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MORE SPECIFICALLY, YOU CAN...

1. Identify the Potential Problem (proximity to residential sites, etc.)

2 .Research the Issue: (City Hall, Planning Commission, City Council, internet, info packets from experts and other community activists, etc.)

3. File Written Complaints: Find the names of the agency and the bureaucrats in the appropriate local authority)

4. Raise the Community Awareness: Sponsor Public Exposure screenings in your home, school, church, community center, local cable TV stations; use flyers, submit articles to local newspapers; go door to door to talk with neighbors.

5. Spread the Word: Be prepared to spend generously on copying the data you have gathered. Share your information because knowledge is power! Get maximum numbers of people to the hearings.

6. Be prepared to talk: Know your facts well and also be prepared to share written info with interested people.

7. Go to a hearing: Before your issue is heard, get a feel for the process.

8. Get your neighbors involved: The more written complaints, calls and people who express concern, the more the officials will take notice. Get the attention of your press. Organize demonstrations with signs and banners at key industry locations and at proposed cell tower sites to publicize your concerns.

9. Be a Leader, Establish a core group: Have strategy meetings in your home with the most interested people who emerge in response to your flyers, video screenings and articles and who show up for the hearings. Divide the hearing presentation into special areas with each person contributing a section. You may only have one or two chances to present your case. Take your opportunity seriously.

10. Radiofrequency Exposure Tests: If you are already being exposed to RFR from existing sources, you may want to spend what is necessary to have a professional measurement done to determine what your current exposure is. This will be your most expensive cost, but hard data is compelling. You may find that officials have no idea what exposures are and are working from estimates from industry numbers. Usually no one is adding the cumulative totals from all the radiofrequency sources, but that is what your body is responding to.

11. Visual Impacts: Use the information from your RFR exposure study to make color graphs or charts to use in your presentations. Visual impacts are very important. Most people aren't aware how much cell towers can create visual blight. Take pictures and blow them up. Blow up pictures of neighborhood children who would be exposed.

12. Gather signatures on petitions: Get a petition drive going and if possible, acquire a city tax assessors' map and highlight the houses where petition signers live.

[Adapted from the work of Jeff and Jessie Joyce of Laguna Beach, California, with many thanks]


	What You Can Do...

	Educate yourself, your neighbors and your officials Exercise your "right to know" your local Radio Frequency exposure levels Demand independent, ethical science Elect officials who protect citizen's rights Demand public health over industry profits

	MORE SPECIFICALLY, YOU CAN... 1. Identify the Potential Problem (proximity to residential sites, etc.) 2 .Research the Issue: (City Hall, Planning Commission, City Council, internet, info packets from experts and other community activists, etc.) 3. File Written Complaints: Find the names of the agency and the bureaucrats in the appropriate local authority) 4. Raise the Community Awareness: Sponsor Public Exposure screenings in your home, school, church, community center, local cable TV stations; use flyers, submit articles to local newspapers; go door to door to talk with neighbors. 5. Spread the Word: Be prepared to spend generously on copying the data you have gathered. Share your information because knowledge is power! Get maximum numbers of people to the hearings. 6. Be prepared to talk: Know your facts well and also be prepared to share written info with interested people. 7. Go to a hearing: Before your issue is heard, get a feel for the process. 8. Get your neighbors involved: The more written complaints, calls and people who express concern, the more the officials will take notice. Get the attention of your press. Organize demonstrations with signs and banners at key industry locations and at proposed cell tower sites to publicize your concerns. 9. Be a Leader, Establish a core group: Have strategy meetings in your home with the most interested people who emerge in response to your flyers, video screenings and articles and who show up for the hearings. Divide the hearing presentation into special areas with each person contributing a section. You may only have one or two chances to present your case. Take your opportunity seriously. 10. Radiofrequency Exposure Tests: If you are already being exposed to RFR from existing sources, you may want to spend what is necessary to have a professional measurement done to determine what your current exposure is. This will be your most expensive cost, but hard data is compelling. You may find that officials have no idea what exposures are and are working from estimates from industry numbers. Usually no one is adding the cumulative totals from all the radiofrequency sources, but that is what your body is responding to. 11. Visual Impacts: Use the information from your RFR exposure study to make color graphs or charts to use in your presentations. Visual impacts are very important. Most people aren't aware how much cell towers can create visual blight. Take pictures and blow them up. Blow up pictures of neighborhood children who would be exposed. 12. Gather signatures on petitions: Get a petition drive going and if possible, acquire a city tax assessors' map and highlight the houses where petition signers live. [Adapted from the work of Jeff and Jessie Joyce of Laguna Beach, California, with many thanks]


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