<div dir="ltr">Friends,<div><br></div><div>We regret this late announcement, but today's event with the CHICA Project has been postponed to Thursday, February 13, 2014. The change is due to a scheduling error on e5's part. We are grateful that the CHICA Project adjusted their schedule to our benefit.</div>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:italic;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">encuentro5</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> invites Boston’s </span><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/09/can-progressives-define-what-to-be-a-progressive-actually-means/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(0,102,204);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">progressive</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> and </span><a href="http://chriscoyier.net/2010/06/17/nonprofit/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(0,102,204);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">nonprofit</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> community and local progressive organizations to a series of </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Brown Bag Lunches</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> exploring the many facets of non-profit organizations and social justice, spreading networks, and encouraging collaboration.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Our </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial">upcoming</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold"> Brown Bag Lunch </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial">presentation</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> is next Thursday, October 24th at 1pm with the <u><b>Chica Project</b></u></span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">. We hope you'll join us! You can view our previous BBLS event with Renata Teodoro of the Student Immigrant Movement at <a href="http://live.encuentro5.org" target="_blank">live.encuentro5.org</a><br>
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Bi-Monthly presentations will be offered on the 2nd and 4th Thursday throughout the year. </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Each event lasts one hour: a 30 minute presentation and 30 minute
discussion/Q & A. </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Please visit our </span><a href="http://events.encuentro5.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">calendar</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> for the full listing of upcoming lunch presentations. Here is a quick preview:</span></p>
<div dir="ltr"><table style="border:medium none;border-collapse:collapse;width:624px"><colgroup><col width="121"><col width="151"><col width="*"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="min-height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px;text-align:center">
Date<br></td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px;text-align:center">Organization<br></td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px;text-align:center">
Description<br></td></tr><tr style="min-height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px"><br></td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px">
<br></td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px"><br></td></tr><tr style="min-height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align:center">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">10/24/2013</span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align:center"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Chica Project</span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align:justify"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Educating, employing and empowering Latinas ages 14-18 to succeed.</span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="min-height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align:center"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">11/14/2013</span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align:center"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Clean Water Action (with Green Justice Coalition) <br>
</span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align:justify"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Working through the Green Justice Coalition to protect the environment, health, economic well-being and community quality of life. Goals include clean, safe and affordable water; prevention of health threatening pollution; creation of environmentally safe jobs and businesses; and empowerment of people to make democracy work. </span></p>
</td></tr><tr style="min-height:0px"><td style="border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align:center"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">12/12/2013</span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align:center"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Color of Water Project</span></p>
</td><td style="border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);vertical-align:bottom;padding:0px 3px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt;text-align:justify"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Water is essential to life. Securing the human right to affordable and reliable water services for all Boston residents, in response to U.N. supported research that reveals discrepancies of access security in local neighborhoods of color. </span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">This series is a partnership between </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:italic;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">encuentro5</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> and other non-profits and community groups from the Greater Boston region. The aim is to serve as a resource to the progressive community, providing education and networking opportunities, and to advance the goals of the presenting organizations. As whole, the series aims to build greater cross-issue awareness and cooperation.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">All </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Brown Bag Lunch</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> events take place at </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:italic;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">encuentro5</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">: </span><a href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=9+Hamilton+Place,+Boston,+MA+02108&ll=42.356308,-71.061502&spn=0.002529,0.006099&hnear=9+Hamilton+Pl,+Boston,+Massachusetts+02108&gl=us&t=m&z=18" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(0,102,204);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">9 Hamilton Place, #2A, Boston, MA</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">. Unfortunately, e5’s current transitional location is not wheelchair accessible. However, events will also be live-streamed on </span><a href="http://live.encuentro5.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:underline;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">live.encuentro5.org</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> and conference calling will be available for remote participation. Please let us know ahead of time and we will be happy to arrange accommodations. </span><br>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">The <b>Brown Bag Lunch Series</b> is free to the public.
Guests are encouraged to bring their lunch; coffee/tea will be provided
by </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:italic;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">encuentro5</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Hope to see you at lunch!</span></p>
</div></div></div></div><div><div><p style="line-height:1.63636;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:11pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-style:normal;font-size:15px;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Sincerely,<br>
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