Other events include leadership workshops, student conference, panel discussion
One of Canada's most well-known social activists, Maude Barlow, will speak in War Memorial Hall Jan. 19 at 5:30 p.m. as part of Citizenship Awareness Month. Admission is free for students and $7 for faculty, staff and community members.
As the national chair of the Council of Canadians, Canada's largest citizens' advocacy organization, Barlow aims to safeguard social programs, promote economic justice, renew democracy, assert Canadian sovereignty, advance alternatives to corporate-style free trade and preserve the environment. She is a director with the International Forum on Globalization and co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, an international effort to protect the world's fresh water from the growing threats of trade and privatization.
In the 1980s, Barlow served as senior adviser on women's issues to then prime minister Pierre Trudeau. She also worked as a volunteer on a landmark human rights challenge of the Kingston Prison for Women, established the Ottawa Task Force on Wife Assault and led a national coalition against violent pornography on television.
Barlow is the author of 13 books, including Parcel of Rogues: How Free Trade is Failing Canada, Class Warfare: The Assault on Canada's Schools and Blue Gold: The Battle to Stop Corporate Theft of the World's Water.
The University will also mark Citizenship Awareness Month with workshops on leadership Jan. 18, 19 and 20 at 11:30 a.m. in Rooms 441 and 332 of the University Centre, a leadership conference for first-year students Jan. 22 and a panel discussion on women in leadership Jan. 26 at 11:30 a.m. in Room 441 of the University Centre.
On Jan. 28, “One World,” a multicultural celebration featuring members of several of U of G's cultural clubs, will be held in War Memorial Hall. Cost of admission is a donation for tsunami victims.
Citizenship Awareness Month will conclude Feb. 1 with a free breakfast at 8 a.m. in the Bullring.
For more information, visit the website www.studentlife.uoguelph.ca/citizenleader/explore/citizenship_month.htm.
