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EarthWINS Daily #3.117
3/16/98
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 17:37:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Alice McCombs <amccombs@igc.apc.org>
Contents
1. International Seabed Mining Code Soon to Be Finalized
2. Excerpts, Enviro-Newsbrief
a. Clean Water
b. Regulatory Reform
3. Sustainability-l: MAI - Call for Submissions
4. Sustainability-l: Deadline to Comment on World Bank
Policy
5. FYI: LabourStart: a start page for the international
labour movement
6. FYI: Michael Moore Tours with new film "The Big One"
7. USA: EJ Leaders Support Tribes at Ward Valley
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1. International Seabed Mining Code Soon to Be Finalized
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 98 19:34:41 CST
From: Mark Graffis <ab758@virgin.usvi.net>
Posted to the web: Fri Mar 13 17:43:54 EST 1998
KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 13, 1998 (ENS) - A set of rules
to govern
exploration for mineral resources in areas of the deep
seabed beyond
the jurisdiction of individual countries will be the priority
item as
the International Seabed Authority meets in Kingston on
March 16 for
the first portion of its two-part annual session.
The International Seabed Authority is responsible for regulating
all
resource-related conduct in the international seabed area
by States
and other entities, including international consortia
and private
national companies.
Both of the Authority's decision-making groups - the Assembly,
composed of all 136 member States and one entity (the
European
Community), and the 36-member Council - will convene for
two weeks at
the organization's headquarters in Kingston. The final
part of the
session is scheduled for August.
The mining code rules under review are limited to prospecting
and
exploration for polymetallic nodules rich in manganese,
nickel, cobalt
and copper. It represents the first instalment of a broader
code that
is to encompass rules, regulations and procedures for
the conduct of
activities in the international seabed area, as well as
standards for
the protection and preservation of the marine environment
in relation
to resource development.
The draft text mandates joint reviews of exploration activities
and
environmental monitoring, and provides for contingency
plans and
measures to be taken in the event of emergencies likely
to cause
serious harm to the marine environment.
The rights and interests of coastal States would be recognized,
and
the Council would be authorized to issue emergency protection
orders.
Environmental protection and preservation was one of three
areas of
special concern to the Commission in drawing up this text,
according
to its Chairman, Jean-Pierre Lenoble of France, who presented
the
draft last August. The other two were annual reporting
and the
transfer of data by contractors to the International Seabed
Authority,
and confidentiality of the information submitted.
The Law of the Sea Convention gives the Authority, through
its
Council, broad discretionary powers to assess the potential
environmental impact of a given deep seabed mining operation,
recommend changes, formulate rules and regulations, establish
a
monitoring programme and issue emergency orders to prevent
serious
environmental damage. States are to be held liable for
any damage
caused by either their own enterprise or contractors under
their
jurisdiction.
Last August, the Council approved plans of work submitted
by all seven
of the pioneer investors registered for deep seabed activities.
The mining code now being drafted will incorporate a model
contract
and standard terms for exploration contracts between the
Authority and
the entities exploring the ocean floor. Last August the
Council
authorized the first contracts under that regime to the
seven investor
groups from 11 States.
The seven pioneer registered investors are: the Governments
of India
and the Republic of Korea; organizations sponsored respectively
by
China, France, Japan and the Russian Federation, and an
organization
formed by five Eastern European States and Cuba. The Council
authorized the Secretary-General of the International
Seabed
Authority, Ambassador Satya N. Nandan of Fiji, to issue
contracts to
the seven investors, a step which awaits approval of the
mining
regulations.
The International Seabed Authority began work on the seabed
mining
code in March 1997, as its first substantive business.
The text now
before it, a third draft that is not yet complete, was
drawn up last
August by the Legal and Technical Commission, a 22-member
expert body
elected by the Council. The Commission hopes to complete
its text
during the first week of the coming session, and submit
the results
for approval by the Council and Assembly.
The Seabed Authority was established by Part XI (seabed
provisions) of
the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,
which
entered into force in 1994. Its operations are also governed
by the
1994 Agreement relating to Implementation of Part XI,
in effect since
1996.
