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Bolivia Address to COP 18 in Defense of Mother Earth in Qatar
Posted on December 5, 2012 | 6 Comments"We denounce to the whole world the pressure from some countries for the approval of new carbon market mechanisms, although these have shown to be ineffective in the fight against climate change, and that only represent business opportunities. This is a climate change conference, not a conference for carbon business. We did not come here to do business with the death of Mother Earth betting on the power of markets as a solution. We are here to protect our Mother Earth, we came here to protect the future of humanity. Yesterday forests were turned into carbon markets businesses, and the same was done with the land, they tried to oceans and, worse, to agriculture." -
Bolibya? Juan Carlos Zambrana sets the Record Straight on the Destabilization Campaign Against Morales Led by U.S. Funded NGOs
Posted on January 24, 2012 | 1 Comment"It is no secret that Al Jazeera has become an instrumental tool of propaganda (Wadah Khanfar, Al-Jazeera and the triumph of televised propaganda by Thierry Meyssan), serving the Imperialist powers in the expanding destabilization campaigns taking place at unprecedented speed across the globe. What is perhaps less known is the destabilization campaign staged against the Bolivian President Evo Morales, which Morales successfully circumvented and over-came in late 2011. (Media reported several deaths including a baby – all which proved to be complete fabrication.)" -
Climate Change, the Big Corrupt Business? A Brilliant Interview with Tom Goldtooth
Posted on December 10, 2011 | No Comments"We challenged the big organisations with environmental racism ... including Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, to bring our voices to the board, to the way in these campaigns are shaped. ... We have challenged, and become very unpopular, for raising the issue of classism which is source of the problem and requires an economic analysis if the environmental and climate narrative is to be truthful.... Look at 350.org – we had to challenge them to bring us to stand with them on the pipeline issue. Bill McKibben, the ivory tower white academic, didn't even want to take the time to bring people of colour to the organising. ..." -
Bolivia Submits Sustainable Forest Life Proposal to COP17 based on the Principle of "Non-commodification of Forests"
Posted on December 6, 2011 | No CommentsFORESTS ARE MORE THAN JUST A COMMODITY:FORESTS ARE MORE THAN JUST A COMMODITY: Bolivia Submits Sustainable Forest Life Proposal to COP17 based on the Principle of "Non-commodification of Forests." -
The Commodification of Earth's Forests: The Key Players Behind REDD
Posted on December 1, 2011 | 1 Comment"The WWF, The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, Environmental Defense Fund, Woods Hole Research Center, CIFOR, Wildlife Conservation Society and other “conservationist” NGOs are among those who stand to make billions of dollars from REDD+. The interests of these conservation NGOs and large corporations have become more clear. Corporations on one hand have been using these NGOs as their best green public relations’ agencies – if paid the right amounts of money, and the NGOs funds on the other hand, have grown more dependent on the “contributions” from these same corporations." -
Bolivia: Solidarity activists need to support process
Posted on November 22, 2011 | No Comments"Ignoring or denying clear evidence of US funding to such organisations is problematic. Attacking the Bolivian government for exposing this, as some did, disarms solidarity activists in their fight against imperialist intervention. But biggest failure of the solidarity movement has been its silence on US and corporate responsibility for the conflict. The TIPNIS dispute was not some romanticised, Avatar-like battle between indigenous defenders of Mother Earth and a money-hungry government intent on destroying the environment. Underpinning the conflict was the difficult question of how Bolivia can overcome centuries of colonialism and underdevelopment to provide its people with access to basic services while trying to respect the environment. The main culprits are not Bolivian; they are imperialist governments and their corporations." -
New Videos: Filming by Documentary Filmmaker Rebecca Sommer (Belo Monte, REDD)
Posted on October 3, 2011 | No CommentsNinawa Hunikui lives 36 km away from the place where last year a settlement of the non-cotacted has been spotted via airplane (Survival International + FUNAI). The non-contacted group is sometimes nearby Ninawa's village. The isolated indigenous group(s) don't want contact, he explains that they have shot arrows after those that came too near, and that that they flee when being spotted. The isolated group(s) are in great danger, and some have been killed by peruvian loggers and miners. He is making proposals to the Un and Brazil and Peru, on how to protect them. -
Why I Refuse to Promote Bill McKibben
Posted on July 7, 2011 | 13 CommentsIt continues to both concern and baffle me that those within the movement who coined the term "climate justice" continue to promote a false prophet who believes/hopes and promotes that greed can save us (see McKibben's The Greenback Effect: Greed Has Helped Destroy the Planet – Maybe Now It Can Help Save It). Greed, of course, being one of the ugliest traits in the human species. Greed being the pivotal factor behind the "success" of capitalism. Greed being the reason the world's wealthiest 15% contribute 75% of all global greenhouse gas emissions (Professor Stephen Pacala) on the backs of the poor and most vulnerable while simultaneously decimating and raping the Earth. Throughout history, greed has proven to be lethal. Greed and justice cannot co-exist. -
Rejecting REDD
Posted on February 15, 2011 | 21 CommentsThe Declaration created at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth clearly condemned REDD, stating that it violates “the sovereignty of our Peoples.” -
Watch Bolivia’s Oct. 6 Press Conference on UN Climate Talks in Tianjin
Posted on October 9, 2010 | No Commentshttp://unfccc2.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/101004_AWG_China/templ/play.php?id_kongresssession=3106&theme=unfccc Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
