{"id":12053,"date":"2025-04-13T14:57:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T18:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/?p=12053"},"modified":"2025-05-07T16:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T20:54:46","slug":"water-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/2025\/water-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Water for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tuesday, May 13th 7pm<br>First United Methodist Church, 120 S. State St., Ann Arbor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Water-for-Life.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Water-for-Life.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Water-for-Life-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Water-for-Life-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Water For Life follows Indigenous activists in Latin America as they face death threats and murder to save their precious water resources from mining and hydroelectric projects.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Water For Life<\/em>&nbsp;tells the story of three extraordinary individuals: Berta C\u00e1ceres, a leader of the Lenca people in Honduras; Francisco Pineda, a subsistence farmer in El Salvador; and Alberto Curamil, an Indigenous Mapuche leader in Chile, all of whom refused to let government supported industry and transnational corporations take their water and redirect it to mining, hydroelectric projects or large scale agriculture. Despite reassurances from companies and the authorities, they knew what lay ahead: contaminated water, environmental devastation, and the destruction of their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a story of courage and determination, betrayal and corruption, death threats and murder, and of unexpected victories in the countryside and in the courts. It is a story that asks how economic development can grow in harmony with environmental protections. Above all,&nbsp;<em>Water For Life<\/em> illuminates a growing recognition of Indigenous rights and a rising demand for corporate responsibility and environmental justice that\u2019s being seen around the world. It is a story that begins and ends with water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a 2023 Documentary, 1h 29 min. Screening followed by community discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sponsored by: The Interfaith Council for Peace &amp; Justice Latin America Caucus; and the University of Michigan, Latin America and Caribbean Studies (LACS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1_gRgfHYs6Yq3nj-iisT84u7rh-3uKJ4L\/view?usp=drive_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">share this flyer<\/a>&nbsp;with others!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, May 13th 7pmFirst United Methodist Church, 120 S. State St., Ann Arbor Water For Life follows Indigenous activists in Latin America as they face death threats and murder to save their precious water resources from mining and hydroelectric projects. 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