The Environment News Service is exclusively hosted by
the [7]EnviroLink Network. Copyright 1997
ENS, Inc.
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Sender: environb-l@valley.rtpnc.epa.gov
From: LIBRARY-HQ@epamail.epa.gov
The following is a daily update summarizing news of interest
to EPA staff. It includes information from current news sources:
newspapers, newsletters, and other publications. For more
information, contact the EPA Headquarters Information Resources
Center at (202) 260-5922, or e-mail LIBRARY-HQ.
**Viewpoints expressed in the following summaries do not
necessarily reflect EPA policy**
A searchable archive of past Enviro-Newsbriefs can be found on
the EPA web site at the following URL:
http://www.epa.gov/natlibra/hqirc/enb.htm
Enviro-Newsbrief March 2, 1998
** CLEAN WATER **
Courts Expanding Effort to Battle Water Pollution. The New York
Times, March 2, 1998, ppA1,A2.
Environmentalists have filed a number of lawsuits
forcing
state and Federal authorities to enforce a long-dormant provision
of the Clean Water Act.
In these lawsuits, environmental groups have
demanded that
regulators move from controlling individual sources of pollution
to improving the overall quality of watersheds.
This approach may be a powerful legal tool
for
environmentalists to influence economic activities-from logging
to farming-that were not rigidly controlled before.
"This is like the Tet Offensive," said Oliver
Houck,
director of the environmental law program at Tulane University's
law school. "All the old assumptions have been challenged."
In one case pending in Manhattan, plaintiffs
are demanding
that EPA force New York state to set pollution limits in upstate
watersheds at levels strict enough to protect the city's drinking
water. The plaintiffs are also fighting for the right to allow
citizens to participate in setting the pollution limits.
Similar lawsuits on the Federal dockets are
taking place in
13 other states. Federal courts have already ordered EPA to
establish pollution limits in nine states-Alaska, Arizona, parts
of California, Delaware, Georgia, New Mexico, Oregon,
Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Under the 1972 Clean Water Act, states are
required to issue
permits telling polluters what technologies to use to prevent
polluting the water at specific points. Another part of the law,
that had been routinely disregarded, also required states to
measure the local water quality in order to determine whether the
permit system was working and to impose limits on all sources of
pollution if these standards were not met.
Many watersheds are still polluted and environmental
advocates have asked Federal courts to force the EPA to intervene
where states have failed to act to meet the broader standards.
Judge Marvin Shoob of the Federal District
Court in Atlanta
set strict and detailed cleanup schedules for Georgia and on
Federal environmental agencies. He threatened that if they failed
to comply, no new permits could be issued for streams where the
new limits were not being enforced.
EPA would prefer to leave enforcement up to
the states, and
has recently put pressure on them to produce acceptable cleanup
plans. Every state has to create a new list of polluted waters
and a cleanup schedule.
Environmental groups will be closely examining
these lists.
EPA expects about 1,000 watersheds will show up on these problem
lists. Corrective actions for these watersheds will take at least
eight years, according to the agency.
Houck believes that without these lawsuits,
nothing would
have been done to enforce the 1972 law.
"Nothing works in environmental law unless
citizen pressure
forces the regulators to move on the regulated entities," he
said. "It is like a fish nipping at a fish nipping at a fish."
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Enviro-Newsbrief March 4, 1998
** REGULATORY REFORM **
Bill to Eliminate 150 Federal Reports Scheduled for Senate
Committee Markup. Daily Environment Report, March 4, 1998, pA-5.
A bill (S 1364) that reduces reporting requirements
at some
federal agencies is set for markup by the Senate Governmental
Affairs Committee on March 5.
The proposed Federal Reports Elimination Act
of 1997 would
delete about 150 reports that federal agencies are required to
prepare under federal law.
EPA is one of the agencies that will be affected
by the law
if it is enacted. The bill would eliminate reports under several
environmental statutes including the Clean Water Act, the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, the Toxic Substances
Control Act, and the Solid Waste Disposal Act.
"All of these reports have been judged as
unnecessary,
wasteful, or redundant by each of the federal agencies which have
been required to produce them," said Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who
introduced the bill along with Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI).
