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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear friends, Happy Martin Luther King Day! Sun on Philo today, after the clouds parted last night for a magnificent view of the “blood moon” eclipse.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> This is a joyous note celebrating the day before my wife Barbara’s 70<sup>th</sup> birthday! She brings joy and love to me in a million ways.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> My writings on avoiding nuclear war have led to involvement in the first-ever UN workshop on nuclear electromagnetic pulse weapons and threat, at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference early May in New York. With Barbara’s techno-help and patient listening, I’ve been connecting John Hallam, a leader of the global nuclear peace movement, with a US Air Force major who held a big “Electromagnetic Pulse Task Force” meeting last fall and is eager to attend the workshop and call for an international ban on nuclear EMP weapons! Barbara and I are gearing up to attend, and accepting financial contributions to help us bring our peace work to the international stage in New York . I’m getting past my computerphobia somewhat, and am reading my email <a href="mailto:lewallen@mcn.org">lewallen@mcn.org</a> and answering the phone (707)895-2996.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> As the Mendocino Sea Vegetable Company, we’ll be offering seaweed walks and seminars on drying, storing, and cooking with wild seaweed, mostly from mid-May through the summer. Contact us to be notified of dates. We’re also inviting people interested in supplying us with seaweed locally harvested and dried to our high standards. Pay can be very good with proper training, which we’ll supply. After 38 annual seasons harvesting wild seaweed on the Mendocino Coast, we’ve decided to take a year off from harvesting for ourselves! Yet the ripening seaweed calls to me on a cellular level…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>Be of good cheer. All communities are moving together in love and support. Love, John Lewallen <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>