Calling AR Activists to attend this Event on Implementing the Precautionary Principle

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Calling Animal Rights activists to attend this local event on Implementing the Precautionary Principle to mingle, speak up for animals, make the connections, help de-alienate the AR movement and integrate it into other social justice movements...

 

AR activist Cathleen Young writes:

" The Precautionary Principle shifts the burden of proof. Rather than asking, 'How much harm is allowable?' it forces us to consider, 'How little harm is possible?' These lines came from an article that was in the Chronicle a while back. Now it's posted at http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0619-07.htm When science cannot yet fully establish a cause-and-effect relationship, but can provide reasonable evidence of harm, this principle urges us to take precautionary measures. In other words, if we wait until we're absolutely certain, we've probably waited too long. " If you care, you could google the Precautionary Principle to get a sense of the ways the antiglobalists frame it. They think it should apply to a whole bunch of things--and it should--but I've never heard them mention it in relation to (of all things!) the (living, breathing, feeling!) animals.

 

Protecting Public Health & the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle

 

Thursday, January 13, 2005

Time: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Location: Marin Civic Center - Board of Supervisors Chambers, Room 330

Cost: Free!

 

An evening dialogue with Carolyn Raffensperger and Debbie Raphael. Carolyn Raffensperger is an attorney, Executive Director of Science & Environmental Health Network, plenary speaker at the 2004 Bioneers Conference, and co-editor of " Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle " (Island Press). This will be her only presentation in Marin to discuss how to integrate the precautionary principle into local policies and decision-making processes. Debbie Raphael, Toxics Reduction Program Manager in the San Francisco Department of the Environment, will discuss implementation of the San Francisco Ordinance on the Precautionary Principle.

 

Event is Sponsored by: Supervisor Charles McGlashan, Supervisor Susan Adams, MarinLink, EECoM (Environmental Education Council of Marin), Marin Cancer Project, Health & Habitat, Marin Peace & Justice Coalition, and the Pesticide Free Zone Campaign.

 

For more information contact: Mary O'Mara (mary_omara) at MarinLink 415-475-0211

 

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