<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Folks,</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 18px; "><B></B><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande">Just an update on the water conference </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" color="#3366ff" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande; color: #3366ff"><B>"Our Communities, Our Water: Connecting the Local and the Global" September 22-24, University of Massachusetts' Campus Center...</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 18px; "><B></B><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" color="#ff6600" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ff6600">Ray Rogers of the Killer Coke Campaign</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande"> will be speaking Friday evening, 7:00 p.m., at our opening Keynote and of course </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" color="#ff9900" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ff9900">Francis Moore Lappe</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande"> will be joining us for the keynote on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. Both of these events are open to the public.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 18px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande">Saturday will be a day of great speakers and workshops beginning with an 8:30 a.m. check-in. Sunday, beginning at 9:00, will be a day focused on building a regional support network.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 18px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande">Don't miss our Saturday evening social event at the Northampton Center for the Arts with Sneak Previews of two great movies </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" color="#800080" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande; color: #800080">"Water Warriors"</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande"> and </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" color="#993366" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande; color: #993366">"Water First"</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande"> followed by live music, with </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" color="#ff00ff" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ff00ff">The Reagan Babies </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande">and</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" color="#ff00ff" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ff00ff"> Rob Skelton and Pitchfork. </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande">Plus a dance performance from</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" color="#ff00ff" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande; color: #ff00ff"> RESISTDANCE</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 18px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande">Please forward to relevant list-serves that you are on and help the event go more smoothly by pre-registering at <A href="http://www.massglobalaction.org">www.massglobalaction.org</A>. You can also register using the form below. The latest conference schedule can also be viewed on-line.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 18px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande">Thanks,</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 18px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Jonathan Leavitt and Doug Renick of Mass Global Action</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 18px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Lucida Grande"><B> </B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Water Privatization: Global and Local Issues in the 21st Century</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Lucida Grande"><B>September 22-24, University of Massachusetts, Campus Center</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><B></B><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Workshops:</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Local Initiatives for a Human Right to Water</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Equitable access to sufficient, safe, affordable water (human right to water) is a key problem facing our communities, whether the water services are public or private. This workshop hopes to address the gap in the existing legal framework - neither Canada nor the US recognize the international obligation of the human right to water. Should communities establish local laws that will implement minimum rates for the "40-60 liters / day / person" right to water, a ban on water shutoffs, democratic participatory decision making for water rates (affordability), quality (safe water) within their utility? What might be effective strategies for a local initiative?</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><B></B><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Global Water Struggles: Communities Resist Worldwide against Corporate Water Grab</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">Hear about worldwide resistance to water privatization; from Cochabamba, Bolivia to<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Nicaragua, to India and beyond citizens are successfully fighting multi-national control of their water.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Can't Live Without It so the Fight is On! How grassroots social movements are claiming their right to land and water.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">Water and Land are resources that we all can't live without, but access to safe water and land to grow food is becoming increasingly unequal in our world today. In this interactive workshop, participants will look at the impact of global trade and neo-liberal policies on communities around the world and at examples of grassroots social movements in Haiti, the U.S., Brazil and Mexico organizing to regain control over these vital resources.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Water and Trade</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">How do trade agreements such as NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO agreements like GATS and other international trade agreements threaten the ability of communities to protect their water resources? How do they promote privatization of water/sewer services? What does it mean when the World Trade Organizations says that local regulations cannot be "more burdensome then necessary"?</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 15px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Myths of Privatization</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">What are the myths that corporations use to control the dialogue around privatization? Learn the tools for understanding these myths and effectively counter them with your own organizing.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Taking on the Soft drink Giants</B><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Learn about the International Coke Boycott and the ongoing work against both Pepsi and Nestle that is underway and how it connects directly to the issue of control of water as well as labor rights worldwide.</FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Pumping for Profit: Bottled and Bulk Water<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">A massive international marketing campaign by the big four beverage corporations to turn water into a designer food item is threatening the water supplies for communities' world-wide and undermining public confidence in municipal water systems. Find out what happens when a bottled water company comes to town and what you can do about it.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 15px; "><B></B><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Municipal Water Systems: Public Ownership, Private Ownership, and the Challenge of Public Private Partnerships.</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><B>Anatomy of a Winning Campaign</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">What happens when your local water system is put up for sale? Who controls the town's water? What can you do to challenge corporate control and keep your water supply locally owned and operated? In this workshop, we'll learn the basic tools for challenging water privatization in your community--from a seasoned community activist, a water workers' union president, and an experienced campaigner. Get ready to learn not only what, but how. From educating your neighbors to influencing local elected officials to talking with the media, learn from folks who have been there!</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 15px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Faith communities and water Roundtable</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">Water has been symbolic of life, blessings, spiritual cleansing in the writings and ceremonies of many faith communities throughout the world. Find out how some Faith communities are participating in a dialogue about protecting water. We will share stories about actions and programs in our faith communities in a roundtable format with help from several resource people who will serve as facilitators. We will inspire each other as seek collaborations.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 15px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Public Trust and the Commons</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">Does your state law say that the groundwater and surface waters of our state are held in the public trust. What does this mean for your community? How are these laws applied? What rules and legal principles govern them?</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 15px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Preserving and Promoting the Strengths of Public Systems</B> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>86% of Americans get their water from publicly owned and operated utilities and have for many years - so we must be doing something right. Yet, public funds for water infrastructure are less available than they once were, leaving more and more communities open to offers of privatization. In this workshop we will identify the old and new ways that citizens and water workers from Brazil to Washington, DC</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"> are ensuring universal access to clean and affordable water through public systems, including community control of public utilities, new strategies for accountability, sources for public financing, and strategies for more equity. Find out what you can do in your community to prevent privatization with positive alternatives for efficiently financing and managing water in the public interest.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><B></B><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>New Paradigm Organizing: Communities Just Say NO to Corporations</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Frustrated with regulations that let corporations pollute your community and planet? Some communities are taking a new approach to stop corporate predation and pollution in its tracks. Learn how communities in PA and NH are just saying NO.</FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Films that will be "Sneak Previewed"</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><B></B><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Water First</B> (Amy Hart) is an ongoing documentary film project about global water issues. The section shown at this event is set in Johannesburg South Africa where residents are protesting against the installation of pre-paid water meters. Many of the residents cannot afford to pay for water, much less to pay ahead. When they cannot pay, their water is shut off. Many residents claim their water was cut off despite the fact that they owe nothing. While the government official from the South African Department of Water And Forestry insists that the water is never cut off, since it goes against the constitutional rights of the people, we go into homes where the water has been shut off for over 3 months. In the streets, police threaten to shoot at the chanting crowd – but they stand strong and are willing to die for the sake of clean water.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Water Warriors</B> (Liz Miler) Water Warriors, is the story of one community's determination to fight the seemingly inevitable path of privatization. The film will capture up close the passionate and determined players in this dramatic conflict: seasoned community organizers, local workers, corporate managers pleading for efficiency; and local government officials, torn between state directives and citizens needs.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Highland<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Park,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>U.S.A. was once the center of a thriving car industry and the birthplace of Henry Ford's assembly line. Today the city is on the verge of financial and physical collapse and as a result is under a state take over. A team of corporate emergency managers have been appointed to get the city out of its financial crisis and to do this they have raised water rates, attached unpaid bills to property taxes, and are looking to privatize the community's remaining valuable resource - the water plant.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Lucida Grande">These measures have resulted in an unprecedented number of water shut offs and residents are at risk of losing their homes and their voice in what happens to this public resource. For the residents of Highland Park the threat of water privatization is simply the last straw, and an impetus to fight back.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Biographies of Presenters:</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Arnie Alpert, </B>New<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Hampshire Program Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization dedicated to social justice and peace. He has closely followed the impact of globalization and "free trade" agreements on labor and water since the mid-1990s, and has spoken and written extensively on the topics. He is a member of UNITE-HERE, and is also active in the NH Water Table, a statewide network which brings together grassroots activists fighting commodification of water.