May 6th and 7th, Traverse City, MI
A Great Lakes Community Gathering
SAVING THE GREAT LAKES FOREVER! OUR RESPONSIBILITY. OUR LEGACY
JOIN US this weekend for great movies, famous speakers, afterglows, breakout sessions, panels led by national and Great Lakes water experts.
May 6th (starting at 6:30pm)
FRIDAY NIGHT: The State Theater We are honored to present MAUDE BARLOW, well known international water advocate.* Hear her Call to Action “Our Great Lakes Commons: A People’s Plan to Protect the Great Lakes Forever.” We will also be showing the film “Tapped” add link to trailer and will honor our” Great Lakes Heroes,” with our Lighthouse Beacon Awards. JOIN US at the Park Place Hotel for an AFTERGLOW gathering to meet Maude, Wenonah Hunter and other great advocates from around the Great Lakes Basin. Enjoy music and lively afterglow conversation.
May 7th. (8:00 A.M. Registration)
SATURDAY MORNING: At Milliken Auditorium on the Campus of Northwestern Michigan College Today’s event is co-sponsored by NMC’s, Great Lakes Water Institute!
8:30 A.M. Welcome and Introductions
9:00 A.M. Opening Keynote address by Wenonah Hunter*, co-founder of Food and Water Watch, Washington, D .C.
9:40 A.M. Break out Sessions I and II lead by Great Lakes Experts
- The Abuses Facing the Great Lakes.
- See the Premier of “Crossing the Line”
- Privatization and Diversion Issues Facing the Great Lakes
- The Public Trust Doctrine. How does it protect you, me, farmers, businesses, First Nations, and the Great Lakes themselves.
12:00 P. M. Expert’s Roundtable: Solutions to Save the Great Lakes Forever! 1:15 P. M. Q & A 1:30 P.M Press Interviews
* Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch. She is also an executive member of the San Francisco–based International Forum on Globalization and a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. Maude is the recipient of ten honorary doctorates as well as many awards, including the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (known as the “Alternative Nobel”), the Citation of Lifetime Achievement at the 2008 Canadian Environment Awards, and the 2009 Earth Day Canada Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award. In 2008/2009, she served as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly. She is also the best selling author or co-author of 16 books, including the international best seller Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and The Coming Battle for the Right to Water. Maude is also well known as a major force in passage of the 2010 United Nations Resolution recognizing the right of access to fresh water for all human beings!
* Wenonah Hunter is the Executive Director of Food & Water Watch. 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‚ 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 an M.S. in Applied Anthropology from the University of Maryland.