This is a summary of legal actions and resources to-date regarding the Wyandotte, MI parents’ school cell tower lawsuit. (This summary provided by Eyemind Concepts.)
Continue readingIs Montgomery County Cutting Corners When Trying to Close the Digital Divide? Presentation with Q&A.
Monday, May 22, 2023, 7PM EDT, Webinar by League of Women Voters MoCo Watch the presentation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/g1DhA0b2wW4?feature=share PRESENTERS:THEODORA SCARATO — Executive Director, Environmental Health Trust MITSUKO HERRERA — Program Director, Montgomery Connects, Montgomery County Office of Broadband Programs SABINE NESCHKE — Policy Analyst (business and technology issues), Bipartisan Policy Center Public infrastructure is more than roads and bridges. Bridging the “digital divide” is important for improving educational, economic, health, and political equity. Montgomery County […]
Continue readingOpinion: The Montgomery County Council faces a defining moment (Letter to Editor of The Washington Post)
This letter appeared in The Washington Post on April 23, 2023 at 1:28 p.m. EDT The Montgomery County Council faces a defining moment as it considers whether to eliminate the Office of the People’s Counsel. Will the council act on its stated values of integrity and inclusion and keep the OPC? As reported in The Post over the past several months, including in the Oct. 24 editorial “A permanent Planning Board” and the Feb. 13 […]
Continue readingRick Meyer Testimony Opposing Bill 18-23 and Urging Council to Fully Fund the Office of the People’s Counsel
Restore full funding to the statutorily mandated Office of the People’s Counsel (OPC) Testimony of W. E. “Rick” Meyer Public Hearing. Bill 18-23, Structure of County Government – Community Zoning and Land Use Resource Officer April 18, 2023 Watch all of the public testimonies:Montgomery County Council Youtube Caroline Taylor testified earlier as part of a different hearing.Her testimony is available at this bookmarked link View all of the written testimony submitted. Read Rick Meyer’s full […]
Continue readingCell Tower Application Alert: T Mobile small cells strand mounts coming to Takoma Park
This is just a small sampling of the recent cell tower applications submitted. The following applications have been submitted for Takoma Park: NEW Strand Mounted Antenna Application for corner of Hudson Ave & Flower Ave, Takoma Park https://montgomerycountytfcg.s3.amazonaws.com/Applications/MC2023042144.pdf NEW Strand Mounted Antenna Application for corner Baltimore Ave & Takoma Ave, Takoma Park https://montgomerycountytfcg.s3.amazonaws.com/Applications/MC2023042145.pdf Learn more: Where are the RF compliance reports?
Continue readingTake 1 Minute Action to Strengthen Cell Tower Rules! (By 3/31/23)
20 years ago. March 25, 2003. That was the last time the County updated its rules for reviewing cell tower applications. And the process is notoriously opaque and residents are largely excluded from participating. Thankfully, the County Executive is now proposing to revise these outdated regulations. Click here BEFORE the deadline this Friday, March 31, to urge the County Executive to propose meaningful reform in how the County reviews applications — and bring greater transparency […]
Continue readingMarch 3: CANARY IN A GOLD MINE (Documentary Film and Panel Discussion)
CANARY IN A GOLD MINE Documentary Directed by Jonathan Mirin & Deanna Fleysher An original take on a documentary + panel discussion with the filmmaker & experts on health implications of cellphone usage; + reception Date & Time Fri, March 3, 2023, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST Landmark’s E Street Cinema 555 11th Street Northwest Washington, DC 20004 Part of the DC Independent Film Festival’s 24th annual salon collection Tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/canary-in-a-gold-mine-dir-by-jonathan-mirin-deanna-fleysher-documentary-tickets-534502410097
Continue readingBig Tech, 5G, Students, Women & Children; Education, Indoctrination or Exploitation?
(Article reposted from Safe Tech International.)
Continue readingHow the FCC Shields Cellphone Companies From Safety Concerns
by Peter Elkind ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The health complaints started rolling in within weeks of the activation of a new cellphone tower in August 2020 in Pittsfield, an old factory town in Massachusetts’ Berkshire Mountains. Seventeen residents reported headaches, dizziness, insomnia or confusion. A few children had to sleep with “vomit buckets” by their beds. […]
Continue readingNew Paper: “Scientific evidence invalidates health assumptions underlying the FCC and ICNIRP exposure limit determinations for radiofrequency radiation: implications for 5G”
Carcinogenesis from chronic exposure to radio-frequency radiation Dr. James C. Lin, one of the world’s most renowned scientists who has studied the effects of radio frequency (RF) radiation, and a distinguished former member of the two organizations that created the RF exposure limits, the International Commission on Nonionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), challenges the validity of these safety limits. He concludes in his latest peer-reviewed paper: “The simple […]
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