Maude Barlow

Maude Barlow

Maude Barlow (born May 24, 1947 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian publicist and activist .

Life

After activities in the feminist movement , in 1983 she became the Canadian Prime Minister's (then Pierre Trudeau ) first " adviser on women's issues" . Some time after a change of government, she gave up her job in government and in 1988 became chair of the left-wing Council of Canadians , Canada's largest civil rights movement . At the end of the 1990s, together with other forces in civil society, it campaigned against the multilateral investment agreement (MAI) planned by the OECD , which was also criticized by many developing countries as a new form of colonization. The OECD dropped the plan, but the WTO wants to achieve something similar with the GATS treaty package .

Another focus of her work is criticism of the Pan-American free trade agreement (except for Cuba ) FTAA . Here, too, she criticizes the fact that large corporations are favored over the population and small countries in non-transparent negotiations.

Barlow is also a board member of the International Forum on Globalization and co-founder of the Blue Planet Project environmental movement , which aims to protect drinking water from the "threats of trade and privatization."

She stepped next to Michael Moore u. a. in the 2003 Canadian documentary The Corporation .

Maude Barlow is second married to Andrew Davis in Ottawa . So far she has published about ten books on the subjects of globalization, privatization, education, media and environmental protection.

Fonts

Maude Barlow in India

• with Tony Clarke : MAI : The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the Threat to American Freedom. Foreword by Lori Wallach . Stoddart, Canada 1989, ISBN 0773759794 .
• The Last Frontier. 2001 (opposes the GATS ).
• with Tony Clarke: Blue Gold. The global business with water. Kunstmann, 2003, ISBN 3888973279 .
• The water commons. A good future needs good water for everyone . Act 83. thinkOya, 2013, ISBN 978-3-927369-78-8 .
• Blue future. House of Anansi Press, Toronto 2013. (German: Blue Future. The right to water and how we can protect it. Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-88897-975-0 .)

Awards and honors

• Honorary Doctorate from Memorial University
• Honorary Doctorate from the University of Victoria , British Columbia
• 2005: Right Livelihood Award together with Tony Clarke for her worldwide commitment to fair trade and the recognition of the fundamental right to water
• 2007: Appointment to the Council of the World Future Council

Web links

Commons : Maude Barlow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Maude Barlow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography on coolwomen.org (English)
• Short biography on the World Future Council website
• Water is common property, Suggestions for saving it , essay, Published in Commons - For a new policy beyond market and state , 2012
• Liquid commons , article in Oya 18/2013
• The water will run dry , interview in Migros magazine , September 16, 2013