PHA-Exch> World Water Forum, Istanbul Turkey, March 16-22

[Jeff Conant]

Greetings PHM --
	Some of you may be aware that the Fifth World Water Forum is planned  
for next month, March 16-22 in Istanbul Turkey. The World Water Forum  
itself is a privately-run consortium of businesses and international  
financial institutions using the UN as a cover to promote water  
privatization and other people-unfriendly policies. ( http://www.worldwaterforum5.org/)A 
  coalition of international groups, working together with two  
distinct Turkish coalitions, is organizing a week of counter-events,  
including panels, presentations, a press conference, and a march.
         I am working with the planning committees to develop the  
alternative events, and there is strong interest in presentations  
about water and health. While there is of course no funding to bring  
anyone to Istanbul, it will be an important moment for organizing; if  
any PHM members are able to attend, with support from your  
organizations, I would be very interested in arranging speaking  
possibilities. We also have strong contacts to alternative media in  
Turkey, and would arrange interviews with journalists for any PHM  
members who can make it to Istanbul.
	Anyone interested, please contact me and I will help make arrangements.
	Thanks much.
	-- Jeff Conant, PHM USA


Jeff Conant
International Research and Communications Coordinator
Food and Water Watch
25 Stillman St., Ste 200
San Francisco, CA, 94107
Tel: 415-293-9905
Fax: 415-293-9906
Skype: jeffconant
jconant at fwwatch.org

“Is it to be enough to set foot on a plot of common ground, in order  
to be able to call yourself at once the master of it? Is it to be  
enough that a man has the strength to expel others for a moment in  
order to establish his right to prevent them from ever returning?”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau



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