The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
Winner of the 2021 Duke University Juan Mendez AwardNamed one of The Progressive's "Favorite Books of 2021" and one of the "Best of Books 2021" by Foreign AffairsThe David and Goliath story of…
Specifikacia The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
Winner of the 2021 Duke University Juan Mendez AwardNamed one of The Progressive's "Favorite Books of 2021" and one of the "Best of Books 2021" by Foreign AffairsThe David and Goliath story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied together with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning the country's main water sourceAt a time when countless communities are resisting powerful corporations--from Flint, Michigan, to the Standing Rock Reservation, to Didipio in the Philippines, to the Gualcarque River in Honduras--The Water Defenders tells the inspirational story of a community that took on an international mining corporation at seemingly insurmountable odds and won not one but two historic victories.In the early 2000s, many people in El Salvador were at first excited by the prospect of jobs,
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