<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6667px">All this week a provocative climate symposium is bringing leading voices on the climate crisis to the University of Montana.  The purpose is to trigger the critical thinking needed to address this grave threat to humanity.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">What: </span><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.freeusfromclimatechaos.org/" target="_blank">BRING YOUR OWN BRAIN: A Symposium to Free Us From Climate Chaos</a></span></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">When: <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">June 12th-16th</span></span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Where: University of Montana, Phyllis J. Washington School of Education</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Why: To use our brains, think critically about the crises we face, educate, and put an end to climate change and systemic injustice.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Who: Students from Big Sky High School</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px">Leading climate change voices such as Kate Raworth, George Monbiot, Henry Giroux, Bill McKibben, and Derrick Jensen will all be addressing the conference, some through electronic connections.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">~</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Make some time to participate in this rare opportunity as Big Sky High School students bravely grapple with the climate crisis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:init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