This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Act Out! [164] - Military Industrial Preschools, Corporate Slapps & Three Sisters vs. A Pipeline
The war machine is now branching out – into early childhood education. Meanwhile, Coke's bogus greenwashing, and how corporations use courts to SLAPP down their opponents.
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Act Out! [64] — Forgotten Stories of Poisoned Water, Greedy Monsters & A Global Race to the Bottom
Some of the biggest issues facing our country are forgotten once the cameras switch off, but our ADD news cycle only makes us more vulnerable to repeat disasters like the Flint water crisis.
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There’s Nothing Heroic about Stealing Water from the Commons
The case of a water hoarder in Oregon reveals a lot about the perils of viewing water as a private commodity.
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Justice Must Flow: Economic Democracy and the Water Commons
The water crisis has nothing to do with the actual availability of water – the culprit is local communities’ inability to control their wealth, their common resources and their institutions of lending and credit.
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Ebb and Flow of Privatized Water – From Buenos Aires to Atlanta, From Mozambique to France
Private water companies’ duty to their customers nearly always gets superseded by their duty to reward shareholders.
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Drought Dystopia: Are We Seeing the Prelude to the California Water Wars?
California is the only U.S. state that doesn't monitor groundwater thanks to the political clout wielded by corporate farming – but that may be changing as the drought creates sharp new divisions.
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E.U. Citizens Initiative Launches Water Rights onto European Agenda
Water and who should provide it – the public or private sector – has become the first issue pushed onto Brussels' policy agenda via a new mechanism, the E.U. Citizens' Initiative, meant to involve ordinary people in decision-making.
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Egypt and Ethiopia Spar Over Future of Water as Massive Dam Project Proceeds
While Ethiopia continues to move forward on the huge Renaissance Dam, Egypt is fighting back with legislation of its own to guarantee that its water share, arranged in colonial-era treaties, is not usurped by the construction project.
