Maude Barlow

Maude Barlow
2023
Born	Maude Victoria Barlow (1947-05-24)May 24, 1947 Toronto, Ontario,Canada
Occupation(s)	author and activist
Known for	The Council of Canadians,Food & Water Watch,World Future Council
Awards	Right Livelihood Award

Maude Victoria Barlow(born May 24, 1947) is a Canadian author and activist. She is a founding member and former board chair of the Council of Canadians, a 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 human right to water. Barlow chairs the board of Washington-basedFood & Water Watch,serves on the Board of Advisors to the Global Alliance on the Rights of Nature, was a founding member of the San Francisco–basedInternational Forum on Globalization,and was a Councillor with the Hamburg-basedWorld Future Council.She is the Chancellor ofBrescia University CollegeatWestern University.In 2008/2009, was Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rdPresident of the United Nations General Assembly.

She has authored and co-authored 20 books, includingWhose Water is it Anyway? Taking water protection into public handsandStill Hopeful, Lessons From a Lifetime of Activism.

Water policy

Barlow proposes theremunicipalizationof the water and sanitation services because "the public and communities lose control as local government officials abdicate control over a vital public service, private water companies are accountable to their shareholders, not to the people they serve and often restrict public access to information about their operations Because they have to make a profit, they have to cut corners, raise water rates or lay off workers - often all three."

Film

Barlow is in the feature documentary filmBlue Gold: World Water WarsbySam Bozzo.

Barlow is featured in two other recent documentaries aboutwater rightsissues:Irena Salina's documentaryFlow: For Love of Water,andLiz Marshall'sWater on the Table.Barlow also contributes to a blog associated withWater on the Table.

Barlow is the subject of aNational Film Board of CanadadocumentaryDemocracy à la Maudeas well as aCBC TVLife and Timesbiography.

Published works

Books: Principal author or co-author

• Parcel of Rogues: How Free Trade Is Failing Canada – Key Porter Books, Toronto (1990)
• Take Back the Nation (with Bruce Campbell) – Key Porter Books, Toronto (1992)
• Take Back the Nation 2 (with Bruce Campbell) – Key Porter Books, Toronto (1993)
• Class Warfare: The Assault on Canada's Schools (with Heather-Jane Robertson) – Key Porter Books, Toronto (1994)ISBN1-55013-559-7.
• Straight through the Heart: How the Liberals Abandoned the Just Society (with Bruce Campbell) – HarperCollins, Toronto (1995)ISBN0-00-638580-X.
• The Big Black Book: The Essential Views of Conrad and Barbara Amiel Black (with Jim Winter) – Stoddart, Toronto (1997)ISBN0-7737-5904-2.
• MAI: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty (withTony Clarke) – Stoddart (1997)ISBN0-7737-5946-8.
• MAI: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the Threat to American Freedom (with Tony Clarke) – Stoddart, Toronto (1998)
• The Fight of My Life: Confessions of an Unrepentant Canadian – HarperCollins, Toronto (1998)ISBN0-00-255761-4.
• MAI: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment Round 2; New Global and Internal Threats to Canadian Sovereignty (with Tony Clarke) – Stoddart, Toronto (1998)
• Frederick Street: Life and Death on Canada's Love Canal (with Elizabeth May) – HarperCollins, Toronto (2000)
• Global Showdown: How the New Activists Are Fighting Global Corporate Rule (with Tony Clarke) – Stoddart, Toronto (2001)ISBN0-7737-3264-0.
• Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water (with Tony Clarke) – Stoddart, Toronto (2002)ISBN0-7710-1086-9.
• Profit Is Not the Cure: A Citizen's Guide to Saving Medicare – McCelland & Stewart, Toronto (2002)ISBN0-7710-1084-2.
• Too Close For Comfort; Canada's Future Within Fortress North America – McClelland & Stewart, Toronto (2005)ISBN0-7710-1088-5.
• Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Fight for the Right to Water – McClelland & Stewart, Toronto (October 16, 2007)ISBN978-0-7710-1072-9.Also available in French, Arabic, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Greek, Turkish, and Spanish.
• Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever - House of Anansi, Inc., Toronto (September 2013)ISBN978-1-7708-9406-8(print version), 978-1-7708-9407-5 (e-book).
• Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada's Water Crisis - ECW Press, Toronto (September 2016)ISBN978-1-7704-1355-9(print version).
• Whose Water is it Anyway? Taking water protection into public hands. - ECW Press, Toronto (September 2019)ISBN177-0-4143-04(print version).
• Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism - ECW Press, Toronto (March 2022)ISBN9781770416321(print version).

Books: contributing author

• The Silent Revolution: Media, Democracy, and the Free Trade Debate.University of Ottawa Press, Ottawa. 1990.ISBN978-0776602967.
• 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)

Reports

• Blue Gold: The Global Water Crisis and the Commodification of the World’s Water Supply– International Forum on Globalization, San Francisco (June 1999)
  See also:Commodification of water
• The Free Trade Area of the Americas, The Threat to Social Programs, Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice – International Forum on Globalization, San Francisco (February 2001)
• The World Trade Organization and the Threat to Canada's Social Programs – The Council of Canadians, Ottawa (September 2001)
• Profit is not the Cure: A Call to Action on the Future of Health Care in Canada – The Council of Canadians, Ottawa (Winter 2002)
• Making the Links, A Citizen's Guide to the World Trade Organization and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (with Tony Clarke) – The Council of Canadians, Ottawa (Summer 2003)
• The Global Fight Against Privatization of Water – Annual Report, The World Forum on Alternatives, Geneva (April 2004)
• The Canada We Want, A Citizen's Alternative to Deep Integration – The Council of Canadians, Ottawa (March 2004)

See also

• Free trade debate

External links

• The Council of Canadians – Maude Barlow
• Blue Planet Project
• Maude Barlow Interview with Jeff Fleischer of Mother Jones
• Maude Barlow on the Need for Water Justice– video report byDemocracy Now!
• Video:Maude Barlow: "The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History"
• Video:Maude Barlow: "The Continued Destruction of the Earth Can Go on Quite Happily"
• Right Livelihood Award
• Huffington Post (Canada) – Maude Barlow
• WatchDemocracy à la Maudeat NFB.ca