REPORT OF WG 16
STRATEGIES FOR ACTION
Recognizing that all beings are children of Mother Earth, which is not an inert object, but rather is alive, and being aware that while we are not in balance with Mother Earth we—people, animals, plants and all beings as a whole—are ill.
Today from Bolivia, we declare the world to be in a state of emergency and call on all world’s peoples and their organizations to mobilize and on governments to raise awareness and commitment to defend Mother Earth, adopting a lifestyle in which all walk together and nobody is left behind, a way of life that offers all to everyone and in which no-one lacks anythingTherefore resolves to:
- Demand that the governments of developed countries for the Conference of Parties 16 in Mexico fulfill their first period reductions obligations established by the Kyoto Protocol and to adopt during the 2nd period, which lasts until 2017, more radical commitments of green house gas emission gas absorption and reductions by at least 50% within their territories, based on 1990 levels, so that the increase in global temperature does not exceed 1 º C. This is essential to ensure the continuation of life on this planet. We are strongly opposed to carbon markets and we demand that reductions and other obligations are not transferred to developing countries.
- Demand that the negotiations in Mexico are transparent, inclusive, democratic and without imposed documents conditions or blackmail. Resume the negotiation process from the point it was stopped before December 2009 in Copenhagen, respecting the previously agreed-upon working methods and keeping the two working groups.
- Reject the Copenhagen Accord for being a threat to life and to demand respect for the legal framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol.
- Demand the governments of developed countries “Financing for the Earth, not for War,” and the transfer of military budgets towards increaseing financial resources to save the planet and Mother Earth and to address climate change impacts in Developing Countries
- Demand Climate Justice. developed countries have the obligation to recognize the climate debt through: the compensation and restitution for damage and to ensure the return of atmospheric space, as well as financing and technology transfers to developing countries.
- Denounce the lack of presence of peoples in decision-making regarding our common future and demand the creation of spaces for participation of the world’s peoples in making climate change decisions, including monitoring and oversight of implementation of commitments made by developed countries.
- Promote the creation of international legal norms that impose sanctions for infringements and breaches of greenhouse gas emissions reduction commitments, financing, technology transfer and other obligations undertaken by developed countries. Also, work towards the establishment of a Climate Justice tribunal to be the means of enforcing these norms.
- Require developed countries respect the rights of migrant populations created by the effects of climatic change and provide funding to host and provide compensation on a local, national, regional and international levels.
- Build a global movement of peoples and social organizations in defense of life and Mother Earth, based on inclusion of and complementary coordination among all.
- Organize on local, provincial, national and international levels in order to defend Mother Earth and Life and curb the effects of climate change.
- Develop a single mandate from people in order to influence the Mexico conference.
- Recovering ancient customs and habits, such as the reconstitution of calendars to return and restore Mother Earth’s natural cycles
- Promoting organic production and consumption of local organic products.
- Promoting policies and create incentives for the consumption of natural local products
- Retrieving and promoting technological matrix of our peoples and build shared useful knowledge.
- Promoting the creation of a system of barter or exchange of peoples worldwide.
- Renouncing, as societies overconsumption and waste and combat pollution.
- Technological innovation and promoting the development and use of clean energy.
- Regulating the consumption of imported products.
- Campaigning against companies in our countries and the world that prey on natural resources such as soil, subsoil and ether. For example: timber, Coca Cola, etc.
- Promoting the redesign of cities to reduce distances.
- Promoting discussion with our governments to identify policies and systems that are enemies to life and living well
10. Promote the concept of “Living Well” and its principles as an alternative to the capitalist system of life
- Recovering ancient customs and habits, such as the reconstitution of calendars to return and restore Mother Earths natural cycles.
- Promoting organic production and consumption of local organic products.
- Retrieving and promoting technological matrix of our peoples and build shared useful knowledge.
11. Promote and strenghthen the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth.
12. Replace the capitalist system for an alternative model that prioritizes harmony with Mother Earth, reciprocity, complementary coordination and balance of life rather than consumerism.
- Promoting the creation of a system of barter or exchange of peoples worldwide.
- Renouncing as societies, over consumption, and waste and combat pullution.
- and promoting the development and use of clean energy.
- Regulating the consumption of imported products.
- Campaigning against companies in our countries and the world that prey on natural resources such as soil, subsoil and ether. For example: timber, coca cola, etc.
- Promoting discussion with our governments to identify policies and systems that are enemies to life and living well.
