By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International In April of 2021, Natural Blaze published “5G Earth Day Countdown: Children — Amelia’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Cell Tower Days” by 13-year-old Amelia Gilardi of “Shacktown” in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She wrote, “My name is Amelia and…
By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International with Karen Churchill Part 1 highlights the historic UK Frome decision and other recent international developments challenging the telecommunications industry. Despite the fact that Public Health England deferred to irrelevant ICNIRP guidelines which only protect against thermal heating…
Submitted by Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International Analysis by Joel M. Moskowitz, Ph.D., Director, Center for Family and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley: “Cell Tower Health Effects” Federal regulations protect the public only from the thermal (i.e., heating) risk…
By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International, Uniting to Protect Life on Earth While Americans were celebrating the July 4 holiday, a few neighborhoods were not, including the one that surrounds the monstrosity tower that was installed in Pittsfield, MA during the recent covid lockdowns….
By Amelia Gilardi with Patricia Burke Natural Blaze readers are familiar with the ongoing saga in Pittsfield, MA, where a cell tower installed in a residential area has caused tremendous harm to the community. Residents continue to lobby to have the tower turned off so…
By Patricia Burke with Ken Gartner As noted in yesterday’s article at Natural Blaze, a local community newspaper recently printed an unsigned editorial dismissing the plight of those living in close proximity to a poorly-sited telecommunications tower that has devastated a neighborhood in Massachusetts. The…
By Cara Hull with Patricia Burke Hi my name is Cara Hull. I am compelled to write about my husband, Jeff, in honor of Father’s Day. Jeff and I met 12 years ago and have been married for over 7 of them; needless to say…
By David M. with Patricia Burke I took great care to put my daughter in a private school, a school with an environmental philosophy that seemed in-line with my ideas, and was shocked when, returning after summer hiatus, found they’d allowed a giant cell tower onto the…
By Courtney Gilardi with Patricia Burke Courtney’s Story: There is an unspoken agreement that when you become a parent, you do everything in your power to protect your children. But how do I, or any parent protect our children when a cell tower is illegally…
By Patricia Burke Sometimes, we learn to associate a phrase with a trauma…for example, sites of mass shootings or natural disasters, like Sandy Hook Elementary School, Hurricane Sandy, or Pompeii. Those living in Boston in 1989 not only remember a horrific crime, but the discomforting…
My name is Amelia and I am 13 years old. A Verizon cell tower blindsided my Pittsfield, Massachusetts neighborhood and made us sick. This is my story. Last March, we were sent home from school due to the pandemic. The ice skating show that we…
By John Vibes Sprint was forced to shut down a cellphone tower that was located outside of a school in the suburbs of Sacramento, California. The tower location became a topic of controversy in recent years, as numerous children in the school have developed cancer….
