[HCCN] "Mother Earth Water Walk" needs your support while in Maine!

Wed Apr 27 18:23:13 UTC 2011

In case any of you can help out, contact madohuntjens at gmail.com or  
pollinators at beehivecollective.org. This walk begins May 7 in Machias.

Note list of ways you can help near the bottom.

Begin forwarded message:
> From: kehben grier <cantastoria at riseup.net>
> Date: April 26, 2011 9:28:50 PM EDT
>
> Subject: an important help yelp from the Bees! The incredible  
> "Mother Earth Water Walk" needs your support while in Maine!
>
> Hi friends,
>
> I hope this chirp of a dry email can convey even a whisp of the  
> incredibly beautiful opportunity and effort i'm writing you about...
>
> Here's the shiny jist:
>
> Beginning on May 7th, a handful of First Nations elders, youngins,  
> and supporters both native and non-native will start off on an  
> amazing journey together.  They will be collecting a copper bucket  
> of Ocean water from the Bay of Machias, here in Eastern Maine, and  
> WALKING this water, rich with meaning and healing energy, across  
> the state, over through eastern Canada, and ALL THE WAY to Lake  
> Superior! Over 10,400,000 focused footsteps...  and if that isn't  
> ambitious enough, this walk is only one of the legs of walks coming  
> from all Four Directions of North America!  These long and  
> heartfelt simultaneous journeys, aiming to call attention to our  
> need to honor Water, will be converging in Bad River, Wisconsin on  
> June 12th.  The water will then be ceremoniously united in Lake  
> Superior, where the Anishinaabe people, also known as the Ojibwe,  
> Odawa and Potawatomi, are the caretakers of the eastern woodlands  
> and the Great Lakes, the largest freshwater system on Earth.
>
> www.motherearthwaterwalk.com and "Water Walk 2011" on Facebook
>
> This journey, albeit rapidly approaching, offers us here in Maine a  
> VERY rare and special opportunity to give loving and logistical  
> support to an Aboriginally-directed project that is ambitiously  
> taking leadership on highlighting the multitude of issues facing  
> our relationship with Water.  I personally believe that it is  
> imperative that we do our part in making sure that this Walk is  
> well hosted, assisted, promoted and cared for as they spend six  
> days crossing the state diagonally from Machias to Coburn Gore. The  
> jist of the path is from Machias to Bangor along Route One, then  
> towards Skowhegan/Athens along Route 2, then up to Coburn Gore  
> where they will be crossing into Canada.
>
> Here at the Beehive Collective, based in Machias, we have taken on  
> offering our facilities as staging grounds for the initial  
> gathering of walkers and volunteers that will begin arriving on the  
> 5th of May, to begin work on arranging the details of their launch  
> ceremony at Picture Rock, one of the most important Petroglyph  
> sites on the Eastern Seaboard, in collaboration with local  
> Passamaquoddy folks, on the morning of the 7th.  There is much to  
> do, in a short time, to make sure that the walkers are able to  
> maintain their energy and high spirits after this joyous launch....  
> I am writing you because we VERY MUCH need your assistance to not  
> only support this effort as it blesses us with its path, but also  
> to seize the opportunity for education and goosebumps that this  
> incredible STORY gifts to us.
>
> and so here's the rub:
> With all of our Bees already maxed out simultaneously touring all  
> over the country, and only three of us here in Machias presently,  
> we are straight up OVERWHELMED by this opportunity, and really do  
> need YOU to put a paw in on making sure this moment realizes it  
> potential. Because the Walk is beginning here in our hood (Wow!  
> Here! In Machias!), we would ideally like to focus our short-staff  
> of Bee love on that piece of the puzzle, full force. AND also focus  
> on another aspect of support to the larger continental effort that  
> we have initiated, a small poster that we whipped together over the  
> past week (wheeee! the First Draft is attached!), that we believe  
> will be enormously helpful to the fundraising and long-term  
> educational effort of this project.  This paragraph here is already  
> a BIG bite, and so, uhm, guys... you still reading?  can anyone  
> else throw down for other parts of Maine?
