Maude Barlow

National Chairperson, Council of Canadians, Co-founder, Blue Planet Project, Director, International Forum on Globalization

Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest citizen’s advocacy organization with members and chapters across Canada as well as the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works to stop commodification of the world’s water. She is also a Director with the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco based research and education institution opposed to economic globalization. Maude is the recipient of numerous educational awards and has received honorary doctorates from six Canadian universities for her social justice work as well as the recipient of the “2005/2006 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship”. Most recently she received the prestigious “2005 Right Livelihood Award” given by the Swedish Parliament and widely referred to as “The Alternative Nobel.”

Maude Barlow is the best-selling author or co-author of fifteen books. Her most recent publications are 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. Currently, Maude is writing a book on the global fight for the right to water, entitled Blue Covenant.

She was the high profile Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity for the City of Ottawa and served as Senior Advisor on Women's Issues to former Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau. She worked as a volunteer on a landmark human rights challenge at the Kingston Prison for Women, established the Ottawa Task Force on Wife Assault and led a national coalition against violent pornography on television. She has spoken to hundreds of conferences on the connection between human rights, social structures and the erosion of equality in the face of growing corporate control of our social, environmental and political lives.

Topics:

Water privatization issues (national and international)
Health care
Canada-US relations
Trade (NAFTA, TWO)
Globalization
Women’s Issues
Education
…and others on request

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Maude Barlow

National Chairperson, Council of Canadians, Co-founder, Blue Planet Project, Director, International Forum on Globalization

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