Arthur Firstenberg

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  The anti-Wi-Fi contingent in Santa Fe is spearheaded by Arthur Firstenberg, a well-known activist whose previous credits include founding the Cellular Phone Task Force and authoring the book Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution.
  
  "From Bill Gates' planned fleet of 300 satellites to the millions of ground based antennas being constructed through-out the world," Firstenberg wrote in 1997, "our privacy is being invaded, our health undermined, our water polluted, endangered species threatened, the ozone layer destroyed, and our climate altered.The assault has already begun."
  
  Firstenberg's crew in New Mexico might take some legal comfort in findings in 2005 by the World Health Organization (WHO), which assert that while "EHS has no clear diagnostic criteria and there is no scientific basis to link EHS symptoms to EMF exposure," EHS is also a "disabling problem for the affected individual."

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  " These are our last refuges," complained Arthur Firstenberg, a leading opponent of the Wi-Fi plan.
  
  Firstenberg, who contends Earth is being engulfed in electromagnetic pollution - "electrosmog" - says he suffers headaches, nausea, discomfort in his chest and difficulty breathing when he encounters cell phones and other wireless technology.
  
  Putting wireless in city buildings - only one area of City Hall has it now - amounts to installing barriers for him and others who are electrically sensitive, he argues.
  
  The City Council asked the city attorney to research whether the opponents are covered by the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.He concluded no: There's no legal case in which electromagnetic hypersensitivity, or EHS, has been found to be a disability, and no case in which WiFi has been identified as the cause of EHS.
  
  The council is expected to consider that report, and Councilor Ronald Trujillo hopes it will put an end to the debate that has been lingering for a couple of years.
  
  Trujillo, a co-sponsor of the Wi-Fi plan, says he sometimes feels the nearly 400-year-old city "is a little behind the times."
  
  " It's not 1692.It's 2008," he said.
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  Firstenberg, who says his medical career was derailed 26 years ago by his electrical sensitivity and who now lives on Social Security disability payments, founded the Cellular Phone Task Force in 1996 to fight the proliferation of cell phone technology.He left his home in Mendocino, CA, in 2004 to try to escape the bombardment of wireless.

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  "These are our last refuges," complained Arthur Firstenberg, a leading opponent of the Wi-Fi plan.
  
  Firstenberg, who contends Earth is being engulfed in electromagnetic pollution , "electrosmog" , says he suffers headaches, nausea, discomfort in his chest and difficulty breathing when he encounters cell phones and other wireless technology.
  
  Putting wireless in city buildings , only one area of City Hall has it now , amounts to installing barriers for him and others who are electrically sensitive, he argues.
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  Firstenberg, who says his medical career was derailed 26 years ago by his electrical sensitivity and who now lives on Social Security disability payments, founded the Cellular Phone Task Force in 1996 to fight the proliferation of cell phone technology.He left his home in Mendocino, Calif., in 2004 to try to escape the bombardment of wireless.
  
  Firstenberg says he knows Wi-Fi opponents whose symptoms include epilepsy, seizures, asthma attacks and heart arrhythmia.
  
  "It can be serious, and it affects more people than you may think. ...We are the canaries that other people should be paying attention to, as a warning that something is wrong," he said.

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  Published on: 6/11/2008    Last Visited: 6/11/2008  

  'These are our last refuges,' complained Arthur Firstenberg, a leading opponent of the Wi-Fi plan.Firstenberg, who contends Earth is being engulfed in electromagnetic pollution - 'electrosmog' - says he suffers headaches, nausea, discomfort in his chest and difficulty breathing when he encounters cell phones and other wireless technology.Putting wireless in city buildings - only one area of City Hall has it now - amounts to installing barriers for him and others who are electrically sensitive, he argues.The City Council asked the city attorney last month to research whether the opponents are covered by the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.He concluded no: There's no legal case in which electromagnetic hypersensitivity, or EHS, has been found to be a disability, and no case in which WiFi has been identified as the cause of EHS.The council is expected to consider that report on Wednesday, and Councilor Ronald Trujillo hopes it will put an end to a debate that has been lingering for a couple of years.Trujillo, a co-sponsor of the Wi-Fi plan, says he sometimes feels the nearly 400-year-old city 'is a little behind the times.''It's not 1692.It's 2008,' he said. 'Santa Fe needs to embrace this technology.
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  Firstenberg, who says his medical career was derailed 26 years ago by his electrical sensitivity and who now lives on Social Security disability payments, founded the Cellular Phone Task Force in 1996 to fight the proliferation of cell phone technology.He left his home in Mendocino, Calif., in 2004 to try to escape the bombardment of wireless.Firstenberg says he knows Wi-Fi opponents whose symptoms include epilepsy, seizures, asthma attacks and heart arrythmia.'It can be serious, and it affects more people than you may think. ...We are the canaries that other people should be paying attention to, as a warning that something is wrong,' he said.

