WHAT CAN YOU DO?

• Respect our traditions and responsibilities to protect the sacredness of our Mother Earth.

• Join BE SAFE, a nationwide initiative to prevent hazardous exposures through the "better safe than sorry" precautionary approach. IEN is part of a coalition with hundreds of groups and individuals to build a unified demand for preventive, protective policies in America. Be SAFE Email: info@chej.org Ph: (703) 237-2249

• Educate yourself on how our country and its federal agencies determine policies, laws and regulations that relay solely on risk assessments and cost-benefit analysis that allows them to make decisions despite lack of scientific certainty on the harm to our health and environment.

• Educate yourself on how Indigenous Peoples (your tribal community) could be experiencing disproportionate affects, as compared to the general population, of toxic exposures, the introduction of GMO's and other innovations, industrial practices and technologies introduced into our world. Risk assessment lacks adequate mechanisms to quantify those spiritual and cultural values that have importance to Indigenous peoples.

• Exercise our inherent rights as Indigenous Peoples, our self-determination, sovereignty and government-to-government relationship with the U.S. (Canada) to change U.S. policy that embraces the precautionary principle.

• Seek U.S. constitutional amendment to protect air, water and other forms of common property known as the Seventh Generation Amendment, or the Common Property Amendment. The amendment would require the U.S. government to consider the environmental impact of human activities into the seventh generation.

  AN AMENDMENT FOR THE SEVENTH GENERATION    
  "The right of citizens of the United States to use and enjoy air, water, wildlife, and other renewable resources determined by the Congress to be common property shall not be impaired, nor shall such use impair their availability for the use of future generations"

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