<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal">Monday, 15 March 2010</p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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’ (<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.cmpcc.org">www.cmpcc.org</a></span></span>); now one month away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Apologies in advance for any duplication.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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 <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">emancipatory, insurgent, and anti-imperialist
content” of the government of Bolivia’s Call, <b>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 </b>– 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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>From wherever
we are in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">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 ?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>JS</span></p>
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<div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">An
Introduction to the government of Bolivia’s Call for a <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt">‘Peoples’
World Conference On Climate Change And The Rights Of Mother Earth’<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Jai Sen, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">cacim.net</b>, March
2010 <a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn" href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[1]</span></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt">(Fourth draft, corrected, Jai Sen, March
8 2010.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Comments always welcome ! <a href="mailto:jai.sen@cacim.net">jai.sen@cacim.net</a>)</p><!--StartFragment-->
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span></i><a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn" href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-special-character:
footnote">[2]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>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. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">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, “</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">which is the International Day of Mother
Earth”.</span></i><a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn" href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[3]</span></span></span></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"> </span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And on January 5 2010, two weeks later,
the government of Bolivia issued its full Call for a “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Peoples’ World Conference On Climate Change And The Rights Of Mother
Earth</b>” (text below; also available @ <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://www.cmpcc.org">www.cmpcc.org</a></span>), to be held in
Cochabamba, Bolivia, during April 19-22 2010.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Especially in view of the
failure and farce of the Copenhagen process, there is good reason to believe
and to argue that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">this is an extremely
important initiative</b> and that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">it
demands our closest attention</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>This Note takes this position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>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 :<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">One,</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> 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 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><i>social movement state</i></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>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) - <u>Worlds
of Movement, Worlds in Movement</u>. New Delhi : <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">OpenWord) but <i>by itself</i> and by its president </span>Evo Morales
Ayma<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">, its vice president </span>Álvaro
García Linera<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">, and its ambassador to
the UN </span>Angélica Navarro, among others<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">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”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This –
which is perhaps a unique self-identification – is a radical departure from any
normal governmental position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">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). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">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 :<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">A <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Universal Declaration of Mother Earth’s Rights</b> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The organisation of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Peoples’ World Referendum on Climate Change</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Developing an action plan to
advance the establishment of a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Climate
Justice Tribunal</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 36pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Defining strategies for action and mobilization to defend life</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> from Climate Change and to defend Mother Earth’s Rights.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This one does.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Two,</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> we need to recognise that Bolivia also has another very <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">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.<a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn" href="#_ftn4" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[4]</span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Three</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">,
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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Four</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">,
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<a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn" href="#_ftn5" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[5]</span></span></a>)
– and especially at this juncture in world history.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Five</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">,
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’).<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Among other things, the call for this World Conference is
very similar to the spirit of the Call issued in May 2009 by </span><span lang="EN-GB">CAOI - Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indigenas (Andean </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma">Coordinating Body for Indigenous
Organisations) and others for </span><span lang="EN-GB">a ‘Minga (Convergence,
Mobilisation) for Mother Earth and a Forum on the Civilisational Crisis and
Alternative Paradigms’,<a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn" href="#_ftn6" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[6]</span></span></a>
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.<a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn" href="#_ftn7" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[7]</span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Although we do not as yet know whether CAOI and the other
organisations it works with have formally endorsed Bolivia’s Call,<a style="mso-footnote-id:
ftn" href="#_ftn8" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[8]</span></span></a>
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.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">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.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Six</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">,
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;<a style="mso-footnote-id:
ftn" href="#_ftn9" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[9]</span></span></a>
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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Seven</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">,
the Call – in particular - has very special interest and significance for
social movement in India.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.<a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn" href="#_ftn10" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[10]</span></span></a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And indeed,
movements and other concerned people in India also have a very special
responsibility to do so.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Eight</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">, 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’.<a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn" href="#_ftn11" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character:
footnote">[11]</span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">directly growing out of</i> the pains of
Mother Earth and organically related to it – and not separate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The very conception of politics in the
two Calls is radically different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Nine</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">, 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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Finally</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">, 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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Whatever they do is
always first going to be what they are about, which is power-over, nationally and
globally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Bolivia’s Call is a call
for a radical alternative,</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> 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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">The timing is also vital,
and the time to act is NOW.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">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. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">On the other hand</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">, 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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>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. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn" href="#_ftn12" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[12]</span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn" href="#_ftn13" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character:
