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DESCRIPTION:FREE FILMS ($5 suggested donation but no one turned away)     Sunday June 
 19th    7pm  Thirst- Documentary   Population growth, pollution, and 
 scarcity are turning water into "blue gold," the oil of the 21st century. 
 Global corporations are rushing to gain control of this dwindling natural 
 resource, producing intense conflict in the US and worldwide where people 
 are dying in battles over control of water.  As revealed in "Thirst," the 
 world is poised on the brink of epochal changes in how water is stored, 
 used, and valued. Will these changes provide clean water to the billions of 
 people who need it? Or save the child who dies every eight seconds from 
 contaminated water? Examining water conflicts on three continents, "Thirst" 
 shows that popular opposition to the privatization of water sparks 
 remarkable coalitions that cross partisan lines. When it comes to water, 
 many people demand local control and fear the arrival of multinational 
 corporations with large lobbying budgets and little local loyalty.  In many 
 ways, the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, India's Rajasthan state, and 
 Stockton, California, occupy very different rungs of the global economic 
 ladder. But in one respect at least, these communities are strikingly 
 similar. They each found themselves threatened with losing public control 
 of their water resources to multinational corporations. And they each 
 fought long odds in resisting the juggernaut of globalization, which is 
 driving the worldwide privatization of public resources, utilities, and 
 services.  Without narration, "Thirst" dramatically reveals this growing 
 storm through charismatic characters, tense confrontations, and cinema 
 vérité footage. In Kyoto, Japan, corporate leaders and citizen activists 
 assemble at the World Water Forum, the largest gathering of its kind, to 
 discuss what Mahmoud Abu-Zeid, President of the World Water Council, 
 describes as "one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century." In 
 Cochabamba, the third largest city in Bolivia, the World Bank presses the 
 government to grant exclusive rights to the city's water to an 
 international consortium led by Bechtel Corporation. When rates jumped 
 30-300%, people of all economic classes poured into the streets, crying, 
 "Basta! Enough!" The confrontation climaxed when a 17-year-old was killed 
 by a government sharpshooter.  Following film we will converse to discuss 
 the fight to change the world and create peace.  Delicious Vegan & 
 Vegetarian, Café Delicacies Available  Argus Film Series  Red Victorian 
 Peace Café  1665 Haight St @ Cole  San Francisco, CA 94117  Visit 
 Argusfest.org/sanfrancisco to learn more or to organize more local 
 screenings email below  Contact: sanfrancisco@argusfest.org  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/09/68773.php
SUMMARY:Thirst -- Documentary
LOCATION:Red Victorian Peace Café  1665 Haight St @ Cole  San Francisco, CA 94117  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/09/68773.php
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