* Help us to stop base-station antennas - A Report on the Nature and Incidence of Electrical Sensitivity - Coordinadora Antilínia of Gavarres - Dr Heuser’s statement - EHS AND MENTAL HEALTH (13/1/02)
Help us to stop base-station antennas

Hello everybody:

I just become a member of EMR-EMF. I am posting this message to seek your help to keep base-station antennas out of our neighborhood, in Berkeley, California.

The story is that Sprint and other phone companies plan to install 3-12 base-station antennas on the roof of Starbucks Cafe in our neighborhood. The Zoning Board of Berkeley granted permit to Sprint in the December 12th public hearing, despite vehement opposition from neighbors. We are appealing the Zoning Board's decision to our City Council.

In the US, due to a 1996 Federal Communications commission law, people have hard time to stop the proliferation of antennas. For instance, we cannot argue that radiation from base-station antennas can be hazardous to health.

I am posting this e-mail to ask for your help. If you members send e-mails to our Mayor, Mr. Tom Bates, and some of the City Council members, and the City Officials, then they will take our case into consideration. Please send e-mails to the following addresses and tell the recipients that base-station antennas are invisible, silent, and odorless adversaries to health.

mayor@ci.berkeley.ca.us
spring@ci.berkeley.ca.us
olds@ci.berkeley.ca.us
maio@ci.berkeley.ca.us
clerk@ci.berkeley.ca.us


From: COORDINADORA ANTILINEA OF GAVARRES

We REMEMBER YOU THAT you GAVE THEM 22 AND 23 OF FEBRUARY 2003, IN LLAGOSTERA, GIRONA, THE FIRST STATE ENCOUNTER OF THE GROUPS was CELEBRATED, PLATAFORMAS, ASSOCIATIONS, PRIVATE, ETC. THAT we FIGHT AGAINST THE ANTENNAE OF TELEFONIA MOVIL AND THE LINEAS OF HIGH TENSION.

The objective of this encounter is it put in common of the demands, actions, studies upon the CEM and the health, experiences, normative legal, etc. of all the ones that fight against the antennae of telefonia base and the instalacion of lineas of high tension and transforming near our dwellings.

It is the moment to UNITE US all against the prepotencia and the desinformacion interested of the businesses of telefonia and the electricas, to the ones that the central Government and Autonomicos, permit that they attempted against our health.

We REQUIRE THE PRINCIPLE OF PRECAUCION FOR ALL THE OLD AND NEW INSTALLATIONS OF ANTENNAE AND LINEAS ELECTRICAS.

ONE MUST TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS ENCOUNTER ANTIANTENAS AND ANTILINEAS, TO REQUIRE THAT IN THE PROGRAMS OF ALL THE CANDIDACIES OF THE PROXIMAS MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, THE ACTIONS APPEAR TO FOLLOW UPON THE INSTALACION OF ANTENNAE AND LINEAS OF HIGH TENSION IN THE MUNICIPALITY.

But informacion, provisional program, inscriptions, suggestions, colaboracion etc. upon this I ENCOUNTER can be found in the web of the COORDINADORA STATE AGAINST THE LINEAS OF HIGH TENSION, and in the web de PROCEP
Josep M. Ricart. Spokesman of the COORDINADORA ANTILINEA OF THE GAVARRES panedes@terra.es

The Original in Spanish:

De: COORDINADORA ANTILINEA DE LES GAVARRES

OS RECORDAMOS QUE LOS DIAS 22 Y 23 DE FEBRERO 2003, EN LLAGOSTERA, GIRONA, SE CELEBRARA EL PRIMER ENCUENTRO ESTATAL DE LOS GRUPOS, PLATAFORMAS, ASOCIACIONES, PARTICULARES, ETC. QUE LUCHAMOS CONTRA LAS ANTENAS DE TELEFONIA MOVIL Y LAS LINEAS DE ALTA TENSION.

El objetivo de este encuentro es la puesta en comun de las reivindicaciones, actuaciones, estudios sobre los CEM y la salud, experiencias, normativas legales, etc. de todos los que luchamos contra las antenas de telefonia base y la instalacion de lineas de alta tension y transformadores cerca de nuestras viviendas.

Es el momento de UNIRNOS todos contra la prepotencia y la desinformacion interesada de las empresas de telefonia y las electricas, a las que el Gobierno central y Autonomicos, permiten que atenten contra nuestra salud.

EXIGIMOS EL PRINCIPIO DE PRECAUCION PARA TODAS LAS ANTIGUAS Y NUEVAS INSTALACIONES DE ANTENAS Y LINEAS ELECTRICAS.

HAY QUE APROVECHAR ESTE ENCUENTRO ANTIANTENAS Y ANTILINEAS, PARA EXIGIR QUE EN LOS PROGRAMAS DE TODAS LAS CANDIDATURAS DE LAS PROXIMAS ELECCIONES MUNICIPALES, APAREZCAN LAS ACCIONES A SEGUIR SOBRE LA INSTALACION DE ANTENAS Y LINEAS DE ALTA TENSION EN EL MUNICIPIO.