13. Convoke a 2nd World Summit on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights
14. Promote the Global Referendum on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.
a. Urgently move towards the creation of an alternative World Organization of the peoples: UNO also creating spaces where peoples’ representatives have full decision-making power.
b. Create an international forum for continuing education to promote and strengthen the processes of decolonization, and the collective construction of knowledge, training and socialization in all areas and levels of life.
PROPOSALS FOR ACTIONS:
- Activate and structure the alternative World Organization of the Peoples: UNO also create councils to implement the resolutions of the World Conference of the Peoples on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.
- To mobilize all indigenous peoples, social organizations and civil society as a whole in defense of Mother Earth and Life.
- Organize 12 global days of the pedestrian and bicycle a year, reducing car use and creating non-motorized transportation routes.
- Perform concentrations in front of embassies and consulates of the worst polluters.
- Promote a Global March against Annex 1, a day march on all the embassies in the world.
- Implement in oral, written and televised media the broadcasting of accurate information on the causes and effects of climate change and its leaders
- Develop debates and seminars and meetings.
- Disseminate and share our reports, proposals and actions by different media.
- Build an international relationship of social movements to implement joint actions.
We propose to the peoples of the world that we ensure the compliance of all principles, requirements, commitments and actions necessary to preserve Life and protect Mother Earth, using any and all means to this end.
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April 16, 2010 at 12:12 am
Tupac Enrique Acosta
PACHACUTIC
Kuntur Anka
Wind of the Wings of the Eagle and the Condor
of
Abya Yala
20th Anniversary of the First Continental Encounter of Indigenous Peoples
Quito, Ecuador 1990
June 14-16, 2010
Quito, Ecuador
Submitted By:
Instituto Cientifico de Culturas Indigenas ICCI – Ecuador
Pluricultural Indigenous University Amawtay Wasi -Ecuador
Seventh Generation Fund – EEUU
Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade- Canada
Consejo of Autoridades Mayas of the 48 Cantones of Totonicapan, Guatemala
TONATIERRA, Aztlan
Continental Confederation of the Eagle and the Condor
Introduction
Declaration of Quito, Ecuador
July 1990
The Continental Gathering “500 Years of Indian Resistance,” with representatives from 120 Indian Nations, International and Fraternal organizations, meeting in Quito, July 17-20, 1990, declare before the world the following:
The Indians of America have never abandoned our constant struggle against the conditions of oppression, discrimination and exploitation which were imposed upon us as a result of the European invasion of our ancestral territories.
Our struggle is not a mere conjunctural reflection of the memory of 500 years of oppression which the invaders, in complicity with the “democratic” governments of our countries, want to turn into events of jubilation and celebration. Our Indian People, Nations and Nationalities are basing our struggle on our identity, which shall lead us to true liberation. We are responding aggressively, and-commit ourselves to reject this “celebration.”
The struggle of our People has acquired a new quality in recent times. This struggle is less isolated and more organized. We are now completely conscious that our total liberation can only be expressed through the complete exercise of our self-determination. Our unity is based on this fundamental right. Our self-determination is not just a simple declaration.
We must guarantee the necessary conditions that permit complete exercise of our self-determination; and this, in turn must be expressed as complete autonomy for our Peoples. Without Indian self-government and without control of our territories, there can be no autonomy.
The existing nation states of the Americas, their constitutions and fundamental laws are judicial/political expressions that negate our socio-economic, cultural and political rights.
From this point in our general strategy of struggle, we consider it to be a priority that we demand complete structural change; change which recognizes the Inherent right to self-determination through our own Indian governments and through the control of our territories.
In this Gathering It has been clear that territorial rights are a fundamental demand of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.
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Context:
The continental indigenous movement for Self Determination across North Central and South America is indelibly referenced by the signature event of the First Continental Encounter of Indigenous Nations and Pueblos in held Quito, Ecuador 1990. As a defining moment in the centuries long struggle of the Indigenous Peoples of Abya Yala [the Americas] against the regimes of Euro-American colonization, the 1990 Quito Encounter provided the continental cultural context for the relationships necessary in order to build our movement and organizational capacities. In 1990, with the re-emergence of the ancestral teachings and perspective of the Confederacy of the Eagle and the Condor, we realized with the focus of collective vision an absolutely necessary strategic evaluation of our indigenous historical processes. And most importantly, this was accomplished within a cultural and political context of our own creation, driven by the principle of self-determination unto the future generations.
