[GREN-Exec] Invitation to co-sponsor a public event

[Susan Koswan]

For sure we should support. I'd like to write a column on this too. The 
closest one I have to the date is published on Hallowe'en.

Susan K

On 10/4/2019 10:04 AM, Kevin Thomason wrote:
> My understanding is that they are seeking promotion and publicity - 
> hoping that we can spread the word about the event to our networks and 
> that we will try to attend to support it.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin.
>
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> Kevin Thomason
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> 1115 Cedar Grove Road
> Waterloo, Ontario Canada  N2J 3Z4
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>> On Oct 4, 2019, at 9:57 AM, Gregory C. Michalenko 
>> <gcmichalenko at uwaterloo.ca <mailto:gcmichalenko at uwaterloo.ca>> wrote:
>>
>> I agre - let's support them.  Are they interested in financial 
>> support too, or just solidarity and widening notification?
>> - Greg
>>
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>> *From:*Executive <executive-bounces at gren.ca 
>> <mailto:executive-bounces at gren.ca>> on behalf of John Jackson 
>> <jjackson at web.ca <mailto:jjackson at web.ca>>
>> *Sent:*Friday, October 4, 2019 6:55 AM
>> *To:*Kevin Thomason
>> *Cc:*GREN Executive
>> *Subject:*Re: [GREN-Exec] Invitation to co-sponsor a public event
>> I certainly support our cosponsoring the event. I am presuming that 
>> these are evening events. I wouldn’t want it to overlap with 
>> Remembrance Day events that morning.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Oct 3, 2019, at 8:31 PM, Kevin Thomason <kevinthomason at mac.com 
>> <mailto:kevinthomason at mac.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi GREN Executive,
>>>
>>> I have been contacted by the Wellington Water Watchers to see if we 
>>> would be interested in co-hosting an event in Waterloo with them. 
>>>  It sounds like it is already planned/organized and the main thing 
>>> they would be looking to us for is to promote it to our membership. 
>>>  Details are below.  Please share any ideas and advise on how I 
>>> should respond.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Kevin.
>>>
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>
>>>> *From: *Mike Balkwill <mbalkwill at iasc.on.ca 
>>>> <mailto:mbalkwill at iasc.on.ca>>
>>>> *Subject: **invitation to co-sponsor a public event*
>>>> *Date: *October 3, 2019 at 7:06:09 PM EDT
>>>> *To: *Laura <laura at divestwaterloo.ca 
>>>> <mailto:laura at divestwaterloo.ca>>, Kevin Thomason 
>>>> <kevthomason at gmail.com <mailto:kevthomason at gmail.com>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Laura and Kevin - WWW is hosting Franklin Frederick from 
>>>> Switzerland and Bernhard and Rene Lise Schmitt from Vittel France 
>>>> for a series of public speaking events Nov. 11 -14.
>>>>
>>>> Franklin Frederick is a  Brazilian writer and 
>>>> political/environmental activist living in Switzerland. He was part 
>>>> of the campaign to stop Nestle water taking in Sau Laurenco Brazil. 
>>>> Bernhard and Rene Lise Schmitt are leaders of Collectif Eau 88 - 
>>>> opposing Nestle in Vittel France.
>>>>
>>>> We are organizing events in Waterloo at Renison University College 
>>>> (Nov11); Toronto, Nov 12, Hamilton Nov 13 and Guelph Nov 14. At the 
>>>> Guelph event the panel will be joined by people representing 
>>>> organizations opposing Nestle in Maine, Florida, Michigan and 
>>>> Nigeria. (BTW the WWW AGM will be the afternoon of Saturday Nov. 16).
>>>>
>>>> The objectives of the public events are
>>>>
>>>>   * to build support for WWW's campaign for the Ontario government
>>>>     to stop issuing permits to take water for bottling to Nestle in
>>>>     Wellington County
>>>>   * to raise awareness of Nestle's water taking in other
>>>>     communities and demonstrate why Nestle can't be trusted to
>>>>     control access to water
>>>>   * to ask faith organizations to write to the national Swiss
>>>>     Churches and ask them to hold an international conference on
>>>>     the global impacts of Nestle's water taking
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am writing to ask if Divest Waterloo and Grand River 
>>>> Environmental Network will be co-sponsors of the Waterloo event 
>>>> (with Renison University College and WWW. Co-sponsorship means 
>>>> endorsing the event (having our name on promotional materials) and 
>>>> promoting the event in your networks.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for considering this request.
>>>>
>>>> I hope you are well.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>>
>>>> Mike Balkwill
>>>> Campaign Director,
>>>> Wellington Water Watchers
>>>> 416 806 2401
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the 
>>>> powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral". 
>>>> Paulo Freire.
>>>
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>>>
>>> Kevin Thomason
>>>
>>> 1115 Cedar Grove Road
>>> Waterloo, Ontario Canada  N2J 3Z4
>>>
>>> Phone: (519) 888-0519
>>> Mobile Phone/WhatsApp: (519) 240-1648
>>> Twitter: @kthomason
>>> E-mail: kevinthomason at mac.com <mailto:kevinthomason at mac.com>
>>>
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