Santa Monica: 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 |
|---|---|
| When |
February 14, 2008, 07:00 PM
February 14, 2008, 08:45 PM
February 14, 2008 from 07:00 pm to 08:45 pm |
| Where | Santa Monica Public Library |
| Contact Name | Conner |
| Contact Email | connere@west.net |
| Contact Phone | 310-829-1229 #232 |
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presented by
The Southern California Watershed Alliance, The Desal Response Group, Dorothy Green, 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
- Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch,
- Conner Everts, Executive Director, Desal Response Group
- Dorothy Green, Founder, Heal the Bay and California Water Impact Network
- Tim Brick, Chairman of the Board, Metropolitan Water District
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When
Thursday, February 14
7:00 pm – 8:45 pm
Where
Santa Monica Public Library
2601 Main St
Santa Monica, CA 90405
(310) 392-3804
(Main St. and Ocean Park) Parking at meters near library and on street.
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.
For more information: Conner Everts, connere(at)west.net 310.829.1229 #232
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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