[WSF-Discuss] An Introduction to the government of Bolivia’s Call for a ‘Peoples’ World Conference On Climate Change And The Rights Of Mother Earth’
Jai Sen
jai.sen at cacim.net
Mon Mar 15 06:12:40 UTC 2010
Monday, 15 March 2010
In January this year, at a meeting in New Delhi of people from
movements and solidarity groups who have started to meet towards
establishing a longer-term process of refection on and critical
engagement with key issues in movement, I put forward the idea of
critical solidarity and engagement with the Bolivian government’s
initiative for a ‘Peoples’ World Conference On Climate Change And
Mother Earth’s Rights’ (www.cmpcc.org); now one month away. I was
asked by the group to put my thoughts down as a kind of introduction
to both ‘Bolivia’ as it is now and to the Bolivian government’s
present initiative.
I am taking the liberty of posting here the text of the fourth draft
of this Introduction, which has already been circulated here and there
in earlier drafts. Apologies in advance for any duplication.
In short, and as I conclude by saying, I believe that at this juncture
in world history we need to raise our eyes and think and act at
another level : If we can perceive what I have termed “the
emancipatory, insurgent, and anti-imperialist content” of the
government of Bolivia’s Call, then this means that we need to engage
with this initative, take part in it, and take the most determined and
imaginative steps possible both to promote and to defend this content
of the initiative – and not surrender it, nor allow the Cochabamba
Conference and initiative to be compromised or overwhelmed by the
immense contradictions that it will surely face. From wherever we are
in the world.
As always, I’d be happy to have comments, but even more, to know if
you are engaging with the Cochabamba Conference – and if so, how ?
JS
An Introduction to the government of Bolivia’s Call for a
‘Peoples’ World Conference On Climate Change And The Rights Of Mother
Earth’
Jai Sen, cacim.net, March 2010 [1]
(Fourth draft, corrected, Jai Sen, March 8 2010. Comments always
welcome ! jai.sen at cacim.net)
Because of climate change, the world we know – the planet we as human
beings call home – is today in crisis, and is perhaps in a kind and
scale of crisis that has never been known before in history : Of a
possible incremental and then non-linear, cataclysmic collapse of the
ecosystem, one that threatens life as we know it.[2] In its course,
this collapse threatens to open social conflict, violence, war, and
widespread individual and social trauma - and even deeper injustice on
the planet at an unprecedented scale, along with immense accompanying
suffering for huge numbers of people across the world.
We are not 100% sure that this is definitely what is going to unfold
(and in some ways, it is in the very nature of the unpredictable
combinations of changes that are already taking place, and that are
expected to increasingly take place, that we will never be able to be
100% sure of what is going to happen), and we need to make one of our
tasks to try and outline all possible scenarios. But most analyses so
far, including by the IPCC, suggest that a collapse is quite possible
– unless enormous and radical changes are very rapidly made to the
world’s economy that can drastically limit carbon emissions; which at
present anyway, seem unlikely.
This possible scenario of course opens deep questions for everyone, in
any walk of life and in all parts of the world, but most definitely
for all those concerned with social justice.
The intergovernmental conference that took place in Copenhagen in
December 2009 around climate change made clear that most of the
governments of the world (and especially those of large countries,
both from the North and the South, including India), are –unwilling –
as yet, anyway - to address the incipient war, violence, injustice,
and almost unimaginably deep human suffering that today seems so
possible (and in some ways has already been unleashed) in the form of
cataclysmic climate change; and that they are structurally incapable
of doing so. This is because of their single-minded greed for power-
over and their focus on ‘national interests’, and their consequent
shortsightedness and inability to think longer-term and of the
interests of the planet as a whole.
In this context, on December 21 2009 – within a few days of the
conclusion of the Copenhagen Conference - the President of Bolivia
announced that “a world conference of social movements” would take
place in Bolivia on April 22 2010, “which is the International Day of
Mother Earth”.[3] And on January 5 2010, two weeks later, the
government of Bolivia issued its full Call for a “Peoples’ World
Conference On Climate Change And The Rights Of Mother Earth” (text
below; also available @ www.cmpcc.org), to be held in Cochabamba,
Bolivia, during April 19-22 2010.
