PENNSYLVANIA, November 8 - world and individuals' roles in healing themselves, ensuring

environmental justice and to promote economic alternatives that

would contribute to the development of environmentally safe

livelihoods; and

WHEREAS, The adoption of the principles was also a step

toward securing the political, economic and cultural liberation

for all people of color that had been denied during the more

than 500 years of colonization and oppression; and

WHEREAS, Under these principles, Environmental Justice

affirms the sacredness of Mother Earth, ecological unity and the

interdependence of all species and the right to be free from

ecological destruction; and

WHEREAS, Environmental Justice demands that public policy be

based on mutual respect and justice for all people free from any

form of discrimination or bias; and

WHEREAS, Environmental Justice mandates the right to ethical,

balanced and responsible uses of land and renewable resources in

the interest of a sustainable planet for humans and other living

things; and

WHEREAS, Environmental Justice calls for universal protection

from nuclear testing, extraction, production and disposal of

toxic or hazardous wastes and poisons and nuclear testing that

threatens the fundamental right to clean air, land, water and

food; and

WHEREAS, Environmental Justice affirms the fundamental right

to political, economic, cultural and environmental self-

determination of all people; and

WHEREAS, Environmental Justice demands the cessation of the

production of all toxins, hazardous wastes and radioactive

materials, and that all past and current producers be held

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