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Water Rising – Full Documentary

See Related PBS Frontline program on “Leasing the Rain” Part 1:

[Upon a moment’s reflection, it seems odd that a “public broadcasting system” — supported, as they tell us in each funding campaign, is funded in large measure by “Viewers Like You” — would deny the public to the right to view the program they have already “paid” for with their public contributions.  Perhaps the PBS is more responsive to its corporate supporters than to “viewers like you,” and should be re-branded, perhaps, as the “Petroleum Broadcast System (PBS).”]
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Published on Mar 23, 2015

[Although Par 1 of this video has now been blocked from viewers in America, the documentation behind it is still available.  See:

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/bolivia/thestory.html

From PBS Frontline

Part 2:

and:

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Published on Feb 4, 2015
Hope and change in Bolivia in an era of water privatisation.

Water Rising is a feature length documentary about family, community, hope and change in Bolivia during an era of water privatisation.

Filmed entirely in Bolivia, the film shares intimate portraits of people living in a ramshackle city where, despite an abundance of freshwater, they struggle for the right to access clean, safe and affordable water.

https://www.facebook.com/WaterRising

50 Minutes (Ireland)
Spanish with English subtitles
A Documentary Film by Muireann de Barra & Aisling Crudden
Edited by Fernando de Juan
Music by Gareth Averill
Camera Operator: Aisling Crudden

Hope and change in Bolivia in an era of water privatisation.

Water Rising is a feature length documentary about family, community, hope and change in Bolivia during an era of water privatisation.

Filmed entirely in Bolivia, the film shares intimate portraits of people living in a ramshackle city where, despite an abundance of freshwater, they struggle for the right to access clean, safe and affordable water.

https://www.facebook.com/WaterRising

Sequence of related stories:

 

Old Maps & New Narratives: Digitizing Historical Maps to Analyze New Dimensions of the Atlantic Trade

One important new field in African History is being launched with the close digital examination of the historical texts with all their maps.  The texts have been studied for quite some time, but only recently have we developed the digital technology to study the maps collaboratively in detail.

The first objective of the “Mapping the Slave Trade” project is to digitize and geo-reference hundreds of maps relating to the slave trade in order to create an online “virtual archive” that can provide an important new platform for research and teaching on Africa and the Atlantic trade.

African Historical Graphics Archive

See related:

• Maps, Stones & Plants: Agents of Empire and the Ecology of the Atlantic Trade

• The Atlantic Trade and Africa: The Portuguese, the Spanish & the Dutch – Parts 1 & 2
• Castles and Dungeons on the Coasts and Islands: Retracing Some Steps in the Atlantic Trade
• Recalling Some Aspects of America’s Immigration Policies in Black History Month
• A Tribute to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. …a Cambridge~Global Living Legend