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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt" align="left"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt" class=""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes" class=""><font color="#0000ff" size="2" class=""><strong class="">Please share with
your local lists</strong></font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt" align="left"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt" class=""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes" class=""><font style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt" class=""><strong class=""></strong></font></span></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal" class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt" class=""><span style="mso-spacerun: yes" class=""></span><font style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt" class="">Maine Peace Walk
– Militarization of the Seas</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal" class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt" class=""><font style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt" class="">Pentagon’s Impact on the Oceans</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal" class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt" class=""><font style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt" class="">October
9-24</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt" align="center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal" class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 19pt" class=""><font style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt" class="">Ellsworth, Maine to Portsmouth, New
Hampshire</font></span></b></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt;" class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class=""></span> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">The Pentagon has the largest carbon
footprint on our Mother Earth.<span class="">
</span>Waging endless war consumes massive amounts of fossil fuels and lays
waste to significant environmentally sensitive places on the planet –
particularly the oceans.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">The oceans are inhabited by a multitude
of different life forms, from microorganisms to whales, many of whom are able to
sense sound and use it to find food, navigate, communicate, and avoid predators.
Navy sonar blasts wreak havoc on these creatures, disrupting their lives,
leaving animals more susceptible to disease and lowered reproductive success,
and sometimes injuring and killing them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">Because Navy sonars are extremely loud,
depending on ocean conditions, that noise can travel at harmful levels for tens
or even hundreds of miles, impacting huge numbers of animals. By the Navy’s own
estimates, sonar noise can still be as high as 140 decibels 300 miles from the
source, a level that is a hundred times more intense than the level known to
result in behavioral changes in large whales. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">Some of these exercises will even take
place inside designated critical habitat for the already endangered right whale,
frequenter of Maine waters. In fact, the Navy is now constructing a 500 square
mile instrumented range off the coast of Georgia where it intends to conduct 470
sonar exercises annually - the Navy chose this site just offshore of the only
known calving grounds of the right whale! In March 2015 Navy sonar testing near
Guam led to the stranding of three beaked whales.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><b class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">Shipyard Impacts in
Maine</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">Pier-side testing of sonar occurs at
Bath Iron Works (BIW) and at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery which
results in significant fish kills. Navy off-shore weapons testing exercises puts
toxic chemicals and hazardous materials and waste into Maine’s marine
environment.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">The Kennebec River that BIW fronts is
often dredged in order to allow the deep hulled destroyers built there to get
into the ocean.<span class=""> </span>Dredging takes a
heavy toll on aquatic life.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has
caused serious pollution of the local environment. The shipyard is on an island
that the Pentagon considers as one of their facilities most vulnerable to
climate change, particularly their dry-dock facilities. Rising sea levels could
affect shipyard toxic waste sites which are now mostly right on the shoreline
and would seriously impact water quality and sea life.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><b class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">Ocean Acidification</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">Since the beginning of the industrial
revolution in the early 1800s, fossil fuel-powered machines have driven an
unprecedented burst of human industry and society. Ocean acidification is the
ongoing decrease in ocean pH caused by human fossil fuel emissions. Oceans
currently absorb approximately half of the CO2 produced by burning fossil fuel.
An estimated 30–40% of the carbon dioxide released by humans into the atmosphere
dissolves into oceans, rivers and lakes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><b class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">Arctic Militarization Due to Climate
Change</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">In early 2014 Maine’s Sen. Angus King
went on a nuclear submarine ride under the Arctic Sea ice which is now melting
due to climate change.<span class=""> </span>Admiral
Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations was on the sub and said, “In our
lifetime, what was [in effect] land and prohibitive to navigate or explore, is
becoming an ocean… We need to be sure that our sensors, weapons and people are
proficient in this part of the world,” so that we can “own the undersea domain
and get anywhere there.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">When Sen. King returned from the trip
he told his constituents that there has been "a 40% reduction in ice as a result
of global warming." He reported that "previously inaccessible" gas and oil
reserves were now going to create "new opportunities". King concluded, "I
am convinced we need to increase our capacity in the region, something I intend
to press upon my colleagues on the Armed Services Committee as we work on our
military priorities for the coming years."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">Rather than drill for more fossil fuels
in the Arctic, and create a new arms race in that environmentally sensitive
region, the US should be working to convert our military industries to build
offshore wind turbines, rail, solar and tidal power.<span class=""> </span>According to studies done by the
</span><a class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class=""><font color="#0563c1" class="">UMASS-Amherst
Economics Department</font></span></a><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class=""> shipyards in Bath and Portsmouth could
nearly double their number of jobs by building rail or wind turbines.<span class=""> </span>The Gulf of Maine has more wind power
generating potential than any other place in the US.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><b class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">Help Save Our Seas</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">If the seas die so do humans on Earth
and much of the wildlife.<span class=""> </span>Now is
the time to speak out for ending the massive military impacts on the world’s
oceans and for conversion of our fossil fuel dependent military industrial
complex to sustainable technologies. We will walk to bring attention to these
crucial issues.<span class=""> </span>Please help us
carry this message to the public by joining with us.</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 12pt; font-size: 18px;" class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class=""></span> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal" class=""><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class="">Maine Walk for Peace is sponsored
by:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes" class=""> </span>Maine Veterans for Peace;
PeaceWorks; CodePink Maine; Citizens Opposing Active Sonar Threats (COAST);
Peace Action Maine; Veterans for Peace Smedley Butler Brigade (Greater Boston);
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space; (List in formation)
</span></i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 8pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt" class=""><em class="">Contact: 207-443-9502 or
207-422-8273 <a href="mailto:globalnet@mindspring.com" class="">globalnet@mindspring.com</a>
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