For a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
Evo Morales proposed it last April, and now the United Nations has agreed to discuss it. Will humanity adopt a new declaration, one that defends our planet and its biodiversity from extinction? Also, a...
View ArticleBless Bolivia for Recharging the Fight to Rescue Our Climate
By Bill McKibben, Author, Deep Economy and The End of Nature, co-founder, 350.org Reposted from Huffington Post In a week when the American president has decided our energy policy should involve lots...
View ArticleDispatch 1: Rumbo a Cochabamba
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...
View ArticleDay one –“Either capitalism lives and the earth dies, or capitalism dies and...
By Jason Negrón-Gonzales Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project April 19, 2010 The CMPCC (Conferencia Mundial de los Pueblos sobre el Cambio Climático y los Derechos de la Madre Tierra)...
View ArticleThe ABC’s of Climate Negotiations
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...
View ArticleJason Negron-Gonzales on KPFK from Cochabamba
Listen to the interview now (photo by Diana Pei Wu) Jason’s interview from Cochabamba on the People’s World Summit on Climate Change & the Rights of Mother Earth begins about 2/3 of the way through...
View ArticleEARTH DAY IN BOLIVIA: From Copenhagen to Cancun, Indigenous Peoples Vow to...
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 ***...
View ArticleEarth Day takes on New Meaning in Cochabamba
By Jason Negrón-Gonzales Photo of Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network in the blessing ceremony in Cochabamba. credit: Diana Pei Wu. Today, Earth Day, was the closing day of the first World...
View ArticleCochabamba Postscript: Lessons, Reflections & the Road to Cancun
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....
View ArticleJASON NEGRÓN-GONZALES: From Bolivia
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...
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