The Right to Water MovementOrganizations from around the country have come to the U.S. Social Forum to say that secure and equitable access to clean water is a human right and must be protected for all generations and for all living things. The groups represented within the Right to Water tent and workshops have collaborated to raise awareness about the growing movement for water justice. Despite the U.S. having some of the best public water systems in the world, there are communities across the country that do not have access to safe water. While people struggle to protect their sacred relation to water, the mineral and extractive energy industries are using and wasting massive quantities of water, corporations are polluting our drinking water, trampling over community rights, and threatening local control of water. Throughout the country, communities and organizations are working to protect the right to water for humans and nature. The groups who bring you the Right to Water tent and over fifteen water-related workshops are part of this growing movement. We work on a wide variety of water-related issues, including public health, environmental justice, indigenous rights, water pollution, and protection of peoples’ rights, not corporate rights. We are united in the struggle to secure access for all communities to clean and affordable water, to keep water and water services from being controlled by multinational corporations and other profit-seeking entities, to affirm and protect our sacred relation to water, and the sustainable management, conservation and use of our precious resource, water. We have come to the U.S. Social Forum to build this dynamic, inspiring movement and show our solidarity with our brothers and sisters at the USSF, and beyond, who face similar battles. The Right to Water Movement: Join us in the fight for water justice! Alliance for Democracy • www.thealliancefordemocracy.org |