The water in the bottles was brown and cloudy, but this protest was not about the oil disaster in the Gulf but a potential mining operation in El Salvador.
The bottles of murky water were props for street theater put on by the Washington Fair Trade Coalition and Seattle CISPES, an El Salvador solidarity group, as part of a protest May 27 over Rep. Jim McDermott's (D-Seattle) lack of support for the Trade Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment (TRADE) Act. ...