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Dear John,
Happy New Year!
Just a few days in, 2024 has already been momentous: from enormous crowds gathering at the State House yesterday to advocate for gun safety reform, 1 to climate scientists warning that we could be on track to hit our hottest year in history. 2
As we head into a year that is certain to be full of changes that will inspire and challenge us, I hope to see you online for one or all of our January Lunch & Learns!
— Kathleen
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Friday, January 5, 12-1 PM: Communicating Climate Change & Dealing with Misinformation
The impacts of climate change have become increasingly clear in the past few decades. In spite of hard evidence about the effects that climate change has on people’s daily lives, misinformation about the reality and impact of climate change is still too common. What is mis- and disinformation? Why does it spread so quickly, and why are so many people quick to believe false claims about climate change? Join Judith E. Rosenbaum, Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Maine, to explore these questions and learn how to recognize and counter climate misinformation.
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Friday, January 12, 12-1 PM: “Intent to make them slaves:” Enslaved Africans in Maine and Their Resistance in the Mid-19th Century
Maine vessels, seamen, merchants, and investors were heavily engaged in the foreign illegal slave trade by the 1830s. In her fourth (!!) annual Lunch & Learn, Dr. Kate McMahon, of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, shares the stories of enslaved Africans brought to the United States by Mainers on the ship Transit (1838), brig Dunlap (1838), and brig Porpoise (1845). Join us to learn about the myriad of ways in which they navigated the complicated legal system of the U.S. while making their own freedom.
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Friday, January 19, 12-1 PM: Maine's Path to Zero-Emission Cars and Trucks
Maine’s 2021 Clean Transportation Roadmap called for the adoption of Advanced Clean Cars II standards to gradually ramp up adoption of zero-emission vehicles and reduce emissions from our most polluting sector . Three years later, the Bureau of Environmental Protection (BEP) is still debating the standards, which would be effective beginning in model year 2028 if we get them passed this year. With the standards and the BEP process in the news, join Josh Caldwell of the Natural Resources Council of Maine to learn how updated clean car and truck standards in Maine can improve your driving experience, benefit your health, and protect the environment.
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Friday, January 26, 12-1 PM: Lydia Maria Child: A Radical Model for Sustainable Activism
Lydia Maria Child was one of the nineteenth century's most radical reformers. Born in 1802, she renounced early fame as a novelist in order to devote her life to ending slavery and the racism that sustained it. Her fifty years of public activism included calls to her fellow citizens to resist the unchecked consumerism that allowed racial injustice to thrive. Across dozens of publications, she urged Americans to recognize self-sufficiency and respect for the natural world as crucial for democracy. Join Lydia Moland, author of Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life to learn how Child sustained decades of democratic activism in the face of ostracism, violence, apathy, and war, and to think together about how to use her example to sustain our own activism in our struggles for justice today.
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