Voices of Takoma Authors – Robin Broad & John Cavanagh

Robin Broad and John Cavanagh (American University and the Institute for Policy Studies, and co-authors of several books addressing environmental and social justice) will discuss their most recent, award-winning book: The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed. 

It is a tale replete with corporate greed, a transnational lawsuit at a secretive World Bank tribunal in Washington, violent threats, murders, and–surprisingly–victory. They will also discuss their own scholar-activist involvement in this Salvadoran gold mining saga as co-founders of a unique network of international allies that spearheaded the global side of the fight against mining in El Salvador and beyond.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and authors signing.

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