<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><b style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">FREE WORKSHOPS on MEASURE ʻSʼ</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;"><b>A COMMUNITY BILL OF RIGHTS ORDINANCE</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;"><b>THAT BANS FRACKING IN MENDOCINO COUNTY</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;">Conversation-based workshops to explore this Ordinance, which is on the November ballot, have been scheduled, for 2-3 hours each,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;">during October in Westport, Fort Bragg, Willits and Ukiah.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Helvetica;">They provide an opportunity for people to work and learn together.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">These conversations will enable people to have a more nuanced</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">understanding of the Ordinance, of Community Rights, and will</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">provide good quality information for coping with the controversies</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">that will arise toward the time of the election when advertising</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">against the Ordinance is likely to swamp the air waves and tilt</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">public opinion away from rational consideration of the issues.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">The workshop structure raises questions like: What exactly does</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">the Ordinance contain? How will it impact people personally? What</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">are Community Rights? What consequences might occur if the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Ordinance passes? Who decides that fracking can happen in</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Mendocino if the Ordinance does not pass?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Participants will be provided with a hard copy of the Ordinance text</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">accompanied by illustrative diagrams designed to aid understanding,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">remembering and sharing with others.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">The workshop has been designed, and will be presented by Willow</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Rain. Her background is in teaching and group facilitation. She has</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">studied Community Rights issues for several years and has</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">attended the formal training about Community Rights that is</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">provided by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">(<a href="http://CELDF.org">CELDF.org</a>).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><b>SCHEDULE OF WORKSHOPS</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Willits Library on Commercial</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">(not a library-sponsored event)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Wednesday October 8<span style="font-size: 8px;">th </span>at 6:30pm</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Westport School Building, east end of Abalone St. by the store</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Thursday October 9<span style="font-size: 8px;">th</span>, 6pm</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Fort Bragg Library, on Laurel St.</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">(not a library-sponsored event)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Tuesday October 14<span style="font-size: 8px;">th </span>at 6pm</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Mendocino Environmental Center, on Standley at State St., Ukiah</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Friday October 17<span style="font-size: 8px;">th </span>at 6:30pm</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Willits Library on Commercial</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">(not a library-sponsored event)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Saturday October 18<span style="font-size: 8px;">th </span>at 1pm</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><b><br></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Fort Bragg Library, on Laurel St.</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">(not a library-sponsored event)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><b>Tuesday October 21<span style="font-size: 8px;">st </span>at 6pm</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Mendocino Environmental Center, on Standley at State St., Ukiah</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">Thursday October 23<span style="font-size: 8px;">rd </span>at 6:30pm</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">There is no charge for these events</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;">WILLOW RAIN</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="mailto:peoplesvoices@yahoo.com">peoplesvoices@yahoo.com</a></div></body></html>