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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">Newsletter editors,</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 19px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">Here are some calendar items for September (plus a few earlier and/or later). FEEL FREE TO PICK AND CHOOSE AND NOT USE EVERY ITEM.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">Larry Dansinger</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">August 23: David Cobb speaks on "Move to AMEND: End Corporate Personhood," 7 PM, Frontier Cafe, Brunswick. Rosie Tyler Paul, 371-2077. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 19px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">August 24: David Cobb speaks on "Move to AMEND: End Corporate Personhood," 7 PM, Ellsworth Public Library, Ellsworth. Bonnie Preston, 374-3636 or <a href="mailto:bonniepreston@earthlink.net"><font color="#1c00f0" style="color: #1c00f0"><u>bonniepreston@earthlink.net</u></font></a>.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">August 24-31: Ninth Annual Burdock Gathering (sustainable living, music, swimming, camping, diy workshops). Sonia, <a href="mailto:mamaspitfire@riseup.net"><font color="#3300f4" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 244); "><u>mamaspitfire@riseup.net</u></font></a> or <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/burdockgatheringmaine/"><font color="#3300f4" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 244); "><u>http://sites.google.com/site/burdockgatheringmaine/</u></font></a>. </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 19px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">August 25: David Cobb speaks on "Move to AMEND: End Corporate Personhood," 1 PM, Free Library, Belfast (contact Martha Goodale, 525-3532) and 7 PM, U-U Church, Rockland (Steve Burke, 691-0322).</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 19px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">August 25-29: National Veterans for Peace Convention, Holiday Inn by the Bay, downtown Portland. Maine Veterans for Peace, <a href="mailto:dudhe@myfairpoint.net"><font color="#3300f4" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 244); "><u>dudhe@myfairpoint.net</u></font></a> or <a href="http://vfpnationalconvention.org/"><font color="#3300f4" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 244); "><u>http://vfpnationalconvention.org</u></font></a>.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 19px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 19px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">August 26: Public program on "Lifting the Fog of War" w/Terry Tempest Williams and others in conjunction with Veterans for Peace Convention, 7 PM, First Parish Meetinghouse, 425 Congress St., Portland. Maine Veterans for Peace, <a href="mailto:dudhe@myfairpoint.net"><font color="#3300f4" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 244); "><u>dudhe@myfairpoint.net</u></font></a> or <a href="http://vfpnationalconvention.org/"><font color="#3300f4" style="color: rgb(51, 0, 244); "><u>http://vfpnationalconvention.org</u></font></a>.</font></div></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">August 26: David Cobb speaks on "Move to AMEND: End Corporate Personhood," 6:30 PM, U-U church, 60 School St., Saco. Tarik Sivonen, 229-3275 or Jacqui Deveneau, 284-3358 or <a href="mailto:jacquio50@yahoo.com"><font color="#1c00f0" style="color: rgb(28, 0, 240); "><u>jacquio50@yahoo.com</u></font></a>.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 19px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">August 29: David Cobb speaks on "Move to AMEND: End Corporate Personhood," 2 PM, Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St., Portland. Jacqui Deveneau, 284-3358.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">September 1: Showing of DVD featuring Ami Ayalon of Israeli navy, on ways to peace in the Middle East, 5:30 PM, Lecture Hall, Bangor Public Library. Joyce Schelling, J Street Eastern Maine, 944-4395 or <a href="mailto:jkschelling@gmail.com">jkschelling@gmail.com</a>. </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 19px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">September 5: Portsmouth Peace Treaty Day (promoting citizen diplomacy) observed in New Hampshire. Seacoast Peace Response, <a href="mailto:ddiam42@earthlink.net">ddiam42@earthlink.net</a> or <a href="http://www.portsmouthpeacetreaty.org/"><font color="#1c00f0" style="color: #1c00f0"><u>www.portsmouthpeacetreaty.org</u></font></a>.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 19px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">September 6: Music w/Bill Morrissey, art show, and local foods dinner to celebrate Labor Day, 4 PM, Solidarity Labor Center, 20 Ivers St., Brewer. Food AND Medicine, 989-5860 or <a href="mailto:martin@foodandmedicine.org">martin@foodandmedicine.org</a> or <a href="http://www.foodandmedicine.org/"><font color="#1c00f0" style="color: #1c00f0"><u>www.foodandmedicine.org</u></font></a>.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">September 10-12: Performances of "My Name is Rachel Corrie" and "Seven Jewish Children" as fundraiser for safe drinking water project in Gaza, 7:30 PM (10-11) and 3:30 PM (12), The Theater Project, 14 School St., Brunswick. Call 443-2899 for more info.