Especially in view of the failure and farce of the Copenhagen process,
there is good reason to believe and to argue that this is an extremely
important initiative and that it demands our closest attention. This
Note takes this position. To do so however, we need to critically
view and relate to the content, timing, strategic perspective, and
authorship of the Call in terms of certain key considerations, which I
try and lay out below in terms of ten points :
One, although the Call has been issued by a government, this is a
government with a difference. We need to recognise and read that the
Bolivian state, as it stands today (but more on this below), is a
social movement state. This is not only the term used by social and
political analysts (eg Guillermo Delgado-P, forthcoming (2010) – ‘Re-
founding Bolivia : A Social Movements State ?’, in Jai Sen and Peter
Waterman, eds, forthcoming (2010a) - Worlds of Movement, Worlds in
Movement. New Delhi : OpenWord) but by itself and by its president Evo
Morales Ayma, its vice president Álvaro García Linera, and its
ambassador to the UN Angélica Navarro, among others. They see
themselves that way, as having grown out of social movement and as
still rooted there – and in many ways they seem to see government as
being an instrument for the aspirations of social movement in the
addressal of social, economic, and political issues; and also the
ecological.
We need also to read the fine print and note that the person whose
name the Call has been issued, Evo Morales Ayma, is identified as the
president of a “Plurinational State”. This – which is perhaps a
unique self-identification – is a radical departure from any normal
governmental position.
If so, this then constitutes a radically different ‘state’ than any
other, perhaps, that today exists in the world, and where there are
very few such that have existed in history (and those that have
existed have usually been short-lived, as a consequence of being under
intense external and internal pressures).
And finally on this first point, we need to read the political-
ideological character of this Call : Where four out of the five
proposals it makes are in essence beyond the nation-state :
· A Universal Declaration of Mother Earth’s Rights
· The organisation of the Peoples’ World Referendum on Climate
Change
· Developing an action plan to advance the establishment of a
Climate Justice Tribunal
· Defining strategies for action and mobilization to defend life
from Climate Change and to defend Mother Earth’s Rights.
Any government can call for a “People’s Conference” (and many do); but
few have any legitimacy to do so, and to do something like this. This
one does.
Having said this however, we nevertheless need also to always remain
critically conscious of the fact that the Bolivian state – just like
any other, and for that matter, also any social movement - is not
monolithic and that it is likely that there are several different
tendencies within it, pulling and pushing in different directions.
One among many other consequences of this is that there may be
inconsistencies and internal contradictions even in the positive
initiatives that it takes, such as this Conference.
Two, we need to recognise that Bolivia also has another very special
legitimacy for making this Call, having played a key role at the
Copenhagen Conference, along with Mauritius and one or two others, in
articulating not just the perspective of ‘the South’ but of ordinary
peoples everywhere in the world.[4]
Three, we need to read and recognise that Evo Morales Ayma, the
President of Bolivia, is himself Aymara – an indigenous person, coming
from the largest indigenous group in Bolivia – and that the Bolivian
state is therefore led by indigenous peoples; and that the social
upheaval that led to his being elected in 2006, and then re-elected in
2009, was and is led by indigenous peoples and their movements. In
terms of world history and of how indigenous peoples have been
historically treated by colonising and by settler societies – in Latin
America and in all parts of the world -, this is nothing short of
remarkable and history-breaking.
Four, more generally we need to read, recognise, and act in critical
solidarity with the emancipatory, insurgent, and anti-imperialist
content of the present government of Bolivia’s general domestic
programme (such as land reforms, fiscal reforms, and the take-over of
certain key industries from multinationals and their nationalisation /
being brought under social control; and most comprehensively in the
new Constitution it has drafted and got approved[5]) – and especially
at this juncture in world history.
