In honor of EPA’s Children’s Health Month, the National Coalition For Responsible Technology (NCRT) is sponsoring a rally in front of the US Supreme Court entitled “The Public Has a Right To Know About the Health Risks of Wireless, 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT).”
Tuesday October 17, 2017
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
The US Supreme Court in Washington DC
First Street NE between East Capitol Street and Maryland Avenue
“The Public Has a Right To Know
About the Health Risks of Wireless, 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT)”
The rally was created to draw attention to the growing use of wireless devices by children and the rapid proliferation of small cell 5G wireless antennas being built in neighborhoods across the United States In 2017, an international group of scientists called for a moratorium on 5G cell antennas stating, “We, the undersigned, more than 180 scientists and doctors from 35 nations, recommend a moratorium on the roll-out of the fifth generation, 5G, for telecommunication until potential hazards for human health and the environment have been fully investigated by scientists independent from industry.”
“The scientific evidence can no longer be denied. Wireless radiation is an ubiquitous environmental pollution and the people have not been fully informed,” stated Jennifer Wood of NCRT citing “decades of research” including the most recent 2016 release of scientific findings from the $25 million dollar radiofrequency radiation study of the U.S. NIH’s National Toxicology Program which found statistically significant increased DNA damage and cancers in animals exposed to cell phone wireless radiation. She pointed out that American Academy of Pediatrics and dozens of medical doctors have been warning about wireless risks for decades and in 2015, international scientists with expertise in bioelectromagnetics issued an Appeal to the United Nations calling for urgent action on wireless and electromagnetic fields.
Speakers will also address the Berkeley/CTIA lawsuit concerning the city's landmark Cell Phone Right to Know law. The implemented ordinance calls for the posting of critical information at the point of sale as to safer use of a cell phone; information currently hidden in the phones or manuals. The CTIA sued but Berkeley prevailed in district court and in the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals last year. The CTIA appealed for an en banc hearing months ago and last week the court refused that appeal. The only option left for industry is to take this to the Supreme Court. Ellen Marks, Director of the California Brain Tumor Association, who worked with Berkeley and Harvard's Lawrence Lessig, who defended Berkeley pro bono, stated,
"this is an important victory as this industry deception must be stopped and hopefully now this will be taken nationwide and raise awareness that cell phones, as currently used. do pose serious health risks, especially for children".
“In light of the scientific research providing evidence of a serious public health threat that will impact our children and grandchildren, we are calling for immediate action. We call for justice. Our government must take immediate action to inform the public about cell phone and wireless radiation risks and protect the public with public policy that includes a moratorium on 5G antenna deployment until long term safety can be assured.”
The Coalition is focusing on these issues:
•The scientific research evidence that shows 5G technology poses a health risk.
•Small cell antennas in front of homes on rights of way
•Cell towers on school property
•Wireless technology in schools
•Global Wi-Fi beamed from space
•Outdated and inadequate FCC limits for cell towers, cell phones and wireless devices
•The lack of protective limits, especially in regards to children and pregnant woman
Speakers include:
Denise Ricciardi, Director of New Hampshire Coalition for Sustainable Safe Technology
Jennifer Wood, architect and science researcher
Children from Maryland schools will also be speaking as well as additional representatives from grassroots organizations in Maryland and Washington DC.
The Coalition is calling on the federal government to take action to protect the public with protective electromagnetic policy which includes:
•A halt to 5G until long term safety is assured.
•A moratorium on cell towers and cell antennas near homes, hospitals, schools, and children's recreation areas.
•A replacement of outdated inadequate Federal Communications Commission radio frequency human exposure limits with proper safety standards which are developed by medical experts within a US health agency based on a systematic review of the science and best available research.
•Current cell phone and wireless device SAR testing methods (which are based on a large adult male and consider only thermal effects) must be replaced with an exposure metric that protects people from biological effects and considers the way that consumers use devices next to the body and represents all of the US population, including infants (that are now handed cell phones as toys).
•Exposure limits that assure children and pregnant women are adequately protected.
•Safe radiation-free technology in schools and public institutions.
•Premarket testing and post market surveillance for short and long term reported health effects.
