TY - JOUR AU - Schroering, Caitlin PY - 2019/03/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power JF - Journal of World-Systems Research JA - JWSR VL - 25 IS - 1 SE - Symposium: Corporate Power and Local Democracy DO - 10.5195/jwsr.2019.899 UR - http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/899 SP - 28-34 AB - <p>In this short piece, I seek to explore two main questions: 1) How can communities take control over local governance and shape local economic futures?and2) How can local communities effectively band together to support world-system transformation? I examine examples of transnational organizing around water and, specifically, the National Summit on the Human Right to Water held in Abuja, Nigeria in January 2019. A repeated theme at the Summit was the idea that privatization is a threat because the narrative of the profit-based solution of privatization is at odds with the idea that people—and their human right to basic needs like water—come before profit. Privatization is a threat to human rights everywhere,and as climate change progresses resources will become even more scarce, with more of a push from corporations seeking to control and commodify water. One of the most powerful short-term results of this summit, therefore, was how it served as a space forglobalsolidarity buildingaround the human right to water.</p> ER -