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<i>Additional Cambridge Climate Change Week event of special
interest:</i><br>
<font size="6"><i><b>Witnesses of Climate Change</b></i></font>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal;" align="LEFT"> <font size="4">Tuesday, May 17, 2011<br>
7-8:30 pm<br>
Northwest Science Building, Harvard University<span
style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br>
52 Oxford St. </span></span></font>(<a
href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=The%20Laboratory%20at%20Harvard%20University%2C%2052%20Oxford%20St%2C%20Cambridge%20MA"
target="_blank">map</a>)<font size="4"><br>
Room B103 – Large Lecture Hall</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal;" align="LEFT"> <font size="4">Hear personal accounts of
how changes in weather and climate are already affecting people
around the world, with:</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal;" align="LEFT"> <font size="4"><i><b>Jack Hedin, farmer,
Minnesota </b></i>(live video connection)<br>
<i><b>Rachel Ordo Dan-Harry, aid worker, Kenya and Nigeria</b></i>
(live video connection)<br>
<i><b>Yvette Cissé, farmer and aid worker, Mali</b></i> (written
testimony) <br>
<i><b>Lekea Bornea, farmer, Ethiopia</b></i> (live video
connection) </font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="4">While scientists
investigate and political leaders procrastinate, people in many
regions of the globe are seeing changes in weather patterns and
local climate. Many of these changes are consistent with
scientific projections of the effects of global warming. Whether
or not the changes were </font><font size="4"><i>caused </i></font><font
size="4">by global warming, they are impacting people’s lives
and livelihoods. This evening of witness gives voice to these
impacts.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="4"><i>This event is part
of Cambridge Climate Change Week, May 13-21. Please also join
us for the Climate Week Kickoff: </i></font><font size="4"><i><b>Climate
Change: Is Green Consumption a Solution?</b></i></font><font
size="4"><b> </b></font><font size="4"><i>With </i></font><font
size="4"><i><b>Heather Rogers,</b></i></font><font size="4"><i>
author of </i></font><font size="4"><i><b>Green Gone Wrong</b></i></font><font
size="4"><i>. A Cambridge Forum event, introduced by Tim
Weiskel. </i></font><font size="4"><i><b>First Parish Church,
1446 Mass. Ave., Cambridge (Harvard Square)</b></i></font><font
size="4"><b> </b></font><font size="4"><a
href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=First%20Parish%20Church"
target="_blank">map</a> </font><font size="4"><i><b>Friday,
May 13, 7:30pm. </b></i></font><font size="4"><i><span
style="font-weight: normal;">Immediately preceded by </span></i></font><font
size="4"><i><b>6pm </b></i></font><font size="4"><i><span
style="font-weight: normal;">showing of film </span></i></font><font
size="4"><i><b>'The Water Front'</b></i></font><font size="4"><i><span
style="font-weight: normal;"> on water rights in Michigan,
by the First Parish Church Climate Justice Task Force.
Discussion led by Patricia Jones, UUSC Program Manager for
Environmental Justice. </span></i></font><font size="4"><i><b>At
First Parish Church, 3 Church St. entrance</b></i></font><font
size="4"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></i></font><font
size="4"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span
style="font-weight: normal;"><br>
</span></span></font><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font size="4"><span
style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">For
more
information about the entire Climate Change Week schedule of
events, visit <a
href="http://www.cceag.org/climateweekevents">http://www.cceag.org/climateweekevents</a>
</span></span></font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Witnesses of Climate Change is
organized by John Pitkin of the Cambridge Climate Emergency Action
Group with the assistance of the Unitarian Universalist Service
Committee, Oxfam America, Center for Human Rights &
Environment (CEDHA), Jack Hedin of Featherstone Farms, Harvard
University, and the Cambridge Community Foundation. </p>
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