•Public information to be posted by the CDC, FDA, NIH and FCC on the manufacturer's fine print warnings, the research on biological effects and clear comprehensive measures by which the public can reduce exposure.
•And more….
Biographies of Speakers
Ellen Marks is Director of the California Brain Tumor Association, a 501-c-3 nonprofit which focuses on prevention of primary brain tumors attributed to wireless radiation. She has worked on legislation calling for the placement of notices about safer use of mobile technologies at the point of sale from Hawaii to Maine. She currently Chairs the California Alliance for Safer Technology, a collaboration of 24 activists, lobbyists, physicians, public health researchers and elected government officials fighting legislation specifically intended to enable the wide scale placement, in residential neighborhoods, of high frequency 4G LTE and 5G antennas on utility poles, lamp posts and other municipal infrastructure, while eliminating any local involvement or influence in this process. Her husband, a real estate broker, is a survivor of a brain tumor from excessive cell phone use. Ellen does not advocate against technology but for honesty and integrity from the wireless industry about the established risks, for getting corporate money out of politics and for the use of safer, hard-wired internet access, including optical fiber to the home.
Camilla Rees, MBA, a long-time health educator, researcher and author on electromagnetic fields will speak on the subject of the biological and health effects of the non-stop proliferation of wireless technologies, including the unrecognized connection of wireless exposures with spiraling health care costs. She is founder of ElectromagneticHealth.org, Manhattan Neighbors for Safer Telecommunications and Campaign for Radiation Free Schools; co-author with Magda Havas, PhD of “Public Health SOS: The Shadow Side of the Wireless Revolution”; and author of “The Wireless Elephant in the Room”.
James S. Turner, Esq., public interest lawyer, will speak about the federal and state level preemptions that are increasingly eroding local government—and citizens’—rights in America; about what can be done regarding the inadequate FCC wireless radiation safety guidelines now providing legal cover for wireless companies, and about the importance of growing grass roots activism. He is Partner of the law firm Swankin & Turner, Chairman of Citizens for Health, co-founder of Voice for HOPE (Healers of Planet Earth), and President of the National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy.
Theodora Scarato MSW is Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust. Theodora Scarato directs EHT programs and coordinates scientific programs in the US and internationally with EHTs Senior Science Advisors. Scarato previously worked with EHT as Director of Educational Resources and Public Affairs, developing educational resources for communities and governments, and maintaining policy updates. She has co-founded several organizations both locally and nationally that address environmental health and safety concerns. She is also a clinical Social Worker, formerly directed a special education therapy program in Montgomery County Schools, and has an extensive background working in mental health with children and adolescents. Environmental Health Trust is the only nonprofit in the world today that both carries out high-level critical research on controllable environmental health hazards and works directly with local communities, teachers, parents and students as well as policy makers to understand and mitigate these hazards through research, education and advocacy.
Kate Kheel is Director of Maryland Smart Meter Awareness and founder of Whatis5G.info, a website focusing on the rarely covered “downsides” of 5g and the Internet of Things. After spearheading the effort to get an opt out from wireless smart meters in Maryland, she segued into raising awareness and opposing 5g and the Internet of Things. Kheel’s deep love for our Earth with all its many and diverse living beings, and her longing for a future that will be respectful and nourishing for all life, has been the driving force behind her work.
Desiree Jaworski is Executive Director of the Center for Safer Wireless, a national nonprofit whose mission is to enhance public understanding of wireless technology and products She has researched, written and lectured on the topic of wireless radiation extensively. She has advocated for protective public policy regarding wireless technology at the Federal, State and Local level. Her expertise has been featured in several news reports regarding her work raising awareness on smart meters, wireless technology, and the recent findings of the National Toxicology Program. She directs the Center’s public outreach programs, which include movie screenings at Arlington Hospital Center, scientific forums and presentations.
Jennifer Wood, an architect and science researcher is the co-organizer of the NCRT protest which is to be followed by others. In addition to being a registered architect and author, she has been an environmental health consultant and advocate for two decades and is the creator of The GROW Village design concept for future communities that will be protected from ubiquitous, wireless radiation. They will especially address the needs of the rapidly growing population of those that suffer from environmental injuries, particularly those with Microwave Sickness.
