Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Copresented with The Promise Institute of Human Rights (L.A.) and the UCLA American Indian Studies Center *Water For Life* tells the story of three extraordinary individuals: Berta Cáceres, a Lenca Indigenous leader in Honduras; Francisco Piñeda, a subsistence farmer in El Salvador; and Alberto Curamil, an Indigenous Mapuche Chief in Chile, all of whom refused to let government-supported industry and Transnational Corporations take their water and redirect it to mining, hydroelectric, or large scale industrial agriculture projects. The screening is followed by a conversation about California’s own related struggle of local Owens Valley Tribes to protect and reclaim water resources diverted to Los Angeles.