Articles by Upside Down World
Bolivian Climate Conference: Morales and International Peoples’ Proposals for Change
The international conference has started and the peoples and social movements are launching a planet-wide mobilization to defend Mother Earth. Bolivian president Evo Morales proposed the creation of a Climate Justice Tribunal, to judge and sanction countries responsible for harm to the environment. A world-wide referendum prepared in this forum will catapult this civil action and will be presented at the next UN climate talks.
News Roundup: World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth is going on this week in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Here are some media outlets and blogs reporting from Cochabamba in English on the conference with observations, photos, videos and analysis.
Climate Change Conference in Bolivia: In Defense of Pachamama
(IPS) – Through their ancestral knowledge and traditions, indigenous peoples will make a unique and invaluable contribution to the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which begins Monday, Apr. […]
Bolivia: Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of Cochabamba Water War
Source: Democracy Now! Ten years ago this month, the Bolivian city of Cochabamba was at the center of an epic fight over one of the city’s most vital natural resources: its own water. The Water […]
Photo Essay From Bolivia: Memories of the Water War and Preparation for the World Climate Conference
Ten years after the 2000 Cochabamba Water War, social movements took to the streets to commemorate the historic uprising that stopped the company Aguas de Tunari, subsidiary of the US corporation Bechtel, from privatizing the Cochabamba public water services. To many, the water war marked the beginning of the end of an era of neoliberal economic policy in Bolivia.
Diez Años Después de la Guerra del Agua en Bolivia: Entrevistas con Oscar Olivera y Carlos Crespo
Fuente: Feria Internacional del Agua Entrevistas con Oscar Olivera y Carlos Crespo
Migrants Risk Everything in Arizona Desert Crossing
(IPS) – As he drops his last purification tablet into a pail of swirling, murky water, Sergio, 26, stares out toward the desert. Recently deported from Arizona, where he has a young child and where […]
The Second Killing of Pablo Bac: Deafened by Canadian Silence and Impunity in Guatemala
In 1981, Pablo Bac, a Mayan Qeqchi man from the community of Chichipate (municipality of El Estor, department of Izabal, Guatemala) was disappeared and killed.
Pablo was defending the rights and well-being of the Mayan Qeqchi people, helping to resist forced evictions by the EXMIBAL nickel mining company, subsidiary of the Canadian nickel mining giant INCO.