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Saulo Araujo</B> Global Program Assistant, Grassroots International has dedicated himself to working for the resource rights of rural and urban communities in Brazil, Mexico and the U.S. In his native country of Brazil, Saulo worked with rural communities in the arid northeast region to develop sustainable water sources and protect local genetic materials. He also worked with water management programs in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. In<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>New England, he has worked with environmental justice groups in inner city neighborhoods, supporting the work of residents to protect open and green spaces, food security and environmental health. Currently, Saulo is a member of the first class of the Environmental Leadership Program/Greater Boston Regional Network and a member of the grant-making committee of the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund (NEGEF). Saulo has a Master's Degree in International Development and Social Change from Clark University.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Ruth Caplan</B> is National Campaign Coordinator for the Alliance<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>for Democracy's Defending Water for Life Campaign which is organizing in the Northeast and on the West Coast to stop commodification and privatization of water and water services. In 2003, she helped organize the Water Allies Network, a diverse national network of people and groups who believe "secure and equitable access to clean water is a human right and must be protected for all generations and all living things." She is part of the global Our World Is Not For Sale network opposing the WTO and has written "Trading Away Our Water." Caplan also chairs the national Sierra Club's Water Privatization Task Force. Her history of activism includes helping to stop three nuclear plants on Lake Ontario and serving as Executive Director of Environmental Action which supported grassroots campaigns and named the Dirty Dozen members of the U.S. Congress. In 2004, she received the national Sierra Club's Special Service Award for her work on corporate accountability, international trade, water privatization, and energy policy.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Tony Clarke </B>is the founder and executive director of the Polaris Institute, which assists civil society organizations, both in Canada and internationally, to develop new capacities and tools for democratic social change in an age of corporate globalization. One of the main projects at the Institute has to do with water issues such as the privatization of water services, bottled water and bulk water exports. Through this project, Polaris works with citizens' groups, public service workers and social movements who are engaged in frontline struggles on these water issues in Canada, the United States , South Africa and India. Internationally, Tony has been a keynote and panel speaker at conferences on water issues in Europe, Africa<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>and Asia. He is the co-author [with Maude Barlow] of Blue Gold: The Corporate Theft of the World's Water [2002], which has been published in 40 countries. </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Art Cohen</B> was trained in public health as well as law, he has been working in public and environmental health for over 30 years. During the first half of the 1980's, he managed a county's public water and sewerage company in Southern Maryland. The company was responsible for providing potable water to and collecting and treating sewage from 35,000 households. More recently, he directed a local public health department in Southeastern Connecticut. He currently lives in Baltimore , Maryland and devotes much of his time to opposing water privatization, and working with many others on ways to improve public water supply and sanitation systems for low income persons living in the world's larger cities. </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Mike Esposito</B> is president of the Utility Workers Union of America Local 423, representing about 250 workers in New Jersey. The local is currently challenging rate increases proposed by New Jersey American Water, a subsidiary of Germany's RWE. Mike has worked at his local</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>water utility for 16 years.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Armando Flores</B> has a law degree from the University of El Salvador; in 1991 he becomes co-founder of the Committee for the Defense of the Consumer - CDC; in 1989 and 1990, he is the coordinator of the education program for the Federation of Consumer Cooperatives of El Salvador; between 1991 and 1995 he is Vice Director of CDC; in 1996 he is the Coordinator for the Consumers International for the Central American and the Caribbean region and has been the CDC Director since 1997.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Amy Hart</B> is a New York-based filmmaker. Currently she works on a production of a feature length film on water issues in Africa. In addition to indie filmmaking, she also produces three national TV series on public health issues for the University at Albany. Amy Hart worked at Miramax Films, Fine Line Features and New Line Cinema before starting her own film company, Hart Productions.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Patricia Jones </B>works as the Environmental Justice program manager at UUSC, More information available at: </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee">www.uusc.org/</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Susan Howatt</B> is the national water campaigner with the </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee">Council of Canadians</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">, the largest citizen watchdog group in Canada. Before joining the Council, she was the international campaigner with the Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam), a network that works with communities impacted by the mining industry in Indonesia. Susan was the cofounder of Unofficial Opposition, an umbrella group that advocated for social services in British Columbia. She has worked extensively in media and communications for anti-poverty, environmental and human rights groups in Vancouver and served as a human rights observer in<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Chiapas, Mexico. </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Karl Flecker is the Director of the Polaris Institute's</B> water program that includes managing campaigns like Inside the Bottle, a project dedicated to working with community coalitions to challenge the bottled water industry in North America. He has 20 + years experience in community and international development work with a strong focus on equity issues & labour issues. Karl has done research & campaign work for the Council Canadians -- Bovine Growth Hormone file, Canadian Labour Congress, & the David Suzuki Foundation.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Francis Moore Lappe</B></FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Lucida Grande"> </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">is the author or coauthor of fifteen books. Her 1971 three-million-copy bestseller, Diet for a Small Planet, continues to awaken readers to the human-made causes of hunger and the power of our everyday choices to create the world we want.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Her newly released </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee">Democracy's Edge</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"> has been widely praised. Historian Howard Zinn called the book "poetic and passionate," adding: "A small number of people in every generation are forerunners, in thought, action, spirit, who swerve past the barriers of greed and power to hold a torch high for the rest of us. Lappé is one of those."