Important! FCC Disability Law!

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Please read below FCC letter at bottom! Please forward letters to me and I will

get them to the EMF safety group going to Washington Oct 5th.  Thanks! Let's be

Heard!  Loni

 

FCC ramps up to implement the most significant disability law in two decades

From: Kelley <lkelley_45@...>

Subject: Stop Meters Now Newsletter entry

california-emf-safety-coalitiongooglegroups, " Josh Hart "

<joshuanoahhart@...>

Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 11:51 AM

Dear Friends,

 

We need to get on top of this one. The White House Office on Disability Policy

and the National Council on Disabilities is working with the FCC and other

federal agencies who carry roles and responsibilities for assuring equal access

and accommodations for persons with disabilities is moving quickly to ensure

that all disabled Americans are fully integrated into community living. The

Assistive Devices Act of 2004 and the " Olmstead decision " , a U.S. Supreme court

civil rights decision, advances that cause. Unfortunately, this campaign leaves

millions of Americans behind - those with environmental illnesses or who have

medical implants.

 

Earlier this month, several of us signed a letter to the Arizona Center for

Disability Law, there is a federally funded Disability Law Center in each

state. asking them to not overlook the rights to access and accommodation of

environmental disabled people in their 2012 priorities. In that letter, we

mentioned the fact that some disabled people, even those who are being

accommodated due to sight, hearing and mobility impairments, could be harmed by

ensuring full integration when wireless enabled devices and transmitters are

used. What the future may bring is a wireless broadband infrastructure that

is extended into remote geographic areas, public facilities, even private

spaces.  Many people who are environmentally disabled are marginalized already

and are forced to live in remote areas and stay out of public places, in order

to survive. This would create a man-made disaster for millions of

Americans. 

 

There is a new law being proposed. I think this matter deserves a strong

campaign, to protect the rights of those whose health and welfare is being most

severely affected by exposure to involuntary exposure to increasingly dense and

ubiquitous sources of man-made electromagnetic fields and synthetic

chemicals. 

 

We need to call for Congressional hearings on this proposed legislation in order

to give those people who are most adversely affected, and their advocates, an

opportunity to speak.  Contact your federally elected representatives, the

White House Office on Disability Policy and the National Council on

Disabilities  and let them know!

 

NEWS

Federal Communications Commission

445 12th Street, S.W.

Washington, D. C. 20554

This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action. Release of the full

text of a Commission order constitutes official action.

See MCI v. FCC. 515 F 2d 385 (D.C. Circ 1974).

News Media Information 202 / 418-0500

Internet: http://www.fcc.gov

TTY: 1-888-835-5322

For Immediate Release:

Rosemary Kimball at (202) 418-0511

e-mail: rosemary.kimball@...

GREGORY HLIBOK NAMED CHIEF OF THE FCC’S DISABILITY RIGHTS OFFICE

Washington, DC -- Hlibok, currently an attorney in the Disability Rights

Office (DRO)  in the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, has been named

to head that office. “Greg will be heading up the Disability Rights Office at

a crucial time, as the FCC ramps up to implement the most significant

disability law in two decades,†said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. “Greg

possesses extensive knowledge in the field of telecommunications access for

people with disabilities as well as the leadership qualities necessary to lead

the office. He will be the first head of DRO who has a disability. Under his

direction, the office will work to ensure that people with disabilities can

share fully in the economic and social benefits of emerging 21st century

technologies.â€Â Â Greg has been instrumental on a wide array of disability

matters in DRO since 2001. He is known nationally for his role as spokesperson

for the Deaf President Now

movement in 1988, which led to the selection of Gallaudet University’s first

deaf president. Gallaudet is the world's only university serving primarily deaf

and hard of hearing students. At the FCC, he has taken the lead in several key

rulemaking proceedings on telecommunications access for people

with disabilities, including new initiatives on the National Broadband Plan.

Greg now lives in Ellicott City, MD with his wife and four children, and also

serves as the board president of his alma mater, Lexington School for the Deaf.

He is a graduate of Gallaudet University and Hofstra Law School. In addition to

its new duties in implementing the new Act, the Disability Rights Office

has responsibility for a variety of disability-related telecommunications

matters, including telecommunications relay service (TRS), access to

telecommunications equipment and services  by persons with disabilities, access

to emergency information, and closed

captioning. DRO also provides expert advice and assistance to other Bureaus

and Offices, consumers, and industry, in order to support the Commission's goal

of increasing the accessibility of communications services and technologies for

persons with disabilities.  - FCC -

SEE ATTACHMENT: letter sent September 5, 2011, to the Arizona Center for

Disabiltiy Law

 

Regards,

 

Kelley, MHA

Co-Coordinator, Arizonans for Safer Utilities Infrasturcture

 

Electromagnetic Safety Alliance, Inc.

Tucson, AZ

www.electromagneticsafety.org

 

Kelley

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:34:29 -0700

Subject: newsletter

From: joshuanoahhart@...

california-emf-safety-coalitiongooglegroups

We're sending out our September Stop Smart Meters! newsletter today so if

there's anything you want to get out to the larger movement now is the time! 

ASAP.

Thx

Josh

--

Hart

Director, Stop Smart Meters!

http://stopsmartmeters.org