TAKE IT BACK!
A peoples’ vision of North America
The Council of Canadians' 22nd Annual General Meeting
The Coast Capri Hotel, Kelowna, British Columbia
October 26-28, 2007
Keynote speakers
Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest public advocacy organization, and the founder of the Blue Planet Project working internationally for the right to water. She serves on the boards of the International Forum on Globalization and Food and Water Watch and is a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. Maude is the recipient of six honorary doctorates as well as the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (known as the “Alternative Nobel”) and the best selling author or co-author of 16 books. Her latest are Too Close for Comfort: Canada’s Future within Fortress North America and Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water.
Wenonah Hauter is the executive director of Food and Water Watch in the United States. She has worked extensively on energy, food, water and environmental issues at the national, state and local level. Experienced in developing policy positions and legislative strategies, she is also a skilled and accomplished organizer, having lobbied and developed grassroots field strategy and action plans. From 1997 to 2005 she served as Director of Public Citizen’s Energy and Environment Program, which focused on water, food, and energy policy. From 1996 to 1997, she was Environmental Policy Director for Citizen Action, where she worked with the organization's 30 state-based groups. From 1989 to 1995 she was at the Union of Concerned Scientists where as a Senior Organizer, she coordinated broad-based, grassroots sustainable energy campaigns in several states. She has a M.S. in Applied Anthropology from the University of Maryland.
Claudia Campero Arena is a founding member of COMDA (Mexican Committee for Defense of Water Rights). She has been involved with numerous NGOS and campaigns to secure the right to water, including the first Blue October international day of action in 2006, and the second edition in 2007. Claudia is currently involved in the campaign to enshrine the right to water in the Mexican constitution. She holds a Masters in Urban Development Planning from the University College London, where her dissertation focused on water governance, conflict and social justice in Mexico City.
