Mast Sanity: An excellent organisation that gives help and support with mast campaigns. Masses of really useful information and tips, including accurate and effective planning information and advice. Lisa Watt (formerly Oldham) and Chris Maile deserve a full chapter of their own in ‘The History of Mast Campaigning’ when it is written, as it surely will be one day.

PowerWatch: Pioneers in this field in the UK. Excellent articles & information, also products to detect phone/mast radiation and combat its effects. Alasdair Philips is a very accomplished scientist, publishing books (with his wife Jean) as well as actively promoting dialogue through conferences on electromagnetic fields and health.

Coghill Research Labs: Another pioneer, Roger Coghill was warning that overhead cables and pylons were a health risk two decades before the NRPB got round to admitting it in March ‘04. An excellent site packed with articles and scientific reports written in a very readable, often amusing, style. Coghill has also written a number of books on electropollution, and the site provides results of lab tests on a number of products, as well as promoting products of their own.

See particularly this excellent article on the science of TETRA health effects.

Electromagnetic Hazard & Therapy: Simon Best is a pioneering medical journalist with a strong scientific background. He is joint author of the book ‘Electromagnetic Man’, which shows a living organism to be electromagnetic in nature at least as much as it is biochemical. His magazine, titled as above, is a mine of useful news and information on this subject.

Microwave News: For years now Louis Slesin has provided hard-hitting up-to-the-minute news from the world scene on research and associated topics. His reports have provided a benchmark for campaigners the world over. Sadly his journal has been discontinued, but he is continuing to provide a top-quality information service through his website.

Buergerwelle (English Language Version): An excellent German site packed with international news, including the latest UK stories and information. They also produce a very informative regular newsletter giving summaries of, and links to, all those latest stories sent in by campaigners and researchers. To get on that mailing list, email Klaus Rudolph here and ask to be put on the list.

ElectroSensitivity-UK: Packed with useful information for anyone who is (or thinks they may be) electrosensitive, knows someone who is, or just wants to know more about this subject. Rod Read runs a very effective site for this registered charity - science, articles, links to other relevant sites, as well as a very clear outline of the issues involved. For some time now electrosensitivity has been recognised as a very real condition in Sweden, which maintains a register of those known to be electrosensitive (about 3-5% of the population). Recently our own Health Protection Agency has undertaken some research and found that - surprise, surprise - Sweden is not unique in this respect. Could we be moving out of the Dark Ages?

Radiation Research Trust: This recently-formed group (2004) seeks to promote truly independent research into, and open discussion of, the issues surrounding mast health effects. Includes scientists, politicians and campaign group representatives.

Campaign Websites (TETRA and/or Masts Generally)

These links are offered without prejudice - I haven’t checked every detail of the content of each site, but believe them to be ‘of good character’

TetraWatch: A truly excellent site, packed with useful information. Andy Davidson knows his stuff! Initially set up to serve the East Sussex area, with pages devoted to local campaigns, this site now also offers a ‘home’ to information from other regions.

SCRAM (Sutton Coldfield Residents Against Masts): You may have heard of the Wishaw mast that was pulled down on Guy Fawkes night 2003. This group didn’t do it - but they did blockade the field for many months with veteran army tanks and closed circuit TV, until the operators eventually gave up trying to replace the mast and went away. Eileen O’Connor (also a founding trustee of the Radiation Research Trust) has had several cancer operations and lost friends and neighbours to cancer. She and Lynn Insley are to be congratulated for their very effective ongoing campaigning.

No2TetraScotland: A strong campaign group resisting attempts to plaster Scotland with TETRA masts in the face of serious health problems around masts in certain parts of that country (see reports on Starweave home page). They’ve been very effective in communicating concerns particularly to certain members of the Scottish Parliament. Their ’Corrections to Airwave claims’ are directly relevant to every anti-TETRA campaign.

No2Tetra: A national campaign group, sister to the above organisation.

ACT (Alcester Community against TETRA): A well-structured and informative site for a campaign group serving Alcester (Warwickshire) and surrounding area. Highly active now (July ‘04) in the face of threats of TETRA going live in Warwickshire this Autumn.

ChAMP (Chorleywood Against Mast Pollution): A highly effective local Action Group in Buckinghamshire. Yasmin Skelt’s High Court victory, in which the First Secretary of State conceded the case and agreed to pay costs, is legendary - see ’PPG8 Kicked Into Touch’, Starweave News Page. The cynical ’re-allowing’ of the appeal by another Planning Inspector smacks of sour grapes from the Establishment and simply underlines the need for change in a planning system that’s so viciously loaded against the communities that it’s supposed to serve.

Llanidloes Anti-TETRA: Llani was the venue for a public meeting in 2004 that Airwave agreed to attend - then cried off at the last minute claiming they were fearful for their safety. That’s rich, from the company that’s irradiating the whole country with stuff that carries an official Health Warning - see Stewart Report, paragraph 5.59. The author of the ’Ecologist’ article is from Llani, and locals are very definitely not taking Airwave’s offensive behaviour - or its offensive mast - lying down.

Bardsey Mast Action: A campaign site for Bardsey, North Leeds.

Protect Liss & E. Hants: A local anti-TETRA campaign site.

FADER (Families Against Dangerous Electronic Radiation): A site campaigning against siting of a mast in a church in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire (info 2000 - 03) . Of particular interest to those in a similar situation.

Mobile Phone Mast Action Group: A national public service information site, as ‘Starweave’ is - only this one has been going considerably longer! It’s the original ’Mast Action’ site in the UK (not to be confused with MAUK, below).

Mast Action UK (MAUK): Another national public service and information site, launched in December 2000.

NewsNow ‘Mast’ Search: A newsfeed of up-to-the-minute news on masts from around the UK.

A Site For Those With Mast Horror Stories To Tell

Mast Victims A place for those seriously afflicted by masts to tell their story, and for the rest of us to find out what is being done in the name of ‘progress’ (I.e. Greed). Not a counsel for despair, but a call to action - and a condemnation of those who think nothing of destroying the lives of others for profit and power.

And A US Site Well Worth Looking At:

Council on Wireless Technology Impacts: Mast concerns, Stateside.

Lastly, A Site Not Concerned With Masts At All

But it is a closely associated problem, and one that involves ‘misuse of science’ by our old friends the NRPB (ring any bells?) and ’science being “perverted for political ends” by government agencies which should be protecting public health’ (deja vu?). These are the reported views of no less than the World Health Organisation’s former senior radiation adviser in Europe.

CADU (Campaign Against Depleted Uranium): This’ll make your hair stand on end!