Now twenty years later, once again in Quito, Ecuador the continental Indigenous movement reconvenes at the same location as in 1990 and another cycle of history will begin to unfold: the Pachacutic Kuntur Anka emerges after a gestation period of two decades. The ceremonies of purification and preparation have already begun. The fulfillment of the commitments made at the First Continental Encounter of 1990 have made possible the harvest of the seeds of self determination sown in the earth of Abya Yala by the Continental Confederation of the Eagle and the Condor, and the transformation from organizational to generational strategic development for the Continental Confederacy of Indigenous Nations and Pueblos is evident on the horizon. The dawn returns.
In 1990, the Quincenteniary celebrations glorifying the Columbus voyages served as external impetus, and now in 2010 it is the global Climate Crisis which has recently been spotlighted by the Catastrophe of Copenhagen. The deformed process and production of the Copenhagen Accord at the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) has presented the scenario of a renewed sense of urgency and mandate for action outside of the world controlling superstructures and dynamics of the government states that operate in collusion with the regimes of corporate and financial interests driving the policies and defining the agenda of the global economy.
In response, President Evo Morales of the Plurinational State of Bolivia will convene a global peoples conference on the Rights of Mother Earth and Climate Change in Cochabamba, Bolivia from April 19-22, 2010 and a Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth is being formulated. This Declaration, combining and complementing the cosmovision of Indigenous Peoples with the undeniable projections of mainstream climate science regarding climate change, will propose policies for global governance and human societies across the planet in order to move towards ecological sustainability and homeostasis with the Natural World. The Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth, similarly as occurred with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, literally proposes to create a moment of redefinition for humanity at planetary scale. Deliberately, and intentionally, with the key character of Bolivian President Evo Morales of the Aymara Nation – the intention to construct a pivot point of political leverage, a tipping point for Humanity across the planet, has been positioned precisely at the nexus of the global superstructure of the government states (the UN system), and the millennial authorities and caretakers of the ecosystems of Pachamama, the Mother Earth: the Confederations of Nations and Pueblos of Indigenous Peoples.
In consequence, the Pachacutic Kuntur Anka serves as strategic and timely instrument of engagement and collective intervention with the global climate change agenda, realizing a self determined intervention of the Indigenous Nations of Abya Yala implementing the principle of Sumak Kawsay, the ways of Living Well.
Challenge:
In the 1990 Declaration of Quito, the Quincenteniary celebration was addressed as a theme of priority and target for the call for actions in solidarity which were manifested across the hemisphere on October 12, 1992. As a direct result of the Quito Encounter, the mobilizations of resistance and opposition regarding what had been planned by the OAS and UN government states to be a jubilee of celebration, condoning and justifying centuries of genocide and colonization were blocked by the well coordinated and organized efforts across the hemisphere of the Continental Confederation of the Eagle and the Condor of Abya Yala.
By the year 2000, after another continental encounter in Temoaya, Mexico in 1993 and many regional gatherings and transcontinental actions of spiritual and cultural exchange and solidarity during the interim, the Indigenous Movement convened in the form of the First Continental Indigenous Summit at Teotihuacan, Mexico organized by the Continental Commission of Indigenous Nations and Organizations – CONIC. The ties of spiritual, political, cultural, and economic relations were formalized at Teotihuacan under the principles of jurisprudence of the Indigenous Nations and Pueblos, and the ceremony of the Treaty of Teotihuacan was realized by the indigenous Nations and Pueblos, representatives of the entire continent.
Presently, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCC which was the frame of reference and mandate for the COP15 of Copenhagen has as next point of conference within the system the Cancun, Mexico Conference of the Parties – COP16, set for November 2010. The process of sidestepping the UNFCCC process by the BASIC governments who formulated the Copenhagen Accord (Brazil, South Africa, India, China) with the US government in the lead, delivered a lethal wound inflicted upon the hopes of effectively addressing the issues of industrial greenhouse gas emissions as factor of global warming that are exacerbating the climate crises. Other options, other venues of action outside of the controlling mechanisms of the government states are called for and it is simply not enough to generate convergences of protest before and after the fact of decision making by the geopolitical powers such as the BASIC groupings that do not relate to Mother Earth except as commodity for expropriation and exploitation.
