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UPDATE: The Blue Planet Project and the World Social Forum
The Blue Planet Project (and the Council of Canadians) has been present at World Social Forum gatherings over the past twelve years. 2001 Blue Planet Project co-founder and Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow spoke at the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The keynote speech she presented can be read at http://www.docstoc.com/docs/42911653/Maude-Barlow-at-World-Social-Forum-Panel-on-Future. 2003…
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A global battle for water justice in the homeland of water privatization
Last weekend in Barcelona, the Council of Canadians participated in a gathering of more than 90 activists involved in planning the alternative world water forum (Forum Alternatif Mondial de l’Eau) to take place in Marseilles on March 14 to 17. The FAME is a counter summit taking in opposition to the 6th World Water Forum…