Growing Activist Community Resisting Electromagnetic Pollution on Health and Environmental Grounds

Urge Congress on EMF Safety, FCC Must Change Exposure Guidelines for Microwave Radiation Exposure

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We the undersigned, the American people, petition Congress to take immediate and effective measures to protect the public from electromagnetic pollution.

The following 4 steps should be taken:

1. Mandate the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revisit its exposure guidelines for radiofrequency radiation (RF) immediately.%uFFFD

2. Repeal Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which took away the rights of state and local governments to stop the erection of cell towers and wireless antennas in their communities based on "environmental" grounds (defined by FCC as "human health").

3. Declare a national moratorium on further wireless infrastructure build-out, including the Wi-Max roll-out currently underway, a joint venture of Sprint, Time Warner Cable, Google, Clearwire and others.%uFFFD

4. Establish cell phone and wireless-free neighborhoods, transportation options, government buildings, and public spaces; require employers to establish wireless free zones; and, mandate the removal of cellular and wireless technologies from public schools and their properties.

We ask members of Congress to act swiftly, decisively and with full integrity to stem the emerging electromagnetic radiation pollution increasingly permeating the lives of the American people. There has never before been a public health issue as important.%uFFFD

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We the undersigned, the American people, petition Congress to take immediate and effective measures to protect the public from electromagnetic pollution.

The following 4 steps should be taken:

1. Mandate the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revisit its exposure guidelines for radiofrequency radiation (RF) immediately.%uFFFD

2. Repeal Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which took away the rights of state and local governments to stop the erection of cell towers and wireless antennas in their communities based on "environmental" grounds (defined by FCC as "human health").

3. Declare a national moratorium on further wireless infrastructure build-out, including the Wi-Max roll-out currently underway, a joint venture of Sprint, Time Warner Cable, Google, Clearwire and others.%uFFFD

4. Establish cell phone and wireless-free neighborhoods, transportation options, government buildings, and public spaces; require employers to establish wireless free zones; and, mandate the removal of cellular and wireless technologies from public schools and their properties.

We ask members of Congress to act swiftly, decisively and with full integrity to stem the emerging electromagnetic radiation pollution increasingly permeating the lives of the American people. There has never before been a public health issue as important.%uFFFD

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Dear Elected Officials in Congress,

The European Parliament has voted resoundingly that exposure guidelines for electromagnetic fields are obsolete, and we are asking you to take the same action so our health, and the health of our children and unborn children, is no longer subject to the biological effects of excessive levels electromagnetic fields in our environment.%uFFFD Exposure to microwave radiation from wireless technologies in particular must be immediately curtailed as they are creating both immediate and long-term consequences for the health of millions of people.

Known biological effects of radiofrequency radiation and low frequency fields were described in detail in the BioInitiative Report ( www.BioInitiative.org). In short, electromagnetic fields are leading to genetic effects, cancer, cellular/molecular effects, behavioral changes, nervous system dysfunction, blood-brain barrier permeability, calcium efflux, cardiovascular changes, sleeping disorders, hormonal disturbance, immune system changes, metabolic effects, fertility impairment and the interpersonal effects related to a constant background of stress.

Congress must mandate that the FCC change exposure guidelines so they are biologically based, and ensure the telecommunications technologies to which we are exposed are compliant with these standards.
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Congress must repeal Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which took away state and local governments rights to resist towers and antennas in their communities on health or environmental grounds. In America, communities must have the right to say no when technology creates harm.

Congress must declare a national moratorium on further wireless infrastructure build-out, including the Wi-Max roll-out currently underway, which many believe will significantly jeopardize the health of humans, animals and nature from chronic and incessant microwave radiation exposure.

Congress must establish cell phone and wireless-free neighborhoods, transportation options, government buildings, and public spaces; require employers to establish wireless free zones; and, mandate the removal of cellular and wireless technologies from public schools and their properties.

We ask Congress to act swiftly, decisively and with full integrity to stem the emerging electromagnetic radiation pollution increasingly permeating the lives of the American people. Please act immediately with the sense of urgency and integrity this issue deserves. There is ample evidence of the need to exercise extreme precaution as potentially irreversible harm is occurring to humans, animals and our ecosystem.

