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Whiskey is for Drinking, Water is for Fighting
By RUSSELL MOKHIBER
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
That was Balzac.
Update to Balzac -- behind every great political issue lies a corporate crime.
Take water, for example.
For centuries, water was part of the commonwealth.
Then came the corporations.
And they had to control it.
In the United States, more than 1,000 community water systems have been taken over by corporations.
Then you had people fighting the big corporations, trying to wrest control back.
Think Jack Nicholson in Chinatown.
But worldwide, the fight is starting to heat up.
And two activist film maker writers -- Deborah Kaufman and Alan Snitow -- are now out with a movie -- Thirst -- and a book -- Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water -- documenting the battle. (See thirstthemovie.org)
The movie lays out the fight. LINK