Category Archives: Cochabamba
“This is not the democracy that we fought for:” An Interview with Ricado Jacobs, South African member of La Via Campesina
This is the second of three interviews I conducted with members of the Via Campesina delegation during United Nations COP17 in Durban, South Africa recently. The first interview, with Alberto Gomez of UNORCA, Mexico, is here. – Jeff Conant, for … Continue reading
“Our Struggle is for the Permanence of Agriculture”: Interview with Alberto Gomez of La Via Campesina, Durban South Africa
At COP17 in Durban, as at COP16 in Cancún previously, Global Justice Ecology Project worked closely with La Via Campesina, the world’s largest movement of peasant farmers. As part of our collaboration, I was asked to help document the movement, … Continue reading
Farmers Condemn the Durban Platform: Sustainable peasant agriculture is the genuine solution to climate change
(Jakarta, 16 December 2011) La Via Campesina, the global movement of peasants, small-scale and agricultural family farmers, denounces the attempts of the largest carbon emitters to further escape their historic responsibility to make real emission cuts and push for more … Continue reading
COP17 succumbs to Climate Apartheid
Antidote is Cochabamba Peoples’ Agreement Durban, S. Africa, 11 December, 2011 – Decisions resulting from the UN COP17 climate summit in Durban constitute a crime against humanity, according to Climate Justice Now! a broad coalition of social movements and civil … Continue reading
One Year Since Cancun and Just Days Away from Durban: More than 4°C
Pablo Solon was the former UN ambassador for Bolivia and the lead negotiator for climate change negotiations, but no longer holds that position. At COP16 in Cancun last year, Solon’s was the lone voice dissenting from the Cancun Agreements. He … Continue reading
Filed under Cancun/ COP-16, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Cochabamba, Durban/COP-17
Mirrors on the horizon: TIPNIS, Reflection and Debate
As a certain sort of social movement victory is declared in halting the construction of the TIPNIS highway in Bolivia, it is worth a moment to reflect on the deeper meanings of this struggle that has brought hundreds of indigenous … Continue reading
Letter from Pablo Solon on the TIPNIS Highway Controversy
GJEP has just received this letter from Pablo Solon, Bolivia’s former Ambassador to the United Nations and chief climate negotiator, regarding the controversy swimming around the TIPNIS highway, and the response of the Morales administration to popular protests. – the … Continue reading
An Open Letter About the Current Situation in Bolivia
For supporters of Bolivia’s positions on climate policy, the recent events around the TIPNIS highway — a popular protest march to stop the project, and brutal government repression to stop the march — have been profoundly disconcerting. A number of … Continue reading
Filed under Climate Change, Climate Justice, Cochabamba, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America
La Via Campesina: Call to Durban
Cross-posted from La Via Campesina FRIDAY, 09 SEPTEMBER 2011 Peasant and indigenous people have thousands of solutions to confront climate change! La Via Campesina calls on social movements and all people to mobilize around the world The international peasant’s movement La Via … Continue reading
WITH THE CANCUN AGREEMENT WE ALL LOSE
Jubilee South/Americas, as part of the Hemispheric Social Alliance, endorses this statement and invites others to also circulate it in particular to governments and negotiators now in Bonn. Jubileo Sur/Américas, integrante de la Alianza Social Continental, adhiere a este pronunciamiento … Continue reading
