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Saturday, March 05, 2005

Protests Should be Worldwide

Streets in El Alto, a largely indigenous city that is traditionally the flashpoint for antigovernment protests, have been blockaded for two days, with demonstrators demanding that the government immediately close down the French-owned utility that runs the city's water service. In January, the government canceled a 20-year contract with the company, Aguas del Illimani, but allowed it to close its operations gradually. The protesters, angry that the company had failed to provide affordable hook-up fees to people without water, want it to leave immediately. Juan Forero (NYT)

Now we have people starving to death in a world with plenty of food, soon we'll be seeing people die of thirst as the greedy bastards try to privatize water delivery and price it out of the reach of the poor.

Jack Clark 9:43 PM [+]   
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