Lea la publicación completa aquí Contenido: 10 demandas desde la Amazonía – El llamado de la 2º AMA Declaración Panamazónica de Belém – X Foro Social Panamazónico – FOSPA Asambleas de la Tierra frente a la captura de las negociaciones climáticas y el agravamiento de la crisis ecológica Declaración del Frente Parlamentario Global por los Derechos de la Naturaleza Las 10 demandas de la CONAIE … Continue reading Reflexiones Amazónicas
Preámbulo Nosotros, los pueblos de la Tierra: Considerando que todos somos parte de la Madre Tierra, una comunidad indivisible vital de seres interdependientes e interrelacionados con un destino común; Reconociendo con gratitud que la Madre Tierra es fuente de vida, alimento, enseñanza, y provee todo lo que necesitamos para vivir bien; Reconociendo que el sistema capitalista y todas las formas de depredación, explotación, abuso y contaminación han causado … Continue reading Declaración Universal de los Derechos de la Madre Tierra
Por Pablo Solón[1] La inmensa mayoría de encuentros, acuerdos internacionales y políticas nacionales sobre el medio ambiente, el cambio climático y la biodiversidad tienen un enfoque antropocéntrico. La principal preocupación de estas iniciativas gira en torno al ser humano antes que enfocarse en restaurar el equilibrio de los diferentes ecosistemas y del planeta como un todo. La Cumbre de la Tierra realizada en 1992, que … Continue reading Hacia Asambleas de la Tierra no antropocéntricas
Por Christophe Aguiton et Gustave Massiah [Version in English] Immanuel Wallerstein nous a quitté, nous ressentons une grande tristesse et un vide. C’est un grand désarroi de penser qu’on ne pourra plus discuter et débattre avec une des personnes dont nous étions intellectuellement les plus proches et qui a tant compté. Immanuel a représenté ce qu’on pouvait imaginer de mieux comme figure de l’intellectuel engagé, … Continue reading Immanuel Wallerstein, Un penseur majeur pour un autre monde possible, pour un meilleur monde
By: Christophe Aguiton and Gustave Massiah [Version française] Immanuel Wallerstein has left us, we feel a great sadness and emptiness. It is a great loss that we will no longer be able to discuss and debate with one of the people to whom we were intellectually closest and who counted so much. Immanuel represented the best imaginable figure of the committed intellectual, in the line … Continue reading Immanuel Wallerstein: A major thinker for another possible world, for a better world
[Jean Gadrey, Dominique Plihon y Aurélie Trouvé/LIBERATION/15 de noviembre de 2018] Au-delà du 17 novembre, il faut sortir de l’alternative réductrice de «taxer ou pas». D’autres pistes restent à explorer sur la mobilité des personnes. On n’évitera pas une catastrophe climatique dont les premiers effets sont de plus en plus visibles sans réduire très fortement le recours aux énergies fossiles dans leurs principaux domaines d’utilisation, … Continue reading La taxation des carburants renforce l’injustice fiscale
[NNIMMO BASSEY / CREAT TRANSITION INITIATIVE/FEBRERO DE 2018] Nnimmo Bassey is the director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), an environmental think tank based in Nigeria. He chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 to 2012. His books include To Cook a Continent – Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa and Oil Politics – Echoes of Ecological War. The pathway of … Continue reading Roundtable on Vivir Bien An exchange on Vivir Bien: Old Cosmovisions and New Paradigms
[NGO FORUM ON ADB/HOLDING ADB ACCOUNTABLE SINCE 1992] We – grassroots movements, non-government organizations and civil society networks from Asian countries and the rest of the world welcome the fact that we were invited to submit our proposals and concerns during the process of drafting the Energy Sector Strategy of the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB). We note that a number of these proposals … Continue reading Open Letter to the AIIB Board of Governors
Por Pablo Solón Desglobalizarse no es aislarse ni promover la autarquía, sino impulsar una integración mundial diferente que no esté dominada por el capital. Desglobalizarse es pensar y construir una integración alternativa que tenga en su centro a los pueblos y a la naturaleza. La globalización no es un proceso de creciente interdepen-dencia e integración hecho posible gracias al avance de las comunicaciones y el … Continue reading Desglobalización
By Pablo Solón The rights of Mother Earth are a call to abandon the existing dominant anthropocentric paradigm and to imagine a new Earth society. For anthropocentrism, human beings are at the center of everything and are superior to all other beings and elements that are part of the Earth. Humans are the only ones who possess consciousness, values and morals. Humanity and nature … Continue reading The Rights of Mother Earth
