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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>Dear Friends, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'> A Reminder!</span></font><font
color=purple face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:purple'> </span></font><b><font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;font-weight:bold'>We need your
voice at the table!<br>
</span></font></b><font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:
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<?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/color><?/fontfamily><?smaller><b><?color><?param 0000,0000,FFFF><?bigger><span
style='font-weight:bold'><?/smaller>Western Mass Social Forum</span></b></span></font><b><font
color=purple face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:purple;font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><b><font color=navy
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;
font-weight:bold'>General Assembly Meeting<br>
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Sunday, December 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m.</span></font></b><b><font color=purple
face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:purple;
font-weight:bold'> </span></font></b><b><font color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;font-weight:bold'>El Mercado, <st1:address
w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">413 Main Street</st1:Street>, <st1:City w:st="on">Holyoke</st1:City></st1:address><br>
<br>
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face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'><?/smaller><?color><?param 0000,8080,0000>The
current Coordinating Committee is committed to an inclusive social forum,
including a planning process that involves the broadest possible representation
of people. We need everyone—individuals, leaders and members of grassroots
organizations, and communities up and down the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Pioneer</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>How can we insure that
the process leading to the social forum is inclusive? How can we expand on the
work of the social forum and carry it forward after the event? What are the
specific next steps that we need to take to move the process forward?</span></i></b>
This will be the focus of the meeting on December 10th. This meeting will be a
facilitated “open space” for dialogue and discussion. <br>
<br>
<?/color><?smaller><?/smaller><?fontfamily><?param Helvetica><?color><?param FFFF,0000,0000><?bigger><?bigger>We
need you to help make the forum a success!<br>
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<?/bigger><?/bigger><?/color><?/fontfamily><?smaller><?/smaller><?color><?param 9999,3333,0000>For
the Coordinating Committee: Susan Theberge, Doug Renick and Emily Kawano<br>
<br>
If you need a ride from <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Northampton</st1:place></st1:City>
contact Doug Renick <u><?color><?param 0000,0000,FFFF><?/color>renick.rinehart@comcast.net<?/color></u><?color><?param 9999,3333,0000>.
He’ll be leaving from the Peter Pan Bus Station at 6:00. From <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Amherst</st1:place></st1:City> contact Ellie Manire-Gatti <st1:PersonName
w:st="on"><u><?color><?param 0000,0000,FFFF><?/color>elliermg@comcast.net<?/color></u></st1:PersonName><?color><?param 9999,3333,0000>
. She’ll be leaving from in front of the CVS on <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">Pleasant Street</st1:address></st1:Street> at 6:00.<br>
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