Jason Wallach is returning to academia after a 13 year hiatus. Since 1996, he has worked with a number of solidarity organizations to build cross-border links with grassroots and rank and file activists in Latin America and their counterparts in the US. He served as National Grassroots Coordinator for the Mexico Solidarity Network (mexicosolidarity.org) from 1998-2003 and was coordinator for PCASC (pcasc.net) Coordinator in 2004-2005. He has spent the last two years in El Salvador.
Jason's work in the SocDoc program will spotlight the effort to defend the public right to water in El Salvador. Since 1998, Salvadorans have been engaged in a protracted popular struggle for equitable water management and against water privatization. On July 2, the struggle took a sharp right turn when police arrested 14 people at a protest against privatization and charged them with "Acts of terrorism."
