Those who blame ill health on Wi-Fi, cellphones and other sources of radiation can tell their stories to government hearings from Oct. 28 to Dec. 5.
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research, a federal government grants making agency, is holding hearings on Oct. 28 in San Francisco; Nov. 1 in Chicago; Nov. 18 in Boston, and Dec. 5 in Dallas.
Those with “environmentally induced functional impairment from wireless technology, also known as radiofrequency sickness, electrotoxicity, etc., should participate in the sessions,” say EMF health advocates who are active in the Global Union Against Radiation Deployment from Space (GUARDS).
NIDILRR is required by Congress to develop a long range plan every five years so it can develop relevant budgets. The public meetings will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will take email comments as well as those delivered in-person. Speakers will be allowed five minutes to present evidence.
Email address is [email protected]. Phone is 866/952-7534. Pass code is 78632. There is no request for written comments via the mails.
Pressure Sought on Congress
Comments should also be sent to the Senators and Representatives of those presenting their views, say the health advocates. “Ask that they stop funding wireless broadband, repeal section 704 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, give the Environmental Protection Agency authority to establish population-based biologically protective limits for wireless radiation, and ban Wi-Fi from public buildings.”
The 1996 Act, say critics, “dramatically reduced FCC regulations on cross ownership and allowed corporations to buy thousands of media outlets across the country, increasing their monopoly on the flow of information in the U.S. and around the world…about 90% of major media companies are owned by six corporations.”
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The Oct. 28 hearing is at the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 90 7th st., S.F.; Nov. 1 hearing at USDHS, 233 North Michigan ave., Chicago; Nov. 18 at 15 New Sudbury st., Boston, and Dec. 5 at 1301 Young st., Dallas.
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