cross posted from Organizing Upgrade June 1, 2010 Last month in Cochabamba, the Bolivian government and social movements convened the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (CMPCC). The conference was ground-breaking, bringing together governments, NGO’s, indigenous communities, and social movements. The goal of the conference was to re-ground and [...]
By Jason Negrón-Gonzales I’m on the plane back to the US flying at 29,000 feet over the Amazon. A green carpet of trees, only interrupted by winding veins of brown rivers, stretches to the horizon. From time to time where a larger river appears, a small cluster of buildings sits like a speck on the [...]
Contacts in Bolivia: Jihan Gearon, Indigenous Environmental Network: +591 740 28531 Jeff Conant, Global Justice Ecology Project: +591 703 75254 http://www.pitchengine.com/free-release.php?id=59552 *** ESPANOL ABAJO *** Cochabamba, Bolivia– As Earth Day celebrations commence around the world, Indigenous Peoples from across the Americas are in Cochabamba, Bolivia today to close the historic conference on climate change and [...]
By Jason Negrón-Gonzales Cochabamba, Bolivia Here at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, I Just took in a panel on the ABC’s of Climate Negotiations featuring the negotiators present in Copenhagen representing Cuba and Bolivia, and an activist and policy expert from the Third World Network. They managed [...]
By Jason Negrón-Gonzales, en route to Cochabamba I’m writing from the plane in route to Cochabamba for the People’s World Conference on Climate Change and Rights of the Mother Earth. For those who aren’t familiar with the conference, it was proposed by Bolivian president Evo Morales in the aftermath of the COP15 conference in Copenhagen [...]