Five, this upheaval – and this Call – needs also to be read as a part
of and in relation to the wider stirrings taking place among
indigenous peoples in the Americas today, and especially in South and
Central America; and with the major social and political changes
taking place in that part of the world (only one of which has been the
recent election of presidents in nothing less than eight countries who
can broadly said to be ‘leftist’). Among other things, the call for
this World Conference is very similar to the spirit of the Call issued
in May 2009 by CAOI - Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indigenas
(Andean Coordinating Body for Indigenous Organisations) and others for
a ‘Minga (Convergence, Mobilisation) for Mother Earth and a Forum on
the Civilisational Crisis and Alternative Paradigms’,[6] and to the
content of the Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples that was issued
by CAOI and others from the World Social Forum that took place in
Belém, Amazonia, Brazil, in January 2009.[7]
Although we do not as yet know whether CAOI and the other
organisations it works with have formally endorsed Bolivia’s Call,[8]
there is no question that even the co-existence, and possibly the
confluence, of these two major currents promises to be world changing
– redefining emancipation and renewing left and emancipatory
politics. To act in solidarity with such an initiative means to act
in solidarity with a major emerging movement of reassertion – and,
perhaps, through this to renew and revitalise our own politics.
Six, given all this, we therefore need to recognise the emancipatory,
insurgent, and anti-imperialist character also of this international,
transnational, and transcommunal Bolivian initiative, at a regional
and world level, at several levels of meaning, and in terms of several
empires;[9] we need equally to recognise that as such, it will be
under great pressure from all those who oppose addressing climate
change as well as the broader political-economic changes that are
required for this – pressure to co-opt the Conference, pressure to
disrupt it; and that we therefore need to do everything we can to
critically engage with and support it.
Seven, the Call – in particular - has very special interest and
significance for social movement in India. First, it is broadly very
consistent with the spirit of the Statement issued by the India
Climate Justice Network in November 2009, as a letter to the Prime
Minister.[10] And second, also because of the extremely prominent
position that the government of India has succeeded in leveraging for
itself in the climate change process by linking up with other big
economies of what till recently was called ‘the South’ (Brazil, China,
and South Africa, forming the so-called ‘BASIC’ group) and by the
BASIC countries striking a deal with the US. There is of course no
question that we need to see the global negotiations around climate
change, and therefore also this Conference, not only in terms of the
UNFCCC process but also in terms of the global economy and of geo-
politics; and therefore, whether or not Bolivia agrees with the
actions of the BASIC group in Copenhagen, it will need to attempt to
get this group, and the member countries, to play a leading role in
the Cochabamba Conference – thereby almost certainly inviting
compromise.
Our relating to this Call from India is therefore potentially a way of
joining forces with all those in the world who oppose these
developments, of broadcasting our thoughts and ideas worldwide, of
engaging in deep exchange with similarly concerned people from across
the world, and of jointly exploring and building political
alternatives. And indeed, movements and other concerned people in
India also have a very special responsibility to do so.
Eight, and in direct relation to this, we need also to recognise that
this Call by Evo Morales Ayma as President of the “Plurinational State
of Bolivia” is significantly different from the Call made last year by
Hugo Chavez, as President of Venezuela, for the formation of a ‘Fifth
International’.[11] This is the case, first, in terms of its spirit
of openness and where it is not immediately calling for a new
institutional international but of a process international (or
movement international) – building or contributing to world movement
around climate change and a world wide web of resistance and
emancipatory alternatives based on a very real crisis; and second, in
terms of its seeing itself as directly growing out of the pains of
Mother Earth and organically related to it – and not separate. The
very conception of politics in the two Calls is radically different.
Even if Morales and Chavez are otherwise seen at a regional (Latin
American) and world level as allies and as both being of the ‘left’,
and even if both are from non-settler sections of their respective
societies, it is crucial to recognise that the two projects are
different and that we need to carefully, critically, and separately
relate to each.
Nine, although this is in some ways a ‘domestic’ issue, we need to
realise that Evo Morales and his government are, like all
insurrectionary and radical formations, under tremendous pressure
within their country and that we therefore need, more generally, to
act in solidarity with them. That they have held out for over four
years, and have succeeded in negotiating extremely turbulent waters
(with intense opposition internally from the settler society in
eastern Bolivia and externally – and internally - from the US and
transnational corporations), is remarkable. To relate to and to
collaborate with this Call therefore also means a direct and powerful
action of solidarity with a crucial actor in contemporary world social
and political history; one that is indeed creating fundamental history.
