Defending Water for Life in Maine

What is hard to convey are the tears. The tears of Susanna, an Athabascan from Alberta Province in Canada, who lost 13 family members in one month. Multinational corporations such as BP, Shell, Exxon Mobil and even the Norwegian government produce oil from tar sands from mines covering an area as large as New York State and pollute the native lands causing c […]

Defending Water held two sessions at the World Conference. Emily Posner presented on Lessons Learned from the Climate Disaster in the U.S., describing with words and slides what happened in New Orleans when Katrina and Rita hit the coast and the city. Property was protected while people from the 9th Ward were blocked from getting to dry land. Some African-Am […]

Several weeks before we arrived from around the world, representatives of indigenous communities in Bolivia met to draft a declaration on the rights of Pachamama, Mother Earth. This became the working draft for Table 3 to prepare a UN Declaration on Mother Earth Rights. After an indigenous opening ceremony to bless the effort, we were told to elect two Presi […]

In some ways, the People´s World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (Conferencia Mundial de los Pueblos sobre el Cambio Climatico y los Derechose de la Madre Tierra) reminded by of the early World Social Forums in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Thousands of people, high energy, celebrations, so many meetings it was hard to choose where to go […]