NY activists to deliver appeal to block 5G to US’ UN Mission

NYC 5G Wake-Up Call, a group of New York activists, will deliver the International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space to the US Mission to the United Nations on January 24th, says a press release by the group.

The appeal has been signed by 192,542 people and organizations from 203 countries and territories, including scientists, engineers, medical doctors, veterinarians, nurses, dentists, psychologists, architects, builders and several other professionals, including bee keepers whose hives are threatened by excessive levels of wireless radiation, the group says in the release.

The group’s Facebook page, apparently the sole online presence of the group, has 169 likes at the time of this writing, while there are 179 people following the page currently.

Regarding the appeal, the group says in the news release that it “will also be delivered to governments worldwide, calling attention to the growing threat to all life on earth from the microwaving of our ecosphere.”

There is also a rally planned on the steps of the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street a day later. At the event, NYC 5G Wake-Up Call and associated groups warning about the biological and health effects of electromagnetic fields and the roll out of 5G wireless technologies will join the Global Day of Protest to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space, a voluntary association of individuals from all around the world (with currently 1,670 likes to and 1,764 followers of its Facebook page).

The speakers at the rally, which will also feature live music, include Mark Crispin Miller, professor of Media, Culture and Communications at NYU; Patti Wood, Grassroots Environmental Education; Doug Wood, Americans for Responsible Technology and 5G Crisis and activist Camilla Rees, MBA, Manhattan Neighbors for Safer Telecommunications.

Rees stated, “The sheer number of radiating antennas being installed in close proximity to living, working and school environments should be alarming to us all – especially when there is a faster, safer, more secure approach to telecommunications–fiber optic cable to the premises (FTTP).”

Doug Wood said, “The build-out of 5G without adequate testing represents an unprecedented assault on public health and safety, and the triumph of big business over the rights of individuals.”

Professor Miller commented, “The New York Times is pushing 5G on the rest of us, because they’re literally in business with Verizon; and their biggest individual shareholder, Carlos Slim, made his billions in the cell phone business.”

The July 2019 piece titled “The 5G Health Hazard That Isn’t” by William J. Broad in the New York Times said, “To no small degree, the blossoming anxiety over the professed health risks of 5G technology can be traced to a single scientist and a single chart.”

It added, “Except that Dr. [Bill P.] Curry and his graph got it wrong.”

Quoting experts such as Christopher M. Collins, a professor of radiology at New York University who studies the effect of high -frequency electromagnetic waves on humans and Dr. Marvin C. Ziskin, an emeritus professor of medical physics at Temple University School of Medicine, the Times article explained that at higher radio frequencies, the skin acts as a barrier, while Dr. Curry, who “looked at studies on how radio waves affect tissues isolated in the lab,” “misinterpreted the results as applying to cells deep inside the human body.”

Broad writes that “mainstream scientists continue to see no evidence of harm from cellphone radio waves.”

American Cancer Society writes about radiofrequency radiation in detail, here.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a United States government agency that is also responsible for protecting public health through the control and supervision of electromagnetic radiation emitting devices, says, “Is there a connection between certain health problems and exposure to radiofrequency fields via cell phone use? The results of most studies conducted to date indicate that there is not.”

It further says, “In addition, attempts to replicate and confirm the few studies that did show a connection have failed.”

“According to current data, the FDA believes that the weight of scientific evidence does not show an association between exposure to radiofrequency from cell phones and adverse health outcomes,” writes the FDA on its website. “Still, there is consensus that additional research is warranted to address gaps in knowledge, such as the effects of cell phone use over the long-term and on pediatric populations.”

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