The 3/24 Water Symposium will be rescheduled,
date TBD, but not until Fall
(Site suggestions most welcome!)

Two of our key speakers had to suddenly cancel, so we've postponed the Water Commons Symposium until the Fall. Please check back for updates, which will also be posted to our campaign listserv.

“Not One Without Water: The Global Fight for the Right to Water” Maude Barlow national chair of the Council of Canadians, co-author of Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop Corporate Theft of the World's Water and a leading international advocate on the right to water.

"Triumph of the Commons: How Maine's Lobstermen Built a Sustainable Fishery" Colin Woodard award-winning journalist and author of The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier

Claudia Torrelli of Friends of the Earth, Uruguay will share the inspirational
story of how a movement was built to drive the right to water into their constitution.

Penobscot tribal elder Butch Phillips will lead an opening ceremony.

Ed Friedman, Chair of Friends of Merrymeeting Bay will briefly highlight some of the bad actors along Maine's Rivers and make a case for why we should enact a formal Public Trust Doctrine encompassing these arteries.

Workshops include an interactive presentation by Nancy Price, Co-Chair of the Alliance for Democracy on the "Tapestry of the Commons" weaving the cultural & natural commons together.

Sponsored by the Alliance for Democracy

Co-sponsors:
• SEA-Change (Social and Environmental Activists for change) at UMaine Farmington
• Women's International League for Peace & Freedom-Maine Chapter
• Maine Council of Churches Environmental Justice Program
• Peace through Interamerican Community Action (PICA)
• Corporate Accountability International
• Portland League of Young Voters
• Friends of Merrymeeting Bay
• Maine Fair Trade Campaign
• Sierra Club-Maine Chapter
• Food and Water Watch
• Peace Action Maine

Interested in co-sponsoring?
Contact conference coordinator Kate Harris: kate"at"defendingwaterinmaine.org .