CHASE Steps Up to Oppose Cell Towers on School Grounds

Dr. Darren Harper Addresses the State Legislators -
Warns of Cell Tower Cancer Risks, Especially for Children

http://youtu.be/OS7WWoDwTZk 
(full video.  Thank you to Unhappy Taxpayer and Voter)

Dr. Darren Harper and Johnae Davis (elementary student) speak up for DeKalb County children at the DeKalb Legislative Delegation 2nd Public Hearing at Porter Sanford Community Center on November 15.

Harper is the Health Professional Committee Chairman for the group known as CHASE (Citizens for a Healthy and Safe Environment).  He is also a medical MD and a professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta.  In his presentation, Dr. Harper urges legislators to take a closer look at the issue of placing cell towers near schools in DeKalb County, explaining how our children are the most vulnerable to the forms of cancers that can arise with continuous and cumulative exposure to RF radiation, even at low levels.

Please sign our petition to stop cell phone towers on school grounds:  www.thepetitionsite.com/1/GTCO-ATL. 

And, if you are concerned about the future of our county, please contact your state legistators by phone, email or in writing to ask them what they plan to do to ensure the cell tower companies, like T-mobile (a German company), do not continue to bully and sneak their way into our neighborhoods and onto our school grounds.

The grounds are being cleared RIGHT NOW, so the sooner you can let them know how you feel about this issue, the better.  In other states, legislators have issued a state-wide moratorium to HALT ALL CELL TOWER CONSTRUCTION until they could get more information and a better understanding of the needs of the industry vs. an all-out race to put as many towers in as many locations as quickly as possible to beat their competition in the race for 4G marketshare, tax breaks and more corporate profit.

Here is an easy way to find out who represents you in our state government.

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/state/main/?state=GA

Just enter your zip code and you will have a list of the names and their contact information.  Let them know that you intend to vote in all elections, pay taxes in this county and are concerned about the sudden sprouting of cell towers all over our "greenest county in America" - especially the ones on our PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY.  This is property that taxpayers are paying for and have intended for it to be used for the educational purposes of children, not for a profit-center for T-mobile. 

Here is a great example of public notification done the right way. 

And, this sign was posted right outside Jolly Elementary School

in Clarkston, GA, one of 9 schools  expecting to get a new 150' cell

tower with a 60' x 60' base by March against the wishes of the

community and even the city's Mayor!

It is your constitutional right to be heard by your government on issues that affect your health, safety and way of life and infringe upon your enjoyment of your residential community.  And, our children have rights to receive an equal education, funded by the taxpayers, without fear that their health and safety might be at risk.  Parents must send their children to school by law, but no one can force a parent to assume a KNOWN health risk and shoulder the financial burden that could go along with providing medical treatment for their child.

Help us hold our elected officials accountable for this bad decision. 

Thank you, Dr. Harper and CHASE for helping spread the word about the dangers and risks associated with cell towers so DeKalb residents can speak up about what they want or do not want in their own neighborhoods.