McCain said that Congress imposes about 300
new requirements
on federal agencies annually and that the administration's
National Performance Review estimated that Congress mandated more
than 5,300 reports.
"The staffing burdens and paper shuffling
these outdated
reporting mandates cause are of little real value to the
important work of the government," McCain said.
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3. Sustainability-l: MAI - Call for Submissions
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 11:36:34 +1100
From: jasonr@dynamite.com.au (Jason Richards)
Sender: owner-sustainability-l@uts.edu.au
In light of recent discussions on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment
(MAI) in the media and on this list, I thought Australian list members
might
be interesed in this notice taken from the Canberra Times newspaper
on Sat
14 March 1998, page C4:
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Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia
Joint Standing Committee on Treaties
MULTILATERAL AGREEMENT ON INVESTMENT (MAI)
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Alexander Downer MP has asked
the
Committee, chaired by Mr Bill Taylor MP (Liberal, QLD), to conduct
an
inquiry and report to the parliament on:
the potential consequences for Australia arising from the matter known
as
the MAI.
An interim report has been sought by 25 May 1998. Further information
is
available from the Committee Secretariat.
Submissions are invited by Thursday 30 April 1998 and should be sent to:
The Secretary
Joint Standing Committee on Teaties
Parliament House
CANBERRA ACT 2600
Tel: (02) 6277 4002
Fax: (02) 6277 4827
Email: jsct@aph.gov.au
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Jason Richards
Queanbeyan NSW Australia
Sustainability Research Network:
an initiative of the Institute for Sustainable Futures,
University of Technology, Sydney
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4. Sustainability-l: Deadline to Comment on World Bank Policy
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 14:04:54 +1100
From: Gabrielle S Kuiper <Gabrielle.Kuiper@uts.edu.au>
Sender: owner-sustainability-l@uts.edu.au
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>>MARCH 20 DEADLINE
>>
>>NEED FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS ON
>>PROPOSED SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
>>THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION
>>WORLD BANK GROUP
>>
>>The International Finance Corporation is the segment of the World
Bank
>>group which lends to the private sector. The IFC is requesting
public
>>comments on its new environment and social policies, review procedures,
>>and its policy on disclosure of information by 20 March 1998.
They hope
>>this framework will improve the environmental and social performance
of
>>IFC projects.
>>
>>These policies and procedures will set the "ground-rules" for the
social
>>and environmental responsibilities of World Bank sponsored private
sector
>>development in the developing world. They define the environmental
and
>>human rights of hundreds of thousands of local populations who are
>>affected by IFC projects.
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>>YOUR MEASURED RESPONSES WILL HELP DEFINE THE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL
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>>designed to facilitate horizontal communication between those influenced
>>by global policies. The KIOSK shows how to locate copies of
the key
>>policy documents, find additional supporting information, communicate
with
>>parties effected by such policies.
>>
>>Visit it at: www.anthrotech.com/ISCSfAA/
>>
>>The International Standards Committee
>>Society for Applied Anthropology
>>
>>Please share this announcement today with
>>NGOs and advocacy groups concerned with human rights, indigenous
rights,
>>environmental issues, and development policy.
>>
>
Sustainability Research Network:
an initiative of the Institute for Sustainable Futures,
University of Technology, Sydney
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5. LabourStart: a start page for the international labour movement
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 00:01:37 -0500
Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <LABOR-L@YORKU.CA>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 08:27:44 +0200
From: Eric Lee <ericlee@EINDOR.ORG.IL>
Today we launched LabourStart -- a start page for the international
labour
movement -- located at:
http://www.solinet.org/LEE/labourstart.html
The following is the explanation posted to the site about what a start
page
is, and why the labour movement needs one of its own.
***
About LabourStart
Remember the first time you connected to the World Wide Web? Chances
are
you landed on the home page of one of two giant corporations -- Microsoft
or Netscape. Built into their browsers are default home pages which
tout
their corporate products -- and their corporate "vision".
If you're like most people, you probably still land on those pages --
http://home.netscape.com and http://home.microsoft.com -- whenever
you
lauunch your copy of Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet
Explorer.
