‘This seven-minute documentary chronicles a Verizon cell tower that went up atop Amelia’s Shacktown neighborhood, causing illness and forcing many out of their homes.
In 2020 a Verizon cell tower made 17 Pittsfield, Massachusetts children and adults ill with electromagnetic radiation syndrome (EMR Syndrome). They turned to the MA Department of Public Health for help, and the DPH abandoned them.
After two years of citizens, doctors, scientists, engineers and legislators educating Pittsfield public servants on the biological effects of wireless radiation, in April 2022 the Pittsfield Board of Health became the first in the nation to issue an Emergency Order of discontinuance and abatement to Verizon to turn off the cell tower: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed0007ce169954eea17b10b/t/625eb642a78f36771a47ad44/1650374210506/Pittsfield-Health-Board-Cell-Tower-Order-to-Verizon-April-11-2022-FINAL-REDACTED.pdf
Verizon went to the courts for an injunction, and Mayor Tyer and Solicitor Pagnotta refused to give their own Board of Health the funding to take this to court to bring these families safely home. The citizens have had to sue.
The Massachusetts Association of Health Boards filed an amicus brief in the civil suit against Pittsfield in support of the injured citizens: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed0007ce169954eea17b10b/t/63eaedf7591d4b6208e3999e/1676340728040/Amicus+Letter+MAHB+021223+.pdf
The court deferred to the FCC; the citizens filed an appeal and the court once again deferred to the FCC. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has now taken up the case to potentially reinstate the Board of Health’s powers.
See the filings and amicus briefs including another from the Massachussets Association of Health Boards, Physicians for Safe Technology, Environmental Health Trust, Massachusetts for Safe Technology, as well as industry: https://www.ma-appellatecourts.org/docket/SJC-13797
Please go to https://www.704nomore.org/takeaction to take action to hold the FCC and Congress accountable for halting actions that would allow cell towers to go up in your neighborhood too.
The time to act is NOW. There is no cavalry coming to protect you and your neighborhood, we must all raise our voices together to cement the public record of opposition. CHD has produced quick action alerts to make our part easy:
https://www.704nomore.org/takeaction
Thank you for caring and taking action!’