footnote">[13]</span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We need to be aware of this possibility
and to study such criticisms and developments closely, even as we act in
solidarity.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB">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 <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">emancipatory, insurgent, and anti-imperialist content” of the government
of Bolivia’s Call, <b>then surely this means that we need to take the most
determined and imaginative steps possible to defend and promote this content </b>–
and not to surrender it, and not to allow the Cochabamba Conference and
initiative to be compromised or overwhelmed.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>From wherever we are in the world.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<span class="longtext1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
Cambria;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US"><br clear="ALL" style="page-break-before:always">
</span></b></span><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center"><span class="longtext1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">PEOPLES’ WORLD CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center"><span class="longtext1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">AND MOTHER EARTH’S RIGHTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center"><span class="longtext1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><a href="http://www.cmpcc.org">www.cmpcc.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><br>
<br>
<span class="longtext1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt">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; </span></span><br>
<br>
<span class="longtext1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt">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; </span></span><br>
<br>
<span class="longtext1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt">Making clear that
those most affected by climate change will be the poorest in the world who will
see their homes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and their sources
of survival destroyed, and who will be forced to migrate and seek refuge; </span></span><br>
<br>
<span class="longtext1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt">Confirming that
75% of historical emissions of greenhouse gases<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>originated in the countries of the North that followed a
path of irrational industrialization; </span></span><br>
<br>
<span class="longtext1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt">Noting that
climate change is a product of the capitalist system; </span></span><br>
<span class="longtext1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt">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; </span></span><br>
<br>
<span class="longtext1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt">Affirming that in
order to ensure the full fulfillment of human rights in the twenty-first
century, it is necessary to recognize and respect<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Mother Earth’s rights; </span></span><br>
<br>
<span class="longtext1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt">Reaffirming the
need to fight for </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">climate justice; <br>
</span><span class="longtext1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><br>
Recognizing the need to take urgent actions to avoid further damage and
suffering to humanity, Mother Earth and to restore harmony with nature; <br>
<br>
Confident that the peoples of the world, guided by the principles of
solidarity, justice and respect for life, will be able to save<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>humanity and Mother Earth, and </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><br>
<br>
<span class="longtext1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt">Celebrating the
International Day of Mother Earth, </span></span><br>
<br>
<span class="longtext1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt">The Government of the Plurinational State of
Bolivia calls on</span></b></span><span class="longtext1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:
12.0pt"> the peoples of the world, social movements, and Mother Earth’s
defenders, and invites<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>scientists,
academics, lawyers and governments that want to work with their citizens<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth’s Rights</b>
to be held from 20th to 22nd April 2010 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.</span></span><a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn" href="#_ftn14" name="_ftnref" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[14]</span></span></a><span class="longtext1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt"><br>
<br>
The Peoples’ World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth's Rights has
as objectives:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">To analyze the structural and systemic causes</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> that drive climate change and to propose radical
measures to ensure the well-being of all humanity in harmony with nature<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">To discuss
and agree on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">the project of a Universal
Declaration of Mother Earth Rights </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">To agree
on proposals for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">new commitments to the
Kyoto Protocol</b> 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:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 54pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Climate
debt<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 54pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Climate
change migrants-refugees<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 54pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Emission
reductions<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 54pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Technology
transfer<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 54pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Forest and
Climate Change<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 54pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Shared
Vision<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 54pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Indigenous
Peoples, and<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 54pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Others.<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">To work on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">the
organization of the Peoples’ World Referendum on Climate Change<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">To analyze
and develop an action plan to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">advance
the establishment of a Climate Justice Tribunal</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;
tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">To define
strategies for action and mobilization <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">to
defend life from Climate Change and to defend Mother Earth’s Rights</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:right"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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<br>
<span class="longtext1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt">Bolivia, January
5th, 2010 </span></span><br>
<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"><br>
<span class="longtext1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt">Evo Morales Ayma </span></span><br>
<span class="longtext1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt">President of the</span></span><br>
<span class="longtext1"><span style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt">Plurinational
State of Bolivia<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Email: <a href="mailto:info@cmpcc.org">info@cmpcc.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.cmpcc.org">www.cmpcc.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div style="mso-element:footnote-list"><br clear="all">
<hr align="left" size="1" width="33%">
<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><a style="mso-footnote-id:
ftn" href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[1]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> 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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><a style="mso-footnote-id:
ftn" href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[2]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> 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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>You can see and/or download it
@ <a href="http://www.home-2009.com/">www.home-2009.com/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><a style="mso-footnote-id:
ftn" href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[3]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> Links, December
2009 - ‘<a href="http://links.org.au/node/1419#comment-52978"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Bolivia calls
World Conference of Social Movements</span></a>’, on <u>Links</u>,
International Journal of Socialist Renewal, December 21 2009, @ <a href="http://links.org.au/node/1419#comment-52978">http://links.org.au/node/1419#comment-52978</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Accessed 04.03.2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><a style="mso-footnote-id:
ftn" href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[4]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> Amy Goodman,
December 2009 – ‘Bolivian President Evo Morales on Climate, Copenhagen
and Capitalism’, on <a href="http://endofcapitalism.com/2009/12/17/bolivian-president-evo-morales-on-climate-copenhagen-and-capitalism/">http://endofcapitalism.com/2009/12/17/bolivian-president-evo-morales-on-climate-copenhagen-and-capitalism/</a>
and <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/17/bolivian_president_evo_morales_on_climate">http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/17/bolivian_president_evo_morales_on_climate</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><a style="mso-footnote-id:
ftn" href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[5]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> Enacted in
February 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">See <a href="http://www.bolivianconstitution.com/">http://www.bolivianconstitution.com/</a>.
