<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello Everyone!<div><br></div><div>THE EVENT:</div><div>I will be facilitating and co-sponsoring an Open Space Event on December 13th at Vancouver Island University on the theme: <b>Addressing Global War and Hunger: Local Issues and Opportunities for supporting Peace and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b>Thriving for All. </b> The event is co-sponsored with the IPP Foundation--a small local foundation founded by health educators and professionals. They built, staff and supply a medical clinic in the Guate Highlands of Guatemala. </span></b></div><div><br></div><div>Attendance at the event will be by donation. Brown bag your lunch. Local businesses will supply coffee, tea, water, fruit and nuts. Local alternative media will sponsor advertising. A minimum of 50% of the proceeds will be donated to IPP Foundation. These funds will be used to support a Guate peasant farming family to offset the costs of expensive hip dysplasia surgery for their daughter.</div><div><br></div><div>During the season of "Peace on Earth" those who have passion and are willing to take some responsibility for acting to support peace and thriving for all will gather for a day of deep conversation, discernment, and action planning. If you are in green commuting distance, please join us (email me for more details). If you are carbon-prohibited from joining us in person, please join us in spirit and take up the challenge below:</div><div><br></div><div>THE CHALLENGE:</div><div>First, thank you Funda for asking the question initially. Second, thank you Ralph for the initial challenge. And NOW...to all of us on this list I issue a challenge: Join me in making Ralph eat pixels...and more importantly let's really show what we can do as a community. I challenge all of you to match me. Find a venue, find a sponsor, grab the theme as it makes sense to your community...host an event, get action happening, engage your community. And share it back here...and on the World Map. MIchael P., if we all get on this band wagon, will you help us by creating a special way of marking these events on the map? I am dreaming of seeing hundreds of little events all over the globe in December. I don't care if it's only for your family! Open some space for this question! Any space! Let's document # of events, # of people attending, $ raised for charities, actions initiated, reports generated. Let's demonstrate to ourselves and the world what OS can do if it really puts its two feet where its PR is.</div><div><br></div><div>Love and energy to you all,</div><div>Wendy</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>*
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