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