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><a style="mso-footnote-id:
ftn" href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[6]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> 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 -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Minga Global por le Madre Tierra</i> / Global Mobilisation for Mother
Earth’, in Spanish and English, accessed 04.03.2010 @ <a href="http://minkandina.org/mingaglobal/">http://minkandina.org/mingaglobal/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><a style="mso-footnote-id:
ftn" href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[7]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> Available
29.05.09 @ <a href="http://www.cadtm.org/spip.php?article4133">http://www.cadtm.org/spip.php?article4133</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;mso-prop-change:"Jai Sen" 20100304T1851"><a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn" href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[8]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> 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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">JS 08.03.2010 : I have
received two further pieces of information in this regard, in this
meanwhile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And two, Mayra Gomez has pointed out
that CAOI has however already registered a self-organised event at the
Conference titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">‘El Buen Vivir de los
Pueblos Indígenas Andinos como alternativa al Cambio Climático’</i> (‘The
Living Well of Andean Indigenous Peoples as an alternative to face Climate
Change issues’), available in English @ <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://pwccc.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/762/#more-762">http://pwccc.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/762/#more-762</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>On the other hand, it is a noticeable
fact that although the key question of ‘Mother Earth’ (or <i>Pachamama</i>) is
common to CAOI’s call and the conference, CAOI does not as yet have a link on
its website to the Conference.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><a style="mso-footnote-id:
ftn" href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[9]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> For a discussion
of the concept of plural empires, see : Jai Sen, March 2007d – ‘Understanding
the world : Interrogating empire and power’.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Introduction to Jai Sen, ed, forthcoming (2010a) - <u>Interrogating
Empires</u>, Book 2 in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Are Other
Worlds Possible ?</i> series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>New
Delhi : OpenWord and Daanish.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><a style="mso-footnote-id:
ftn" href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[10]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> 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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Posted by Vijayan M.J of Delhi Forum on November 25 2009 5:32:41 pm
GMT+05:30, on the climate justice group <a href="mailto:indiaclimatejustice@gmail.com">indiaclimatejustice@gmail.com</a>,
titled ‘Please Endorse: Memorandum to the PM on Climate Change’. Accessed
05.03.2010 @ <a href="http://www.durbanclimatejustice.org/?p=445">http://www.durbanclimatejustice.org/?p=445</a>
and as a document @ <a href="http://www.saded.in/Copenhagen/Climate%20Justice%20COP%2015%20Memo%20to%20PM%20final%2071209.doc">http://www.saded.in/Copenhagen/Climate%20Justice%20COP%2015%20Memo%20to%20PM%20final%2071209.doc</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><a style="mso-footnote-id:
ftn" href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[11]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> 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 @<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/4965">http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/4965</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn" href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn12" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[12]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> See the Conference website, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.cmpcc.org">www.cmpcc.org</a>, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">where this is openly announced.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:24.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><a style="mso-footnote-id:
ftn" href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn13" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[13]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> See, for example
: <span class="longtext">Eduardo Gudynas</span>, nd, c.February 2010 – ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><a href="http://accionyreaccion.com/?p=216"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">Una Necesaria
Reflexion Acerca Del Encuentro Sobre Cambio Climatico En Bolivia</span></a></i>’
(‘A Necessary Reflection on the Conference on Climate Change in Bolivia’, in
Spanish), <span class="longtext">@ <a href="http://accionyreaccion.com/?p=216">http://accionyreaccion.com/?p=216</a>;
accessed 26.02.2010.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div style="mso-element:footnote" id="ftn"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><a style="mso-footnote-id:
ftn" href="#_ftnref" name="_ftn14" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-special-character:footnote">[14]</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> Emphasis given.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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