Water, Water, Nowhere, and How to Get Enough to Drink in the Andes

ACORN International Organizers Forum

Cochabamba   We met Marcela Olivera of Food and Water Watch  and squeezed into a taxi to go to the south of the city, where living is hardscrabble.  There are over a 100 different water “communities” that have formed in the south to collectively finance, supervise, and deliver, as best they can within their own resources and …

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The Strongest Community Organization, Bartolina Sisas, and the Union of Lowlands Indigenous People

Ideas and Issues

La Paz   We were off to El Alto again for a meeting in the morning with the general secretary of FEJUVE, which is essentially is the largest civic association of united neighbors of El Alto.   Arguably FEJUVE was not only the strongest community organization anywhere in the province of La Paz, but also the country.  …

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