She collaborated over the years alongside union leaders including Bob White of the Canadian Auto Workers, and other Canadian nationalists in resisting “…the threat to Canada’s sovereignty represented by Brian Mulroney’s free trade flirtation with the United States “ (p. Barlow is an ardent feminist, and is described by the subtitle of one of her books (Barlow, 1998), as an “unrepentant Canadian” nationalist. She is the author or coauthor of at least twenty books, as well as dozens of reports and has been a keynote speaker at numerous conferences, including the World Social Forums in Porto Alegre and Mumbai. ix), noting her father was active in the early 60’s against the death penalty and capital punishment in Canada.
In that autobiography she writes, “I come from a family dedicated to social justice” (2022, p. For a description of Barlow’s decades of activism and social justice struggles on numerous fronts see The Fight of My Life: Confessions of an Unrepentant Canadian (1998) and her autobiography, Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism (2022). Maude Barlow has led a remarkable life engaging in a wide variety of social justice struggles and she continues to live an exceptional, fascinating, and exemplary life.
Diarrhea caused by contaminated water and poor sanitation kills a child under five every two minutes” (Barlow 2022, p. “Every day, more than two billion people around the world are forced to drink contaminated water. But, for many persons and communities clean water and sanitation can’t be taken for granted. to Cumberland B.C., I passed a hand painted sign with blue lettering nailed on a hydro pole exclaiming, “Water is Life!” We take water for granted: you turn on the tap, clean water flows out you turn on the shower or run a bath, clean water flows you do laundry, water your herb garden and flowerbeds and cook your meals with clean water. (Joy Harjo, from poem “For a Girl Becoming”)ĭriving recently from Courtenay B.C. Give a drink of water to all who ask, whether they be plant, /creature, human or helpful spirit / May you always have clean, fresh water
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