Maybe some of you have advanced a bit and now use some of the popular
start
pages launched by companies like Yahoo! and Excite, which offer up
current
stock market reports, horoscopes, and the latest news compiled by
mainstream media like MSNBC and CNN.
We think it's time the labour movement had its own start up page, one
which
includes everything a good mainstream page would have, plus some things
which only a labour page would include.
LabourStart is an attempt to create just such a page.
The page has 5 components:
1. Labour News - updated daily. The top 3 or 4 stories only.
2. Urgent Action - updated daily. Once again, 3 or 4 key items. Click
on
these items and you can actually do something without getting up out
of
your chair.
3. Labour Links - a selection of the very top labour websites which
will
point you to all the others. There are currently 15 of these, including
5
national trade union centres in the major English-speaking countries,
independent labour websites such as Labournet and Cyber Picket Line,
and
the site of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
4. Net Guide - links to 16 of the most popular, mainstream sites on
the
Web, including indexes, search engines, news sources and general computer
and Internet sites.
5. We wanted to include a powerful search tool and couldn't find a better
one than MetaCrawler. This appears on the bottom of the page.
We've also given some thought to the design. The page includes no graphics
files. It totals only about 6,000 bytes of data, which should load
in about
a second or two even on the slowest modem connections. And even though
we're not using graphics files, the page is colorful, and uses tables
for
that effect.
We wanted a page which would include as much material as possible on
just
one screen without the need for scrolling. That screen is the standard
small size most people still use -- 640 X 480, so you shouldn't have
to
scroll left or right to see anything. We've tested the page on both
Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer to see that it renders
quickly and correctly in both browsers.
We've designed the page in such a way that it includes both dynamic
and
static components. That allows you to save the page to your hard disk,
meaning it will load even faster. The dynamic components are external
JavaScript files (you'll need a recent browser, preferably 4.0 or above,
to
see these properly) which will be updated frequently.
Because LabourStart is just beginning, we're very interested in hearing
what you think. Drop us a line. Thanks.
Eric Lee
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6. FYI: Michael Moore Tours with new film "The Big One"
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 98 19:33:14 CST
From: TVNatFans <TVNatFans@aol.com>
March 12,1998
To: Mike's Militia and the TV Nation Newsletter Subscribers
From: Michael Moore
Dear Friends,
I am currently hosting a number of benefit premiere screenings of my
new film, "The Big One," in nearly 30 cities across the country.
If
you live near any of these locations, I invite you to come by, see
the
film, and have a chat. Most of the premieres are benefits for
local
groups I support, and you can call them for ticket information.
"The Big One" will be in theaters in New York and Los Angles beginning
on April 3, and in the rest of the country a week or two later.
It is
being distributed by Miramax (which is contributing 50% of its profits
to my hometown of Flint, Michigan)
"The Big One" chronicles a tour I took across America to try and meet
CEOs and ask them a few questions. It has already won the Best
Documentary award at two film festivals and it won the "people prize"
recently at the Berlin Film Festival. It was shot in the same
spirit
as "Roger & Me" and I'm very happy that a wide audience will be
able to
see it.
Here are the cities I'm visiting in March. April cities and dates to follow:
Thursday, March 12, 1998, THE BIG ONE
Kansas City, 4050 Pennsylvania Avenue, 7:30pm
Benefit for The Greater Kansas City Coalition Against Censorship.
Anne Winters, 816-531-4890
Sunday, March 15, 1998, THE BIG ONE
San Diego, La Jolla Cove Theater, 7730 Girard Ave, 7:00pm
Benefit for The National Lawyers Guild, Homeless Advocates of San Diego,
The Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers, Rio Madre Scholarship
Fund. Steve Binder 619-587-8881
Monday, March 16, 1998, THE BIG ONE
Phoenix, Harkins Christown Theatre, 5707 North 19th Ave, 7:00
Benefit for Central Arizona Jobs with Justice, Bill McGlashen 602-966-1231
Tuesday, March 17, 1998, THE BIG ONE
Austin, South by Southwest Film Festival, 9:00 pm
Wednesday, March 18, 1998, THE BIG ONE
Houston, Landmark Greenway, 5 Greenway Plaza East
8:00 pm, Jeff Ordower 713-861-5364
Benefit for The Living Wage Initiative.