</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee">Democracy's Edge</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"> is the completion of a trilogy which began in 2002 with Hope's Edge, written with her daughter Anna Lappé. It is the 30th anniversary sequel to Lappé's first book. Jane Goodall said of Hope's Edge: "Absolutely one of the most important books as we enter the 21st century." Second in the trilogy is You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear, written with Jeffrey Perkins.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Frances and Anna Lappé lead the Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute, a collaborative network for research and popular education to bring democracy to life. Together they founded the Small Planet Fund which solicits and channels resources to democratic social movements, especially those featured in Hope's Edge.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">In 1975, with Joseph Collins Lappé launched the California-based Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First). Its publications continue to shape the international debate on the root causes of hunger and poverty. The Institute was described by The New York Times as one of the nation's "most respected food think tanks."</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">In 1990, Lappé co-founded the Center for Living Democracy, a ten-year initiative to help accelerate the spread of democratic innovations. Lappé served as founding editor of the Center's American News Service, which placed solutions-oriented news stories in almost 300 newspapers nationwide.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Lappé's books have been used in a broad array of courses in hundreds of colleges and universities and in more than 50 countries. Her articles and opinion pieces have appeared in publications as diverse as the New York Times, O Magazine and Christian Century. Her television and radio appearances have included PBS with Bill Moyers, the Today Show, CBS Radio, and National Public Radio. She is a contributing editor to </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee">Yes! Magazine</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">, a founding councilor of the </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee">World Future Council</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">, and sits on the advisory board to the </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee">Simple Living</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"> television series.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">Lappé is a sought after public speaker and has received 17 honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions. In 1987 in Sweden, Lappé became the fourth American to receive the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the "Alternative Nobel," for her "vision and work healing our planet and uplifting humanity."</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Jonathan Leavitt</B> has served as a Field Manager for </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee">Clean Water Action</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">, founded the Lawrence Grassroots Initiative, and served as its Executive Director for seven years, founded the </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee">Massachusetts Green Party</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"> in 1996 and served as its first staff person and then initiated and ran the </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee">Jill Stein for Governor</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"> campaign before leaving to run for State Representative as the Green Party's first ever Clean Elections candidate. After the campaign Jonathan founded the Massachusetts Anti-Corporate Clearinghouse, and in October of 2003 was brought in to coordinate the development and staffing for the </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee">Boston Social Forum</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">. He is a founder of Massachusetts Global Action and is currently consulting for the "Our Communities, Our Water" project.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Bill McCann</B> is a member of the Board of Directors of SOG. He is also Chair of SOG's Legislative and Governmental Issues Committee. He is a former six term State Legislator, serving two terms as Assistant Democratic Whip, and a retired SEIU Field Representative/Organizer. He was Chair of the School Board for six years [1974-1980] and also served two terms as Vice Chair. He has been responsible for drafting SOG's Pro Se Appeals to NH DES, the NH Water Council and the NH Wetlands Council. </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Jake Miller, </B>Communications Coordinator at Grassroots International, recently returned from a program visit to the northeast of Brazil, where he met with social movements and social change organizations workings on sustainable irrigation and agriculture projects and saw the social and ecological consequences of large-scale dams for irrigating agro-industrial plantations and hydro-electric power. Jake has been a student of Brazil for nearly 20 years and has lived in Salvador, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro . In addition to his work at Grassroots, Jake is a free-lance writer and photographer who has written and published his photographs in a variety of publications including the New York Times, Peacework, and Science. He writes about politics, culture and science. He has published more than 40 children's books on topics like the biology of spiders and lizards and the history of the U.S. civil rights movement. An avid birder, Jake is particularly interested in the ways that agro-ecology can benefit both human and natural worlds.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Liz Miller</B>, is an educator, community media artist, and director of social issue documentary films and new media. Her last documentary, Novela, Novela, has been integrated into high school curricula and used by international coalitions working against violence and defending the rights of women, children and glbt populations (</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee"><A href="http://www.redlizardmedia.com/novela/">http://www.redlizardmedia.com/novela/</A></FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"> or </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee"><A href="http://www.puntos.org.ni">http://www.puntos.org.ni</A></FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">). Her current film, Water Warriors is an hour long documentary on the battle for public water in Highland Park, Michigan is due for release in 2007. Miller teaches video production at Concordia University in<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Montreal. She is also a faculty advisor of "Cinema Politica," an international student network organizing a political film series across Canada, Mexico,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>France and the United</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>States.