International EMF health experts Dr. Magda Havas, Associate Professor of Environmental & Resource Studies at Trent University, and Libby Kelley, Founder of the Electromagnetic Safety Alliance, will present Cell Antennas, phones and wi-fi: what you need to know to protect your family, a free talk Thursday, September 2, 8 p.m., at Temple Aliyah, 6025 Valley Circle Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA 91367.
The organizers, Residents Engaged Against Cell Towers, a Southern California coalition, plan a 40-minute talk, followed by Q&A. This event addresses growing public concern about adverse health effects from radiation-emitting technologies, evidenced by residents’ opposition to proliferation of cell towers in Los Angeles and around the country, San Francisco’s new right-to-know SAR cell phone legislation, and consumer groups and cities supporting moratoriums on smart meter installations.
Havas has studied the biological effects of electromagnetic pollution including radio frequency radiation, electromagnetic fields, dirty electricity, and ground current. She will explain why citizens should be concerned about potential health risks related to electromagnetic radiation, and present her BRAG™ project which encourages schools to identify nearby cell antennas, monitor EMF emissions, and advocate for placement of antennas no closer than 1500 feet from school property. (Dr. Havas will also be presenting her research at the Cancer Control Society Annual Conference on Sunday, September 5 at the Sheraton Universal. Universal City.
Elizabeth Kelley will describe the implications of new cell phone “right-to-know” legislation in San Francisco, proposed cell phone research and labeling legislation in the U.S. Congress, and public policy and advocacy needs on this issue.
The discussion is especially timely as 44 neighborhood councils and resident groups within the city of Los Angeles, representing more than one million stakeholders, have been calling on their city government to increase oversight of cell antenna installations and to adopt clear and consistent rules such as the new wireless ordinance recently enacted in Glendale, California.
Here is a link to the REACT event press release, which mentions Burbank’s recent work to update its wireless ordinance, and Glendale’s successful effort to enact a protective wireless ordinance.
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More information about the biological effects of non-ionizing radiation from wireless technology is coming out every day. Enough is not being done by cities, counties, states and the Federal Government to protect us from the potentially devastating health and environmental effects. Through the 1996 telecommunications act the telecoms are shielded from liability and oversight. Initially cell phones were released with no pre-market safety testing despite the fact the Government and the Military have known for over 50 years that radio frequency is harmful to all biological systems (inthesenewtimes dot com/2009/05/02/6458/.). Health studies were suppressed and the 4 trillion dollar a year industry was given what amounts to a license to kill.
On it’s face, the 1996 telecommunications act is unconstitutional and a cover-up. Within the fine print city governments are not allowed to consider “environmental” effects from cell towers. They should anyway! It is the moral and legal obligation of our government to protect our health and welfare? Or is it? When did this become an obsolete concept? A cell tower is a microwave weapon capable of causing cancer, genetic damage & other biological problems. Bees, bats, humans, plants and trees are all affected by RF & EMF. Communities fight to keep cell towers away from schools yet they allow the school boards to install wi fi in all of our schools thereby irradiating our kids for 6-7 hours each day. Kids go home and the genetic assault continues with DECT portable phones, cell phones, wi fi and Wii’s. A tsunami of cancers and early alzheimer’s await our kids. Young people under the age of 20 are 420% more at risk of forming brain tumors (Swedish study, Dr. Lennart Hardell) because of their soft skulls, brain size and cell turn over time. Instead of teaching “safer” cell phone use and the dangers of wireless technology our schools mindlessly rush to wireless bending to industry pressure rather than informed decision making. We teach about alcohol, tobacco, drugs and safe sex but not about “safer” cell phone use. We are in a wireless trance, scientists are panicking while young brains, ovaries and sperm burns.
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