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Berta Cáceres in Defense of Water Rights

Posted on March 10, 2021 CT
Corporations are investing in energy production, which includes hydropower and solar and wind power as well as fossil fuels. This leads to loss of autonomy by communities in Latin America, Africa, and Asia as well as extensive environmental damage
Meeting Scheduled for March 10, 2021 12:00 am CT
March 2, 2021 was the 5th anniversary of the death of Berta Cáceres. After winning the Goldman Environmental Prize she was murdered for successfully organizing opposition to the Agua Zarca Dam in Honduras. Corporations are investing in energy production, which includes hydropower and solar and wind power as well as fossil fuels. This leads to loss of autonomy by communities in Latin America, Africa, and Asia as well as extensive environmental damage Hear from: NINA LAKHANI, Environmental Justice correspondent for the Guardian US, has written on forced migration, consequences of the war on drugs, state sponsored violence, corruption, and impunity, gender violence, environmental defenders and the battle for natural resources. She is the author of Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet, published in 2020. JUDY ANCEL directed the labor education program at the University of Missouri in Kansas City for 29 years. She organized the Cross Border Network for Justice and Solidarity which has sponsored delegations to Mexico and Honduras to investigate impacts of neoliberalism. DAN HELLINGER is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at Webster University. His most recent publications are the third edition of Comparative Politics of Latin America, and Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Trump. DON FITZ, the 2016 candidate of the Missouri Green Party for Governor, is on the Editorial Board of Green Social Thought. His book on Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution was published in 2020. Order Lakhani’s Who Killed Berta Cáceres? by clicking on this link or copying it to your browser: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3180... www.gateway-greens.org For more info, call 314-727-8554

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