Finally, we need to recognise that the so-called ‘inter-governmental’
process called COP – with the last meeting held in Copenhagen in
December 2009, and the next big one in Mexico in December 2010 – is
likely to lead nowhere; and that governments, fuelled as they are by
corporations, and jostling and jockeying as they always are for power-
over (the power to exert control over others), are extremely unlikely
to be able to take a clear, longer-term position in favour of planet
earth. To reform them will require, at the minimum, an enormous amount
of public education and pressure; and if they could ignore the huge
pressure at and leading up to Copenhagen, as they did so blatantly –
and including through repression and arrests -, they can and will do
so again. Whatever they do is always first going to be what they are
about, which is power-over, nationally and globally.
Bolivia’s Call is a call for a radical alternative, made in the
interests of the planet called Earth that is our Home, and for power-
to among the peoples of the world : The power to transform ourselves
and the world, and to build a life and world of well-being, justice,
mutual respect, and peace. If we believe in social transformation and
in protecting and nurturing the Earth, we need to critically and
openly relate to and work along with this initiative; and we need also
to work to ensure that this remains its essential character, since
this will always be under threat.
The timing is also vital, and the time to act is NOW. By issuing the
Call for the Cochabamba Conference immediately after Copenhagen, and
organising it eight months before the next COP Conference in Mexico,
this process steals a vital march and can potentially create an
extremely important countervailing global current to the presently
monopolistic COP process, at all levels : At the level of social and
political movement, at the governmental level, and most importantly,
in the public sphere and in the imaginations of peoples everywhere.
Keeping this in mind, and keeping in mind also that there are several
other climate-related initiatives in and from India, we need – I
believe – to engage fully with each proposal of the Bolivian
initiative and formulate a bouquet of activities that can contribute
powerfully, individually and collectively, to the Cochabamba
Conference and process.
At the same time, and keeping in mind the likely outcome of the
official COP process, we should not conceive of relating to the
Bolivian government’s Call solely in terms of the intervention that it
plans to make in the official intergovernmental process (which is only
one out of the several proposals put forward in the Call), but also –
and perhaps even primarily – in terms of four other proposals, as
mentioned above, which have a much broader compass.
On the other hand, and at the same time, and even while acting in
solidarity, we need also to be and to remain acutely aware of the
limitations and possible contradictions of the Bolivian process. In
particular, we need to be conscious of the dynamics of convergences
such as is likely to take place in Cochabamba, and of the likely (and
almost certain) focus on the intergovernmental (UNFCCC) process -
whether the government of Bolivia intends this to happen or not.
First, the host has openly invited all sections of the non-state
world, and somewhat unfortunately, even though its primary call is to
“social movements”, using UN terminology it seems at present to be
placing special emphasis on what it calls “NGOS” – which means that
the Cochabamba Conference is very likely to be flooded by well-
resourced international and northern NGOs who are already deeply
embedded in the intergovernmental process and will primarily be
driving, at best, for building a kind of countervailing pressure at
Mexico. Given the juggernaut that has now developed in the official
process however, it can be argued that this hope is hardly worth
investing in.
And second, the government of Bolivia has also been open enough to
invite all nation-states to come to the Cochabamba Conference,
whatever their role was in Copenhagen.[12] Ostensibly, the objective
of this to allow them to observe and interact with social movements
and NGOs - but where the reality is that they, should they come, will
of course also be acting to heavily influence the outcomes of the
meeting. In short, it is quite possible that because of this content,
the COP focus will tend to severely derail and/or overwhelm the other
initiatives.
Beyond this however, we need also to be alive to the criticism that is
emerging within Bolivia – such as that while the government has issued
this Call for an international people’s conference, its actions within
the country with respect to directly related issues such as protection
of the environment are not consistent.[13] We need to be aware of
this possibility and to study such criticisms and developments
closely, even as we act in solidarity.
But, and in conclusion, I believe that at this juncture in world
history, we need to raise our eyes and think and act at another
level : In short, if we can perceive what I have termed “the
emancipatory, insurgent, and anti-imperialist content” of the
government of Bolivia’s Call, then surely this means that we need to
take the most determined and imaginative steps possible to defend and
promote this content – and not to surrender it, and not to allow the
Cochabamba Conference and initiative to be compromised or
overwhelmed. From wherever we are in the world.
