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Media Contact: Sabra Basler, 505-277-7590,
505-269-5550 sbasler@unm.edu

April 2, 2007

UNM Peace and Sustainability Fair

This Friday, April 6, 2007 at the Student Union Building (SUB) join several UNM Departments as they discuss peace and sustainability issues. The schedule follows below:

SUB Ballrooms - Indoors

11:00 A.M. Welcoming Statement followed by Keynote Speaker Demetria Martinez

12:00 – 1:30 Global Warming Panel Discussion

1:30 – 2:00 Hiroshima; Survivors of the Atom Bomb – Holly Siebert Kawakami
Marda Permaculture Farm in the West Bank of Palestine – Tami Brunk

2:00 – 3:30 Militarization Panel Discussion

3:30 – 4:00 African Drummers

4:00 – 5:30 New Mexico Carbon-neutral Food-shed Project Panel Discussion

5:30 – 6:00 Slam Poetry

6:00 – 7:00 Keynote Speaker Keith McHenry (cofounder of Food not Bombs)

Outdoors:

Sustainability Activities throughout the day

Veterans for PeaceDisplay – will be located by the Duckpond/Westside of Zimmerman Library.

Information and Display Tables will be located both in the SUB Ballrooms and outside around the sustainability activities. To reserve a table contact Susi: chknob@unm.edu or call (505) 277-4032.

For more information visit http://www.unm.edu/waytogo/sustainpeace.html

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