Parents pulling their kids out of schools to avoid Wi-Fi exposure and I think it would be very wise to create a support group of parents doing the same thing across Canada. If homeschooling parents who have pulled their children out to avoid Wi-Fi contact me with their e-mail addresses, I can put together a shared list with details as to locations and phone numbers. Please share this info to provide a support group for other parents who are choosing to responsibly and rightly protect their children.

Una St Clair-Moniz
Executive Director
Citizens for Safe Technology Society
http://www.citizensforsafetechnology.org

also

It is shocking that Teachers and Administration are being threatened , and I also have reason to believe that School District Trustees are not free to speak on this issue either due to pressure. This situation needs to be investigated as it is becoming more common. This violates Canadian democratic rights and freedoms, and it is interesting how easily the teachers and admin personnel (principals and vice-principals) are controlled by these kinds of threats.

Una St.Clair-Moniz
Citizens for Safe Technology


Hi Una,

I was at your seminar on Wednesday night at xxxxxx Elementary. The next day we removed our daughter from the school and informed the vice principal that we were doing so and why. She was shocked and asked me if we had really thought it through.

Later in our conversation she admitted that the reason she and the principal had not been there was that they had received 'a very clear directive' from the board, and that 'as agents of the board, it would be inappropriate for (them) to attend as (they) had to remain neutral.' She went on to spin out the usual diatribe about Health Canada guidelines, to which I asked her at what point she would make a stand. I asked if she was waiting for a cluster of kids with brain tumours, or perhaps an eleven year old who needed her uterus removed... I ended the call very dissatisfied with her responses, but was glad that I had managed to get the information that suggests staff who question the status quo are being threatened by the school board.

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Wi-Fi safety to be tested

http://www.peterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2863763


Informant: Martin Weatherall

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Parents pull kids from schools

http://www.yorkregion.com/news/article/1241107--parents-pull-kids-from-schools



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Canada.com

... made reference to receiving numerous emails directing them to websites with information on electromagnetic radiation from telecommunications equipment. ...

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Derby Evening Telegraph

PLANS to place a phone mast near Allestree's Park Farm Centre have been fiercely criticised by residents. ...

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Health concerns prompt petition over mast idea

Derby Evening Telegraph

Telecom giants Vodafone and O2 have prepared the joint proposal to install the mast off the road and 0.06 miles away from Lawn Primary School. ...

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/Health-concerns-prompt-petition-mast-idea/article-3011035-detail/article.html

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Health concerns prompt petition over mast idea

[Derby Evening Telegraph (England)]

TMCnet

She said that, according to another report, the widespread use of mobile phones by children for non-essential calls should be discouraged. ...

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-health-concerns-prompt-petition-over-mast-idea-derby-/2010/12/17/5200703.htm



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----- Original Message -----
From: Magda Havas
To: Iris Atzmon
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 7:54 AM
Subject: WiFi in schools

For distribution:

Debate about WiFi in schools between Dr. Marc MacKenzie, Medical Physicist with the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton and Dr. Magda Havas. CTV Access TV.

http://www.albertaprimetime.com/Stories.aspx?pd=1698&FlashVars=Video/PTR_111710.flv

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Schools probe Wi-Fi safety

http://www2.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/capital_van_isl/story.html?id=9ad174f3-7399-40eb-bc49-8bc6c8c86eee


School Board?

November 26, 2010. Very disturbing state of affairs that we are experiencing in Ontario Schools. School Board is threatening to fine parents and to expel students [ http://www.theenterprisebulletin.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2863178 ] and they are also threatening teachers who do not toe the line regarding WiFi. What kind of country has Canada become? How can educational authorities be so insensitive, so militant, and so ignorant? Perhaps someone should follow the money because none of this makes any sense.

All parents are asking for is that computers be wired when they connect to the internet! In some areas the parents are even willing to pay for the costs of hardwiring their children?s school.
Read more at: http://www.magdahavas.com/2010/11/27/school-board-threatens-to-fine-parents-and-expel-students-because-of-wifi-concerns/


Magda Havas


Informant: Martin Weatherall

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Public school board to regularly test electromagnetic safety of Wi-Fi in schools

Peterborough Examiner

The Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board will test its schools for electromagnetic levels before and after it ...

http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2862880



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Informant: Martin Weatherall



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Aberdeen Press and Journal

Two of the UK's largest mobile phone firms have launched a bid to overturn a decision by Aberdeenshire Council to block plans for a new ...

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Here is the link to a short interview to David Gee, (European Environmental Protection Agency and Bioinitiative Group) about the precautionary principle and EMF regulatory process.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a6EPsEehq8

I hope you find it interesting.


Francesca Romana Orlando
Vice President of AMICA
Associazione Malattie da Intossicazione Cronica e/o Ambientale
(Association for Environmental and Chronic Toxic Injury)
P.O. Box 3131
00121 Rome - Italy
http://www.infoamica.it
amica(at)infoamica.it

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Wired, connected and giving us a headache

Trading Markets (press release)

We are constantly exposed to electromagnetic radiation -- through laptops, cell phones, television, power lines and anything that generates and transmits ...

