Protect your family, home, school and neighborhood.
STOP the cell tower at CASH'N'CARRY
Sign the petition, email Dir. Community Development
Sol Blumenfeld Sol.Blumenfeld@culvercity.org
and check out the 'What You Can Do' page.
We have developed a strong position opposing the proposed cell phone site at Cash'n'Carry revealing T-Mobile's disregard for the Culver City Municipal Code and misleading information from the applicants.
See more on 'RECENT EVENTS & NEWS' page.
Links and Research http://la.curbed.com/tags/cell-phone-towers LA Times article:
Some of these links need to be copied and pasted in your web browser. Links are in yellow.
We are not alone. Cell Phone companies all over the country are placing towers in neighborhoods over the objections of local residence. 'T-Mobile' being one of the worst. But resistance is growing.
There is hope. 'T-Mobile' just lost a similar fight in Glendale CA.
http://www.getthecelloutofhere.com/
There is also CA. 'prudent avoidance policy' that calls for respecting the safety of residences and schools, to a degree.
http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=be_papers
Other Groups have formed to fight this modern plague.
www.cloutnow.org
A great website from Glendale CA where they are fighting the fight. Click on ‘Utility Technology’ .
http://sunroomdesk.com/
Stories about communities fighting back.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/oct/26/local/me-ugly-telecoms26
http://brandonfarmswatertower.com/wordpress/2007/12/20/cell-towers-and-antennas-can-t-mobile-do-this-to-your-community-too/#comment-166
http://www.rfsafe.com/article3782-cells_not_sold.html
/WST.aspx
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/24/BAQ6SV0HB.DTL
http://www.tacomaweekly.com/article/2983/
An amazing comparison to standards in other countries as San Pedro residents fight back.
http://www.westsanpedro.org/RF%20Radiation%20Levels%20at%20T-Mobile%20Taper%20Avenue%20Cell%20Tower.htm
http://www.westsanpedro.org/index.html
http//www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-school-protest23-2009nov23,0,846395.story
Those who profit from these towers are all already organized
http://www.steelintheair.com
Expect your property values to decrease:
These are the mandates of ElectromagneticHealth.org’s Petition to Congress found at:
A 2005 study from New Zealand on property value impact of cell phone
base stations being built in proximity: Dropping 20%!
http://www.c-a-r-e.org/pdfs/TAJSummer05p256-277.pdf
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5011857/The-impact-of-cell-phone.html
The research evidence is growing. Cancers, especially brain tumors and leukemia, damage to cell tissue and DNA are all linked to even low levels of radiation over long periods of time. Short term effects include suppressed immune function, depression and miscarriage. Local governments and those of many other countries recognize the detrimental health effects of Cell Phone radiation. Eventually ours must as well.
Presidential Cancer Panel Exploring Cell Tower Radiation Risks
http://emfjournal.com/2009/02/17/president-obama-panel-exploring-cell-tower-radiation-risks-sign-petition/
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/6/urge-congress-on-emf-safety-fcc-must-change-exposure-guidelines-for-microwave-radiation-exposure
Here is a disturbing study conducted 1994-2004 by the German 'Federal Agency for Radiation Protection' showing a 300% increase in Cancer for those living within 400 meters of a cell phone tower.
http://www.savespiritbear.org/documents/11GermanreportInfluencemastcancer.pdf
A collection of EMF studies
http://www.emwatch.com/EMF%20Effects.htm
The Bioinitiative proposal for EMF regulations.
http://www.bioinitiative.org/index.htm
British Government guidelines recommend that cell phone transmitter masts should not be sited within 250 meters (820 feet) of a school.
