The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved A Country from Corporate Greed - Book Talks

<p>“Water is an issue that can unite people. Water is life. Their slogans were always very powerfully pro water, less anti mining. And through that and their boldness and reaching out to unlikely allies, they were able to gather quite a force.”</p> <p>Overview</p> <p>Water is life. Countless communities across the world, from Flint, Michigan to the Standing Rock Reservation to the Gualcarque River in Honduras, have used this phrase as a rallying cry against powerful corporations that value profits over the environment and the health of local communities. 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 <a href='https://u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=TeZUXWpUv-2B6TCY38pVLo9sLQoyNnnjm5xtAFrzstbIWdWmGMp1RSnh-2FlQp-2BF5pYlYy-2Frkq2WK2crgLRs7dJs9g-3D-3DFnLs_r7ZoZcJgkGIGaLcmKOGjQY1S005AKXVSB67nx8VCEE98Meuy7NLaqVlrkaIlV3SJo5Wp3CZmz2hgfUAsuKZyNcImC26EgAcAuHfZ85W0O2Wk-2BM7cIfUIJ0sO1VFx2JD0Th0Y-2FXH9QtrqZgntnTVtH0uT7ALSs3Iqu5RXNCnIG14cMOcFJmBlD3Tk9mNAdT-2BfQAOJ8o9t0NjZ78sdpP6BgwtS8fXWjV2YnZUQ-2FkD7ClC3xQRofVa-2FiAoomsT3Md4aF84Dl4kNjbwUciYiCaXI0nfseQxhADmjEG4M9ib4Em5yywR-2FqtLaSUQuGOJRTz-2BCXycTKpmN8AFLLoBWIdT3wg-3D-3D'>The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved A Country from Corporate Greed</a>, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh tell the harrowing, inspiring saga of El Salvador’s fight – and historic victory – to save their water, and their communities, from Big Gold.   </p> <p>Based on over a decade of research and their own role as international allies of the community groups in El Salvador, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh unspool this untold story, replete with corporate greed; a transnational lawsuit at a secretive World Bank tribunal in Washington, DC; violent threats; murders; and, surprisingly, victory. The husband-and-wife duo immerses the reader in the lives of the