Webinar: The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed

Join the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas and the Inter-religious Working Group on Extractive Industries for a program with authors Robin Broad and John Cavanagh tonight, Thursday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. Eastern Time. The authors will speak about their new book, “The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed,” which details the remarkable grassroots campaign to ban metal mining in El Salvador. 

Register for the 75-minute program here. Interpretation will be provided for Spanish and English speakers.

“At a time when countless communities are resisting powerful corporations — from Flint, Michigan, to the Standing Rock Reservation, to Didipio in the Philippines, to the Gualcarque River in Honduras — The Water Defenders tells the inspirational story of a community that took on an international mining corporation at seemingly insurmountable odds and won not one but two historic victories.”   

The authors will share this powerful story from El Salvador and lessons from this win for environmental defenders across Latin America in the wake of historic elections in Honduras and Chile.