from Nancy Stiefel
What: Social Justice Film “Blue Gold: World Water Wars”
When: Sunday, March 8, 7:00 PM
Where: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, on the corner of 27th Avenue and 16th Street in Vero Beach
This 2008 film is based on the book Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water, co-written by Maude Barlow, national chair of the Council of Canadians, a citizen advocacy group, and Tony Clarke, a long-time Canadian activist against free trade.
In every corner of the globe, our limited supply of fresh water is polluted, diverted, pumped, and wasted at an expediential level as population and technology grows. The rampant over development of agriculture, housing, and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth.
Corporate giants, private investors, and corrupt governments vie for control of our dwindling supply of fresh water, prompting protests, lawsuits, and revolutions from citizens fighting for the right to survive. Wars of the future will be fought over water as they are over oil today, as the source of human survival enters the global marketplace and political arena.
Sarah Barmak of the Toronto Star wrote, “The film sounds the same sweeping alarms as Al Gore's documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, but about our endangered water supply – and the implications are just as grim.”
The Fair Trade Corner will be open for one-half hour prior to the 90 minute film. Vicki Machado of Food and Water Watch organization will facilitate the discussion following the film.
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