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DESCRIPTION:Challenging Corporate Control of Water\nNo! to Privatization, Yes! to 
 Community Control of Water\n \nDate: Tuesday, December 2, 2008\nTime: 7:00 
 – 9:30 PM\nVenue: Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission Street, San 
 Francisco\n\n \n\nOn December 2nd and 3rd, global corporations will meet in 
 San Francisco at a conference called “Corporate Water Footprinting: 
 Towards a Sustainable Water Strategy,” to discuss their use of water, and 
 ostensibly, outline water conservation strategies. \n \nA conference geared 
 towards sustainable use of water is indeed welcome, but having the largest 
 water abusers in charge is not. \n \nGiven the central role of 
 water-intensive companies in the conference – Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Nestlé 
 Waters, MillerCoors, Intel, Dean Foods, General Electric, ConAgra Foods – 
 and the glaring absence of perspectives from those without access to water 
 – it is clear that the conference is designed primarily to greenwash the 
 practices of these very companies that have, in many cases, led to water 
 scarcity and water contamination resulting in the denial of people’s 
 access to water.\n \nAccess to water is a fundamental human right. With 
 more than a billion people – about one in six – lacking access to safe 
 drinking water, it is imperative that the international community act 
 urgently to meet the growing challenge of providing access to water to 
 everyone.\n \nJoin us to challenge the corporate agenda of privatization of 
 water and place the focus on strengthening public institutions so that they 
 do what they are supposed to do – deliver a public good to the public at 
 large.\n \nSpeakers will include:\n \n• Maude Barlow, Blue Planet 
 Project, Council of Canadians, Special Advisor on Water to the United 
 Nations\n• Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food and Water Watch\n• 
 Caleen Sisk-Franco, Chief, Winnemum Wintu Tribe, Indigenous Environmental 
 Network\n• Amit Srivastava, Coordinator, International Campaign Against 
 Coca-Cola and India Resource Center\n \nSponsored by:  Blue Planet 
 Project/Council of Canadians, Food and Water Watch, India Resource Center, 
 Indigenous Environmental Network, International Campaign Against 
 Coca-Cola\n \nInitial endorsers include:  Alliance for Democracy, Center 
 for Political Education, Design Action, Environmental Justice Coalition for 
 Water, Global Exchange, Movement Generation, Institute for Agriculture and 
 Trade Policy, International Forum on Globalization, International Jewish 
 Anti-Zionist Network, International Rivers, Oakland Institute, Other 
 Worlds, People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights 
 (PODER), Ruckus Society, The Public Trust Alliance, Peoples Health 
 Movement.\n \nFor more info or to endorse, contact Jeff at 
 jconant@fwwatch.org or Amit at info@indiaresource.org\n \nSee our position 
 paper at 
 http://www.indiaresource.org/campaigns/coke/2008/challengecorporatecontrol.html\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/19/18552140.php
SUMMARY:Challenging Corporate Control of Water
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/19/18552140.php
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