PEOPLES’ WORLD CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE
AND MOTHER EARTH’S RIGHTS
www.cmpcc.org
Considering that climate change represents a real threat to the
existence of humanity, of living beings and our Mother Earth as we
know it today;
Noting the serious danger that exists to islands, coastal areas,
glaciers in the Himalayas, the Andes and mountains of the world, poles
of the Earth, warm regions like Africa, water sources, populations
affected by increasing natural disasters, plants and animals, and
ecosystems in general;
Making clear that those most affected by climate change will be the
poorest in the world who will see their homes and their sources of
survival destroyed, and who will be forced to migrate and seek refuge;
Confirming that 75% of historical emissions of greenhouse gases
originated in the countries of the North that followed a path of
irrational industrialization;
Noting that climate change is a product of the capitalist system;
Regretting the failure of the Copenhagen Conference caused by
countries called "developed", that fail to recognize the climate debt
they have with developing countries, future generations and Mother
Earth;
Affirming that in order to ensure the full fulfillment of human rights
in the twenty-first century, it is necessary to recognize and respect
Mother Earth’s rights;
Reaffirming the need to fight for climate justice;
Recognizing the need to take urgent actions to avoid further damage
and suffering to humanity, Mother Earth and to restore harmony with
nature;
Confident that the peoples of the world, guided by the principles of
solidarity, justice and respect for life, will be able to save
humanity and Mother Earth, and
Celebrating the International Day of Mother Earth,
The Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia calls on the
peoples of the world, social movements, and Mother Earth’s defenders,
and invites scientists, academics, lawyers and governments that want
to work with their citizens to the Peoples’ World Conference on
Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights to be held from 20th to 22nd
April 2010 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.[14]
The Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth's
Rights has as objectives:
1) To analyze the structural and systemic causes that drive climate
change and to propose radical measures to ensure the well-being of all
humanity in harmony with nature
2) To discuss and agree on the project of a Universal Declaration
of Mother Earth Rights
3) To agree on proposals for new commitments to the Kyoto Protocol
and projects for a COP Decision under the United Nations Framework for
Climate Change that will guide future actions in those countries that
are engaged with life during climate change negotiations and in all
United Nations scenarios, related to:
- Climate debt
- Climate change migrants-refugees
- Emission reductions
- Adaptation
- Technology transfer
- Finance
- Forest and Climate Change
- Shared Vision
- Indigenous Peoples, and
- Others.
4) To work on the organization of the Peoples’ World Referendum on
Climate Change
5) To analyze and develop an action plan to advance the
establishment of a Climate Justice Tribunal
6) To define strategies for action and mobilization to defend life
from Climate Change and to defend Mother Earth’s Rights.
Bolivia, January 5th, 2010
Evo Morales Ayma
President of the
Plurinational State of Bolivia
Email: info at cmpcc.org
www.cmpcc.org
[1] I prepared the first draft of this Note in January 2010, at the
request of a group of people from movements and solidarity groups who
have started to meet in New Delhi towards establishing a longer-term
process of refection on and critical engagement with key issues in
movement; and to whom I put forward the idea of solidarity with the
Bolivian initiative introduced in this Note. My thanks to the
following : For their comments on the first draft of this
introduction, Julia Sánchez, Kolya Abramsky, Lee Cormie, and Peter
Waterman; Ashok Chowdhury for his close and critical engagement and
solidarity in, and contributions to, the development of these ideas
and proposals in the third draft; the meeting of the Delhi group on
March 2 2010 to more specifically discuss how to relate to the
Cochabamba Conference, for their comments and their invitation to
revise and prepare this fourth draft; and Mayra Gomez for some very
helpful comments on and corrections to my fourth draft.
[2] In case you have not already seen the extremely powerful film by
Yann Arthus-Bertrand titled ‘Home’, brilliantly showing the present
state of our planet, you must do so. You can see and/or download it @ www.home-2009.com/
.
[3] Links, December 2009 - ‘Bolivia calls World Conference of Social
Movements’, on Links, International Journal of Socialist Renewal,
December 21 2009, @ http://links.org.au/node/1419#comment-52978.
Accessed 04.03.2010.
