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Robin Broad

Robin Broad is a professor at American University in Washington, DC, and co-author of The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed (Beacon Press, 2021).

Articles by this author

The Lempa River, whose watershed provides water for half of El Salvador (Photo: Shutterstock)

Can We Protect the Very Thing That Sustains Life?

Americans will have to fight hard to protect their water from corporate greed. They can learn a lot from El Salvador.

Robin Broad · Mar 17, 2021

Obama's Keystone Decision Shows Why We Should Reject TPP

Robin Broad · Nov 18, 2015

The Global Fight Against Corporate Rule

Robin Broad · Jan 21, 2014

Billionaires: Decline of the West, Rise of the Rest

Robin Broad · Oct 29, 2013

How About a Tax System for the 99 Percent?

Feeling like taxes are more unfair than ever? Three ways corporations, banks, and individuals exploit an unjust system—and three ways the people are pushing back.

Robin Broad · Apr 18, 2013

It's The New Economy, Stupid

John Cavanagh · Nov 29, 2012

Mining Gold, Undermining Democracy

Neither foreign investors nor unelected tribunals deserve the power to trump democratically elected leaders.

Robin Broad · Jun 11, 2012

What Comes Next?: Building on Occupy and the 99% Spring

Many movements, many similar messages. What could the increasing cooperation between protesters mean for the future of the ninety-nine percent?

John Cavanagh · May 31, 2012

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