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Oak Institute Lecture: Maude Barlow

Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Maude Barlow is the national chairperson of the Council of Canadians and she chairs Food & Water Watch’s board. She is also an executive member of the San Francisco-based International Forum on Globalization and a councilor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council. In this lecture, she will focus on her new book, Whose Water is […]

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Be Dammed: Art as Resistance to Environmental Destruction

Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

Carolina Caycedo is a London-born Colombian artist living in Los Angeles. She participates in movements of territorial resistance, solidarity economies, and housing as a human right. Her work contributes to the construction of environmental historical memory as a fundamental element for non-repetition of violence against human and non-human entities and generates a debate about the […]

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Venuste Kubwimana: Son of Genocide

Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, ME

After losing members of his family during the Rwandan genocide in 1994, Venuste was left to care for his younger siblings and often had to miss school to fetch water from distant clean water sources. Venuste’s experience inspired him to partner with a friend to form the International Transformation Foundation (ITF) – a nonprofit organization […]

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