2008 Maine Water Symposium

Who Owns Maine's Water?

Saturday, March 29, 2008   ·  9:30 - 4:30 pm

Bates College   Lewiston, ME   (directions)

"Not One Without Water: The Global Fight for the Right to Water" Maude Barlow Author of Blue Covenant Audio file (11 min., mp3 format) Maude at the IFG "Triple Crisis" Teach-In, Sept. 2007

"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

Ed Friedman  "Maine's Rivers and the Public Trust"

Vera Francis  Passamaquoddy activist against an LNG terminal for the Pleasant Point Reservation.

Butch Phillips  Penobscot tribal elder will lead an opening ceremony and discuss the Penobscot River Restoration Project.

Alan Churchill  Teamsters Local 340 union representative for Public Water workers.

Voices from Fryeburg  Fryeburg residents fighting the incursion of Nestle/Poland Spring in their community.

Program Agenda

Registration Form

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Sponsored by the Alliance for Democracy

Co-sponsored by Maine AFL-CIO and Sierra Club of Maine.