Events
Water Activism: Detroit, Flint, and the Great Lakes | Spring 2020
Season
Spring 2020Past Events
February 27, 2020
Venue
Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room
Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 W 129th St
New York, NY 10027
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Feb. 27th, 2020 6:30 pm-

Baxter Jones, Elena Herrada, Jim Perkinson, and Kim Redigan kick off the Detroit 2 Flint Water Justice Journey, July 3, 2015. Photo courtesy of Nadia Gaber.
Environmental lawyer Jim Olson, Founder and President of the Traverse City-based FLOW (For Love of Water), argued and won the case Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation v Nestlé Waters North America Inc. This case curbed the mining and pumping of local spring waters for bottled-water usage. He was joined in conversation with medical anthropologist Nadia Gaber, a member of We The People of Detroit Community Research Collective, and an advocate for access to clean water as a human right. Moderated by Catherine Fennell, Department of Anthropology.
Co-presented by Columbia School of Social Work; Department of Anthropology; Mailman School of Public Health; Sabin Center for Climate Change Law; and the School of the Arts.
Photographs by Michael DiVito
Photographs by Michael DiVito
Photographs by Michael DiVito
Photographs by Michael DiVito
Photographs by Michael DiVito
Photographs by Michael DiVito
Photographs by Michael DiVito
Photographs by Michael DiVito
Photographs by Michael DiVito
Photographs by Michael DiVito