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June 10, 2006

POTENTIAL ALLIES FOR A PREVENTION/PRECAUTION MOVEMENT

[Rachel's introduction: This is the list of potential allies that we
could join to create a social movement to advance precautionary,
preventive action. This list was included in my printed handout
that accompanied my Powerpoint talk, "Some Ideas about Building a
Movement" June 10, 2006 at the first national conference on
precaution. This list is by no means complete -- please add your own
potential allies.]

By Peter Montague

Potential allies who are, or could be, using a preventive approach
include people working on:

** addictive substances
** affordable housing
** aging population
** animal rights
** biodiversity
** biomimicry
** biotechnology
** birth defects
** brownfields
** chemicals policy
** child birth
** children and infants
** chronic diseases (too many to name here)
** civil rights
** class issues
** climate justice
** commons
** community stability
** consumption, excessive
** corporations
** courts
** criminal justice, delinquency, drugs, prisons
** debt
** decision-making techniques
** democracy, self-governance, rule of the many by the few
** dispute resolution
** domestic violence
** downtown redevelopment
** ecological medicine
** education (many issues wrapped up in this word)
** elections and voting systems
** eminent domain
** energy (independence and renewable sources)
** environmental impact assessment
** environmental justice
** excessive consumption
** expensive gasoline, heating, and electric (energy policy)
** faith-based action
** family and child services
** farm workers
** fenceline communities
** food system (availability, quality, price, local first)
** freedom of assembly
** freedom of association (right to form and join a union)
** freedom of speech
** gangs
** GIS mapping to reveal injustices
** global justice (corporate globalization project)
** good government
** growth
** health care/medical care
** health disparities
** health care disparities
** health impact assessment
** health insurance
** HIV/AIDS.
** homelessness
** immigration and immigrant rights
** imperialism
** incinerators are other waste-full machines
** indigenous people
** inequalities of income, wealth and power
** infectious diseases
** infertility
** jobs without justice
** landfills and dumps
** land-based people and communities
** land-use (sprawl, eminent domain, highways)
** local economic development: stable communities, local first
** manufacturing and clean production: waste=design failure
** media
** militarism
** money (from local currencies to monetary policies)
** nanotechnology
** nuclear power/waste/proliferation
** nursing homes
** parenting
** peace
** pesticides
** planning -- What kind of communities do we want? What kinds of
businesses do our communities need?
** poverty
** pregnancy
** preserving farms and rural life
** preventive medicine/health care
** privatization
** public health policies & practice -- creating conditions for health
to flourish
** public miseducation
** public safety -- safe streets, safe neighborhoods, safe schools
** racism
** recycling
** regulation
** reproductive health
** retirement/retirees
** revitalizing cities
** rising cost of water and waste disposal
** risk assessment
** rural life, small towns
** schools
** seniors
** smart growth
** social determinants of health
** spiritual renewal/spiritual practice
** sprawl, suburbs, destructive land uses
** steady-state economy
** stewardship
** sustainable agriculture
** tolerance and intolerance
** transportation
** urban environments (jobs, parks, recreation, safety, livable
neighborhoods)
** Wal-Martization of the economy
** war
** waste
** water
** white privilege
** women's issues
** worker's rights
** workplace democracy
** workplace safety and health
** youth
** zero waste
** other ?? (Add your favorite issue here.)