Be a Bold Advocate - to Protect Our Community! PLUS....USE METAPHOR + MESSAGE TO CREATE A POWERFUL POSTER

CLEAN WATER – Line 5 Events are coming up!

Update from 350 Wisconsin:

Over a half-year of diligent preparation is culminating this month and next as Line 5 legal activities are set to begin.https://midwestadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/Enbridge-DNR250002-Amended-PHC-Report.pdf

Contested Case Hearing Schedule – all events start at 9 am

Sept 15 – 19 in Ashland: Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa present their case. At the Northwood Technical College Conference Center, 600 N. 21st Street,

Sept 22 – 26 in Madison: Enbridge presents its case

Sept 29 – Oct 3 in Madison: DNR presents its case

To be held at the Hill Farms State Office Building, in Room S149, 4822 Madison Yards Way,

Public Participation

IN PERSON: Any member of the public may attend. Proceedings begin each day at 9:00 a.m.

VIRTUAL: The hearing may be observed by video and telephone via Microsoft Teams. To connect by video, use Teams on the web or the Teams app, then enter the Meeting ID: 247 227 844 895 and passcode: aK6Bt7Ye.

To connect by phone, dial 1-608-571-2209, and then enter the Meeting ID: 589 521 165# when prompted. For more information regarding the contested case and to view the public notice, take a look at this explainer by MEA. midwestadvocates.org https://midwestadvocates.org/judge-sets-schedule-for.../

Contact Mary Kay Baum - marykbaum@gmail.com

USING METAPHOR + MESSAGE

TO CREATE A POWERFUL POSTER

We can all help each other to make more dynamic posters that touch people’s hearts and inspire them. So we’re sharing our new poster, above, with you as an example of how to work with metaphors to spark bold action.

It’s a concept that helps you go deeper with your message. We couldn’t have made this poster without it. Mary Kay’s beautiful photos are meaningful because they remind us of how much Great Blue Herons mean to us. This is why we work to save creatures at risk.

While metaphors might seem a little complicated to work with at first, they impose a construct that compels us to think through what we want to write more carefully. The process of doing that, in turn, takes us further in our own thinking to create a poignant poster that will move others to become bold advocates. The herons are our metaphors, images representing care and protection for their communities. By analogy, we must fight for our own communities, and by implication, for our democracy.

HERE’S HOW YOU CAN DO IT

You can create your own posters from the concept of metaphors with your message. Just find or create an image that speaks to you and write to encourage others to become advocates for a cause you care about. We’re sharing our poster with you so you can reprint it as is, in color, for display in public gathering places like community buildings, places of worship, schools, whatever. Alternative wording can be briefer and more appropriate for xeroxing to make handouts for demonstrations and other resistance gatherings.

If you’re writing from another geographical area, instead of citing Enbridge in Wisconsin, you could name a high risk water disaster waiting to happen near where you live. You can use our poster with your own image and message, but please keep the photo credit for Mary Kay Baum. You can easily take this poster to make more prints at home on your printer, or send them to a local commercial photo printer or Snapfish.

This can be the beginning of a new approach to creating dynamic posters directed to local people who will feel there’s something they can do. Now. We hope to encourage you to explore and develop your own posters and share them widely, and to encourage still more people to show why they love Nature so much that they’ll sacrifice time and energy to protect it and reach out to others to do the same in their own way.

Please help us share our new poster with as many people as possible to encourage them to make more dynamic and meaningful posters. Send it forward to encourage others to use it in protests, and in public places. Help others so they can get ideas to develop their own posters. -- Mary Kay Baum (Board member of WNPJ marykbaum@gmail.com) and Ann Krooth

We're asking for feedback on your good work, using the poster. Please share with Mary Kay or at info@wnpj.org