Santa Barbara: An Evening with Maude Barlow
Food & Water Watch presents Maude Barlow, author of "Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water" in Santa Barbara, CA on February 12, 2008.
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2008-02-12 14:30
2008-02-12 16:00
2008-02-12 from 14:30 to 16:00 |
| Where | University of California, Santa Barbara Room #1302 in the Marine Sciences Building |
| Contact Phone | (805) 969-0824 |
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"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
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When
Monday, February 12
2:30pm – 4:00pm
Where
University of California, Santa Barbara
Room #1302 in the Marine Sciences Building (next to Bren Hall)
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(at)fwwatch.org.
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