Seriously, this is not ironic. UNICEF is bottling Rihanna and other celebrities’ tap water and raffling it off. This is all–to coincide with Water Week–to raise awareness about “… the lack of access to safe, clean water for nearly 900 million children and adults across the globe.” Who dreams up these campaigns? We give up. About […]
THE SO-CALLED “RESOURCE CURSE”
September 15, 2009 By 1 Comment
The producers at Al Jazeera English’s “People and Power” program investigates the appropriation of profits from rich natural resources, mainly oil, by Congo-Brazzaville’s political leadership. The family of life President Denis Sassou Nguesso (he’s in power for 25 of the last 30 years and just “won” another seven year term). In the oil rich country […]
THE POLITICS OF WATER IN SOUTH AFRICA
September 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
For the next two days South Africa’s Constitutional Court (the equivalent of the Supreme Court) will hear “… the final appeal in a case brought by five Soweto residents challenging Johannesburg’s discriminatory prepaid water meter system. Their six-year legal battle would reaffirm the constitutional right to water for all South Africans.” The short film above, […]
