Robin Broad is a professor at American University. John Cavanagh is the director of the Institute for Policy Studies. They’re the authors of The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed.
"We have no choice but to take direct action to put our bodies on the line because petitions, sign-waving, and chanting—we tried that for the past 50 years and it hasn't worked, and we're out of time," said one arrested activist.