The International Forum on Globalization, KPFA Radio 94.1 FM, Oakland Institute, Food & Water Watch, and Cody’s Books will present An Evening with Council of Canadians National Chairperson and Water Rights Activist Maude Barlow on "The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water"

The event will be presented by Jerry Mander, Co-Director, International Forum on Globalization, Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director, Oakland Institute and Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch

Wednesday, February 20, 7:30 pm
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
2345 Channing Way (at Dana), Berkeley

“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

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) or online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/27312

For more info contact International Forum on Globalization: 415-561-7650, ifg [at] ifg.org, or http://www.kpfa.org