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last week followed the talks at the World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth in Tiquipaya, Bolivia directly from the conference website which provided streaming media reports of the major events.

I am hoping that in the future the organisers will make hard copies of audio and video recordings of all sessions available on the internet, ideally with English translations in Ogg theora file format and released under a creative commons licence on Wikipedia’s new open media website.

I am a regular listener to the ‘Democracy Now’ war and peace report, usually at breakfast time, I listen to the dulcit tones of ‘Democracy Now’ host the delightful Amy Goodman with my coffee and toast.

All last week ‘Democracy Now’ reported live on location directly from World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth, the daily reports featured so many interesting interviews and discussions during the summit. (more…)

Jason Tockman recently interviewed Pablo Solón , Bolivia’s ambassador to the United Nationsm who has served as President Evo Morales’s top ambassador on trade and economic integration matters, the secretary pro tempore of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), and the Andean spokesperson for the “cooperation pillar” in negotiations between the Andean Community and the European Union. (more…)

Preparations are now well advanced for the forthcoming, World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth, which is to be held in Cochabamba, Bolivia this year from April 20 – 22.

International support for the conference is growing, news of the event was warmly received at the World Social Forum which was held at Porto Alegre in Brazil in January where participants gave firm support to the World People’s Conference on Climate Change as the next key step in the struggle against climate change.

The World People’s Conference on Climate Change will be in line with the World Social Forum’s aim to develop “a permanent world process seeking and building alternatives to neo-liberal policies.” The World Social Forum’s underlying theme for the 2010 events is the global crisis theme, according to the WSF, “understood not just as an economic crisis, but also as an environmental, food, energy, civilization and humanitarian crisis.”

Below is the draft declaration of the rights of Mother earth, which is the latest proposal to emerge from the working groups in the run up to the World People’s Conference on Climate Change.

We, the peoples of Earth:

gratefully acknowledging that Mother Earth gives us life, nourishes and teaches us and provides us with all that we need to live well; (more…)