Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
FROM DETROIT AND Flint, Michigan to Gaza and the West Bank in Palestine, those struggling against institutionalized racism and apartheid are no strangers to water struggles.
In Gaza, water infrastructure is bombed and water supplies are constrained. In Detroit, water is shut off from people (...)
The stubborn and aggressive imposition of privatisation by Troika goes against the will of Greek citizens and represents a direct attack on democracy.
The requirement to sell off €50 billion in public assets is one of the most controversial aspects of the ‘agreement’ that Eurozone countries and (...)
Shane Fitzgerald, a socialist based in Dublin, who will be speaking at They Don’t Represent Us [[http://rs21.org.uk/theydontrepresentus], reports on the emergence of the Platform for Renewal from the water campaigns in Ireland.
This Friday in Dublin, the five trade unions involved in the (...)
In the last 15 years there have been at least 180 cases of water remunicipalisation in 35 countries, both in the global North and South, including high profile cases in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa.
Presentation of the report “Here to stay: Water remunicipalisation as a global trend”. (...)
With important victories at the local, national and regional level, the Water Movement provides key lessons for the resistance against the privatization of public services in Europe. As the authors explain, “Referendums and other forms of popular consultation such as the European Citizens’ (...)
The Greek government and its creditors seem bent on imposing policy whose economic merits and democratic legitimacy seem rather dubious. A French company is especially active among the candidates for privatizing water in Athens and Thessaloniki: Suez Environnement.
As a condition for the (...)
A combination of opposing privatisation and putting forward practical alternatives is helping water campaigners mount an effective challenge to austerity in Greece.
Privatisation and the nature of the state is moving to the centre of the struggle against austerity in Greece. The troika of the (...)
Letters exchanged between civil society organisations and the European Commission.
TNI and other civil society organisations, in an open letter, have denounced the European Comission’s admission that it imposes water privatization conditionalities as part of its ’rescue’ package to crisis (...)
The “green economy” sets the stage for the creation of markets where water and its ecosystem functions (e.g. water purification by pristine watersheds or carbon sequestration of forests and oceans) can be traded, while the people’s rights and common interests are ignored. In the name of conserving (...)
In the “green economy” (GE) water is treated as a natural capital, an economic asset which fundamentally puts a price on all the dimensions, services and functions of water. The GE proposes that the instruments of the markets are powerful tools for conserving water, improving water quality, (...)
“They can do whatever they want with us but that will be over our dead bodies”.
That was the uncompromising statement of Alex Kastrinakis, an independent Greek film maker who participated at the Alternative World Water Forum from March 14 to 17 in Marseilles, France. Together with Georgios (...)
Declaration of La Via Campesina in the Alternative World Water Forum. We, as peasants’ and farmers’ organizations from countries all over the world, members of La Via Campesina, met between the 12th and 17th of March 2012, for the Alternative World Water Forum in Marseille, France. Delegates from (...)
The Alternative World Water Forum will be held from March 14 to 17, 2012, in Marseille, France. WMW’s International Secretariat has developed this text with the collaboration of activists from Marseille Collective 13 Femmes and WMW France to provide a context for the issues of water (...)
A referendum was held in Italy on 12 June and 13 June 2011, on repealing legislation allowing for the privatisation of water services , repealing regulations permiting a return to nuclear energy and criminal procedure, (specifically a provision exempting the Prime Minister from prosecution). (...)
In November 2000, the World Commission on Dams published its ground-breaking report, Dams and Development, after an unprecedented multi-stakeholder process. Ten years later, Water Alternatives, an independent academic online journal, revisits the WCD and its impacts in a special issue, and (...)
ISTANBUL DECLARATION AGAINST THE 5TH WORLD WATER FORUM
15-22 March 2009/ Istanbul
We, No to the Commercialization of Water Platform, in opposition to the 5th World Water Forum (16-22 March, Istanbul) and its collaborators in Turkey and throughout the world, have organized demonstrations, (...)
Istanbul, March 19, 2009
After Mexico City 2006, which was an important milestone of the continuous work of the global movement for water justice, we have now gathered in Istanbul to mobilize against the 5th World Water Forum. We are here to delegitimize this false, corporate driven World (...)
As part of the call to the global water justice movements to mobilize against the false World Water Forum, we commit to mobilize for the Global Week of Actions for Water Justice. The global week of action serves as a common platform for movements, peoples’ organizations, activists and citizens, (...)
Massive rally by on the 1st April 2006 by CITIZEN’S FORUM constituted of Institute for Community Organisation Research, Promoting People’s Participating In Water Governance, Apli Mumbai, Civic Political Cells of Andheri, Shehri Vikas Manch, Ashankur, Yuva, India Centre for Human rights and Law (...)
We, Turkish waterjustice activists, along with our international guests in Istanbul, March 24, 2008 pledge to work together to challenge the illegitimate, corporate-controlled, World Water Forum, scheduled to take place in Istanbul one year from now.
We stand for the principles of water (...)
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