In November 2009, Mike gave a well-attended talk at the Memorial Union on the U Maine campus entitled Environmental Justice: Sharing the Burdens of Climate Change. Video of that talk has been available HERE.

In this post I am including from the archives an mp3 audio version of the talk and providing THIS LINK (.doc format) to Mike’s original text that was the basis for the talk & newly published chapter. Also, slides used in the talk are of this date still accessible HERE (pdf).

The previous post included the full-length keynote talk by Joseph Gerson. There is more information HERE.

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The first half of this WERU-broadcast version is part of the keynote given by Joseph Gerson of AFSC in New England. He is introduced first by Ilze Pertersons of the , then by Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.

Four additional speakers from the event then address a wide range of local activism on war & peace, environmental, labor, and foreign policy issues. They include:

• Mary Beth Sullivan of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space who discusses economic conversion of Bath Iron Works
• John Banks, Natural Resources Dir. of the Penobscot Nation on local environmental issues
• Steve Husson of Food AND Medicine in Brewer discussing Labor and the Employee Free Choice Act
• Professor Doug Allen of the University of Maine, who ties everything together.

Please also visit the marvelous audio archive site at WERU where you can listen to any WERU public affairs program in case you miss it over the air (or live outside the WERU signal range).

Two additional links that may be of interest are Bruce Gagnon’s excellent blog, Organizing Notes, and the Peace and Economic Security Program for the American Friends Service Committee in New England.