[Seattle-editorial] Feature Proposal (Highlight): Impact of Globalization on Women

[typist at speakeasy.net]

I just read this off the wire and have to propose it:

<subtitle>PRIVATIZING WATER
<title>When water's no longer free, it's a death knell

<text>Physicist and scholar Vandana Shiva describes globalization's impact on local communities in her country, "Suez, this world's biggest water company, wants to privatize the Ganges. 100,000 people were displaced. And the women started to talk about how many women are starting to commit suicide. Because they can't walk the water and the government has cancelled every local water scheme saying, "Now all the money, all the public wealth has gone into these mega-projects. So not only are rural communities denied the water, they are denied the public investment to bring water if their own village has run dry. So we have women jumping into the Ganges because now the Ganges instead of being their mother for life has become a graveyard. So it is, in a way, a system of dispossessing the poor."

<a href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=32347&group=webcast">See "Examining the impact of globalization on women around the world" PBS'NOW with Bill Moyers</a>