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A New Climate Movement in Bolivia
25 April 2010 - Naomi Klein -
Earth day in Bolivia
From Copenhagen to Cancun, Indigenous Peoples Vow to Defend the “Rights of Mother Earth” Condemn Predatory ‘REDD’ Forest Programs
24 April 2010 - -
The ABC’s of Climate Negotiations
22 April 2010 - Jason Negrón-Gonzales -
Is Bolivia heading for Andean- Amazonian capitalism?
9 March 2010 - Eric Toussaint -
We must support a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
9 January 2010 - Pablo Solón, Cormac Cullinan -
Indigenous Peoples Rising
26 January 2009 - James D. Cockcroft -
Characteristics of the experiences underway in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia
4 July 2008 - Eric Toussaint -
Regarding "The Return Directive"
17 June 2008 - Evo Morales Ayma -
Alternative financing for development: Venezuela and ALBA
22 May 2008 - Alejandro Bendaña -
Press release
International civil society organisations protest Telecom Italia’s new attacks and confiscatory measures against Bolivia
16 May 2008 - People’s Social Summit
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No More "Green Capitalism"
10 January - Josep Maria Antentas, Esther Vivas -
2011 COP17 succumbs to Climate Apartheid!
11 December 2011 - -
Auditors find World Bank skipped policy steps in approving huge South African coal plant
World Bank screwed up on Eskom coal loan: big ooooops, bad timing!
5 December 2011 - Lisa Friedman -
COP17 civil society statement on conflict during the Global Day of Action
5 December 2011 - -
‘Conference of Polluters’
COP17’s dirty secret: another failure will please certain South Africans
30 November 2011 - Patrick Bond -
Durban, South Africa, November 26th
Declaration of members of the indigenous people biocultural climate change assessment (IPCCA) initiative
28 November 2011 - -
Statement from Civil Society Organizations of Nepal
Say NO to ‘climate loan’
18 February 2011 - -
The World Social Forum and the battle for COP17
18 February 2011 - Vishwas Satgar -
Cancun Declaration
12 janvier 2011 - -
COP 16 ends: Cancun climate change talks disappoint global expectations
13 December 2010 - Alianza Social Continental
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European Resistance | Days of protest from May 16th to 19th against the crisis dictatorship of the European Union
11 April - -
Declaration by the African organizations at the Alternative World Water Forum
21 March - -
ATTAC/CADTM Morocco against capitalism globalization
9 February - Attac/Cadtm Maroc -
Declaration of Social Movements Assembly Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil
31 January - -
The International Context of Global Outrage (5/5)
Indignadas and Indignados of the World, Unite !
22 January - Eric Toussaint -
The International Context of Global Outrage (4/5)
Common features of the various 2011 mobilizations
19 January - Eric Toussaint -
The International Context of Global Outrage (3/5)
From the Arab Spring to the Indignados movement to Occupy Wall Street
10 January - Eric Toussaint -
The International Context of Global Outrage (2/5)
The global crisis that preceded the Arab Spring, the Indignados, and the Occupy Wall Street movement
6 January - Eric Toussaint -
The International Context of Global Outrage (in 5 parts)
Looking back on the movements that preceded the Arab Spring, the Indignados, and Occupy Wall Street
3 January - Eric Toussaint -
FREEDOM for our comrade Agadil and STOP the harassment of Moroccan activists
7 November 2011 - Attac/Cadtm Maroc
Peoples World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights, 19-22 April 2010, Cochabamba, Bolivia
17 April 2010
On 18-19 December in Copenhagen, a handful of governments opposed the text presented by the United States, China, Brazil, India and South Africa. Among those few Bolivia, represented by President Evo Morales, strongly condemned the agreement both on the process (the text was discussed in small groups outside of the UN) and on the content, which fell far short of anything close to what the IPCC recommended, did not include any constraints on emissions, or financing commitments for the South.
Just a few days later President Morales issued an invitation to the “Peoples World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights” in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 19-22 April 2010. Bolivia believes that it is vital to take some immediate initiatives to change the correlation of forces to shift the international agenda. The proposal is original: to invite all governments, UN agencies, scientists, social movements and NGOs - without conditions – to participate in a working groups and to prepare conclusions and a final declaration.
Several governments have indicated that they will attend. Many activists, social movements and scientists, motivated by the necessity to build a large global alliance for climate justice, will also support and join Cochabamba.
Delegates from the international network CADTM and from CADTM– AYNA (Committee for the Cancellation of the Third World Debt - Abya Yala Nuestra América) will be present and will propose a workshop on:"The responsibilities of the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank for climate change" Place: Universidad del Valle (UNIVALLE), Informática Sala Idiomas
Speakers: María Elena Saludas (ATTAC- CADTM Argentina), Blanca Chancoso (CONAIE), Roberto Espinoza (CAOI) Francois Houtart (Foro Mundial de las Alternativas).
CADTM’s delegates in Cochabamba: María Elena Saludas (Attac / CADTM Argentina), William Gaviria Ocampo (Campaña Colombiana en Deuda con los Derechos - CADTM AYNA) To contact the delegation:
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Invitation to the Assembly of Social Movements
Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 19, 2010, 10 am
10h30-12h30 - Sala Biblio P3 (Piso 3) - UNIVALLE
We, activists of many diverse social movements, characterize this current moment as one of arrogance and authoritarianism on the part of the United States, the European Union and transnational corporations. This was demonstrated in Copenhagen when very few countries tried to create an outcome that was in disagreement with the COP 15, and did nothing to stop global warming and the climate crisis.
The increase of military presence and military bases in various parts of the world, “humanitarian” invasions and occupations which indicate war, the occupation of markets and territories, and the military presence to control energy resources, water, and natural biodiversity are all tactics derived from civilization’s crisis of capitalism and the logics of exploitation, racism, and patriarchy. These tactics also work to disguise the climate crisis in illegitimate negotiations.
Our response is to fight for the right of all people to live decent lives in their communities, against false solutions to crises, against militarization as a solution, and against the actions of transnational corporations. These transnationals, with the support of governments or multilateral institutions like the World Bank, undermine national borders for the production of monocultures and for the privatization of air and the creation of speculative markets called “carbon credits.”
It is in this context that we present to the People’s World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. In Cochabamba we have organized an Assembly of Social Movements, a continuation of our efforts and articulations in the fight, with two goals:
To discuss and organize our support of the proposals and initiatives of governments committed to the rights of people and the environment;
To discuss and organize our agenda as social movements to promote our alternatives and our resistence to the marketization of the relationship between people and between people and their environment—the offense of transnationals and militarization.
Alianza Social Continental
ATALC (Amigos de la Tierra América Latina)
Cebrapaz
Central Sindical de las Américas
Climate Justice Now!
CLOC
COMPA
Fdim
Marcha Mundial das Mulheres
Oclae
Red CADTM AYNA
Via Campesina
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