Making a case for women’s stewardship
Contact:
Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, PAMR, 604.291.5151
Is a "women's perspective" still needed? Maude Barlow, head of The Council of Canadians, Canada's largest citizen advocacy organization with members and chapters across Canada, says yes.
She'll give Simon Fraser University's 2007 Margaret Lowe Benston free public lecture on Thursday, March 1, 7 pm at the Vancouver Public Library, 350 W. Georgia. Her topic will be Have We Won? - The Need for Canadian Women's Stewardship.
Barlow will argue that women need to take what they learned from the women's movement to tackle the major issues of our time: environmental devastation income inequality; extremism and ethnic violence, and global militarization.
Barlow is co-founder of the Blue Planet Project. Its goal is to stop commodification of the world's water. She is also director with the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco-based research and education institution opposed to economic globalization.
In 2005 she received the Alternative Nobel, Sweden's Right Livelihood award. A best-selling author, her most recent books 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).
Note to editors: Media are welcome to attend the lecture. During her visit Maude Barlow has very limited time available for interviews. Call Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, 604.291.5151.