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 19px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">September 16: Public Forum on "What Price Does Our Community Pay for the Military Budget?" presentations and community discussion, 7-9 PM, Frontier Cafe, Fort Andross, 14 Maine St., Brunswick. Mary Heath, <a href="mailto:imagine@gwi.net"><font color="#1c00f0" style="color: #1c00f0"><u>imagine@gwi.net</u></font></a> or call Selma, 725-7675.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 19px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">September 17-19: GROW (GrassRoots Organizing Workshops) weekend to help people become organizers or improve their skills, noon (Friday)-4 PM (Sunday), Tanglewood 4-H Camp, Lincolnville. Call Jacqui at 934-1911 or Iggy at 415-4458 or <a href="mailto:rosc@psouth.net">rosc@psouth.net</a> or <a href="http://resourcesfororganizing.org/"><font color="#1c00f0" style="color: #1c00f0"><u>http://resourcesfororganizing.org</u></font></a>.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">September 19: Garden Concert w/political troubadour Tom Neilson, 2-4 PM, Sternlieb's, 21 McKeen St., Brunswick. Call 443-9502 for details. </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 19px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 22px; "><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">September 24-26: Common Ground Country Fair, Crosby Brook Rd., Unity. Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Assn., 568-4142 or mofga@mofga.org or <a href="http://www.mofga.org">www.mofga.org</a>.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; ">October 1: Local action in support of national "One Nation: Working to Fund Jobs, Not War" event the following day, noon, Bangor. Details to be announced. Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine, 942-9343 or info@peacectr.org or <a href="http://www.peacectr.org">www.peacectr.org</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; ">October 2-9: Keep Space for Peace Week (international week of protest to stop the militarization of space) in Maine and around the country. Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power n Space, 443-9502 or globalnet@mindspring.com or <a href="http://www.space4peace.org">www.space4peace.org</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; ">October 6: "Maine Women's Gala and Auction: Bidding to Break the Glass Ceiling" w/dinner, music, auction, evening, Holiday Inn by the Bay, 87 Spring St., Portland. Maine Women's Policy Center, 622-0851 or info@mainewomen.org or <a href="http://www.mainewomenspolicycenter.org">www.mainewomenspolicycenter.org</a>. </span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; ">October 9: Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine's 21st annual Harvest Supper (potluck, awards, speaker), 6-8 PM, U-U church, 120 Park St., Bangor. This is preceded by the Center's ACT (Active Community Teach-in), featuring Jo Comerford of National Priorities Project. Call 942-9343 or <a href="mailto:info@peacectr.org">info@peacectr.org</a> for details on both events.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">NOTICES:</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">"Make Jobs, Not War" is the simple message of bumper stickers being distributed thru the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine. $2 or any donation will get you one or more of these black on white messages. For larger numbers or just to get one: Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine, 942-9343 or <a href="mailto:info@peacectr.org">info@peacectr.org</a>.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">The University of Maine's Women in Curriculum program has a lot of resources. They have a "bundle" of posters on gender roles and work, a second bundle of women in history (posters include Delores Huerta, Fannie Lou Hamer, Mother Jones, and Amelia Earhart), and a third bundle on "Lifelines--Stay in School" for teens and women trying to get an education despite various difficulties. You can get a list and choose individual posters or the whole bundle. Donations are welcome; you can pick them up or have them mailed. For a list and more information, email angela.hart@umit.maine.edu or <a href="http://www.umaine.edu/wic">www.umaine.edu/wic</a>.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">FEN (Forest Ecology Network) has a new DVD documentary on the Highland Mountains in west-central Maine to help the public see the land being proposed for an industrial wind power facility. According to FEN, "the Highland Mountain Industrial Wind proposal would cause irreversible ecological damage, result in no greenhouse gas reduction, create noise and visual pollution, decimate wildlife and habitat, and have a profound negative economic impact." For a copy of the documentary and more about the proposal: FEN, 628-6404 or <a href="mailto:fen@207me.com">fen@207me.com</a>.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">"Save the hopper, use a stopper" (with a picture of a frog) is the slogan on a box of condoms produced by the Center for Biological Diversity in Arizona. The point is that less birth control means more humans, and human impact on the planet is dangerous to frogs and other living beings. Similar boxes (2 condoms/box) have slogans of "Wrap with care, save the polar bear," "wear a condom now, save the spotted owl," "cover your tweedle, save the burying beetle," and "wear a jimmy hat, save the big cat." To get some of these special message condoms, contact Larry Dansinger, 525-7776 or <a href="mailto:rosc@psouth.net">rosc@psouth.net</a>. </span></font></div> </body></html>