From Detroit to Cancun, from Civil Rights to Human Rights and, the Rights of Mother Earth!

From Detroit to Cancun, from Civil Rights to Human Rights and, the Rights of Mother Earth!
 
The Declaration of Interdependence
 
A Call to Cause and Plan of Purpose
After the Battle of Selma in 1967, Martin Luther King stated that “We have emerged from the era of civil rights to the Era of Human Rights,” and the following year he was assassinated.  Today in the summer of 2010, an entire ecosystem is being massacred in Gulf of Mexico and some 50 million human beings across the planet are projected to become climate refugees, forced into involuntary migration by climate change and the collapse into planetary climate chaos, a result of global warming and industrial greenhouse gas emissions.

 
The World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth which took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia in April 2010 generated a Peoples’ Agreement which specifies the issues of conflict and proposals to effectively address the betrayal of the Copenhagen Accord, yet these point are not being integrated into the United Nations processes that will reconvene at the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16)-UN Climate Change Conference to be held in Cancun, Mexico from November 29 to December 10, 2010.

 
A strategic and cosmetric shift in perspective, organization, communication and commitment is required that will allow for the hope of engaging effectively with the climate change-climate chaos scenario, realizing simultaneously a local-global approach that integrates and resonates with the history of the social justice movements of the past. In North America specifically, a new reference point in an ascending scale of motivation is called for.  The government state system of the United Nations has proven incompetent to effectively address the global climate crisis.  A Call to Cause and Plan of Purpose driven by our mutual obligations and shared responsibilities of the children of the Nations and Pueblos of Mother Earth is needed, in the spirit of Self Determination to protect and defend the Rights of Mother Earth.  And so, in complement to the Peoples’ Agreement of the World Conference on Climate Change we propose to engage at the US Social Forum with our DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE, generated and in consensus proclaimed in conjunction with the National Day of Action against SB1070 in Phoenix, Arizona on May 29, 2010.

DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE

Respect – Inclusiveness – Complementarity – Self Determination

Asamblea de los Pueblos
Phoenix, Arizona
May 29, 2010
A Call to Cause and Plan of Purpose

Respect – Respeto

Inclusiveness – Inclusividad

Complementarity – Complementariedad

Self Determination – Autodeterminacion

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Sumak Kawsay

Buen Vivir – Living with Wellness

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The Cochabamba Protocols

Los Protocolos de Cochabamba

Contexts of Cognition and Community

Land - La Madre Tierra: Los Cinco Continentes - The Five Continents

Water - Agua: La Abuelita Mar - The Single Sea

Air - Aire: El Atmósfera - The Atmosphere

Sun - Sol: Sistemas Energeticas - Energy Systems

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NAHUACALLI

Embassy of the Indigenous Peoples

www.nahuacalli.org

The diverse representations of Nations and Pueblos of Indigenous Peoples of the continent from Canada to Tierra del Fuego who attended the Kuntur Anka Pachacutic last week here in Ecuador, are calling for realization and the exercise of the Right of Self Determination in this process of clarifying criteria by proclaiming the Protocols of Cochabamba as a fundamental standard of relationship to the Mother Earth and the natural world, from a local to global context that originates with the ancestral and sacred relationship of the Indigenous Peoples to their territories and responsibilities as caretakers and defenders of the Rights of Mother Earth.  The Protocols of Cochabamba are derivatives of the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth which took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia in April of 2010.

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The Cochabamba Protocols

NAHUACALLI
Embassy of Indigenous Peoples
www.nahuacalli.org