We need Congress to immediately take a stand for the health interests of the American people and stop bending over backwards solely for the expansionist interests of industry. We ask each member of Congress to carry out his or her responsibilities to the American people by ensuring all wireless technologies sold here are compliant with new biologically-based guidelines.
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We signed the "Urge Congress on EMF Safety, FCC Must Change Exposure Guidelines for Microwave Radiation Exposure" petition!
# 1,617:
3:18 am PST, Nov 7, Bruce and Darlene Moselle, New York
Cell phones effects today will eclipse the damage done by cigarettes to users in the past!!
# 1,616:
7:46 pm PST, Nov 6, Debbie Schuster, California
Please do your job and protect the citizens of the United States instead of the corporate conglomerates who are making billions of dollars causing us harm.
# 1,615:
10:33 am PST, Nov 6, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
Please provide importance to this very dangerous health issue. Our children and our future is at steak, and we are ethically and morally responsible to take care of the people,protect their health and safety, both young and old in a timely manner when this issue was recognized.
# 1,614:
10:27 am PST, Nov 6, Kolua Seiko, California
It is with increasing alarm that the lack of public information and knowledge of this critical issue continues. The power of corporate greed again surpasses the public's health as the US (again) lags far behind in receiving balanced and fair information in making health choices while cell towers rapidly fill our environment and radiation proliferates freely. Your kind and critical attention to this matter is appreciated. In the measure of time, may your current action reflect your conscious.
# 1,613:
7:59 am PST, Nov 6, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
# 1,612:
5:08 am PST, Nov 6, William Wescott, Nevada
# 1,611:
4:49 am PST, Nov 6, Sarah Cochran, Idaho
# 1,610:
11:19 pm PST, Nov 5, Frances Hinckley, California
We really need to slow down and make sure that what how we are adding layer upon layer of electric, magnetic and radio frequencies into our living environments is safe. Please remember that radio waves are part of a continuem that includes x-rays, which we know are not safe in large doses. Also keep in mind that we are all bombarded with multiple overlapping sources: not just one network of cell towers, for example, but multiple networks, from the various carriers. On top of that, multiple wifi networks, transmissions from everyone's cell phones, corldess phones, etc. We need to figure out what levels are truely safe and take steps to ensure that we are not hurting ourselves and our most vulnerable, like kids. This is a very serious health issue. Please protect us by apply limits to our exposure and sancuaries from exposure. Thank you.
# 1,609:
9:32 pm PST, Nov 5, John Mast, California
# 1,608:
8:39 pm PST, Nov 5, Gianna Borkhuis, New York
# 1,607:
7:05 pm PST, Nov 5, David Court, Minnesota
# 1,606:
6:43 pm PST, Nov 5, Name not displayed, Australia
REMEMBER YOU ARE THERE BECAUSE OF THE GENERAL POPULATION AND YOU SHOULD ACT ON THEIR BENEFITS AND GENERATIONS TO COME - NOT THE MULTINATIONALS, CORPORATIONS AND FEW GREEDY OVER WEALTHY CARELESS MINORITY. HAVE THE COURAGE TO STAND FOR THRUTH AND JUSTICE - THINGS YOUR FORFATHERS FOUGHT AND STRUGGLED FOR. PERHAPS READ YOUR CONSITUTION NOW AND AGAIN TO REMIND YOURSELVES OF YOUR TRUE PURPOSE!!
# 1,605:
4:48 pm PST, Nov 5, Nancy Geiger, Ohio
When you are aware of these things and do nothing, it is as bad as knowing for sure something is egregious in nature and doing nothing.
# 1,604:
4:00 pm PST, Nov 5, Rosann Effron, Kentucky
Please act on this to protect our rights to a safer environment. The prevalence and danger of electromagnetic polution is too serious to ignore.
# 1,603:
3:47 pm PST, Nov 5, Ntuthu Nomkuca, South Africa
Please save our children from electromagnetic pollution
# 1,602:
3:35 pm PST, Nov 5, Carlos Perez, United Kingdom
# 1,601:
3:01 pm PST, Nov 5, Louise DeVitto, Utah
There is word of a cell tower being build as little as 100 feet from my property.
