LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER! Great Lakes Toxic Hotspots: Organizing the Cleanup On this *Friday, June 12* citizen activists and experts will be convening to discuss how community action can lead to the clean up toxic contamination. Citizen action has been a cornerstone of the successes in cleaning-up and protecting the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River over the past century of the Boundary Waters Treaty's existence. As governments celebrate their successes under that Treaty and under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, we want to make sure that the central role of citizen activists is also recognized. This workshop focuses on the role that citizens have played and must continue to play. The workshop also looks at the challenges that we still confront and points us forward to the approaches that are necessary for future success. In this workshop we will learn from some of the organizing strategies that have been successfully used in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River basin. We will also spend time strategizing for our work together in the future. This event is open to everyone and will be beneficial to individual activists, environmentalists and conservationists, agency and government staff, academics and students. Register Today! Click here <http://www.glu.org/civicrm/event/register?id=3&reset=1> to register for this event, or visit www.glu.org/sharedwaters <http://www.glu.org/sharedwaters> to learn more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /This event is part of the Boundary Waters Week, in celebration of 100 years of shared waters protection. Learn more at //www.oursharedwaters.com <http://www.oursharedwaters.com>/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /This workshop is made possible with the support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation./ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now! <http://www.glu.org/civicrm/event/register?id=3&reset=1> Workshop Details *Date:* June 12, 2009 *Place:* Center for the Arts, University of New York at Buffalo *Cost:* $25 Agenda Highlights Presentation by *Peter Montague*, Environmental Research Foundation and editor of former Rachel's Environmental & Health News Luncheon Address by Dr. *Zafar Adeel*, Director United Nations University International Network on Water Remarks by *Michael Wilson*, Canadian Ambassador to the United States Opportunity to *strategize on clean up issues* and hear from *experienced activists* from across the region. Click here to view the full agenda <http://www.glu.org/sharedwaters/cleanup/program> Find out More For more information about this event contact John Jackson at jjackson at glu.org <mailto:jjackson at glu.org> or at 519-744-7503 Register Now! <http://www.glu.org/civicrm/event/register?id=3&reset=1> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/glin-announce/attachments/20090610/6439ca5d/attachment.html