<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Kevin.<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 4, 2019, at 9:57 AM, Gregory C. Michalenko <<a href="mailto:gcmichalenko@uwaterloo.ca" class="">gcmichalenko@uwaterloo.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">I agre - let's support them. Are they interested in financial support too, or just solidarity and widening notification?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">- Greg</div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="" class=""><hr tabindex="-1" style="display: inline-block; width: 897.671875px;" class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Executive <<a href="mailto:executive-bounces@gren.ca" class="">executive-bounces@gren.ca</a>> on behalf of John Jackson <<a href="mailto:jjackson@web.ca" class="">jjackson@web.ca</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, October 4, 2019 6:55 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kevin Thomason<br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>GREN Executive<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [GREN-Exec] Invitation to co-sponsor a public event</font><div class=""> </div></div><div class="">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. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John</div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">On Oct 3, 2019, at 8:31 PM, Kevin Thomason <<a href="mailto:kevinthomason@mac.com" class="">kevinthomason@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi GREN Executive,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Kevin.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="">Mike Balkwill <<a href="mailto:mbalkwill@iasc.on.ca" class="">mbalkwill@iasc.on.ca</a>><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span class=""><b class="">invitation to co-sponsor a public event</b><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span class="">October 3, 2019 at 7:06:09 PM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px;"><span class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span class="">Laura <<a href="mailto:laura@divestwaterloo.ca" class="">laura@divestwaterloo.ca</a>>, Kevin Thomason <<a href="mailto:kevthomason@gmail.com" class="">kevthomason@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font size="4" class="">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.</font><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font size="4" class=""><span class=""><font face="Arial, sans-serif" class="">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 </font>Sau Laurenco<font face="Arial, sans-serif" class=""> Brazil. </font></span></font><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bernhard and Rene Lise Schmitt are leaders of Collectif Eau 88 - opposing Nestle in Vittel France.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4" class="">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).</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4" class="">The objectives of the public events are </font></div><ul class="" style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li class="" style="margin-left: 15px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">to build support for </span><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">WWW's</span><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> campaign for the Ontario government to stop issuing permits to take water for bottling to Nestle in Wellington County</span></span></li><li class="" style="margin-left: 15px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">to raise awareness of Nestle's water taking in other communities and demonstrate why Nestle can't be trusted to control access to water</span></span></li><li class="" style="margin-left: 15px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">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</span></li></ul><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4" class="">I am writing to ask if Divest Waterloo and Grand River Environmental Network will be co-sponsors of the Waterloo event (with </font><font size="4" class="">Renison University College and WWW. Co-sponsorship means endorsing the event (having our name on promotional materials) and promoting the event in your networks.</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font size="4" class="">Thank you for considering this request.</font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font size="4" class="">I hope you are well.</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">Mike Balkwill</div><div class="">Campaign Director,</div><div class="">Wellington Water Watchers<br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class="">416 806 2401<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">"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.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><br class="">-------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Kevin Thomason<br class=""><br class="">1115 Cedar Grove Road<br class="">Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2J 3Z4<br class=""><br class="">Phone: (519) 888-0519<br class="">Mobile Phone/WhatsApp: (519) 240-1648<br class="">Twitter: @kthomason<br class=""><a href="mailto:kevinthomason@mac.com" class="">E-mail: kevinthomason@mac.com</a><br class=""><br class="">-----------------------------------------</div></div></div><br class=""></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="">_______________________________________________</span><br class=""><span class="">Executive mailing list</span><br class=""><span class=""><a href="mailto:Executive@gren.ca" class="">Executive@gren.ca</a></span><br class=""><span class=""><a href="http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/executive_gren.ca" class="">http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/executive_gren.ca</a></span><br class=""></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Executive mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="mailto:Executive@gren.ca" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Executive@gren.ca</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/executive_gren.ca" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://gren.ca/mailman/listinfo/executive_gren.ca</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>