Posts Tagged ‘water’
Activist Convicted for Leaving Water Jugs for Migrants
10:55 am By la Macha · Immigration · 1 Comment
4 Jun 2009It’s great to know that leaving water for people dying in the desert is being punished, “knowingly leaving poison in drinking water” or “knowingly slashing drinking water jugs so that dying people can not get life saving water” is not.
In Arizona, a human rights activist from the group No More Deaths has been convicted for leaving plastic jugs for undocumented immigrants crossing near the US-Mexico border. The activist, Walt Staton, says the water jugs were left to prevent migrants from dying of dehydration. On Wednesday, Staton was found guilty of ‘knowingly littering’ in the Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge. In a move criticized by defense attorneys, the jury was ordered to reach a verdict after initial deliberations ended in a deadlock. Staton is a member of No More Deaths, which has worked for years to provide migrants with humanitarian aid. Over the past decade, nearly 2,000 men, women and children have died while trying to cross the border into Arizona. In a statement, No More Deaths said: “By penalizing life-saving work, the United States is showing callous disregard for the lives of our neighbors to the south, whose only crime is to seek a better life.”
I personally don’t care if people are coming here to burn tires, for fucks sake, you don’t imprison somebody for trying to save lives. I mean, weren’t we all just subjected to weeks and weeks of news coverage about the mother that supposedly tried to keep her son from getting cancer treatment? And weren’t we all supposed to be mad at her because she was denying the opportunity of life to her son?
What’s the difference here? Why are we punishing somebody for bringing others the opportunity of life?
Is it because the people being given the opportunity for life are *brown*? Or “illegal?”
Does being “illegal” make you “not human” anymore?
Struggling through Hurricane Ike
11:20 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Environment| Texas · Comments Off
17 Sep 2008
So it seems that Hurricane Katrina wasn’t enough practice for the government. Latest news on Hurricane Ike clean up is that FEMA is “struggling” with distribution issues. In other words, folks who are in desperate need of help, simply aren’t getting it:
“Where’s FEMA?” some evacuees have asked. Houston Mayor Bill White complained FEMA wasn’t bringing ice, water and meals fast enough, while the county administrator personally took over the coordination of efforts to hand out relief supplies.
According to (total jackass) Michael Chertoff (who runs FEMA), getting mad at FEMA now is just scapegoating FEMA for what is overall a difficult situation. I say, hand to the face Mr. Chertoff. Those who watched CNN for even ten minutes knew that there was a major storm brewing a week before it actually touched ground, in my humble non-official opinion, there should have been beds, warm soup etc set up within *hours* of the storm not days.
But who am I but some innocent blogger?
You’ve been served: $1.49 for tap water
4:13 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Food| Marketing · 1 Comment
30 Jul 2007
PepsiCo punked you. That wonderful spring water you’ve been paying a buck fifty for is the same stuff that comes out of your kitchen sink:
A group called Corporate Accountability International has been pressuring bottled water sellers to curb what it calls misleading marketing practices. The group has criticized PepsiCo over its blue Aquafina label with a mountain logo as perpetuating the misconception that the water comes from spring sources.Aquafina is the single biggest bottled water brand, and its bottles are now labeled “P.W.S.” The new labels will spell out “public water source.”
Of course, PepsiCo says they never called it “spring water”, but somehow the image of glacial mountains on the label doesn’t make me think of the centuries-old San Francisco municipal water system.
As for Aquafina’s competitor, Coca Cola’s Dasani, it’s also good old tap water, but they will not be changing the label.
Via / CBS News
Got Agua?
12:55 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Environment| Health| Politics · Comments Off
22 Mar 2007
Go to your kitchen or bathroom. Turn on the faucet. Drink what comes out. Most of us take water for granted because most of us have ready access to clean water but this is not the case in a huge portion of the world.
The world water crisis is one of the largest public health issues of our time. Nearly 1.1 billion people (roughly 20% of the world’s population) lack access to safe drinking water. The lack of clean, safe drinking water is estimated to kill almost 4,500 children per day. In fact, out of the 2.2 million unsafe drinking water deaths in 2004, 90% were children under the age of five. Water is essential to the treatment of diseases, something especially critical for children.
This problem isn’t confined to a particular region of the world. A third of the Earth’s population lives in “water stressed” countries and that number is expected to rise dramatically over the next two decades. The crisis is worst in developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
To highlight the international water crisis the United Nations has declared March 22nd as World Water Day. There are a number of events across the country and the world as well as many ways you can get involved. Visit the official World Water Day website for details.
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