Can I have some water please boss?

[red team]

Private water. :o

Wordwide drive to privatize water (http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/watr-s13.shtml)

[RebelDog]

Typical of this sick, murderous, insane system is its worship of profit and complete disregard for human life. Water, so crucial for life is just another commodity. Capitalism fails in the most basic of requirements for the people of this planet.

from article

WaterAid’s boardroom is full of past and present water industry executives, and Vice President Baroness Lynda Chalker is a director of Unilever.

I don't know much about WaterAid but I feel that is all I need to know.

I despair.

[Tekun]

2.2 million people, most of them children, die every year from preventable diseases associated with contaminated water and inadequate sanitation.

This figure is just ridiculous


The nature of capitalism: basic human needs are available only to those who can pay for them
And the rest of humanity that is unable to pay for them must therefore die :angry:
A worldwide issue that must be fought and protested

A while ago, a city here in California privatized their water supply
The decision was made by the city's representatives and mayor, who disregarded protests and mobilizations from their constituents
It passed without the consent of those who were to be affected by it; there was no voting for it, not even a proposition
As a result, the city's residents took up a petition that unfortunately did not gather enough signatures
I don't where its at right now
But the immediate results of the privatization were evident and significant
A great number of ppl who worked for the county's water provider lost their jobs, ppl were forced to pay for their water, poverty rose,...
Profits for water companies rose at the expense of the lives of many ppl
And if this significantly affected the lives of middle class Americans
It's painful just to imagine how it would affect the lives of poor ppl in Africa, Latin America, Asia, or Europe

[Iroquois Xavier]

Next they'll be privatizing the air we breathe. what are they thinking? :angry:

[lithium]

Right all the air is mine now. If you want to breathe it, it'll be $50 a week thanks. Expect a price hike next year as a result of "limited supplies".

Seriously though. I don't understand why people want so much money. There are people out there worth billions, and they're still trying to make more money. What are they going to do with it all??

[Spirit of Spartacus]

I don't understand why people want so much money. There are people out there worth billions, and they're still trying to make more money. What are they going to do with it all??


LOL...

In case you haven't noticed, the capitalist pigs need lots and lots of money to maintain their lifestyle. And then of course, they need money to buy politicians and gain political power.

They can't stop making profits.

[Pirate Utopian]

Mumia Abu-Jamal On The Subject (http://youtube.com/watch?v=7C4TNqbnQVA)
i knew this before thanks to this clip

[Janus]

Water is an extremely valuable resource and will most likely become more important in the near future. Already, there are conflicts being waged over water in developing and developed nations so this move isn't all that surprising.

[grove street]

Karl Marx's prophecies are coming true. Captalists are becoming so greedy that they are trying to privatise life its self. Captalism is worse then it has ever been, atlest before when we had the Soviet Union captalism was keeped inline, but now without any major Communist/socialist superpower Captalism is going on the rampage. Just as Marx predicted the captalists will become too greedy for their own good and the people will be left with no other choice, but to rebel or die.

[Qabane]

Unfortunately capitalism won't even have the opportunity to decide who owns the means to life when there isn't any clean water left.

lefts hope the comrades are correct in saying that this is indeed the point in time to rebel.

solidarity