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<i><b><br>
</b></i><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)<br>
<b>And more</b><br>
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<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. </i><span
style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>For
more
information about the entire Climate Change Week schedule
of events, visit </i><a
href="http://www.cceag.org/climateweekevents">http://www.cceag.org/climateweekevents</a>
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<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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