Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Citizen reaction to the privatization of water

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Monday, June 24, 2013

Citizen reaction to the privatization of water

Click here to access article by Konstantinos Peris from New Compass (Norway).

People in this major Greek city are fighting back against the Greek state occupied by neoliberal banking figures who want to sell off public assets to private corporations.

Except being a public good, access to water is a fundamental human right recognized by the United Nations. Water providers aren’t privatized as easily as other public companies....