By Elizabeth Peredo Beltrán Ecofeminism is a critical theory, a philosophy and an interpretation of the world that seeks to transform it. It brings together two emerging currents of political theory and practice into one approach that aims to explain and transform the current system of domination and violence by focussing on the critique of patriarchy and the overexploitation of nature and their impacts on … Continue reading Ecofeminism
By Christophe Aguiton[1] In academic and activist circles today, there is a lot of discussion on the “common goods” or the “commons.” What are the commons? Is it right to talk about common “goods” as physical or natural resources or knowledge? Or, on the contrary, are the commons a kind of social relation or a way of collectively managing the different elements and processes that … Continue reading The Commons
[Versión en español] by Pablo Solón Vivir Bien or Buen Vivir is a concept that is under construction and that has passed through many different moments. There is not just one single definition of Vivir Bien and today this term is under dispute. At present, there are institutions linked to big business that now speak of Vivir Bien, but in an understanding that is very … Continue reading Vivir Bien
Español We are experiencing a systemic crisis that can only be solved through systemic alternatives. What humanity is facing is not only an environmental crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis or an institutional crisis. It is a crisis of humanity and of the Earth system. This systemic crisis has been triggered by the capitalist system, whose relentless pursuit of endless growth and profits at … Continue reading What is Systemic Alternatives?
The World Social Forum at the Crossroads See you in Montreal next August 9-14 Pierre Beaudet In 2001, Brazilian popular movements convened, with the support of organizations from elsewhere around the world, a Forum in Porto Alegre to facilitate the discussion among activists from civil society in turmoil, above all in Latin America, where the winds of change blew hard! There was lots of excitement … Continue reading The World Social Forum at the Crossroads
[François Houtart] América Latina fue el único continente donde las opciones neoliberales fueron adoptadas por varios países. Después de una serie de dictaduras militares, apoyadas por los Estados Unidos y portadoras del proyecto neoliberal, las reacciones no se hicieron esperar. La cumbre fue el rechazo en 2005 del Tratado de Libre Comercio con los Estados Unidos y Canadá, el resultado de la acción conjunta entre … Continue reading AMÉRICA LATINA: el final de un ciclo o el agotamiento del posneoliberalismo
Progressive illusions devoured by the crisis [Jorge Beinstein, ALAI AMLAT-en, 01/04/2016] The global situation is characterized by a deflationary crisis driven by the great powers. The fall of commodity prices, whose most signal effect, as of mid-2014, was that of oil, reveals deflated international demand, while the financial upsurge, that has been a strategic prop of the system over the past four decades, has stagnated. The … Continue reading Latin America in times of lumpencapitalism
[Katherine Walsh, Society for international development, 2010] In a world long organized around the western capitalist principle of living better and its correlate: having more‘development’ is a term and concept with a historically weighted significance. For many, it is, in essence, the‘paradogmatic’ (not just paradigmatic) frame against which the Global South in general and Latin America in particular have both measured themselves and been measured. … Continue reading Development as Buen Vivir: Institutional arrangements and (de)colonial entanglements
[from: http://www.thegreenfuse.com%5D Ecofeminism There is no single definition of ecofeminism, and ecofeminists may well disagree with at least some of explanations I give in this section, but there are core principles. Ecofeminists agree that the domination of women and the domination of nature are fundamentally connected and that environmental efforts are therefore integral with work to overcome the oppression of women. The primary aims of … Continue reading Ecofeminism
An article by: Brett Clark and John Bellamy Foster “We contend that Marx’s materialist and metabolic approach, his emphasis on the contradiction between use value and exchange value and between wealth and accumulation, his focus on sustainable human development, and his critique of capital as a whole, provide an invaluable methodological foundation to critique contemporary environmental degradation and to envision social and ecological transformation. To … Continue reading Marx’s Ecology in the 21st Century
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