Maude Barlow

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Maude Victoria Barlow

Born May 24, 1947
Canada
Occupation author and activist
Known for The Council of Canadians, Food & Water Watch, World Future Council.

Maude Victoria Barlow (born May 24, 1947) 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 internationally for the right to water. She serves on the board of the San Francisco-based International Forum on Globalization, is chair of the board of Washington-based Food & Water Watch, and is a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. On October 21, 2008, she was named Senior Advisor on Water Issues by the President of the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann.

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[edit] Awards

Maude Barlow is the recipient of many educational awards and has received honorary doctorates from eight Canadian universities for her social justice work. She is the recipient of the “2005/2006 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship Award," the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (known as the "Alternative Nobel") for her global water justice work, and is the Citation of Lifetime Achievement winner of the 2008 Canadian Environment Awards. On June 3, 2009, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario.

[edit] Published works

[edit] Books: Principal author or co-author

Parcel of Rogues: How Free Trade Is Failing Canada – Key Porter Books, Toronto (1990)

[edit] Books: contributing author

  • The Silent Revolution: Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate - University of Ottawa Press, Ottawa (1990)
  • Trading Freedom: How Free Trade Affect our Lives, Work, and Environment - Institute for Policy Studies, Washington (1992)
  • The American Review of Canadian Studies - Twentieth Anniversary Issue of The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, Washington (1992)
  • Crossing the Line: Canada and Free Trade With Mexico- New Star Publications, Vancouver (1992)
  • The Charlottetown Accord, the Referendum, and the Future of Canada - University of Toronto Press, Toronto (1993)
  • The Trojan Horse: Alberta and the Future of Canada - Black Rose Books, Edmonton (1995)
  • The Case Against the Global Economy - Sierra Club Books, New York (1996)
  • Globalization and the Live Performing Arts, Conference Papers - Monash University, Melbourne (2001)
  • Alternatives to Economic Globalization, a Report of the International Forum on Globalization - Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco (2002)
  • Whose Water Is It? The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water-Hungry World - Edited by Bernadette McDonald and Douglas Jehl, National Geographic, Washington (2003)
  • Meeting the Global Challenge: Competitive Position and Strategic Response - BMA Program, Edited by Tom Wesson, York University Press, Toronto (2004)
  • Globalization, Human Rights & Citizenship, An Anthology From the Gannett Lecture Series - Rochester Institute of Technology, Edited by Robert Manning – trade paperback (2005)

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[edit] Film

Barlow stars in the feature documentary Blue Gold: World Water Wars by Sam Bozzo.

Barlow is featured in Irena Salina's feature documentary Flow: For Love of Water.

Barlow is the subject of a National Film Board of Canada documentary Democracy à la Maude as well as a CBC TV Life and Times biography.

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