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DESCRIPTION:In this presentation, we will cover the major issues surrounding Smart 
 Meters, including  their threat to health (from their microwave radio 
 frequency radiation), their invasion of privacy (in gathering hourly data 
 about private lives), their easy hackability, and their violation of basic 
 democratic rights. We will also refute the spurious claims to their 
 environmental benefits and energy-saving capability. The installation of 
 Smart Meters without consent represents a degree of corporate impunity 
 possible only with government complicity. The Smart Meter program, as an 
 expression of corporate control, stands in opposition to democratic and 
 community rights, most directly expressed by denial of a right to refusal. 
 It also represents a fundamental violation of the precautionary principle.  
 Already large numbers of people have become ill after Smart Meters were 
 installed near their living environment (e.g. headaches, nausea, ear 
 ringing, heart palpitations etc). We will describe the meters themselves, 
 the movement that has arisen against them, some of the immediate health 
 effects, and the overall politics of this new form of grid (the "Smart 
 Grid"). We will also discuss the research on the impact of non-thermal 
 radiation on humans, animals, plant life, and those who have 
 Electro-Hypersensitivity.\n\nSteve Martinot is a writer, human rights 
 activist, and retired lecturer from San Francisco State Univ., living in 
 Berkeley. He has done union, community, and anti-war organizing for most of 
 his life.\n\nMarti Kheel is an ecofeminist scholar and activist and author 
 of Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective. Currently she is a visiting 
 scholar at U.C. Berkeley, Division of Society and the 
 Environment.\n\nAlexander Binik, an environmental health educator and 
 licensed psychotherapist, is also Executive Director of the DE-Toxics 
 Institute in Fairfax.\n\nSarah Reilly is a Certified Nutritionist and 
 founder of Get Nourished, a Holistic Nutrition Practice that serves clients 
 globally. She has advanced certifications in functional endocrinology, 
 functional blood chemistry and brain chemistry with a special interest in 
 inflammation and autoimmunity. She has had Electro Hypersensitivity since 
 2003 and has been studying the physiological impacts of Electro Magnetic 
 Radiation on human physiology for the past 3 years.\n\nSponsored by the 
 Alameda County Greens for “Green Sundays”\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/26/18670296.php
SUMMARY:The Scandal of Smart Meters and PG&E: Beyond the Greenwash
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave. at 65th St. (North Oakland)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/26/18670296.php
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