My work with MAB and conversations with people affected by dams around the world made me want to investigate the following questions: what is the state of the dams in my own country, the United States, in 2020? Do we have concerns about their safety? Could there be a dam break here? Can what happened in Brumadinho happen here? Who controls these dams, and who “benefits” from the energy?

Robert Robinson, member of the Take Back the Land movement, comments on the recent protests, the demands of the American black people and the challenges facing the pandemic situation of the new coronavirus and the presidential elections in the United States, scheduled for November this year