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the Anti-Cell Phone Coalition of Portland

Smash the Cell Phone & the Social Conditions that Make it !

About Me

The Anti-Cell Phone Coalition of Portland, Oregon, is an attempt to raise awareness about the noxiousness of cell-phones, including the damaging aspects of the high-frequency radiation from the phones and their base stations (cell phone masts), and Also to organize against cell phone mast construction, and cell phone masts in our neighborhoods, and cell-phone use on buses and in other public places.A few quick details about WHY WE ARE AGAINST CELL PHONES :1. Cell phones are superfluous technology that furthers our alienation, replacing convenience for face-to-face communication.2. cell phone radiation causes shrinkage of brain-cells (esp. to those holding phones up to their heads), resulting in gaps between the braincells, gaps through which toxins and carcinogens can pass, allowing diseases to form. In short, the "blood-brain-barrier" (the brain's protective shield against harmful substances) gets damaged.3. Cell Phone Masts, (the base station towers), constantly transmit microwave radiation through our atmosphere. They have been shown to cause frequent severe illnesses in those who live near them, which is why there's a movement (mostly in the UK and overseas) to ban their placement near schools and in residential areas. These masts are in our neighborhoods in the city, (see our photos for a sample). We are sick of the side-stream radiation we're exposed to.4. The mining of coltan, an essential ingredient in cell-phones, is causing deforestation and murdering of indigenous people and near-extinct wildlife in Africa's jungles, where the world's 4th largest coltan reserve lies under the tropical rainforest, the Congo.check out the article : "Cell Phone Convenience or 21st Century Plague?" http://www.earthpulse.com/src/subcategory.asp?catid=4&su bcatid=3 for further info. there's also numerous sources on line if you do a google search for hazards of cell-phone technology etc. (our Blog has additional links) Also, see Earth First Journal's (2005 July-Aug. issue) for more info on cell phones.

My Interests

We are anti-capitalist, and believe that cell phones are just one more of the stock-pile of capitalism's products that infiltrate and affect every realm of our lives--from our health, to our social interactions, to the global ecology. We recommend rejecting many of the commodities that capitalist society throws at us, and cell phones are one particularly invasive product that irritates us. Cell phones are everywhere, on the bus, in the park, at the grocery store, accentuating the alienation that is so prevalent in modern capitalist society. We prefer to advocate face-to-face communication, and are thus somewhat reluctantly using this computer medium to communicate, but hopefully it will lead to more in person contact and organization.

I'd like to meet:

comte de Lautreamont, someone sensitive from another planet

Music:

Tuli Kupferberg and the Fugs, Lungfish, Godspeed you Black Emporor, also children playing and laughing, and people who sit on their back porch and play pots and pans. And, the sounds of spontaneous vocal outbursts such as those you might expect to find in a mental institution. Above all, The ocean. Music must be made by all, Not by One.

Television:

take out all of its inards, and turn it into a plant holder or something more interesting than just sitting in front of the zombifying machine.....

Books:

Maldoror, comte de Lautreamont, Society of the Spectacle, Ken Knabb Public Secrets, Communicating vessels Anthology by Anthony Leskov, Eberhardt Press Review books, One Woman's Fight to Die her Own Way, Against Sleep and Nightmare, Dancin' in the Streets by Rosemont, For A World without Moral Order Gilles dauve, and other Dauve, Le Petit Prince, Oscar Wilde's stories, Rimbaud, Kenneth Rexroth, Fredy Perlman Letters of Insurgents

My Blog

wifi "cloud" in portland, they're zapping us all around

Hey, just thought I'd show you this that I found, a map of wifi "hot spots"  :http://www.wifipdx.com/map/uuugggaahh! we're in a giant bubble of miasmic effluvium.
Posted by the Anti-Cell Phone Coalition of Portland on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:13:00 PST

profit before people

I found this article on WSWS : http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jul2002/cell-j11_prn.shtml It provides a synopsis of Earth Pulse Press's article, "Cell Phone convenience or 21st Century Plague?" And ...
Posted by the Anti-Cell Phone Coalition of Portland on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:37:00 PST

the sickness of today

Everywhere I go, there is an over-abundence of cell-phones. In nearly every aisle of the grocery store I have to dodge someone talking on their cellphone. And this city is supposed to be all "green"...
Posted by the Anti-Cell Phone Coalition of Portland on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:16:00 PST

resources, information links

some resources :http://www.earthpulse.com/src/subcategory.asp?catid=4&s ubcatid=3http://www.makezine.org/celly.htmlhttp://www.emf-so lutions.org.uk/faqs.htmlhttp://www.mast-victims.org/index.ph p?con...
Posted by the Anti-Cell Phone Coalition of Portland on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:47:00 PST