ask unrelenting questions

The Bush administration is helping multinationals buy U.S. municipal water systems, putting our most important resource in the hands of corporations with no public accountability.
All across the United States, municipal water systems are being bought up by multinational corporations, turning one of our last remaining public commons and our most vital resource into a commodity.
The road to privatization is being paved by our own government. The Bush administration is actively working to loosen the hold that cities and towns have over public water, enabling corporations to own the very thing we depend on for survival.
The effects of the federal government's actions are being felt all the way down to Conference of Mayors, which has become a "feeding frenzy" for corporations looking to make sure that nothing is left in the public's hands, including clean, affordable water.
Documentary filmmakers Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman recently teamed up with author Michael Fox to write "Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water" (Wiley, 2007). The three followed water privatization battles across the United States -- from California to Massachusetts and from Georgia to Wisconsin, documenting the rise of public opposition to corporate control of water resources. They found that the issue of privatization ran deep.

Let us at least raise unrelenting questions of all of our elected leaders and determine what is true about corporate privatization of your water…?

Is water for you a right or a commodity…?

In the final analysis it makes a huge difference.

But like some politicians note, it’s only words…?

Ask your city council, I’ll bet you get a total bull shit answer, so convoluted a good Philadelphia lawyer would have a hard time making sense of it. Chances are, the longer their answer, the bigger the lie.

Fundamentally, “we” have allowed them to sell off what heretofore was the “commons” which now have become corporate private property.

“We” have only ourselves to turn to, to correct this error.