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  Arthur Firstenberg is a founder and director of the Cellular Phone Task Force, a non-profit organisation that disseminates information about electromagnetic pollution and provides advocacy and support for victims of this pollution.He is editor of the Task Force's publication, No Place To Hide, and the author of Microwaving Our Planet:The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution (1996).He can be contacted by mail at PO Box 1337, Mendocino, CA 95460,
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  Source: Source: ARTHUR FIRSTENBERG / The Ecologist v.34, n.5, 1jun04 Electromagnetic Fields (EMF)Canada Created: 6 Feb 2006

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  Arthur Firstenberg
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  Arthur Firstenberg is the founder and president of the Cellular Phone Taskforce, the editor of its publication No Place to Hide and the author of Microwaving our Planet: the Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution (Cellular Phone Taskforce, 1997). He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in 1971 with a B.A. in Mathematics and Physics, and went to medical school at the University of California, Irvine from 1978 to 1982. Injury by X-ray overdose cut short medical career. It also led him to study the health effects of electromagnetic radiation for the past 20 years.
  
  He is also a certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais and Rubenfeld Synergy Methods of Healing.

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  Following are a few examples of the nonlinear nature of the effects, from Arthur Firstenberg's book 'Microwaving Our Planet' (see bottom of page for information).In each case, emphasis has been added:
  
  Firstenberg points out (p. 41) that "calcium ion efflux from brain tissue is extremely sensitive to irradiation with radiofrequency waves."He cites four studies and a literature review.In particular, a 1986 study by Dutta et al. at 915 MHz and various exposure levels showed that "The effect at 0.0007 mW/g SAR [specific absorption rate] was quadruple the effect at 2.0 mW/g, in other words 3000 times the intensity had 4 times less of an effect under these particular conditions."Looking at it the other way, an intensity three thousand times lower had an effect four times greater.
  
  Firstenberg describes a number of studies on microwave radiation and blood cells.
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  As part of his Radio Wave Packet, Arthur Firstenberg, president of the Cellular Phone Taskforce, has created a list of about 40 studies grouped by exposure level, beginning as low as 10-13 mW/cm2 and extending to 10 mW/cm2.
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  Arthur Firstenberg has also written a book, Microwaving Our Planet (currently out of print), with brief descriptions of studies grouped by the affected system (nervous, reproductive, heart, respiratory, etc.) and, under each system, by whether the study was done on humans, animals, or cells.

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  Arthur Firstenberg, who founded the Cellular Phone Task Force, wrote that, on November 14, 1996, New York City's first digital cellular provider activated thousands of PCS antennae newly erected on the rooftops of apartment buildings. Health authorities reported that a severe and lingering flu hit the city that same week. In response to its classified newspaper ad advising that radiation sickness is similar to flu, the Task Force heard back from hundreds of people who reported sudden onset symptoms synchronous to microwave startup"symptoms similar to stroke, heart attack and nervous breakdown.
  
  Firstenberg then gathered statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and analyzed weekly mortality statistics published for 122 U.S. cities.
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  16. For an excellent chart comparing biological effects at power density levels and a list of international exposure standards, go to: "Radio Wave Packet," Arthur Firstenberg, Cellular Phone Task Force, Sept 2001; also find this power density list at: "Analysis of Health and Environmental Effects of Proposed San Francisco Earthlink WiFi Network, Magda Havas, Ph.D, Trent University, May 2007.
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  23. "Electromagnetic Fields, (EMF) Killing Fields," Arthur Firstenberg, The Ecologist, v. 34, n. 5, 6-10-2004.

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  Arthur Firstenberg, president of the Cellular Phone Taskforce has published a book, Microwaving the planet which includes a current literature review of over 200 sources (available from the Secretariat).He also edits the publication, No place to hide, available for $30 U.S., and $40 elsewhere from: P O Box 100404, Brooklyn, New York 11210. (718) 434-4499.
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  Research: Arthur Firstenberg

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  The group is led by Arthur Firstenberg who maintains that he is "electrically sensitive."Firstenberg claims that wireless radio signals are responsible for everything from irritability up to and including cancer.Firstenberg moved to Mendocino to escape the radio waves in New York City he thinks were harming him, and has attracted other people who believe that radio waves are harming them to move to Mendocino.
  
  Firstenberg is president of the national Cellular Task Force and a member of Wireless Free Mendocino, which attempts to keep wireless services out of Mendocino.That group has already been successful at blocking construction of a cellular phone tower and a wireless broadband Internet initiative.
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  Or as, Scott Southard, who manages the radio station the anti-wireless group wants to destroy, puts it, "There have been radio towers on the high school for 30 years and there were never complaints about them until Firstenberg started his campaign of misinformation and fear.

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