[Upd-discuss] "Thirst" documentary on water privatization

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

>From the MLS program list, SUNY Buffalo, NY.

Water, health, education, information, knowledge, books, libraries,
etc....
you name them...
are they meant to be human rights within the public domain
or commodities on the marketplace 
where those who have more money would deprive those
who have less or who don't even know money at all
like aboriginals?

Public Domain advocates might do as well documentaries on
information/knowledge privatization and so on...

cheers,

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***ABOUT THE FILM***
> Is water a human right for all people? Or is it a commodity to be
> bought,  sold, and traded in a global marketplace?
> 
> Multinational corporations are rapidly becoming involved with local
> water supplies, trying to combine private profits with what many feel
should be a fundamental right to water access.
> 
> Looking at tensions in Bolivia, India and Stockton, California, "Thirst"
> reveals how water is becoming the catalyst for explosive community
> responses to the management of this precious resource.
> 
> More about 'Thirst':
> http://www.thirstthemovie.org/
> http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2004/thirst/
> 
> Engineers for a Sustainable World:
> http://www.esustainableworld.org/
> 
--- Sheryl Saxby <ssaxby@BUFFALO.EDU> wrote:
> Date:         Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:59:57 -0400
> From:         Sheryl Saxby <ssaxby@BUFFALO.EDU>
> Subject: Free documentary screening - April 21st, 7pm
> To:           UBMLS-L@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU
> 
> The UB chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World presents
> 
> THIRST: A documentary on water privatization
> 
> Thursday, April 21 - 7 p.m.
> 145D Student Union Building
> UB North Campus
> 
> ***ABOUT THE FILM***
> Is water a human right for all people? Or is it a commodity to be
> bought,
> sold, and traded in a global marketplace?
> 
> Multinational corporations are rapidly becoming involved with local
> water
> supplies, trying to combine private profits with what many feel should
> be
> a fundamental right to water access.
> 
> Looking at tensions in Bolivia, India and Stockton, California, "Thirst"
> reveals how water is becoming the catalyst for explosive community
> responses to the management of this precious resource.
> 
> More about 'Thirst':
> http://www.thirstthemovie.org/
> http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2004/thirst/
> 
> Engineers for a Sustainable World:
> http://www.esustainableworld.org/
> 

ENG: "Corporations are not democratic institutions --their directors and managers owe no accountability to anyone but the shareholders that employ them."
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ESP: "Las corporaciones (empresas) no son instituciones democráticas: a sus directores y gerentes no se les puede fincar responsabilidades ante nadie excepto ante sus accionistas que les emplean."

-- Bakan, Joel. (2004). The Corporation. The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power : La corporación (empresa). La búsqueda patológica de ganancias y poder. London: Constable & Robinson, p. 151


		
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