| LC control no. | no2018144331 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Clarke, Tony, 1944- |
| See also | Founded corporate body of person: Polaris Institute |
| Associated country | Canada |
| Located | Chilliwack (B.C.) Ottawa (Ont.) |
| Birth date | 1944 |
| Field of activity | Social policy Globalization |
| Affiliation | Catholic Church. Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops Action Canada Network Polaris Institute |
| Profession or occupation | Political activists Nonprofit organizations--Employees |
| Special note | Formerly on undifferentiated name record: n 95080373 |
| Found in | Behind the mitre, 1995: title page (Tony Clarke) page 4 of cover (Dr. Tony Clarke; social policy advisor for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops; former chair of the Action Canada Network) MAI, 1997: title page (Tony Clarke) page 4 of cover (dir., Polaris Inst. of Canada and chair, committe on corporations, Internat'l Forum on Globalization) Liquid assets, 2001: cassette label (Tony Clarke) Alternative Radio website, March 30, 2015: Collections > Liquid assets (Tony Clarke is one of Canada's leading activists in resistance to globalization. He is the director of the Ottawa-based Polaris Institute) Wikipedia, March 30, 2015 (Tony Clarke (born 1944) is a Canadian activist. He grew up in Chilliwack, British Columbia, graduating from Chilliwack Senior Secondary School in 1962. He studied at the University of British Columbia and did graduate work at the University of Chicago, obtaining a PhD in the history of religion. After Chicago, he worked for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops for 21 years, serving as Director of Social Policy. Clarke was the chair of the Action Canada Network, a coalition of labor groups and activists to lead the battle against the 1987 Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement. As a result of his leadership role in the anti-free trade movement, Clarke was fired from the Conference of Bishops. In 1997 he formed the Polaris Institute and led the campaigns against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, and the World Trade Organization. As a result of his activist work, he and Maude Barlow were awarded the 2005 Right Livelihood Award) Right Livelihood website, March 30, 2015 (Tony Clarke; Tony Clarke, born in 1944, did graduate studies and earned his doctorate in social ethics at the University of Chicago in 1974; returned to Canada to work on the social justice programmes of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), where he became head of the social action department, and worked on a whole range of national and international social justice issues. In 1987 he chaired the Action Canada Network (ACN). In 1993 Clarke was dismissed from his position in the CCCB (due mainly to his high profile organizing against NAFTA), subsequently writing a book, Behind the Mitre. In 1997 he founded the Polaris Institute) Getting to zero, 2018: title page (Tony Clarke) back cover (lives in Ottawa, Ontario) |
| Equivalent(s) | Clarke, Tony, 1944- |
| National bib agency no. | 0072C6386E |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 95080373 |
| Quality code | nlc |
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