>
> SO, if you're getting this message, it's because we know you are a  
> stellar organizer and human and love the crap out of Maine, have a  
> soft spot for try-hards, and can prolly think of at least one (or  
> more!) shiny ways to be of assistance to this SUPER rad Grandmother  
> Cricket posse!
>  (if Grandmother Crickets don't make your heart sing just yet,  
> watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMM7vM7aiNI)
>
> Below is a list of the ways in which you can be of assistance.   
> Please give a shout back to let us know what you're thinking, and  
> so we can connect you with others that are putting in their  
> piece... If you'd like to connect with the main organizer for the  
> Eastern Direction, her name is Madeleine Huntjens, she's a  
> wonderfully friendly, capable, and presently WAY overworked soul,  
> and her email is madohuntjens at gmail.com.  She knows the whole  
> puzzle even better than us...  If you'd like to connect about the  
> Machias send-off, give a call to the Hive 207-669-4117.
>
> Thanks SO much for reading this!
>
> much love and solidarity,
> Kehben Grier
> for the bees at www.beehivecollective.org
>
> Here's the main things super needed right now:
>
> ---PROMOTION of the Story of the Walk to media outlets across the  
> state. Really. What a story!
>
> ---helping translate the MESSAGING that the Water Walk has  
> presently to appeal to ANYONE in Maine as something they should be  
> excited to know about, and make the effort to support. (we can send  
> you an email that has links to all the present press release,  
> articles, etc.)
>
> ---WALKERS and support DRIVERS to join in for any amount of time!   
> The Walk is done relay style, so those only able to do small  
> distances are welcome, and are able to rest in accompanying support  
> vehicles inbetween.  Women are needed specifically to help carry  
> the Water.  Men are needed to help carry the Eagle Staff,  
> especially on the Northwestern Maine (Bangor to Coborn Gore) leg of  
> the walk. Walkers can be non-indigenous... a VERY special  
> opportunity and honor!
>  ---PENNIES for the Support Mother Earth Water Walk penny drive!  
> (Larger donations, too! There's a super beautiful Pennies Poster,  
> we can send you the file.)
>
>  ---Help with POSTING posters (contact us for download links!)  
> around the state, especially along the areas in which the walk will  
> be passing through
>
>  ---Offering HOST SITES along the walking path. (There's a link to  
> the path at the bottom of this email.)
>
>  ---SUPPLIES, such as First Aid (especially foot oriented supplies  
> such as bandages, moleskin), Gas cards (to help refuel vehicles),  
> Food donations (especially quick snacks for eating while walking)
>
>  ---Help identifying safe clean WATER sources along the Water Walk  
> for when walkers need to refill their water supply
>
>  ---CHEERING ON by watching via the website/Water Walk GPS locator  
> for when the group will be passing through your area.  
> www.emptyglassforwater.ca
>
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> a couple more links for you:
>
> how to see more details of the poster we're making for the Walk:   
> http://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a. 
> 1973789909874.2121053.1396833804&l=bf8d62fcdf
>
> the walking route across Maine:  http://maps.google.com/maps? 
> f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Unknown+road&daddr=1+Elm+Street,+Machias,+ME 
> +to:44.64009,-67.63743+to:Mano+en+Mano+|+Hand+in+Hand,+Milbridge, 
> +Main+Street,+ME+to:44.53107,-68.36392+to:44.52805,-68.39173 
> +to:bangor,+me+to:44.80608,-68.90285+to:athens,+ME+to:stratton,+ME 
> +to:Coburn+Gore,+ME&geocode=Ffy5qQIdUdX7-w%3BFWpFqgId56_6- 
> ymXzmpc8s2oTDHBmRmGTaEXhQ%3BFVonqQIdSu_3-ynDvlLGOSuvTDH8Q67oYxYZSg% 
> 3BFQCPpwIdQTj0-yEpL2yfUCyIIw%3BFX59pwIdcNns- 
> yl1iwpGSO6uTDFV96YpHTUSjg%3BFbJxpwIdzmzs-ylBjueuIe6uTDEM0DLxE_u6KA% 
> 3BFZ6cqwIdqojm-ym9KREQRkuuTDF3dq-nsBgJTQ%3BFcCvqwIdPqDk- 
> ymNYrJtDDWuTDGQg8ce31zUKg%3BFep4rQIdguDY-ynrfLGwE8qxTDHAYHot04I--Q% 
> 3BFbe5sAId8fnM-ynVdvI55d-wTDFdDVz-MnC13A%3BFY9utAIdMaDH- 
> ylx8T0qoc6wTDHccfMYlbyF7w&hl=en&mra=dpe&mrsp=7&sz=12&via=2,4,5,7&dirfl 
> g=w&sll=44.837126,-68.940239&sspn=0.18819,0.328217&ie=UTF8&ll=45.26667 
> 1,-70.558662&spn=0.186782,0.328217&z=12
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