Environmental Speaker Series Think Outside the Bottle Deborah Lapidus, Corporate Accountability International Monday January 28, 7:00 - 9:00 PM Free Druker Auditorium, Newton Free Library

Is the availability of clean water a human right for all people, or is it a commodity to be bought, sold, and traded in a global marketplace? Join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary Thirst and a talk by Deborah Lapidus of Corporate Accountability International's Think Outside the Bottle Campaign at 7:00 pm on Monday, January 28 at the Newton Free Library. This is the first program in the Green Decade Coalition's 2008 Environmental Speaker Series.

Thirst tells the stories of communities in Bolivia, India, and the United States that are asking fundamental questions about global water supplies. As the proliferation of bottled water damages our ecosystems, its marketing also erodes the long-held American value that communities should manage and control local water resources. If the public becomes increasingly conditioned to believe that drinking water is something purchased from a corporation in bottles, political and financial support for public water systems will continue to wane, further undermining the integrity of public water systems.

Facilitator Deborah Lapidus is a National Organizer with Corporate Accountability International www.stopcorporateabuse.org, a membership organization that protects people by waging and winning campaigns that challenge irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world. Ms. Lapidus will lead a discussion that promises to help you learn why you should start your New Year with a Pledge to Think Outside the Bottle and take the Pledge today at www.ThinkOutsidetheBottle.org.