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OPINION: The Danger of Cell Towers
By Lin Marie deVincent
My community work this past year is dedicated to two career firefighters:
Charlie Rice, RIP March 29, 2018 and his widow, Shellie Rice, of Napa. I was asked to help stop the invasion of 60+ Verizon 5G cell towers in the city of Napa, with one tower to be installed in front of the Rice’s home on Franklin Street. I soon discovered that the 5G roll over was also happening in the cities of Sonoma, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol & Petaluma. More recently, the telecom industry has headed for Marin County. They have already been installed in Sacramento.
My activist experience began at my family dinner table, where my career military father would ask—What have you done for the good of your country today? Yes, I consider myself a patriot, but I became a peaceful warrior,
a writer/researcher and a community activist. I will continue to fight the telecom industry’s attempts to destroy our health, homes and planet. After one year of studying EMFs (electromagnetic frequencies), researching the well documented health hazards, engaging in educating the public and city officials, I feel I understand this war. It is a David and Goliath struggle.
OPINION: Likability over Reliability
popping up left and right. In comparison to every past presidential election, the democratic field has been predominantly filled by female candidates.
This spike in female involvement is most likely a result of many recent events with the biggest contenders being our current administration, the #MeToo movement, and a trickledown of inspiration from both Hillary Clinton’s courage in the 2017 presidential election and the female wave that has entered our House of Representatives. Yet, with this paradigm shift our female presidential candidates are being judged and criticized based off of criteria that has no correlation to the qualifications that are actually necessary to run for president.
What is a 5G close proximity microwave radiating small cell tower? The name stands for Fifth Generation, but it does not sequentially follow 4G in design or effect. The Telecom Industry wants us to think it does, to hypnotize us while they install the not-small-at-all cell towers in our neighborhoods every 2-10 homes. (They are small compared to a Macro Tower). Unlike its predecessors, 5G delivers a constantly pulsing 24/7 non-ionizing, microwave radiation. The damage it will do is much greater than the already polluting 4G, 3G, Hot Spots, and other sources of wireless EMFs. Why do they tell us we need 5G? It’s faster! That’s the main reason. Faster than a speeding bullet? Yes. And the bullet will penetrate your body and slowly destroy it. Why do we need to stop them? Because it is not safe technology. Please go to the Environmental Health Trust’s website and read the peer reviewed science research.
By Sage Gundlfinger
As soon as it hit 2019, presidential campaigns for the 2020 election have been
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The conversation of whether or not a candidate has “likable” qualities
has always been a part of our election process. The trend has been to judge presidential candidates based off of traits that could be categorized as their “casual weekend appearance” rather than to critique candidates based off either their political knowledge or their public official persona. Now with a large number of women jumping into the presidential race, the “likability” conversation has quickly transitioned into questioning traits that run parallel to sexist borders that have been placed on women since the dawn of time. Judgement is being placed based off of whether the female candidates seem nice, or uncontroversial in terms of personality, professional yet subdued. People are basically looking for a 1940’s housewife.
Contrary to the Telecom Industry’s seductive ads and denials, cellular radiation causes cancer. They have duped the public for decades. Read
the Nation magazine article that exposes their deception. thenation.com/ article/how-big-wireless-made-us-think-that-cell-phones-are-safe-a-special- investigation.
A recent long term, national study from the National Toxicology Program of the U.S. National Institutes of Health using the term ‘clear evidence’ on March 28, 2018, stated that cellular radiation causes the formation of glioma cells, the rootstock of glioblastoma, the deadly brain cancer. Here is the link: niehs.nih.gov/news/newsroom/releases/2018/november 1/index.cfm
Women being judged based off of “likability” is not a new hurdle for any
of the women running for president and they are not taking letting it slide
this time around. Our female presidential candidates are calling the reporters out, they are pointing out the questions that are directly related to sexism and nipping them in the bud. These women are shutting down the comments that insist that they are “too angry”, “too controversial”, or “too emotional”. Our female presidential candidates are tired of the sexist bullshit, as they should be.
What can we do? As this article is being submitted on April 15th, the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has new stranglehold regulations that may go into effect today. If that happens, I recommend that you contact Michael Neuert, an electrical engineer, who helps people shield their homes and lives from radiation. emfcenter.com/ 578 1645, in Santa Rosa.
For many Americans, the 2020 presidential election will be the most important election of their lifetime. So many rights and freedoms are on the line when discussing the 2020 presidency, yet many people seem to only care if the women running seem likable and the type of person you could grab a beer with. I’m not sure where we as a society have gone wrong, but collectively we need to stop considering our elections as jokes. Growing up, there was never
a discussion about women in power. I am now 20 and in college and there might be the slightest chance I get to have a female president, yet that decision depends upon whether or not she is considered “laid back enough” for the weekend. The 2020 presidential candidacy matters, this election will make
or break the lives of many. Why do so many seem to be on the search for a presidential candidate that has “chilling around the campfire” nature to them? We shouldn’t want presidential candidates that seem like they’d be a fun
time over the weekend. We should want candidates that have strong political stances, that have a positive standing in their community, that are willing to take stances on the problems at hand.
If the new FCC regulations are delayed, modified, or rewritten—thanks to the lawsuits, national Bills, and community efforts, then I invite you to join me on Facebook at Sonoma Neighborhood Association for updates. The city of Sonoma has ten 5G cell tower applications that have already been submitted. Three have already had their first Planning Commission review. But they are not a done deal! We have delayed them for over a year, and we will continue to protest their installation in our neighborhoods or near schools.
The situation in each Northern California City is unique. Petaluma and Sebastopol are fighting back hard. Santa Rosa is being bulldozed. There is a Sonoma County wide action happening now to implement an Urgent Ordinance. Check for updates on Facebook. The City of Napa has already permitted three cell sites. They are in trouble.
I would like to acknowledge and thank my key allies in the efforts in the
city of Sonoma: Shelley Masters and Mark Marthaler. Also the creator of the website of MyStreetMyChoice.com, where you can find individual pages for each city, documenting their progress. In Napa: Shellie Rice, Valerie Wolf, and Suzanne Baumann continue to fight alongside me. We will persevere!
Lin Marie deVincent, Napa/Sonoma Neighborhood Association for Safe Technology lmdevincent2@gmail.com
We shouldn’t want a candidate that is likable, we should want a candidate that is reliable.
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