[AicapAifap] Global Protest Day against 5G: 205 events in 195 cities planned so far

[Alliance of Incarcerated Canadians/Foreigners in American Prisons]

 _  FIRST GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST AGAINST 5G GATHERS MOMENTUM_ A Global
Day of Protest against 5G was just an idea three months ago. At this
writing, more than 205 events in more than 195 cities in 32 countries
are being planned for Saturday, January 25. Some events will also take
place on Friday, January 24, when government offices are open, and on
Sunday, January 26. Most of the events, together with contact
information, are listed here:
https://stop5ginternational.org/5g-protest-day/. So far, events are
planned in: Austria - ViennaAustralia (5 cities)BelgiumBermudaCanada
(13 events)Croatia (6 cities)CyprusCzech RepublicDenmark (7
cities)FinlandFrance (many cities)Germany (11 cities)Greece -
PatrasHungary (3 cities)Ireland - DublinItaly (39 cities)Japan -
TokyoKenyaMaltaNetherlands - AmsterdamNew Zealand (15 cities)Norway (5
cities)Poland (9 cities)Portugal - LisbonRomania (4 cities)Serbia -
BelgradeSlovenia - LjubljanaSouth Africa - Durban and Cape TownSpain
(5 cities plus two events in the Canary Islands)Sweden (3
cities)Switzerland (13 cities)United Kingdom (13 events)United States
(34 events) If your event is not listed on the website, please contact
team at stop5Ginternational.org and request your event to be added. Here
is an updated press release about the Global Day of Protest. Please
send it to newspapers and other media in your county. _SIXTY MORE
SATELLITES TO BE LAUNCHED SHORTLY BY SPACEX__Astronomers Protest_
SpaceX intends to launch another 60 satellites as soon as the weather
is favorable, bringing the total number of "Starlink" satellites in
low orbit around the Earth to 240. Originally scheduled for tomorrow,
the launch has been postponed due to weather conditions. An Appeal by
Astronomers called "Safeguarding the Astronomical Sky" is circulating,
spearheaded by Italian astronomer Stefano Gallozzi. The appeal will
collect signatures for about one more week, and then will be sent to
governments, institutions and agencies around the world, and to
newspapers and other media. Most of the satellites will be visible to
the naked eye, especially in the time after sunset and before sunrise,
when they will most strongly catch the glare of the sun. If tens of
thousands of them are launched, say the astronomers, they will ruin
the night sky for all of humanity. The satellites will not only
“greatly outnumber the approximately 9,000 stars that are visible to
the unaided human eye,” but will “reach the brightness of the
stars in the Ursa Minor constellation,” and will be “exceeded in
brightness only by 172 stars in the whole sky.”

Even if the satellites are coated with non-reflecting paint, say the
astronomers, they will still eclipse stars, and their radio
transmissions will cripple radio astronomy, “making the astrophysics
community blind to these spectral windows” through which they are
currently able to observe the universe. “THERE IS NO MORE TIME TO
DISCUSS, IT IS TIME TO ACT!” states the appeal. The appeal can be
signed by 
	*Professional Astrophysicists and
Astronomers	*Technologists/Engineers	*PHD students	*Collaborators
and/or Associates at International Scientific Institutes.

 If you are an astronomer or if you fit into one of those categories,
please sign the Astronomers' Appeal and ask your colleagues to sign
also. At this writing, the list of signatories contains 263
astronomers from 25 countries (Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada,
Chile, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy,
Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay and
Venezuela).
An article about this threat to the night sky was published in the
popular and widely-read science magazine, _Scientific American_, on
January 16, 2020. It is titled, "The FCC’s Approval of SpaceX’s
Starlink Mega Constellation May Have Been Unlawful." It quotes Ruskin
Hartley, the Executive Director of the International Dark Sky
Association. Such a large number of satellites, he says “has the
potential to change our relationship, and our connection, with the
universe.” And it quotes Ramon Ryan, a law student at Vanderbilt
University. Ryan has written an article, to be published later this
year in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, in
which he argues that the Federal Communications Commission’s
approval of 12,000 satellites was illegal because no environmental
review was carried out. If the FCC is sued in a court of law, he says,
it will be likely to lose.
Arthur Firstenberg
P.O. Box 6216
Santa Fe, NM 87502
USA
phone: +1 505-471-0129
info at cellphonetaskforce.org
https://www.5gSpaceAppeal.org 
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