde at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday October
15, 2000. We will then march five blocks past the Helen Wills Playground
to the Broadway Manor Motel on the corner of Van Ness and Broadway. The
demonstration will end near the Motel with a press conference at 2:00
p.m. 

The weather report calls for temperatures in the mid-60s under a partly
cloud sky without rain, a perfectly gorgeous San Francisco day.

Doug Loranger, who organized the Antenna-Free Union with veterans of
antenna fights throughout San Francisco stated, “Our goal is to have the
City of San Francisco 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 research that substantiates the threat from the microwave
radiation such as that 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, “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; Agar
Jaicks, candidate for election in District 5; Steven R. Currier,
candidate in District 11; Aaron Peskin, candidate in District 3; and
Eileen Hansen, candidate in District 8. (two pages more)

OCTOBER 15, 2000 CITY-WIDE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST CELLULAR PHONE ANTENNAS
PG. TWO OF THREE

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 proposed
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 diagonally across Broadway from the 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 New Zealand’s Dr. Neil Cherry, a biophysicist, Regional
Council member, chair of the Regional Planning Committee, and one of the
world’s public health authorities on wireless telecommunications:
radiofrequency/ 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.

The demonstration has received endorsements from around the world
including citizens from throughout the United States, Spain, Brazil,
Sweden, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, China, and Ireland.
Organizational endorsers include: the U.S. based Council on Wireless
Technology Impacts; Concord Citizens for Responsible Tower Siting in
Concord, Massachusetts; Canada’s Island Residents Opposed to Cellphone
Antennas; TESLABEL-Belgium; Irish Electromagnetic Radiation Victims
Network; and Mast Action UK, a consortium of seventy city-wide groups in
the United Kingdom.

SCHEDULE: The demonstration begins at 1:00 PM 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
ending with a press conference around 2:00. Please call 77-TOWER
(778-6937) for up-to-date recorded information. (one more page, special
bulletin attached.)

OCTOBER 15, 2000 CITY-WIDE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST CELLULAR PHONE ANTENNAS
PG. THREE OF THREE

SPECIAL BULLETIN

Confirmed October 11, 2000, the San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna-Free
Union signed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court. The brief joins an
appeal of current Federal Communications Commission’s guidelines
concerning cellular phone antennas. Officially part of the Vermont
Delegation’s brief, the Antenna-Free Union joins the following
signatories in the appeal:

Patrick Leahy, United States Senator, Vermont; James M. Jeffords, United
States Senator, Vermont; Bernard Sanders, Member of Congress, Vermont;
Tom Tancredo, Member of Congress, Colorado; William Doyle, Vermont State
Senator; Janet Munt, Vermont State Senator; J. Winthrop Smith Jr.,
Connecticut State Senator; Bryan Sullivant, Colorado State Senator; John
Witwer, Colorado State Representative; Paul Tonko, New York State
Assemblyman; Phil Mendelson, Washington D.C. Council Member; Vermont
League of Cities and Towns City of Golden, Colorado; Tom Ammiano,
President, San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

The appeal, if successful, would provide greater public health and
safety protection from cellular phone antennas.

(END)


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