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\n \t<\/a>\n\t\t <\/div>\n on\u00a0my next health care post here at the Progressive Fox, but I got a little more than that out of the experience.\u00a0 I had met Dr. Gaddis at several of his speaking engagements covering topics from healthcare to his latest speech, “The United States: Leading Jailer of the World.”<\/p>\nWe started off talking about the idea that corporations are buying more and more of our state-owned assets; from prisons to parking meters.\u00a0 Then, for some reason we started talking about water, a life necessity, being sold as a commodity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There is talk in Chicago suggesting that Mayor Daley wants to privatize Chicago\u2019s water system.\u00a0 I told him about Citizen Action to Protect Our Water<\/em>, a growing grassroots group in Chicago that seeks to stop any\u00a0water privatization efforts,\u00a0and he shared some disturbing news with me.\u00a0 Gaddis said that T. Boone Pickens, who has been purchasing water rights in southern parts of America, now owns water rights to over 65 billion gallons of water!\u00a0 I did a quick Google search and found this article on the topic<\/a>.<\/p>\n Before we parted ways, Dr. Gaddis invited me to attend a symposium on the topic featuring Fred Pearce, author of the book, When the Rivers Run Dry: Water, the Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century<\/em>.\u00a0 I think it will be a fascinating conversation and I hope all who read this can attend.\u00a0 The event is free and open to the public. Click on the flyer reproduced above for more details.<\/p>\n Krasna Student Center, Benedictine University, Lisle, IL Two days ago I arranged to have dinner with Dr. Vincent Gaddis, a professor at Benedictine University and resident of Aurora, IL.\u00a0 Admittedly, the opportunity allowed me to procrastinate on\u00a0my next health care post here at the Progressive Fox, but I got a little more than that out of the experience.\u00a0 I had met Dr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78],"tags":[337,336],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7187,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/7187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFriday, April 9th, 8:00 a.m. \u2013 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"