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Workshop: Clean up toxic pollution in your community

Great Lakes United is hosting a special workshop this June exploring the 
role of citizens in cleaning up toxic pollution across the region. 
Hosted in the midst of the the Boundary Waters Treaty celebrations, 
/Great Lake Toxic Hotspots: Organizing the Cleanup/, will provide the 
necessary historical and policy perspective while sharing effective, on 
the ground techniques to clean up pollution.

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/en/sharedwaters/register> to register for 
this event, or visit www.glu.org/sharedwaters 
<http://www.glu.org/sharedwaters%20> to learn more.
 

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/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>/

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/This workshop is made possible with the support of the Ontario Trillium 
Foundation./

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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/en/sharedwaters/register>

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