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the heart in rats. There was also damage to the ventricle of the heart in both male and female animals. There was some evidence of glioma of the brain and DNA damage. If this radiation were safe, that simply shouldn’t have happened because the exposure was so carefully kept to the proper limits. That has capped off the re- search in the sense that it gives us strong animal evidence as a final result.
HG: What should we do to protect ourselves?
TS: I’m in Montgomery County, Maryland, where they were about to put forward a zoning ordinance which would have opened the flood- gates to putting up these small cell antennas in our front yards. When people organized and advocated by talking to their elected officials, attending meetings, testifying and really look- ing at this issue, the zoning change did not pass. In Takoma Park, Maryland, where they were going to pass an ordinance related to putting these up, the community members got together and said that we need to look at this, and we should see what other cities are doing, like Burlington, Massachusetts and Petaluma, California. We have a web page where we list all
of the ordinances that are far more protective; some are banning wireless facilities in neighborhoods, ensuring that there is public notice or asking for radiation measurements and permit requirements that can help. All of these things were used to control this deployment and some to halt it. Cities can use their authority to make changes, but the people need to get organized and educated in order to educate city officials. This is happening nationwide.
HG: Can you tell us about the exemption the firefighters in California got on their firehouse?
TS: At every level, the FCC and companies are trying to put up these small cells as easily as possible without people stopping them by saying they don’t want one in their neighborhood. One of the things that is hap- pening is state streamlining bills—about twenty-one have passed. The state passed a bill that takes away a lot of the city’s authority to regulate. A city could say that they want them to be a couple hundred feet from homes, but the streamlining bills remove that so companies don’t have to deal with a city that doesn’t want a small cell right in people’s front yards. There was a bill in California, SB-649, that was moving forward, but the firefighters have long fought to keep these from being placed on their sta- tions because of research that was done years ago showing neurological effects to firefighters. You can go online and watch them testify on this. They lobbied hard not to have these on their stations and were able to get themselves carved out of SB-649.
HG: Did they cite health reasons as the basis for the exemption?
Eighty-five years after Dr. Price’s pioneering studies...
Hilda Labrada Gore, our Wise Traditions podcast host, will be retracing his footsteps this September 2019 in Australia. Plans are in the works for her to visit the following indigenous communities:
VIC (Aug 31, Sept 1 & 3) • Sydney NSW (Sept 4, 5 & 7)
Tweed Shire NSW (Sept 12) • Toowoomba Qld (Sept 14)
Sunshine Coast Qld (Sept 15) • Atherton Tablelands Qld (Sept 28, 29)
Other events on the itinerary include an indigenous food feast in Victoria, a ground-breaking seminar in Sydney, interactive education on WAPF principles in Toowoomba QLD, and the Ooray Plum Festival in Atherton Tablelands Qld.
Visit the Facebook pages of the WAPF chapter leaders in Australia for more details or go to Hilda’s website: holistichilda.com. And please support this fantastic initiative. Just go to indiegogo.com and type “Retracing the Footsteps of Dr. Price Part 2” in the search bar and give a gift of any size.
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