About Author: Jeff Conant

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Jeff Conant is the coordinator and lead author of the widely translated popular education manual A Community Guide to Environmental Health. He’s also an independent journalist covering issues such as water privatization, resource colonization, food sovereignty, ecological sanitation, environmental injustice, and related issues, winner of a 2010 Project Censored Award for coverage of corporate influence on the World Water Forum, and author of A Poetics of Resistance: the Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency on the cultural politics of Mexico’s Zapatista movement. He’s a Fellow of the Oakland Institute, a coordinating committee member of La Red VIDA, (the InterAmerican Network for the Defense of the Right to Water), and currently acts as Communications Director for Global Justice Ecology Project.

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