Wednesday, March 18, 1998, THE BIG ONE
Houston, Rice University Media Center, 6:30 pm
2030 University Boulevard, MS 549, Entrance 8
Thursday, March 19, 1998, THE BIG ONE
Minneapolis, Landmark Uptown,
2906 Hennepin Avenue South, 7:00 pm
Benefit for Progressive Minnesota
Jennifer Smith, 612-641-6199
Thursday, March 19, 1998, THE BIG ONE
Las Vegas, United Artists Showcase, 7:30pm
3769 South Las Vegas Boulevard
Sponsored by the Executive Board of the AFL-CIO
Sunday, March 22, 1998, THE BIG ONE
New York City, Cantor Film Center, NYU, 6:00pm
36 East 8th Street between University and Greene
Benefit for The New Group, Claudia Catania, 212- 647-0752
Tuesday, March 24, 1998, THE BIG ONE
Seattle, Harvard Exit, 807 East Rory, 7:00 PM
To benefit Seattle Jobs with Justice
Rosalinda Aguirre, 206-448-7348 ext 309
Wednesday, March 25, 1998, THE BIG ONE
Portland, Bagdad Theater, 3701 S.E. HawthorneBlvd, 7:00
Benefit for The Western States Center; Portland Jobs with Justice
Glenn Harris, glennh@wscpdx.org, 503-228-8866
Thursday, March 26, 1998, THE BIG ONE
Los Angeles, Wyndham Hotel
Sponsored by Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
Wednesday, April 1, 1998, THE BIG ONE
Los Angeles Premiere of THE BIG ONE
Sponsored by the Citizens for Corporate Accountability and Individual
Rights
Joanne Doroshow, jdoro@pipeline.com
We are in the process of redoing our websites (www.MichaelMoore.com)
and www.DogEatDogFilms.com). Please check them out.
We are changing our list name with Listserv from tvnationfans to
MichaelMoore. This should go through soon. When it does
you will
receive the newsletter under the new list name of Michael Moore.
The e-mail newsletter will now include all of the projects Dog Eat Dog
Films is working on. The e-mail address will remain the same
at:
TVNatFans@aol.com.
Thanks again for your interest and support.
Michael Moore
"TV Nation"
"Downsize This"
"The Big One"
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7. USA: EJ Leaders Support Tribes at Ward Valley
Topic 204
USA: EJ LEADERS SUPPORT TRIBES AT WAR
DEBRA
hrnet.indigenous
11:51 AM Mar 14, 1998
(at OLN.comlink.apc.org)
(From News system)
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The following letter was sent to President Clinton on
February 25, 1998 in support of the five lower Colorado
River Indian tribes, tribal grassroots members, tribal
elders and non-Native supporters resisting the U.S. and
state of California plans to build a nuclear dump at Ward
Valley, California. This letter is being posted for
distribution by the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN).
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE LEADERS
QUESTION PRESIDENT CLINTON'S
COMMITTMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL
JUSTICE POLICY REGARDING
"Alliance of Environmental Justice Networks of the
Environmental Justice Movement"
February 25, 1998
Dear President Clinton:
We are writing to you about an issue of such grave
importance that it questions your administration's
commitment to environmental justice. For the last two
weeks, five Indian tribal nations (Fort Mojave, Chemehuevi,
Cocopah, Quechan, and the Colorado River Indian Tribes) are
felt so threatened by the prospect of radioactive
contamination of their lands, water resources and the
violation of their religious freedoms, they have occupied
the site of a proposed nuclear waste dump and have vowed to
defend the land with their lives. This site is located on
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in the Ward Valley
area, 22 miles west of Needles, California.
The controversial nuclear waste dump at Ward Valley proposes
to bury long-lived radioactive waste from medical
facilities, research institutions, and the nuclear industry
in shallow, unlined trenches, above a major aquifer,
eighteen miles from the Colorado River, adjacent to or
upstream from the lower Colorado River Indian tribes and on
land considered sacred aboriginal territory. The dump site
is proposed for an area in the midst of critical habitat for
the threatened desert tortoise. The dump proposal threatens
the cultural and spiritual integrity of the tribes and
violates the Department of the Interior's trust and
fiduciary responsibilities to the affected Indian tribal
nations, their tribal grassroots members and elders.
