<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><b>REMINDER:</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><b><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; ">Population Matters!</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><b> </b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">A</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#25497e" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(37, 73, 126); "> P</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">lanning and </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#25497e" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(37, 73, 126); ">A</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">ction </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#25497e" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(37, 73, 126); ">S</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">trategy meeting on creating a more stable, sustainable population in the US will be held on April </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#25497e" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(37, 73, 126); ">11</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">, 2011, from 5-6:30 pm at the Maine Equal Justice Partners Office, 126 Sewall St, Augusta, ME (across from the Maine State Library and Cross State Office Building)</font></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><b>Background</b>: This group (which is not connected with MEJP but is using their space to meet) has met several times in the last year and proposes to bring the problem of population growth into public consciousness, in Maine and the US, </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#25497e" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(37, 73, 126); ">which includes </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">the problem of high impact growth in the over-consuming nations like our own, and high population growth in distressed under-consuming regions.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Population has been off the table for progressives for a generation, but it is time to bring it back as a significant part of our ecological foot print, second only to our destructive life styles. Climate change is undermining our agricultural security and</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#25497e" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(37, 73, 126); "> our</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> ability to support the projected 2-3 billion more people we may have, conservatively, by 2050, and possibly also the almost 7 billion we already have. Our projected population growth will make it very hard to achieve goals of equity, peace and good lives for all people, and may bring us to much worse conditions..</font></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">If you are concerned about overpopulation, in this country and beyond, please come with your ideas, concerns and energy.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">(Note: Immigration as a population issue is not a priority of this group. It will not be a topic of discussion at the meeting)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><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="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND THE MEETING, PLEASE CONTACT BEEDY OR LARRY (below) BEFORE APRIL 11, SINCE WE WILL BE CREATING A STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND GOALS AT THE MEETING. THERE WILL LIKELY BE ONE OR MORE PROPOSED WORDINGS FOR THE PURPOSE/GOALS THAT ATTENDEES SHOULD READ BEFORE COMING. </span></font></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">For more information and for directions to the meeting, contact Beedy Parker, </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#25497e" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(37, 73, 126); ">(</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">236-8732</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#25497e" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(37, 73, 126); ">) <a href="mailto:beedyparker@gwi.net"><font color="#1e00ff" style="color: rgb(30, 0, 255); "><u>beedyparker@gwi.net</u></font></a></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">.</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#25497e" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(37, 73, 126); ">, or Larry Dansinger (525-7776)</font></div><p 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 16px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </font></p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div>
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