Global water-rights activist and author Maude Barlow will be in DC at Busboys and Poets next Friday, to discuss her book, Blue Covenant.
When: Fri, Feb 29
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Where: Busboys and Poets (Langston Room)
2021 14th Street NW Washington, DC 20009
Book Event: Author Maude Barlow will sign and discuss "Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water" "Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water" by Maude Barlow. In their international bestseller Blue Gold, Maude Barlow and co-author Tony Clarke exposed how a handful of corporations are gaining ownership and control of the earth's dwindling water supply, depriving millions of people around the world of access to this most basic of resources and accelerating the onset of a global water crisis. Blue Covenant, the sequel to Blue Gold, describes a powerful response to this trend: the emergence of an international, grassroots-led movement .
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From Wikipedia: Maude Barlow is a Canadian author and activist. She is the national chairperson of The Council of Canadians, a progressive citizens’ advocacy organization with members and chapters across Canada. She is also 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; fellow with the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies; a board member of Food and Water Watch, the national US organization fighting for corporate and government accountability as it relates to food, water, and fishing; and a founding member of the European-based World Future Council.
Maude Barlow is the recipient of many 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”. In 2005 she received the prestigious Right Livelihood Award given by the Swedish Parliament and widely referred to as “The Alternative Nobel Prize.”
When: Fri, Feb 29
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Where: Busboys and Poets (Langston Room)
2021 14th Street NW Washington, DC 20009
Book Event: Author Maude Barlow will sign and discuss "Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water" "Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water" by Maude Barlow. In their international bestseller Blue Gold, Maude Barlow and co-author Tony Clarke exposed how a handful of corporations are gaining ownership and control of the earth's dwindling water supply, depriving millions of people around the world of access to this most basic of resources and accelerating the onset of a global water crisis. Blue Covenant, the sequel to Blue Gold, describes a powerful response to this trend: the emergence of an international, grassroots-led movement .
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From Wikipedia: Maude Barlow is a Canadian author and activist. She is the national chairperson of The Council of Canadians, a progressive citizens’ advocacy organization with members and chapters across Canada. She is also 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; fellow with the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies; a board member of Food and Water Watch, the national US organization fighting for corporate and government accountability as it relates to food, water, and fishing; and a founding member of the European-based World Future Council.
Maude Barlow is the recipient of many 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”. In 2005 she received the prestigious Right Livelihood Award given by the Swedish Parliament and widely referred to as “The Alternative Nobel Prize.”
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