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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2">Please join us Thursday night and help spread the word:</font><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Think Global, Act Local</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A Community Climate Action
Roundtable</span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Thursday,
March 24, 6pm-8:00pm</span></b> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style=""> </span>Suffolk University, 73 Tremont Street, 1st
floor, Boston</span></p>
<p>All politics are local, according to the sages, but many problems are global
and hard to understand on the basis of lived evidence. How can we build a
strong, grassroots climate movement when climate change is still so far off
most people’s list of immediate concerns? And how can we end our nation’s fossil
fuel addiction without building a strong grassroots movement that pulls our
politicians out of the clutches of the carbon-ocracy?</p>
<p>Join BostonCAN and other area sustainability organizations as we discuss
stories of successful collaboration between community-based organizations and
national groups. Cindy Luppi from Clean Water Action will present on stopping
coal power in eastern Mass. And Mela Bush from Greater Four Corners Action
Coalition will present on improving mass transit in Dorchester.</p>
<p>We will have plenty of time for participants and representatives of other
national and neighborhood-based sustainability organizations (such as Bikes not
Bombs and Greenpeace) to discuss best practices for building effective partnerships
between neighborhood-based groups and larger organizations to bring the global issues
home and amplify grassroots voices.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Snacks provided. Free and
open to the public. Co-sponsored by Boston Climate Action Network and Suffolk
University’s Sustainability Committee and The Moakley Institute.</span></p>
<br>Loie Hayes<br>Boston Climate Action Network<br>http://BostonCAN.org<br>home/office 617-278-1885<br>cell 857-544-6846</body></html>