# 1,600:
2:25 pm PST, Nov 5, Teresa T., New York
Constant exposure to high emitting radiation from EMF towers (phone, cable, cell phones) pose a dangerous health risk to humans, particularly newborns, children, and pregnant women. There has been increasing evidence that prove this exposure causes debilitating illnesses, such as cancer. More and more people are becoming well-informed about alternative health and how to improve the environment that's killing them. Please listen to us and respect the knowledge we've acquired and the compassion we share to expose the truth. We're reaching out to you for help; to improve the quality of life for our families. Please limit the amount of towers in our neighborhoods.
# 1,599:
2:16 pm PST, Nov 5, Name not displayed, South Dakota
The potential impact of the wireless revolution on our health and wellness needs to be more critically examined. Young vulnerable nervous systems being affected is part of the future of our great nation.
# 1,598:
2:03 pm PST, Nov 5, Cynthia A. Skovgard, California
# 1,597:
1:40 pm PST, Nov 5, Name not displayed, Oregon
# 1,596:
1:40 pm PST, Nov 5, Name not displayed, California
# 1,595:
12:30 pm PST, Nov 5, Suzanne Morris, Michigan
We count on our government to protect us as well as their own husbands, wives, children and grandchildren. Please do the right thing and limit radiation for the good of the human race. Very Truly Yours, Suzanne Morris
# 1,594:
12:20 pm PST, Nov 5, Susan Hackett, California
Sincerely, Susan Hackett
# 1,593:
12:11 pm PST, Nov 5, Name not displayed, Canada
I would like a law passed and warning label for dangerous levels of radiation for cell phones in Canada &USA.Thanks for your time and concideration on this pressing health matter. THank You.!!!
# 1,592:
11:38 am PST, Nov 5, Kenneth Morris, California
Something Has to Be Done Now...and we Pay you Ladies and Gentleman to do exactly that! Stand up and be counted amongst sane and reasonable citizens.
# 1,591:
10:46 am PST, Nov 5, LINDA FLANAGAN, Illinois
# 1,590:
10:18 am PST, Nov 5, Name not displayed, Wisconsin
This land is my land! I want to live without excessive radiofrequency radiation!
# 1,589:
9:57 am PST, Nov 5, Jane Bentley, New Jersey
Please do not sacrifice the health of future generations because of the desire to please big lobbyists. Thank you
# 1,588:
9:29 am PST, Nov 5, A Sarhanis, California
# 1,587:
8:49 am PST, Nov 5, James Lambert, Kansas
# 1,586:
8:47 am PST, Nov 5, Tara Martin, Florida
EMFs are killing us. Everyone has the right to be informed and simply live on our planet where we can thrive while having all the energy we need to help each other.
# 1,585:
8:45 am PST, Nov 5, Name not displayed, California
We will all be held accountable to a Higher Authority for what we knowingly inflict on others.
# 1,584:
8:40 am PST, Nov 5, Margaret Shockley, Oregon
It is time we acknowledge that the technologies companies develop have many effects, some of which are negative to life as we know it. It behooves all of us, me as a consumer, you as a policy maker, to protect ourselves and the natural capital around us by thoroughly investigating all effects of EMF and the technologies that employ them before we allow them to be released on a mass scale. Now that so many technologies employing these frequencies are in the hands of consumers, I ask, as a constituent and a consumer, that you protect the health of me and your and my children by investigating and releasing to the public information on those investigations so we can make informed decisions as to the safety and dangers of these technologies. I do not want a profit-driven corporation making those decisions for me. Thank you.
# 1,583:
8:03 am PST, Nov 5, Michael Brightwood, California
Europe is always ahead on public health. Wake up and smell the brain tumors.
# 1,582:
8:00 am PST, Nov 5, Christie Ciccarello, Texas
# 1,581:
7:57 am PST, Nov 5, Doris Hall, Florida
I am 81 years old, and have seen many good and bad things. I think that it is about time that we really take a good look at what we are doing to our beautiful home that God gave us. God Bless.
# 1,580:
7:46 am PST, Nov 5, Robert t garriepy II Garriepy, Rhode Island
