A BRIEF HISTORY OF RESISTANCE
May 2000. Pioneering a legal concept called “electromagnetic trespass,” a Spanish court orders Iberdrola S.A. to remove its transformer from an apartment building and pay for residents’ medical bills.
July 2001. In Cyprus a peaceful demonstration against Britain’s planned military communications towers turns into a riot after police open fire. Protestors ransack a police station and demand the release of their prime minister who had been doing civil disobedience atop a 160-foot mast.
September 2002. Scientists meet at the International Conference State of the Research in Electromagnetic Fields in Catania, Italy, and issue a declaration warning against electromagnetic exposure.
October 2002. German doctors issue the Freiburger Appeal proclaiming the relationship between microwave exposure and disease. Thousands of doctors worldwide sign on.
February 2003. After the biggest-ever protest meeting of a village in northern New Mexico, the local school board cancels an already-signed contract to erect cell towers on its schools.
March 2003. The Catholic Church in Italy calls for cell-phone antennas to be removed from bell towers, branding them dangerous to human health and spiritually “out of keeping.
February 2006. Ontario University in Canada bans WiFi from campus.
February 2006. An international congress of scientists in Italy issues the Benevento Resolution, warning against exposure to electromagnetic radiation and calling for wireless-free zones and wise sighting of antennas.
2006. The Chamber of Doctors in Vienna, Austria, issues posters for clinics and doctors’ offices warning patients against cell-phone use.
June 2007. In Spain citizens hold International Day Against Electromagnetic Pollution to publicise the medical effects of high-voltage power lines, electric-power substations, mobile-telephone antennas, radio lines, WiFi, and WiMAX.
September 2007. Germany’s Environmental Ministry and Federal Office for Radiation Protection issues an unprecedented national warning to citizens: avoid exposure to radiation emanating from WiFi and WiMAX ports in cafés, schools, and public “hot spots.”
September 2007. The European Environmental Agency demands immediate action to reduce exposure to radiation from WiFi, WiMAX, mobile phones, and antennas.
October 2007. Protestors in a Druze village in Israel rip down a mobile phone mast. Police open fire on them; they fight back throwing stones and metal bars.
December 2007. After only five months of the new WiFi system in Paris’ libraries, the union wins a moratorium due to the health effects among librarians.
January 2008. Thousands of Chinese demonstrators take to the streets to protest the extension of a magnetic levitation train through Shanghai.
February 2008. Cell-phone antennas in Tudela, Spain, are removed when damage to citizens’ health is revealed.
March 2008. The Sebastopol City Council in California breaks its contract to install citywide WiFi.
April 2008. The National Library of France dismantles its entire WiFi system.
September 2008. The Linn-Wilsonville School Board in Portland, Oregon, unplugs its cell towers and cancels leases for WiMAX.
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