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Podcast: Life Elsewhere
Episode: A Blueprint For Global Action - Show 435
Description: Robin Broad and John Cavanagh are passionate about their cause. The story they tell in The Water Defenders - How Ordinary People Saved A Country From Corporate Greed tells the inspirational story of a community that took on an international mining corporation at seemingly insurmountable odds and won not one but two historic victories. In the early 2000s, many people in El Salvador were at first excited by the prospect of jobs, progress, and prosperity that the Pacific Rim mining company promised. However, farmer Vidalina Morales, brothers Marcelo and Miguel Rivera, and others soon discovered that the river system...