Toward Freedom

“They are saying that the world leaders are coming to Chicago to meet next weekend, but I have news for them: The leaders are right here,” organizer Pat Hunt said when kicking off the People's Summit in Chicago.

In case after case around the world, water is being turned into a good for sale and for profit. Driven by a different vision and by economic necessity, a global counter-trend is growing to assure that household water be free or cheap, accessible, and safe, and that the earth’s water be kept pure and flowing.

When hundreds of people took up the banner of “Occupy the Farm” on April 22nd and laid claim to a patch of urban farmland owned by UC Berkeley, it was not the first time this 5-acre parcel had become the flashpoint of a struggle between the University and local communities.