MY STORY, MY TOWN
I'm Stephen Dahl and I've been raising awareness about Wi-Fi in Schools and other wireless radiation related environmental health issues since 2016. I live in South Kingstown, so that has been my primary focus. This tab will examine South Kingstown, and you can compare it to where you live. (Photo to left shows refrigerator-sized Wireless Transfer Facility equipment.)
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Photo above: a cylinder containing small cell antennas, located steps from the Childhood Development Center at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. Small cells, often placed atop utility poles, can also consist of flat panel antennas.
DR. ANNIE SASCO, WORLD EXPERT ON CANCER, CALLS ROLLOUT OF SMALL CELLS IN RHODE ISLAND "HIGH RISK"
May 2019:
RI Senator Elaine Morgan invited Dr. Annie Sasco, MD, MPH, MS, DrPH, of Bordeaux University, France, who is a world expert on electromagnetic fields and cancer, to speak to legislators at the Rhode Island State House. Dr. Sasco is former unit chief of the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and retired Director of Research at INSERM (the French National Institutes of Health). In the video above, Cece Doucette, Technology Educator for both Massachusetts for Safe Technology and Wireless Education, introduces Dr. Sasco to speak about the rollout of 4G/5G small cell wireless infrastructure in Rhode Island which Dr. Sasco calls "high risk." (I had brought Cece Doucette and Dr. Sasco to the attention of Senator Morgan.)
Accompanied by a few other Rhode Islanders from around the state, Dr. Sasco, Cece Doucette and I also met with U.S. Senator Whitehouse's staff in Providence for an official visit I had requested. My fellow Rhode Islanders and I, along with Cece Doucette, followed up with subsequent meetings with Senator Whitehouse's office, but there was no action taken by his office and we had no direct correspondence with Senator Whitehouse himself, who was unavailable.
Dr. Sasco and our group met with officials at the Rhode Island Department of Health to request the agency recognize EMF as a public health hazard. After meeting with the new RI4SafeTech team in 2023, a DOH factsheet entitled: Facts About Radiofrequency Energy From Your Cell Phone and Your Health was published. While the factsheet does mention that we don't know the long-term effects of radiofrequency radiation and that medical professionals disagree on the severity of it as a health problem, the factsheet does not address the emerging consensus regarding the growing number of individuals who are already adversely affected by the immediate and chronic effects of constant close EMF contact.
TIPS FOR WATCHING THE VIDEO:
At the bottom of the YouTube screen is the CC button which you can click to get the Closed Captioning in case you have trouble hearing Dr. Sasco speak due to the room's echo and her French accent.
At 44 min mark Senator Morgan and Cece Doucette speak.
HERE ARE SOME OF MY LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
First, here is an letter I wrote to the Providence Journal in 2019, regarding the dangers of using cellphones.
DON'T PUT CHILDREN AT RISK WITH WI-FI
In the above photo of a typical South Kingstown High School classroom, the classroom's Wi-Fi transmitter is shown on the ceiling above, with the little green light.
Wi-Fi is in every Rhode Island school's classroom due to a $20M mistake, the Rhode Island Wireless Classroom Initiative of 2012.
RIDE'S WIRELESS CLASSROOM INITIATIVE PUTS CHILDREN AT RISK
There are four of these Wi-Fi access points in South Kingstown High School's auditorium.
Why?
Why put technology in schools that makes it harder for students to learn?
APPROVING QUESTION 2 PUTS US ALL AT RISK
South Kingstown's Public Safety Building, pictured above with an antenna rooted on it, sets a bad example by putting the public as well as its police force at risk. Additionally, it has a cell tower in its parking lot, irradiating the new housing development directly below it and penetrating further into surrounding neighborhoods in which people, pets, and wildlife are affected adversely.
TESTIMONY AGAINST WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY IN SCHOOLS
I testified against a smart boards expenditure for South Kingstown, Rhode Island schools and I called for a moratorium on all wireless devices, on November 12, 2019 at the school committee meeting.
SAFE TECH EDUCATOR CECELIA DOUCETTE PRESENTS TO SOUTH KINGSTOWN TOWN COUNCIL
Cecelia Doucette presents to South Kingstown Town Council on June 28, 2021. During the presentation, Ms. Doucette highlights some radiofrequency radiation readings I took around South Kingstown, including readings at South Kingstown schools, and also at the Peace Dale Public Library where I had worked and gotten ill.
I testify for Jamie Orr and myself to South Kingstown Town Council Regarding The Small Cell Installation which Forced Ms. Orr to Leave Her Matunuck Home
On March 27, 2023, I testify for Jamie Orr and myself to South Kingstown Town Council regarding the hazard caused by the placement of a small cell atop a utility pole 80 feet from the walls of her home in Matunuck, RI. Jamie was forced to vacate her home by the high levels of wireless radiation. (Photo, right, shows measurement of extreme levels outside her home, facing small cell.)
At the 4 minute 15 second mark, a civic-minded member of the public admonishes the South Kingstown Town Council to let me speak.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN IMPLEMENTS WISE CELLPHONE POLICY
South Kingstown School District, led by South Kingstown High School principal, Dr Chip McGair and others, implemented a very wise policy in 2024. They bought a Yondr pouch for each student to put their cell phone in when they enter the school building in the morning, after turning their phone off (which is a critical preliminary step that eliminates the wireless radiation). At the end of the day, each student has the magnetic lock on their pouch opened, releasing their phone.
One reason this plan worked, and is still working, is that Dr McGair introduced the idea of removing the distraction of phones from the classroom gradually to staff, parents, and students. The prior year he had students put their phones in a keeper on the classroom wall. Parents and students were introduced to the idea, then it was implemented, so it wasn’t a shock.
At this point most people may be unaware of the biological harm possible from radiofrequency radiation. We need to educate people in a similar, gradual manner. (Once one understands the biological harm wireless radiation can cause developing minds and bodies, this is a no-brainer.) It certainly helped that U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy raised awareness about social media’s detrimental impact on children’s mental health first.
Left out of the discussion, but vital to our understanding of the impact of cell phone and Wi-Fi radiation on mental health, is this meta study by Dr Martin Pall in which several studies link mental disorders to electromagnetic fields: “Microwave frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) produce widespread neuropsychiatric effects including depression.”
www.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26300312/