[4] Amy Goodman, December 2009 – ‘Bolivian President Evo Morales on
Climate, Copenhagen and Capitalism’, on http://endofcapitalism.com/2009/12/17/bolivian-president-evo-morales-on-climate-copenhagen-and-capitalism/
and http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/17/bolivian_president_evo_morales_on_climate
.
[5] Enacted in February 2009. See http://www.bolivianconstitution.com/.
[6] See : Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indígenas (CAOI),
Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica
(COICA), Consejo Indígena de Centro América (CICA), Movimiento de los
Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra (MST), and others - ‘Minga Global por
le Madre Tierra / Global Mobilisation for Mother Earth’, in Spanish
and English, accessed 04.03.2010 @ http://minkandina.org/mingaglobal/
[7] Available 29.05.09 @ http://www.cadtm.org/spip.php?article4133.
[8] JS, 04.03.2010 : On a conference call on February 8 2010,
organised by the organisers of the Cochabamba Conference, I asked
Pablo Solón (Bolivia’s Climate Change Ambassador and the person
coordinating the Conference) how the Conference was relating to the
initiatives already taken with respect to Mother Earth by CAOI and
others. He said that they are “closely in touch with all indigenous
peoples’ organisations in the region”. (He added though, that at that
point in time they still had only very weak contacts with popular
organisations and movements in Africa and Asia, and asked for help in
developing these.) In the meanwhile, and most recently at the request
of the March 2 meeting in Delhi, I have also written to CAOI and
others to ask about this.
JS 08.03.2010 : I have received two further pieces of information in
this regard, in this meanwhile. One, that CAOI is holding an
organisational congress, including leadership elections, in the first
half of March 2010 – and it can be expected that it will discuss its
relation to the Cochabamba Conference at this congress. And two,
Mayra Gomez has pointed out that CAOI has however already registered a
self-organised event at the Conference titled ‘El Buen Vivir de los
Pueblos Indígenas Andinos como alternativa al Cambio Climático’ (‘The
Living Well of Andean Indigenous Peoples as an alternative to face
Climate Change issues’), available in English @ http://pwccc.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/762/#more-762
. On the other hand, it is a noticeable fact that although the key
question of ‘Mother Earth’ (or Pachamama) is common to CAOI’s call and
the conference, CAOI does not as yet have a link on its website to the
Conference.
[9] For a discussion of the concept of plural empires, see : Jai Sen,
March 2007d – ‘Understanding the world : Interrogating empire and
power’. Introduction to Jai Sen, ed, forthcoming (2010a) -
Interrogating Empires, Book 2 in the Are Other Worlds Possible ?
series. New Delhi : OpenWord and Daanish.
[10] New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI), National Forum of Forest
People and Forest Workers (NFFPFW), Focus on the Global South,
Intercultural Resources, Delhi Platform, Delhi Forum, Bharat Jan
Vigyan Jatha (BJVJ), and others, November 2009 – ‘Memorandum To The
Government Of India On The UNFCCC’s 15th Conference Of The Parties At
Copenhagen’, dated November 24 2009. Posted by Vijayan M.J of Delhi
Forum on November 25 2009 5:32:41 pm GMT+05:30, on the climate justice
group indiaclimatejustice at gmail.com, titled ‘Please Endorse:
Memorandum to the PM on Climate Change’. Accessed 05.03.2010 @ http://www.durbanclimatejustice.org/?p=445
and as a document @ http://www.saded.in/Copenhagen/Climate%20Justice%20COP%2015%20Memo%20to%20PM%20final%2071209.doc
[11] See, for instance, Federico Fuentes, November 2009 – ‘Chavez's
Historic Call for a Fifth Socialist International’, on
VenezuelaAnalysis.com, November 30 2009. Accessed 04.02.2010 @ http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/4965
.
[12] See the Conference website, www.cmpcc.org, where this is openly
announced.
[13] See, for example : Eduardo Gudynas, nd, c.February 2010 – ‘Una
Necesaria Reflexion Acerca Del Encuentro Sobre Cambio Climatico En
Bolivia’ (‘A Necessary Reflection on the Conference on Climate Change
in Bolivia’, in Spanish), @ http://accionyreaccion.com/?p=216;
accessed 26.02.2010.
[14] Emphasis given.
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