Rachel's Democracy & Health News back issues from April 2006:
ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE AND PRECAUTION
Apr 06, 2006; ... We know from the growing body of literature on the social determinants of health that our health depends on many factors beyond diet and exercise, including income and social status, social support networks, education and literacy, employment/working conditions, social environment, physical ...
WASTE PLANT SETS TEHAMA POLITICS AFIRE
Apr 06, 2006; ... Rare Rescinding of Air Permits Causes Firm to Sue Local Board Red Bluff, Calif. - Just beyond a grove of walnut trees huddled together against the chill of a late winter day and across the street from the Iglesia Nueva Vida sits perhaps the next big battleground involving one of ...
EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN USING 'NANO-SEALING SPRAYS'
Apr 06, 2006; ... When used in confined spaces such as a bathroom, they can cause serious respiratory problems By the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment [Germany] Sealing sprays for glass and ceramics containing moisture-repellant nano particles and a propellant should not be used in confined ...
NOAM CHOMSKY ON FAILED STATES: THE ABUSE OF POWER...
Apr 06, 2006; ......and the Assault on Democracy The New York Times calls him "arguably the most important intellectual alive." The Boston Globe calls him "America's most useful citizen" He was recently voted the world's number one intellectual in a poll by Prospect and Foreign Policy ...
WHAT IS PUBLIC HEALTH AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?
Apr 13, 2006; ... I'll define public health in a minute. But first, "Why does public health matter?" Public health matters because ** Many of us are spending our lives working on public health problems without necessarily recognizing that that's what we're doing. When we worry about ...
WHAT IS THE WORTH OF A MAN OR A WOMAN?
Apr 13, 2006; ... What is the worth of a man or a woman? What is the worth of a farm worker? How do you measure the value of a life? Ask the parents of Johnnie Rodriguez. Johnnie Rodriguez was not even a man; Johnnie was a five year old boy when he died after a painful two year battle against ...
MEASURE T WILL ENSURE LOCAL CONTROL
Apr 13, 2006; ... Measure T will ensure local control "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson. In the last Voices issue [in ...
POWER OF COMMUNITY: HOW CUBA SURVIVED PEAK OIL
Apr 13, 2006; ... Havana, Cuba - At the Organiponico de Alamar, a neighborhood agriculture project, a workers' collective runs a large urban farm, a produce market and a restaurant. Hand tools and human labor replace oil-driven machinery. Worm cultivation and composting create productive soil. Drip irrigation ...
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP CHEMICAL TRESPASS ORDINANCE
Apr 20, 2006; ... Corporate Chemical Trespass - A Model Ordinance Introduction This "Corporate Chemical Trespass" ordinance was developed by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), a Pennsylvania non-profit law firm. CELDF is making this model ordinance available to anyone ...
MY VIEW: SUPPORT GRASS-ROOTS ENVIRONMENTALISTS
Apr 20, 2006; ... Since the first Earth Day in 1970, the modern American environmental movement has been in a constant state of flux. The movement itself began about a century ago with a small number of relatively conservative organizations largely committed to wilderness preservation, and has in the past 35 ...
VAPOR INTRUSION: THE NEW FRONTIER OF TOXIC CLEANUP
Apr 20, 2006; ... The characterization and cleanup of vapor intrusion at sites contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is the new frontier of environmental response. Most vapor intrusion responses have focused on the direct vertical transport of contamination into overlying homes, but increasingly it ...
CHEMICAL COMPANIES LOOK TO COAL AS AN OIL SUBSTITUTE
Apr 20, 2006; ... Coal for fuel? Pretty common. But coal as the main ingredient in wall paints, fertilizers, even grocery bags? With oil and natural gas prices showing no signs of plummeting, and with incentives to use coal built into the Energy Policy Act of 2005, it just might happen. And chemical ...
THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT ISN'T DEAD, IT JUST NEEDS MORE FRIENDS
Apr 27, 2006; ... Last week I suggested that environmentalists and environmental justice advocates might benefit by making alliances with public health professionals and agencies. The argument is simple: (1) The core philosophy of public health calls for preventing harm before it occurs instead of ...
DEMOCRACY 2.0
Apr 27, 2006; ... As of this morning, more than 1,500 blogs have taken up a new cause, posting links to SavetheInternet.com and urging their readers to call on members of Congress to stand firm in defense of Internet freedom. And, for the first time in blogger history, the Hill is hearing it. The ...
CRAIG WILLIAMS TOOK ON THE PENTAGON TO STOP CHEMICAL-WASTE BURNING
Apr 27, 2006; ... "We're a little outnumbered, and a little outspent," says Craig Williams, "but we've turned around decisions by the biggest bureaucracy on the planet." Williams, founder of the nonprofit Chemical Weapons Working Group and a cabinetmaker by trade, has been fighting for more than two decades to ...
INDUSTRY CHALLENGES 'PUBLIC NUISANCE' RULING
Apr 27, 2006; ... Chemical manufacturers say California court ruling could subject industry to open-ended product liability A chemical-industry-led business coalition is urging the California Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision that the industry claims would create "limitless and open-ended ...
DEATHS ON THE JOB INCREASE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A DECADE
Apr 27, 2006; ... State by State and National Numbers on Job Deaths and Injuries Included in New Report The rate of fatal workplace injuries increased for the first time in a decade, according to a new AFL-CIO job safety report, "Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect - A National and State-by-State ...