have a monopole tower very close to my home im very concearned thx robert t garriepy II
# 1,579:
7:38 am PST, Nov 5, Donna Nelson, Illinois
# 1,578:
7:26 am PST, Nov 5, Luis Ruiz, Florida
# 1,577:
7:09 am PST, Nov 5, Name not displayed, California
# 1,576:
7:01 am PST, Nov 5, Bonnie Vitelli, Massachusetts
# 1,575:
6:16 am PST, Nov 5, Esther Rodas, Canada
we must speak up and be counted for future generations
# 1,574:
6:03 am PST, Nov 5, Lynn L. Barron, Mississippi
The general public is not aware of the negative health impact of EMFs. It is up to the government to help make the public aware and to make cell towers and wireless communication safe.
# 1,573:
5:52 am PST, Nov 5, Davian Akers, Maine
I always want to know which cell phone is the safest. We must have standards in place to minimize the risk of brain damage. We must encourage cell phone companies to create low power cell phones that are safer to use.
# 1,572:
5:52 am PST, Nov 5, Mary Kimberly Hayes, Iowa
Perhaps Ted Kennedy used his cell phone too much and needless died from it????? The date is there, it's time to act on it.
# 1,571:
5:42 am PST, Nov 5, Bianca Pratorius, Florida
# 1,570:
4:39 am PST, Nov 5, Name not displayed, New Jersey
Please...we need to take care of our earth and children !
# 1,569:
4:28 am PST, Nov 5, Mary Patterson, Tennessee
# 1,568:
3:12 am PST, Nov 5, J. Sil, India
Please thwart suicide and homicide in the name of advancement of technology.
# 1,567:
2:54 pm PST, Nov 3, Steve Hirst, Utah
Please stop installing towers within 1000 feet of homes!
# 1,566:
10:11 am PST, Nov 3, Rosemarie Russell, Utah
A cell tower site surrounded by homes has been approved next to my property. Homeowners were not notified. There are many other places this tower could have been located. Our Water Conservancy District is the owner of the land for the tower site. 16 homes are within 1000 ft. of the tower site. Two homes with young children are within three hundred feet.
# 1,565:
9:16 pm PST, Nov 1, Susan Knight, Canada
# 1,564:
5:42 pm PST, Nov 1, Olga Azovsky, New York
# 1,563:
6:04 am PST, Nov 1, Lisa Gardner, Massachusetts
# 1,562:
2:21 pm PDT, Oct 31, Alan Archibald, Massachusetts
Congress passed a law that said towns can't stop the installation of cell towers because of environmental or health reasons. Now is the time for the members of congress to get their collective head out of the sand and revisit that law and ammend it to protect the citizens of this country.
# 1,561:
10:58 am PDT, Oct 31, Randy Whiteside, Arizona
# 1,560:
8:20 am PDT, Oct 31, Anthony Ziton, Massachusetts
There is significant evidence of the adverse health effects of EMF as seen in Europe and other countries. The fact that the US continues to turn a blind eye to this concern and the effects on our children all to appease the wireless lobbyists is not short of criminal.
# 1,559:
2:27 pm PDT, Oct 30, Name not displayed, Massachusetts
Congressmen and women, please take this issue seriously. Science has come very far since 1996, reconsider the regulations in light of this!
# 1,558:
2:38 pm PDT, Oct 28, Marty Thompson, Indiana
hello, I have been on disability since 1996 for depression, and I think my health has been affected from sources of electropollution in my environment. I had a codless telephone from 1990 to 2008, and I remember there was power line by my house where I grew up, and also my dad had a base station CB with a linear amplifier on the antenna at our home. my mother had cancer of the uterus and dad had some spots of cancer also. thanks for helping, MKT
# 1,557:
7:50 pm PDT, Oct 27, David Edwards, MD, Nevada
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9:25 am PDT, Oct 27, Name not displayed, New York
# 1,555:
3:31 pm PDT, Oct 26, Elizabeth Laden, Idaho
# 1,554:
11:05 am PDT, Oct 25, Jeremiah Turner, California
# 1,553:
6:01 am PDT, Oct 24, Greg Ziegler, Virginia
I personally seek that congress should pass this bill because this would decrease pollution and help make a greener furture. Thanks to the person or group that help make this petition. Thank you.
# 1,552:
8:06 am PDT, Oct 23, Virginia Kunst, Michigan
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