New Orleans In Peru, the slogan was always “water is life,” when ACORN fought the privatization in Lima, Antigua, and other cities across the country in alliance with FENTAP, the water workers union. In New Orleans, ACORN and Local 100 joined with our allies, both locally and nationally, to beat back the privatization of …
Category: Water
Gutting the Clean Water Act
Pearl River In the United States the passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972 during President Richard Nixon’s term was a huge environmental accomplishment. The Supreme Court’s decision in 2023 in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency was a significant attack on the broad reach of these protections over the last fifty years. A …
Rural and Small-Town Water Systems are in Trouble
Little Rock Sometimes, I’m on top of the news and other times, the news seems to be on top of me. The Affiliated Media Foundation Movement (AM/FM) worked with a lot of partners and made many new friends as we assisted local communities in filing for low-power FM radio stations recently when the FCC …