Advocacy Tips for educating a council or board
- Sign up ten people to speak at the council or board meeting when topic is on meeting agenda, including doctors. (Asking by phone call is more effective than email.)
- Present the science. Send via email, give them hard copies and speak about it.
- They need to feel good about their choice- help them to feel good about it!
- Meet individually with council or board members.
- Be respectful, focus on education.
- For a general overview of planning issues read: ElectroSmog-What Price Convenience?
Suggested documents for opposing a cell tower or antennae
- The Bioinitiative Report
- Public Health Implications of Wireless Technology
- Johansson-Electrohypersensitivity
- Shortcut to Science
- EMF and RF World Concerns Summary
- Porto Alegre Resolution
- International Association of Firefighters Moratorium
- LA County Resolutions
- Radiation Research Trust Eileen O’Connor Report on Base Stations
- European Parliament EMF Resolution
- Prof. Martin Blank Cell towers in schools
- Planning Issues: Cell-Phone Towers and Communities: The Struggle for Local Control
- Cindy Sage Editorial: Noxious neighbors – churches
- Property devaluation by cell towers
- For more extensive information on cell towers see: Angela Flynn’s Cell Tower Report
Suggested documents for opposing Wi-Fi in schools
- Excerpts from eight expert letters submitted to the LA USD
- American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) letter opposing ipads
- Dr. Martha Herbert letter opposing wi-fi in school
- ‘Safe Schools 2012′. Medical and Scientific Experts Call for Safe Technologies in Schools.
- EMF Analysis Collection of Wi-fi information: http://www.emfanalysis.com/just-say-no-to-wi-fi.html
- European Environmental Agency advises the precautionary principle for wi-fi
- Dr. Magda Havas open letter to schools and teachers on Wi-Fi health risks:
- Austrian health director Dr. Gerd Oberfeld advising against wi-fi
- Sweden Prof. Olle Johansson scientisit wi-fi letter
- Public Health Implications of Wireless Technology
- EMF Resolution from the European Parliament.
- EMF and RF World Concerns Summary
- Wi-Fi Health and Safety Advice (flyer)
- International resolution advocating a precautionary approach to the use and expansion of wireless technologies 2009: Porto Alegre Resolution
Other suggestions:
Make flyers, copy and handout. When people don’t know about an issue a flyer is the best tool for educating.
Start a petition, collect signatures on paper and actively circulate the petition online. Starting a petition in a school setting may not be advised however.
Send an email to the community and to the newspaper editor and include the link to the online petition.
