Location TBA: An Evening with Maude Barlow
AFSCME Local 127 and Food & Water Watch present Maude Barlow, author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water, Joined by Joan Raymond, President, AFSCME Local 127, Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch, and Donald Cohen, Excutive Director, Center on Policy Initiatives
| What | Public event |
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2008-02-11 18:30
2008-02-11 20:30
2008-02-11 from 18:30 to 20:30 |
| Where | George L. Stevens Senior Community Center-Assembly Room, San Diego |
| Contact Phone | (619) 640-4939. |
| Attendees | Joan Raymond, President, AFSCME Local 127, Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch, Donald Cohen, Excutive Director, Center on Policy Initiatives |
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presented by
AFSCME Local 127 and Food & Water Watch
"Life requires access to clean water; to deny the right to water is to deny the right to life." —from the introduction to Blue Covenant
Renowned international water activist Maude Barlow will discuss her new book,
Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water.
along with
Joan Raymond, President, AFSCME Local 127
Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch
Donald Cohen, Executive Director, Center on Policy Initiatives
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When:
Monday, February 11
6:30 pm-8:30pm
Where:
George L. Stevens Senior Community Center-Assembly Room
570 So. 65th Street, San Diego
Speakers will discuss water privatization, managed competition, water access issues at the local, state, and national levels. Light refreshments will be provided.
Maude Barlow is the national chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada's largest citizens' advocacy organization with members and chapters across Canada. Maude Barlow is also the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project which works to stop commodification of the world's water. She serves on the boards of the International Forum on Globalization and Food and Water Watch and is a councilor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. In addition to being nominated for the "1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005" she is a recipient of the "2005/2006 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship" and the "2005 Right Livelihood Award". She is the best selling author or co-author of 16 books, including Too Close For Comfort: Canada's Future Within Fortress North America; and Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop Corporate Theft of the World's Water (with Tony Clarke), now published in 47 countries.
This is event is part of a national tour presented by Food & Water Watch. For more information, contact Erin Greefield at (202) 683-2500, news@fwwatch.org.
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