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/stock-alert/aapl_editorial-wired-connected-and-giving-us-a-headache-1323663.html

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Cancer concerns spark debate

Tasmania Mercury

Even those who supported the development said they were concerned about potential dangers of electromagnetic fields, or EMF, but said they could not oppose ...

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2010/11/23/188111_tasmania-news.html



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http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3988033,00.html

A Knesset committee for env and health called the government to adopt recommendations for reduction and prevention of the exposure of children to EMR in schools because of health effects.

The committee decided to adopt the conclusions of a team of the two ministries about reduction of exposure. The conclusions were decided by prof Sigal Sadezki, env ministry, education ministry and the power company.

Recommendations: adoption of precautionary principle and balance between the parents and child's choice to use cell phone. Programme for adoption of right usage habits of cell phone - including understanding of the radiation emitted, dangers of use, shorten of call duration, prefaring SMS to conversation, use of headsets, use during driving, use at night and influence of sleepless. The programme will be built by the unit of epidemiology of cancer radiation in Gertner institute and the education ministry. It was also recommended to put in the schools wired phones for the pupils use, to consider establishing areas of cell phone use, like with cigarettes smoking, and teachers will talk only in certain areas.

The transportation ministry will forbid cell phone use, including use of headsets by young drivers, and public transportation In order to prevent the indirect effect danger of loss of concentration that leads to accidents.

To prefer wired computers to Wi-Fi, because the committee agreed that there is a moral, value and legal duty of the education ministry to protect the pupils' health. It was determined to guide the education system to prefer using wired technologies.

Regarding powerlines and transformers, the env ministry's representative claimed there is exceeding of radiation only in small procentage of schools. In building new power installations the power company will take care of minimal exposure according to the best available technology.

The env ministry will prepare a programme to check all the kindergardens and schools for radiation levels. Education ministry will map classes where there are electricity cupboards close to the clasees and give the list to the env ministry to take care of that first.

Problems that will be found will be taken care of immediately by the education ministry including taking the children away, approaching the power company or the school owners, who will bring professionals to solve the problem and then the env ministry needs to consider another measurement.

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Of course it depends on what will happen with all this in reality but currently it looks like the most promosing proposal internationally and the awareness level of this decision is quite good!

Please do an effort to try and push the new info coming from Israel that I sent in 3 emails, to decision makers in your country, so that they will be exposed to the changes that happen on the basis of current info and consideration of children's health. Today in an industry's funded newspaper it is written also about this decision with an addition that it is based on scientific studies showing link between phone and brain tumors malignant and benign. You can never know who's opinion you might influence and what botton this news are able to press in your place. This advance in Israel can move to other countries as well - someone needs to be the first and then others see and want to imitate. Try this, because you have nothing to lose.


Iris Atzmon

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Knesset panel endorses minimizing school radiation exposure

Jerusalem Post

Although it has not yet been clearly proven that exposure to electromagnetic radiation (EMR) poses a danger to schoolchildren's health, a joint session of ...

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=196395

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Home »News» Green »Environment For our children: to reduce electromagnetic radiation - Magnetic Radiation emitted by computer systems, telecommunications and electricity threatens the students. Home Affairs Committee - the work of the Knesset adopted the recommendations of reduction

NRG Ma'ariv | 22/11/2010 14:28 Tags: electromagnetic radiation

The Joint Committee (interior - a) the subject of environment and health adopted today (Monday) the recommendations to reduce exposure of children to radiation electro - magnetic. According, the committee chairman, MK Dov Henin (Hadash), the fact that the radiation of electro - magnetic is transparent makes it invisible, but not rendered dangerous. "Duty to ensure maximum protection for children staying for many hours a day in the education system," Hanin said.

"It is our duty to ensure maximum protection for children" Photo: SXC After years of public attention has focused on cellular antennas radiation danger, it turns out that the real problem in education is actually electromagnetic radiation and electric fields derived from existing electrical cabinets almost every school and kindergarten. "The discussion radiation electro - magnetic educational institutions is part of the overall concept promotion of a healthy educational environment," said Henin called to implement the recommendations as soon as all the educational institutions.

The paper and the recommendations formulated at the request of committee members, a representative of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Siegel Sadezky, director of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit and the radiation at Gartner. The position paper was formulated with the consent of Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Education and the electricity. The document refers to electromagnetic radiation emitting sources around the student: cell phones, electric power and communications systems and computers.

For mobile phones, the commission recommended to apply the precautionary principle- Therefore it was recommended to balance the student's selection and his parents use a cell phone and social and health consequences of using this mainly by using the correct habits. The suggestions for action: placing phones

Stationary and educational institutions, the establishment of regional cell phone talking absolute prohibition on mobile phones used by young drivers.

About communication systems and computers, the commission recommended a principle to guide the educational system that existing technologies should be preferred relatively safe and simple. This by ongoing maintenance of systems, raising awareness and professional knowledge in monitoring. Wired communication should be preferred over wireless. Wired computers used instead of Wi-Fi/WLAN. It is preferred to use simple and safe technologies.


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network/Iris Atzmon



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IBTimes Hong Kong

A cell phone may not work at times, because it is too far from a mast. It may also not work because the phone is in a location where there is interference ...

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