Forwarded from Bjorn:
Dear all,
Before the meeting announcement, how about a VICTORY- HURRAY!!! After pulling an all-nighter, the Legislature has FULLY funded the Maine Trade, Jobs and Democract Act -- meaning that the Citizens Trade Policy Commission should be fully operative come August or September. Hurray!!! We heard over and over again that this bill would not, could not be funded -- but our meetings, phone calls, letters, trips to Augusta, and good energy did it!
Ok -- now for the meeting invitation from Dennis Chinoy --- (but first: if you are new and don't recognize names and terms - you are specially invited -- we need everyone's energy and ideas and questions as we start a new phase of this fair trade campaign). Ok, here we go:
Dear friends,
Is it time for all of us who this last year have taken part in PICA's work on trade to pause, celebrate, reflect, rethink?
It would be good to take stock of what's happened, of where we are now, and to talk about where we'd like to be headed at this new point.
Who? Folks on the original FTAA committee, the regional Maine Fair Trade Committee into which it morphed, the Reality Tour, Sister City Committee, and all of us "non-Committeed" who have an interest in continuing PICA's trade-related work.
How about Wednesday May 5, at 6:30 at PICA. Those who can might bring a snack and we can all chew things over.
Dennis
Jonathan Falk
RR 2, Box 7162
Carmel, ME 04419
(207)848-2433
