Book
Release Tour
Blue Covenant by Maude
Barlow
International Forum on Globalization, KPFA
Radio 94.1 FM, Oakland Institute, Food & Water Watch,
and Cody’s Books present
An Evening with Council of Canadians National Chairperson
and Water Rights Activist
Maude Barlow
author of
Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle
for the Right to Water
Introduced by
Jerry Mander, Co-Director of the International Forum on
Globalization
Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director of the Oakland Institute
Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water
Watch
Wednesday, February 20, 7:30 pm
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
2345 Channing Way (at Dana), Berkeley
Read
ottawacitizen.com's article about Maude and the coming water
shortage
“The global water crisis is one of the most serious
issues of our time. Maude Barlow is an outstanding leader
who has pioneered people's and nature's right to water for
the last decade. Blue Covenant will inspire civil society
movements around the world.” –Vandana
Shiva,
physicist, ecologist, activist, editor, and author of Biopiracy and Stolen Harvest
“Clean water is the bottom line of all bottom
lines—and Maude Barlow shows, with compelling reporting,
that we're about to go H2O-broke. But she's also a leader
of an emerging movement for water justice, one that is starting
to score victories in the desperate fight to keep a thirsty
planet slaked.” –Bill McKibben, author of Deep
Economy and The End of Nature
More praise for Blue Covenant
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.
Tickets: $10 advance, $13 door. Available
at independent bookstores (East Bay: Analog Books, Cody’s,
Black Oak, DIESEL, A Bookstore, Pegasus, Pendragon, Global
Exchange store, Walden Pond, Moe’s Books; San Francisco:
Modern Times) and online at www.kpfa.org/events.
For more information contact the International Forum on
Globalization:
415-561-7650, ifg @ ifg.org
Press Release from the Publisher |
