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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Peninsula Peace and Justice minutes for 03 03 2010</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">present: Peter, Judy, Carolyn, Betty, Steve</font></p> <ol> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Steve will contact the library to clarify a meeting room the first Wednesday of each month in 2010.</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Film series plans: 03 26 10 “Tapped,” a new documentary about global water corporate packaging and sales, by the makers of “Who Killed the Electric Car?” and 04 16 10 “Yes Men,” a new documentary about pranksters of misinformation and PR. </font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Peter is interested in anchoring a table at the Hope Festival in Orono on 04 24 10. Ideas for presentation include: demonstration and documentation materials on creating our “Peace on Earth” banners; a loose-leaf binder with posters Peter designed for films PPJ has shown; and a laptop slide show of PPJ history.</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Tom Whitney has appealed by email to PPJ for support of a proposed activist and informational group to be called “Maine Forum on Our America.” We agreed to confer by email in response to this proposal.</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Tom Whitney also announced to Peter that he’s working on arranging a speaking tour by Bob Brown on issues relating to Haiti. Peter facilitating contact between Tom and Betsy Botts, whose steel drum group is interested in arranging a benefit that can include a guest speaker.</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Peter floated an idea for a forum that could discuss health care reform issues in the summer or fall, possibly to be co-sponsored with another local organization. This forum might precede or follow a major bill addressing health care reform and comment in either case on possibilities and probabilities in response to the current situation. We discussed potential local and nationally recognized speakers who might participate in a panel on this topic. </font></li> </ol><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Next PPJ meeting will be Wednesday 04 07 10 in the library, downstairs in the Bass Room.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 15.0px Helvetica">--Steve Benson</font></div></div></body></html>