Wireless Action Network Formed

From New Mexico IndyMedia:
Wireless Action Network of New Mexico (WAN-NM) has been formed to aid in linking and networking activists and individuals in New Mexico who are concerned with health hazards associated with wireless technologies. Concerned citizens and activists from New Mexico can participate in an internet forum at - https://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/wireless-action/

The recent explosive growth of wireless technologies, such as cellular phones and their base-stations ('towers"), WiFi systems, and the like, has been occuring without much public awareness of the real and potential health risks associated with the microwave radiation which these wireless technologies radiate.

The wireless communications industry, as with most government agenies, insists that the public has no scientifically-based reasons for personal or public health concerns, and that the Federal Communications Commission 's (FCC) exposure standards are adequate to the protection of our health.

But the FCC's exposure standards, and those similar to them in other nations, have long been in serious doubt by many scientists around the world. A substantial body of scientific evidence suggests that wireless technologies may have serious negative public health conseqences.

Amazingly, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 resulted in local communities and state governments losing their right to regulate the placement of wireless communications base-stations (towers, antennas) on public health grounds, effectively robbing local communities of their democratic rights. ( See: https://www.wave-guide.org/library/tca_hist.html )

Wireless Action Network of New Mexico has begun as an internet-based connecting and networking tool. WAN-NM members plan to evolve and grow their networking resources and tools so that those who do not use the interent can participate fully.

You can participate in the forum, or learn about the issues at - https://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/wireless-action/