Nestlé’s stranglehold

A small community is taking on Nestlé in court and needs our help ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   SumOfUs has changed its name to Ekō. Help us avoid ending up in spam and mark this email as safe. [Boxes with Vittel water bottles stacked at a supermarket]( {NAME}, Nestlé is draining the groundwater from a small town in France known for its majestic mineral springs, and pumping out 1.5 billion plastic bottles of water a year. The local community in Vittel knows they soon won’t have enough water to survive, so they’re fighting back…and they need our help. They’re suing to prove that Nestlé is illegally stealing the town’s water, but the water giant has launched its own lawsuits against the community to try and scare them into silence. The legal fees are piling up, and the activists paying for it all out of their own pockets have run out of funds to keep the lawsuit alive. We’ve jumped in to help this brave, small community before — and now they need our help again. Can you chip in to stop Nestlé stealing their water and draining the town dry? [Donate $3]( another amount]( Nestlé is draining Vittel’s water at a faster rate than it can possibly regenerate. After six years of drought, the local community faces a massive water crisis. And to make matters even worse, the water giant was exposed for dumping chemical and plastic waste at NINE illegal dumping sites — ditching enough waste to fill several dozens of Olympic swimming pools! Instead of cleaning up and rehabilitating the contaminated land, Nestlé sued the farmer who first sounded the alarm about its illegal dumping — trying to scare the entire community from daring to fight back. But the town isn’t backing down. Instead, brave activists are doubling down on their case. They just hired a new lawyer with the experience necessary to win, but fighting off a corporate power like Nestlé is expensive, and they’ve run out of funds to keep going. Our massive mobilization in support of the people of Vittel already helped stop an environmentally destructive water pipeline project. Now we can come together to help them at this crucial moment — can you pitch in to help them win? [Donate $3]( another amount]( Winning this fight against Nestlé is so much more than just saving one town’s water, {NAME}. If we let it continue to privatize our natural resources to turn a quick profit, soon there will be less water for all of us. Whether you’re in the United States, Brazil, Australia, South Africa, Afghanistan, France or another country, together we are standing up against the multinational giant to make sure local communities everywhere have water to drink. Will you join in the fight? Thanks for all that you do, Allison and the Ekō team --------------------------------------------------------------- More information: [Troubled waters: Nestlé accused of plundering French community's vital resource]( Le Monde, 24 September 2022. [French town of Vittel suffering water shortages as Nestle accused of 'overusing' resources]( The Telegraph, 26 April 2018.   Ekō is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. This email was sent to {EMAIL}. | [Unsubscribe]( Â