[Coral-List] Blue Vision Conference Announcement
DeeVon Quirolo
deevon at bellsouth.net
Thu May 20 14:12:28 EDT 2004
>>Hello Coral Listers: Please consider this an invitation for you to
>>attend a conference set for July 11--13 in Washington DC to organize
>>ocean activists. I hope that some of you will be interested in
>>attending. I am on the board of directors of the conference organizer, a
>>new ngo called Blue Frontier, and am interested in seeing local
>>community-based groups take this opportunity to network and learn how to
>>help build a stronger constituency for protecting our coral reefs and
>>oceans. The attendants at this conference will provide recommendations
>>for successfully implementing the recently-released Ocean Policy
>>Commission Report on America's oceans and other strategies. The
>>registration is only $100. All the best, DeeVon Quirolo, Executive
>>Director, Reef Relief
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>>FROM: INFO at BLUEFRONT.ORG
>>SUBJECT: BLUE VISION CONFERENCE
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>>THE NEXT WAVE OF ACTIVISM
>>BLUE VISION CONFERENCE
>>JULY 11- 13
>>WASHINGTON DC
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>>Fellow Watermen and Waterwomen,
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>> Common Sense Solutions to the cascading disasters now
>> confronting our seas and coastal communities do exist. But they need a
>> social movement to express themselves.
>>
>> The next step in building a Blue Movement will be to convene the
>> first-ever national conference of 250-300 leaders and activists from
>> ocean and coastal citizen groups. This Blue Vision Conference will take
>> place in Washington DC July 11-13. Although the lead-time is short,
>> the window of opportunity to act between the release of the draft
>> federal oceans commission report on April 20, and the fall presidential
>> campaign, impels us to act while the bait ball is tight.
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>> The 'Blue Vision' conference will begin unifying various blue
>> groups as a political constituency while also educating lawmakers on the
>> need for an American Oceans Act that, like the Clean Air and Clean Water
>> acts of the last century, can help protect, explore and restore
>> America's greatest public domain.
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>> Organizations planning to attend include Blue Frontier, The
>> Ocean Conservancy, Surfrider Foundation, Waterkeepers, Coast Alliance,
>> NRDC, Clean Beaches Council, Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd, Pacific Coast
>> Federation of Fishermens Associations, Restore America's Estuaries,
>> California Coastal Commission, Society for Conservation Biology,
>> Littoral Society, Clean Ocean Action, Environmental Defense, Legal
>> Seafoods, Reef Relief, Aquarium of the Pacific, National Aquarium,
>> National Coalition for Marine Conservation, Santa Monica Baykeeper, San
>> Diego Bay Council, Seaweb, Metcalf Institute for Marine and
>> Environmental Reporting, US PIRG, Assateague Coastal Trust, Gulf
>> Restoration Network, Marine Fish Conservation Network, Pacific
>> Environment, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, Turtle Island
>> Restoration Network, Oceana, Cook Inlet Keeper, Hawaii Audubon Society,
>> Save Our Shores, Project AWARE, Florida Oceanographic Society, and
>> perhaps you.
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>>For more information including the Conference Registration, Agenda, and
>>reservation information for Jury's Hotel check out the Conference website
>>at Bluevizmeet.com. Or contact David Helvarg at Blue Frontier Campaign
>>Helvarg at bluefront.org (202) 387-8030, Dawn Hamilton at Coast Alliance
>>dhamilton at coastalliance.org (202) 546-9554 or Reef Relief's DeeVon
>>Quirolo at info at reefrelief.org.
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