Mas informacion, programa provisional, inscripciones, sugerencias, colaboracion etc. sobre este I ENCUENTRO se puede encontrar en la web de la COORDINADORA ESTATAL CONTRA LAS LINEAS DE ALTA TENSION http://www.terra.es/personal/kirke1/ , y en la web de PROCEP (antenas) http://www.grn.es/electropolucio/index.htm

Josep M. Ricart. Portavoz de la COORDINADORA ANTILINEA DE LES GAVARRES
panedes@terra.es


A Report on the Nature and Incidence of Electrical Sensitivity, Induced by Exposure to Low Level Non-ionising Radiation

Short-term adverse biological effects, resulting from exposure to low level non-ionising radiation, are already very much in evidence in this country, notably in those people who suffer from Electrical Sensitivity.

The World Health Organisation states that this condition "poses a challenge to conventional wisdom" and that, despite the absence of "any accepted mechanisms to explain hypersensitivity," those "people who claim they are hypersensitive suffer considerably" and "research is continuing."

Symptoms include problems with concentration, dizziness and loss of memory, headaches, nausea, aches in muscles and joints, unusual tiredness, skin disorders, sleep problems, audio/visual disturbance and in extreme cases convulsions. These symptoms occur directly after exposure to low level radiation, such as that generated by domestic appliances, often resulting in sufferers having to adapt their homes accordingly.

Most research to date has been conducted in Scandinavia and in 1996, Per-Arne Ockerman, Professor of Clinical Chemistry in Gothenburg, Sweden, found that damage to red blood cells occurred in electrosensitive persons exposed to low level non-ionising radiation.

One Swedish trade union described a doubling in the number of members reporting serious symptoms of Electrical Sensitivity from 10 per cent in 1993 to 20 per cent in 1996.

Leif Sodergren, of the Association for the Electrically and VDT-injured, estimates that out of a population of eight million, around 10,000 Swedes suffer from Electrical Sensitivity. If this ratio applied in the UK, some 75,000 people could be affected.

In this country, Dr Anne Macintyre of the ME Association states that "ME sufferers seem to be extra sensitive to electromagnetic radiation". There are reportedly between 150,000 and 500,000 sufferers of ME in the UK.

Dr Jean Monro, an expert consultant at the Breakspeare Allergy Hospital, has treated over 500 patients suffering from Electrical Sensitivity. Upon request she has supplied supporting evidence to solicitors, for example, in cases of people forced to seek early retirement as a result of the condition.

Symptoms of Electrical Sensitivity have been consistently reported for a number of years now in many countries, including the US, the UK and Scandinavia. There is a direct correlation between these symptoms and those currently being reported by people exposed to high levels of radiation from mobile phones and masts.

There is now an urgent requirement to fund both biological and epidemiological research into the nature and incidence of Electrical Sensitivity. Until such research has been undertaken, people should not be involuntarily exposed to low level radiation generated by mobile phone base stations adjacent to their homes.

Sarah J Scott / May 1999

Informant: Imelda O'Connor


Dr Heuser's statement

Dr Gunnar Heuser, NeuroMed and Neuro Tox Associates Medical Group; Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at U.C.L.A. School of Medicine. 17366 Sunset Boulevard#101B, Pacific Palisades, CA90272

In and affidavit dated 11:06:1998 he wrote: As a clinician I can state that electrical sensitivity is a real medical disease. My more than twenty electrically sensitive patients and all other electrically sensitive patients are in urgent need of relief. Exposure to any radio frequency radiation should be avoided by these patients. 5th September 2002

http://www.geocities.com/emrsafety/updates.htm


EHS AND MENTAL HEALTH

EHS or Mental Illness or Both??

People diagnosed with Schizophrenia often report symptoms in terms of being 'controlled' or affected by external forces such as 'electricity'. The delusions described by schizophrenic patients are said to be, to some degree influenced by familiar elements of the society in which they live. (Ref: Living and Working with Schizophrenia, University Free Press M.V. Seeman et al., (1982)

Regrettably, what can be considered technological advances, causing so much pain and distress, has not yet caught up with the latest research on ElectroHyperSensitivity (EHS). Cases 49, 50, and 51 we speculate, give but a hint of the unnecessary suffering of many people who are misdiagnosed. There are also those who are mentally ill who suffer excessively due to EMR exposure effects.

There is a wealth of empirical evidence documenting disability and pain caused by exposure to electric and magnetic fields. Provocation studies by Dr Jean Monro et al., Medical Director, Breakspear Hospital. Belswains Lane. Hemel Hempstead, Hertforshire, Dr William Rea et al., Environmental Health Center, 8345 Walnut Hill Lane, #205, Dallas, Texas and Dr Cyril Smith Postal Address 36 Westminster Road, Ellemere Park, Eccles, Manchester M309 EA, UK. conclude that certain people are sensitized to electric and magnetic fields to which they react in such a way that adverse health effects are experienced. This, according to the people so affected, includes cerebral effects that may exacerbate the symptoms of an established mental illness or may be misdiagnosed by the physician as a mental illness. Thus the EHS afflicted person, who may well have been misdiagnosed as mentally ill, has not only to contend with the logistics of avoiding EMR, but is also obliged to suffer the effects of the stigma which has always attended mental illness.

http://www.geocities.com/emrsafety/updates.htm


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