Save Our Water
Save Our Water
Join Us in a Video Conversation
Saturday, February 26th., 2022
11am, Pacific, -1pm, Central, – 2pm, Eastern
Presenters are:
Rev. Edw. Pinkney (Benton Harbor)
Claire McClinton (Flint)
Thomas Frank (Calumet River)
Kyle Whyte (Line 5/ U Michigan)
Angie On ( Line 3)
Byron Sigcho Lopez (Chicago Alderman and activist)
Water is life. Millions of people in Chicago, Detroit, Flint, Benton Harbor, and many other cities share the Great Lakes basin, the world’s largest body of freshwater. Residents today live on the edge of losing this abundant water to corporate privatization policies in cahoots with the government. Chicago’s residential water bills in the past 10 years have gushed to $421 million under the threat of shutoffs such as already happened to 100,000 people in Detroit. Michigan’s emergency managers were responsible for the lead poisoning of water in Flint and Benton Harbor. Lead pipes still have not been replaced while Lake Michigan has more than half the plastics dumped into the Great Lakes. These lakes belong to all living things, not to the corporations as private property. It is the life-and-death truth.
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