These five Colorado River Indian tribes have attempted to
meet with the appropriate federal governmental officials on
a nation-to-nation basis but their requests have been
consistently denied. Their request to become a cooperating
agency in the current Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement (SEIS) as provided by the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) was also denied by the Department of the
Interior (DOI).
The proposed nuclear waste dump at Ward Valley categorically
violates Executive Order No. 12898, Federal Actions to
Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and
Low-Income Populations; the President's May 1994, Memorandum
to the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies entitled,
Government-to-Government Relations With Native American
Tribal Governments; Secretarial Order 3175 entitled
Departmental Responsibilities for Indian Trust Resources,
and the Department of the Interior's Protection of Indian
Trust Resource Responsibilities.
Furthermore, the five tribes have consistently presented to
federal agencies their concern for the protection of the
Ward Valley area as a significant sacred and historical
site. This sacred site issue implicates the seriousness of
your Presidential Executive Order 13007, entitled,
Protection of Native American Sacred Sites on Federal Lands.
Last May 1997, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA)
National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC)
determined that the Ward Valley proposal potentially
violated environmental justice mandates and put forth a
series of recommendations including conducting an
environmental justice impact analysis (EJAI) on the proposed
project and arranging for meetings with high-level officials
within the administration. Although the EPA is designated
by the President's Order as the lead agency on environmental
justice, the agency has failed to follow through on any of
the NEJAC recommendations and has yet to present to the
tribes a template for the EJAI as promised in numerous
meetings over the last two years.
Ward Valley is the test case for this administration's
commitment to environmental justice and to date, the
administration has shown itself either incapable or
unwilling to fulfill its own mandates. We view this failure
as having serious implications for all environmental justice
issues we are currently involved with.
It is time that the administration become directly involved
in the Ward Valley issue and proceed expeditiously to
address the concerns of the five lower Colorado River Indian
tribes to insure that all mandates, executive orders and
more specifically, procedures that grew from the Executive
Order on Environmental Justice are not just another in a
long stream of empty promises to this country's Indian
nations.
Signed by the following Environmental Justice Networks and
their representatives:
Tom Goldtooth
Indigenious Environmental Network
P.O. Box 485
Bemidji, MN 56619
Richard Moore
Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice
P.O. 7399
Albuquerque, NM 87194
Peggy Saika
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
310 8th St. #309
Oakland, CA 94607
Sha-King Alston
Northeast Environmental Justice Network
606 Chelmsford St.
Lowell, MA 01851
Connie Tucker
Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice
P.O. Box 10518
Atlanta, GA 30310
Tirso Moreno
Farmworkers Network for Economic and Environmental Justice
815 South Park Ave
Apopka, FL 32703
Rev. Zack Lyle
African American Environmental Justice Action Network
P.O. Box 1994
Brunswick, GA 31521
Cc: Bruce Babbit, Deputy Secretary of Department of the
Interior
Carol Browner, Administrator
of U.S. EPA
Kevin Gover, Assistant Secretary
of Indian Affairs
Pat Shea, Director of Bureau
of Land Management
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Write letters of support on the Ward Valley issue to the
following:
President Clinton, The White House, Washington DC 20500
(202) 456-1111 Bruce Babbitt, Deputy Secretary of DOI, C St.
18th & 19th St NW, Washington, DC 20240 (202) 208-7351
Pat
Shea, BLM, 18th & C St, NW, Washington, DC 20240 (202)
208-5717
For more info, contact:
Save Ward Valley Coalition
107 F St.
Needles, CA 92363
ph: (760) 326-6267
fax: (760) 326-6268
e-mail: swv1@ctaz.com
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INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK
P.O. Box 485
Bemidji, MN 56619
ph: (218) 751-4967
fax: (218) 751-0561
e-mail: ien@igc.apc.org
web page: http://www.alphacdc.com/ien
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