Book Launch: The Water Defenders

Friday, March 5, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Virtual

How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed by Robin Broad and John Cavanagh

In 2002, a small group of citizens in El Salvador joined this global community of water defenders when representatives from multinational mining company Pac Rim appeared in their home province of Cabañas. This ignited a people’s fight against corporate power that would last for over a decade. In this book, Broad and Cavanagh tell the harrowing, inspiring saga of El Salvador’s fight – and historical victory – to save their water, and their communities, from Big Gold. Their book generates lessons about how those concerned with environmental justice, public health, and democracy can work to transform the political structures that have impoverished and disenfranchised communities.

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Sponsored by: University of Pittsburgh's Global Studies Center,