World Water Day Erupted Into Protests
2009 March 30
Sunday, March 22, was World Water Day and marked the close of a week-long gathering held in Istanbul, Turkey. Shouting “water is for life, not for profit,” activists from the Peoples Water Forum, an alternative formation representing the rural poor, the environment and organized labor, protested the official event as a non-inclusive, corporate-driven fraud pushing for water privatization.
Democracy Now reported on the protests and security surrounding the event.
