it has been ninged, facebooked, twittered and distributed via mailing lists <g><br><br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/8 José Carlos Mota <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcmota@ua.pt">jcmota@ua.pt</a>></span><br>
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<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family: Candara; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 11pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span title="Clique para obter traduções alternativas"><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Dear </font></span></span></span></span></span></span></font><font color="#000000" size="3"><span style="font-family: Candara; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 11pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span title="Clique para obter traduções alternativas"><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></span></span></span></span></span></font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family: Candara; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 11pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span title="Clique para obter traduções alternativas"><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"></font></span></span> <font size="3">Michel
Bauwens</font></span></span></span></span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family: Candara; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 11pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span title="Clique para obter traduções alternativas"><font size="3"><span style="text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: medium 'Times New Roman'; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><font face="Candara" size="2"></font></span></span></font> </span></span></span></span></font></div>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB">The civic project <i>'No economic recovery without cities [&
citizens]' </i>(*) </span></span><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB">is launch</span></span><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB">ing</span></span><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"> a challenge of creating</span></span><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"> a global </span></span><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB">list of
'blogs [or sites] of streets, neighbourhoods, villages or cities</span></span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB">’ <span>promoted by citizens or
groups of citizens that whish to think collectively</span></span><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"> about</span></span><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"> the future of the places they live and/or
work.</span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span title="Clique para obter traduções alternativas"><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span><font size="3">The initiative is developed under the spirit of
'</font></span></span><font size="3"><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB">2011 </span></span><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB">European Year of
Volunteering to promote more</span></span><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"> active citizenship’</span></span><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"> (<a href="http://europa.eu/volunteering/" target="_blank">http://europa.eu/volunteering/</a></span></span><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB">) and seeks to involve citizens and groups of
citizens worldwide</span></span><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Candara; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB">.</span></span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span>The </span><span>provisional list can be found here: </span><span><a href="http://noeconomicrecoverywithoutcities.blogs.sapo.pt/31893.html" target="_blank">http://noeconomicrecoverywithoutcities.blogs.sapo.pt/31893.html</a></span><span>.</span><br>
<span>We appreciate all the help
you can give in </span></span><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB">spreading </span></span><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB">the idea!</span></span></font></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3">Comments and suggestions to </font><a href="mailto:noeconomicrecovery@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font size="3">noeconomicrecovery@gmail.com</font></a></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"><font color="#333333" size="3">Best regards</font></span></span><span><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;" lang="EN-GB"><font color="#333333"></font></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><font size="3">José Carlos Mota</font></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><font size="3">email: </font><a href="mailto:josecarlosmota@gmail.com" target="_blank"><font size="3">josecarlosmota@gmail.com</font></a><font size="3"> & </font><a href="mailto:noeconomicrecovery@gmail.clom" target="_blank"><font size="3">noeconomicrecovery@gmail.clom</font></a><font size="3"> </font></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><i><font size="3">'NO ECONOMIC RECOVERY WITHOUT CITIES & CITIZENS' CIVIC
INITIATIVE</font></i></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">(*)</span></i></p><i><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">
<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal" align="left"><span style="font-family: Candara; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><font size="2">'NO ECONOMIC RECOVERY WITHOUT CITIES & CITIZENS' CIVIC INITIATIVE |
'MOVIMENTO CIDADES PELA RETOMA'</font></span></p>
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