!!Please get down there and help out will a protest today and blockade the builders when they come to put the mast up!!
1. Bombard the brewery (Punch), phone company (T-mobile) and council with emails and letters - I'll post numbers and emails in the comments as soon as I get them.
2. Protest outside the Chester Arms this afternoon (Weds 14th June) at 3.45 with Oxford Mail photographer. Parents and kids are coming straight from school so it should be fairly big
3. Help with a planned banner-drop from the scaffolding.
4. Direct action if/when the mast actually arrives.
When i've got contact details for the group I'll post them in the comments. There are notices up around the Iffley Road area.
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General info on why masts are bad
14.06.2006 19:45
In 2004, a study by German Federal Agency for Radiation Protection looked at whether people living within 400 metres of a mobile phone mast were more at risk of developing cancer than those who lived further away. Case histories of 1,000 patients between 1994 and 2004 were evaluated for the study. They discovered that people living within 400 metres of the mast in Naila had three times the risk of developing cancer than those living further away. This info from
A Dutch study found that people were likely to get headaches and nausea near 3-G masts. Source:
Other info from:
Mast Sanity:
Incidentally, there's a TETRA mast in the town centre (near St Aldate's cop shop).
(See why TETRA's bad for your health:
Knowledge is power 'n' all that...
PowerJen
Mast nimbyism - please give us a mast
14.06.2006 21:27
I reckon this is hardcore nimbyism of the worst kind, and probably hypocrisy - I expect all of the objectors have a mobile phone, and are happy to use their phone all over Oxon - regardless of their supposed belief that masts are dangerous, and therefore happy to continue to act in a way which in their belief might be harming others.
This is about property prices, and not having an ugly black transmitter mast in deepest middle class Victoriana, which would probably knock a few grand off houses nearby.
I for one am sick of the weak mobile signals in Iffley Fields, and I am happy to have another mast nearby. Mobile phones are really useful, and socially liberating tools, even people on a low income can afford the much-lower-than-BT costs ... their widespread use is a good thing, unlike stinking cars.
Jon
Nimbyism
15.06.2006 08:21
Correct