To accelerate the Vermont health community’s transition to a more sustainable, community-based food system via local procurement and distribution channels; and to provide healthy, fresh foods for employees and patients; and to promote changes in system-wide health care practices so…
To seek an end to US authorities’ use of torture and other cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.
To support the Learning and Development Disabilities Initiative’s efforts to educate state and national learning and developmental disabilities organizations about the possible environmental links to those conditions, translate emerging science into informational materials, and cultivate opportunities for interested groups to…
To elevate the issue of global warming as a top-tier priority for national leadership at both the presidential and Congressional levels during and after the 2008 elections.
To raise awareness among parents, teachers, medical professionals and policymakers of the links between environmental factors and learning and developmental disabilities, and act to prevent exposure to toxic chemicals for women, infants and children.
To support Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project, which will increase civic engagement among young people in 2008 and in the years to come through nonpartisan voter registration and mobilization drives.
To expand and protect insurance coverage of contraceptives using legal assistance, litigation, research, policy analysis, coalition-building and public education.
To enable young people from low-income families to find employment, advance towards self-sufficiency and achieve financial security.
To seek the end of the US military’s use of torture, establish new legal protections against its use, hold perpetrators accountable, and end medical complicity in practicing torture.
To enable SAFER to coordinate and expedite model chemical reform campaigns in leading states, and thereby create a conducive climate for eventual federal policy reforms.