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Suren Moodliar</B> is a co-coordinator of the </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee">North American Alliance for Fair Employment</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"> (NAFFE). His organizing experiences range from the liberation struggle in South Africa and the divestment movement in the US , to campus and union organizing as well as managing international NGO networks and impacting international treaties. His formal education is in political science and regional planning with degrees from Indiana University<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>and the University of California,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Los<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Angeles. Suren played a major role in organizing the </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee">Boston Social Forum</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">--coordinating the program for the entire event, among many other things. He is a founder of Massachusetts Global Action.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Ward Morehouse</B>, of Northampton, is a co-founder of Shays2: Western Mass Committee on Corporations and Democracy as well as a co-founder of the Holyoke Citizens for Open Government, which has been challenging the privatization of that city's wastewater treatment system by a multi-national corporation for 2 ½ years. He was a co-founder in 1994 of </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#521d8a" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #521d8a">POCLAD</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"> (Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy). Many of his essays are included in the standard introductory book for POCLAD work, Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy. Morehouse is internationally known for his work struggling against the corporate assault on human rights and a co-founder of the International Coalition for Justice in Bhopal, India, working on behalf of the victims of the 1984 Union Carbide Corporation's chemical spill in that city. Morehouse has written or edited some 20 books, including Building Sustainable Communities, Abuse of Power: The Social Performance of Multinational Corporations, and The Underbelly of the U.S. Economy.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Nancy Munger</B> is a drummaker and boatbuilder living on Cape Cod (MA). She is a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, working on local water issues as well as being on the National Leadership team of WILPF's "Save the Water" campaign.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Timothy Newman</B> graduated in May 2006 from Clark University<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>in Worcester, Mass., where he majored in Sociology and International Development. At Clark, he helped found the Clark chapter of the Student Global AIDS Campaign, and helped launch the CAN Coke campaign, which is working to get Coke products off Clark's campus. He has done internships with Food & Water Watch, Africa Action and the National Society for Human Rights in Namibia.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Zandra Rice</B> is a national field organizer with Corporate Accountability International, an organization that protects people and the environment by challenging corporate abuses. A graduate of Gonzaga University, she has worked on electoral campaigns in Maine and New Hampshire, most notably as a State Deputy Communications Director with America Coming Together during the 2004 elections. She lives in Boston and campaigns to expose and challenge the</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ff" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ff"> </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">corporate control of water and to protect our fundamental human right to water.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Jessica Roach</B> is a Senior Organizer with the Water for All Campaign at Food & Water Watch. Prior to joining Food & Water Watch, Jessica worked as a Legislative Assistant for Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), where she specialized in trade and economic policy. Jessica has also campaigned with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, working to halt WTO meetings in Seattle in 1999. She holds an MA in International Studies from the American University, and a BA in Political Science from the University of Washington.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Ray Rogers</B> of the Killer Coke Campaign. <U>www.killercoke.org</U><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Annette Smith</B> is executive director of Vermonters for a Clean Environment, </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" color="#0000ee" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande; color: #0000ee">www.vce.org</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">, a grassroots organization based in Danby, Vermont.VCE grew out of opposition to a billion dollar energy project proposed for southwestern Vermont in 1999, and has continued under Annette's leadership to deal with issues of concern to Vermonters such as mining, pesticides, large farms, landfills, energy, safe drinking water and water rights.A graduate of Vassar College, Smith lives off the grid with solar panels on a small farm, hand milks a cow and grows her own food.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Claudia Torrelli</B> lives and works in Montevideo, Uruguay . She is an environmental and social activist and is on the staff of Global Labor Strategies and Redes (Friends of the Earth, Uruguay) which played a key role in the historic 2004 Uruguayan constitutional referendum campaign which banned water privatization and made water a fundamental human right under the Uruguayan constitution. She is also an activist in the Hemispheric Social Alliance, a network of civil society and labor organizations in Latin America, and a part of the Netherlands based Transnational Institute's Alternative Regionalism Program.. She holds a degree in International Relations from the University of Montevideo</FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Lucida Grande"> </FONT><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande">.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Lucida Grande"><B>Olivia Zink</B> is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Sustainable Living, and a graduate of Southern New Hampshire University with a master's degree in Community Economic Development. For the last five years she has volunteered with a grassroots community group called Save Our Groundwater (SOG), serving as a member of the Board of Directors and the NH Water Table. SOG have built and mobilized coalitions of individuals, organizations, and state and local officials who are interested in keeping water in the public trust. Olivia is currently working for Star Island , a non-profit in Portsmouth NH.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 16px; "><B></B><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Lucida Grande"><B>"Our Communities, Our Water" Registration Form:</B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 17px; "><B></B><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Lucida Grande">First Name ______________________________________________________________</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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