On Thursday, March 26, the Harriet Tubman Center in Los Angeles screened “Water for Life,” a film honoring Indigenous land defenders in Honduras, El Salvador and Chile. This is a story about water and the people who risk their lives to protect water and the survival of their communities.
One of the three land defenders in the film was Berta Cáceres, an Indigenous Lenca leader from Honduras, assassinated on March 3, 2016, for defending her community’s rivers and natural habitat against the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project — imposed after the 2009 U.S.-backed coup and enforced through a security apparatus trained and funded by Washington.
After the film, a lively discussion followed on the perils of corporate water privatization and the commodification of essential resources. Participants drew connections between those struggles and organizing efforts in the U.S., and to what movements South of the border can teach us.
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