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DESCRIPTION:CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY INTERNATIONAL’S \nTHINK OUTSIDE THE BOTTLE 
 CAMPAIGN\n\nCorporate Accountability International is a membership 
 organization that wages campaigns to stop irresponsible and dangerous 
 corporate actions.  Founded in 1977 under the name “Infact,” we have 
 succeeded in forcing major concessions from transnational corporations such 
 as Nestlé, General Electric, and Phillip Morris/Altria. Building upon 30 
 years of successful grassroots organizing, we are campaigning to bring 
 global attention to the life-threatening abuses of the water industry.  
 \n\nBottled water corporations are changing the way that we all think about 
 water. A handful of corporations have identified water as a commodity and 
 are increasingly trying to take control of public water resources and 
 systems. Coke, Nestlé and Pepsi are among those, and are undermining 
 confidence in public water systems by making people think that the only 
 place to get clean safe water is in from a bottle. \n\nThe more water 
 becomes a high priced commodity – the “oil of the 21st century” – 
 the more public water sources and universal access to water become 
 threatened. For example, Coke’s Dasani and Pepsi’s Aquafina use tap 
 water as their source, but sell it back to us at thousands of times the 
 cost. Others like Nestlé, run roughshod over communities’ concerns and 
 damage the environment when they extract water and build bottling plants to 
 get local spring and ground water.\n\nAccess to water is in danger. One in 
 six people on earth don’t have access to enough water. That’s more than 
 one billion of us who don’t have enough water to drink, bathe and cook. 
 As a society, we need to be asking ourselves who is providing our water – 
 a basic human right? Will it be Coke, Pepsi and Nestlé – or will it be 
 our own towns and governments that are controlled democratically?\n\nWe 
 need to ensure that ALL people have equal access to clean public water and 
 that our water systems are supported and well-maintained. As a step toward 
 that, we are asking people across the country to Think Outside the Bottle 
 and make a commitment to public tap water instead.\n\nDo you care about 
 your right to water, and the rights of those in other countries? \n\nJoin 
 us for a kickoff meeting this Wednesday!\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/29/18450555.php
SUMMARY:Think Outside the Bottle - Challenge Corporate Control of Water!
LOCATION:Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts (formerly Alice Arts Center)\n1428 
 Alice St\nOakland, CA 94612
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/29/18450555.php
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