5G Inishowen Awareness and Buncrana Garda Mast Action Group to launch streering group

May 9, 2019

Following on from last week successful launch of Buncrana Garda Mast Action Group both 5G Inishowen Awareness and BGMAG group are meeting in The Exchange, Buncrana on Mon 13 at 7pm. Members who put their name forward at last weeks meeting are invited to attend. However, the group also invite anyone in the community who would be willing to help to contact Maria McMenamin, 5G Inishowen Awareness or Kim McMenamin and James Quigley who are spearheading BGMAG.

Hearing Massive levels of Radiation from a mobile phone mast, on a Buncrana street, close to homes, people, and children in the Gaelscoil at the youth club

Kim McMenamin demonstates EMF waves sound coming from the ESB mast West End, Buncrana

Agenda for Meeting
The agenda of the meeting will concern the formation of a steering committee going forward to highlight, inform and develop protests and other strategies around the health hazards of wireless telecommunications infrastructure locally.

The group asks the community to give input into what should be included on Mon night's agenda or future meetings e.g campaigns, financing, protest, education, community organisation and invite anyone willing to contribute their time and effort to contact them.

One particular goal according to Kim will be to appeal to teachers, parents and hopefully get them informed and the children involved. Children are particularly vulnerable to electromagnetic waves frequencies (EMF) that come from wireless technology. The group feels that the onus should be on teachers and health officials to inform themselves about the known dangers of this technology.

An interesting landmark case took place in an Italian court last November, which ordered the Italian Government to launch a campaign to advise the public of the health risks from mobile and cordless phones. The campaign has to start by July 16 and should have implications for the whole EU.

5G Awareness Inishowen
5G Awareness Inishowen is a Facebook group that was formed recently to hopefully reach as many people online in Inishowen as possible. The group was founded by Maria McMenamin, Rosina McLaughlin, Mary Mack, and Helena McCarron and so far it has gone from strength to strength. Kim's recent Youtube video has gone, what is called in the trade, viral with over 15000 viewings. It is an audible representation of the silent noisy emissions from the ESB mast at the West End, Buncrana (see above).

Buncrana Garda Mast Action Group
BGMAG was launched last week at a public meeting in Buncrana. This was in response to the Office of Public Works (OPW) granting a license to Shared Access Ltd to erect wireless antenna on the existing Garda mast in the centre of town. The plan is an “Exempted Development'“ which means it is exempt from the normal planning process. Residents, as the group is learning, have no say in this process. In fact the Irish Government has relaxed Telecommunications Antennae and Support Structures Guidelines (1996) to such an extent that they have given telecommunications companies carte blanche to slowly and silently make us sick. Believe it or not residents have no right to object in planning on health grounds.

Sources:
Italian Case - https://microwavenews.com/short-takes-archive/italian-decision-precaution?fbclid=IwAR3LFdnz5Kpop9gS4B0f8JgvrKrIw36Tl7J2wNs6bYNzyxOK90PO1GIsidA
5G Inishowen Awareness - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2128292017255770/?multi_permalinks=2187222134696091&notif_id=1557434441495221&notif_t=group_activity
Buncrana Garda Mast Action Group - http://buncranatogether.com/home/2019/4/29/buncrana-residents-object-to-opw-license-for-mobile-phone-antennae-on-garda-mast
Telecommunications Guidlines 1996 - https://es-ireland.com/masts-antennae/
Youtube video -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWJNN2FyGec&feature=youtu.be

How Big Oil Conquered the World

November 10, 2016

From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the oil industry. The story of oil is the story of the modern world. And this is the story of those who helped shape that world, and how the oil-igarchy they created is on the verge of monopolizing life itself.

Written, directed and narrated by James Corbett

TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=16888 From farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is impossible to think of an area of our modern-day lives that is not affected by the oil industry. The story of oil is the story of the modern world.

Transcript and sources: https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-310-rise-of-the-oiligarchs/

Lost Opportunity - Right2Change fragmentation and why some should step down

January 6, 2016

Article by James Quigley

At the outset let me say I don't know for sure what to call the Right2Change organisation. Sometimes it goes by the name of Right2Water, other times it is Right2Water Ireland and at other times it is Right2Change. I believe that in 2015 the name was changed to Right2Change. I along with everyone in the Anti Water Charge' campaign are part of Right2Water movement. This is includes Can't Pay Won't Pay, the Anti Austerity Alliance, all independent groups throughout the country and political parties who genuinely support the aims. I will do all that I can to bring about the end of Water Charges, the abolition of the relevant Acts and abolition of the Irish Water Ltd company. I did not agree and still do not agree with the direction Right2Change has taken and I believe this was done in a very questionable manner.

Lost opportunity to build a strong unifying Anti Water Charge campaign

Now Brendan Ogle has called for nationwide demonstrations for Jan 23rd, 2016 and Sinead Stewart is calling a meeting of Right2Change Donegal to organise one in Letterkennny.

This is a unilateral decision by self appointed leaders in Right2Change. It is a lost opportunity to build a strong unified anti water charge force which could include all opposition in the country. It could have been used to reinvigorate the campaign throughout the country but instead it is being used to further individuals' profiles and and party agendas. Who made this decision and why have organisations been left out? To me this decision is not in the interest of the movement but instead it is once again fragmenting and partisan.

It is an exclusionist policy that they are practising and it reflects badly on the overall movement . In fact it points to ' a grab for personal profile' by certain individuals. This is amply portrayed in the first instance by the conferring of self-appointed titles of authority. In normal democratic circumstances these titles are bestowed by the votes of the ordinary membership. This self-conferring is a fraud and says much about the real agendas of the individuals involved and indeed the acquiescence of those at the head of things.

Donegal sham officer board

I see that in the latest local newspapers that Charlie McDyer is chairperson, Owen Curran is spokesperson and Philip McFadden is secretary of Donegal branch. They are calling a meeting on Jan 13th to organise a Rigt2Change demonstration in Letterkenny on Jan 23rd. Who conferred these titles on them and why are they persisting in this sham? If there is an officer board why is Sinead Stewart so prolific on facebook speaking on behalf of Right2Change?

Call for resignations
I call this officer board to step down them to be stop speaking for the movement and stop conferring on themselves the sham titles. The mere fact that Philip McFadden is there puts a lot of people off.

I call on Brendan Ogle and Sinead Stewart to resign and stop speaking for the movement. I have written extensively about some of the terrible things they both have done. I believe they both have done the movement a disservice. They have caused factions and rifts. Surely this is not good for the movement. I can not have anything to do with them and I am ashamed that people in the movement have let them carry on as if nothing has happened despite ample evidence.

Way Forward both nationally and locally

I call on the national movement to re-admit the Anti Austerity Alliance and acknowledge the wrongdoings against them. I call on Donegal Anti Water Charge movement to form a unifying group which would be representative of all strands of opposition in the county. This would include Can't Pay Won't Pay and all non-aligned groups. I call on all political parties to step back, support our campaign and not try to influence it or lead it for political gain. It is a movement of the people and should not be hijacked and should include everyone who is genuinely opposed to Water Charges and Irish Water.

The campaign should call for a strong boycott of water charges and Irish Water. We should not rely on elections or political parties. Any political party can have their own policy but we should encourage them to support us in a boycott.