In terms of atmosphere, the REDDS issue of carbon trading is being promoted in place of the controls of the Kyoto protocol (now expired) and in terms of water, the sacredness of the life itself is up for privatization, and the scenario of water wars exacerbated by the climate crisis and resulting ecological refugees is imminent.
There is a need to create a geopolitical space of empowerment, scale and accountability to counter balance the economic interests and political control being driven at the UFCCCC level by the philosophy of econogenics. While these spaces of negotiation among the “Parties” must continue to be addressed and mitigated, there must be an alternative geopolitical structure outside the dominion of the “government state” paradigm of identities and allegiances that can provide the foundation in generational scale for what humanity must do to move into lifestyles of sustainability and reciprocity with the Natural World.
In order to shift the global paradigm, a fractal anomaly must be generated as priority objective, the seed of an alternative social construct of local-global scale.
This objective is primary for the convening of the Pachacutic Kuntur Anka. As a living lens of culture and millennial human perspective of the Indigenous Peoples of Abya Yala, the event is an intervention in the life web of humanity and earth intended to provide hope, vision, and strategies of transformation as the scale necessary to effectively address the climate change issues impacting all.
We are called to regenerate our humanity, to offer a sustainable human alternative to the cognitive sets of membership of the UN system of states and consumerism of the global economy as it exists. This social construct could be referenced as the remnants of the original ecology of humanity, perpetuated by the Indigenous Peoples and experienced in the cosmovision, territories, and cultures of the confederations of Indigenous Nations and Pueblos of the world.
This determination was also made twenty years ago at the First Continental Encounter of Indigenous Peoples and proclaimed to the world in the Declaration of Quito 1990.
“Our struggles, from this encounter have been increasingly less isolated and more organized. Indigenous struggles in recent times have been qualitatively superior because our unity is based on respect and harmony with Mother Nature, for territorial rights, the protection of natural resources, the exercise of our self-determination, reaffirming our ways of spiritual life, community organization and new forms of human coexistence.” (extract from 1990 Quito Declaration).
Over the pasty twenty years we have seen our movement gain in experience, perspective and maturity. We have achieved recognition within the UN system as Peoples with the full Right of Self Determination with adoption by the UN General Assembly of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on September 13, 2007. Nevertheless, we also continue to suffer daily from the atrocities of discrimination, displacement, massacres and genocide.
And yet time after time we have risen to meet the challenges and from our place of strength, our spiritual values, we move towards the return to Ecuador after twenty years of struggle and fulfillment. Transitioning from an organizational to generational strategy across the continent will require a space and time for reflection, evaluation, self-determination, planning and re-emergence. This spiraling of space-time, the processes of turning and returning are known to us as Pachacutic. It is to be, the Pachacutic Kuntur Anka, June 14-16, 2010 in Quito, Ecuador. (Kuntur : Condor – Anka : Eagle)
Process: Chacana
The dynamics of process for the Kuntur Anka Pachacutic 2010, 20th Anniversary Gathering Celebrating the First Continental encounter of Indigenous Peoples is designed to allow for an organic expression of community creativity and self definition that will be guided by the principles of Chacana. The Chacana, a geometric and cultural icon of the hosting Quechua and Aymara Nations of Tawatinsuyo, is a designation and a guide for internally generated processes that promote the formulation of collective understanding, by recreating resonances of cosmetric integrity. At the same time, the Chacana is a measure of place-time, a millennial formula of the life affirming relationships originating with the Four Sacred Elements of dimension, direction, and relationship with the Natural World of Pachamama, the Mother Earth.
Goals:
• Regeneration of the Vision of the Confederacy of the Eagle and the Condor, Pachcutic Kundur Anka by strengthening the bonds of Continental Alliance established by the Treaty of Teotihucan 2000: Spiritual, Political, Cultural, and Economic.
• Creation of an permanent space of indigenous reflection, debate and discussion on the vision and commitments necessary to move from the continental platform of self determination to the implementation of programs of decolonization, instituting ongoing articulation of the Indigenous movement.
• Prioritization of the territorial, economic, political, legal, and cultural struggles of the Nations and Pueblos of Indigenous Peoples of Abya Yala in local, regional, national, continental, and global arenas.
• Strategic engagement with the whole of society to build awareness advancing the political processes of recognition, respect, and protection for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as referenced by the UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Objectives:
• Realization of the Pachacutic Kuntur Anka as a catalytic event of Self Determination in terms of evaluation, visioning, planning and long term commitments among the participating delegations of Indigenous Nations and Pueblos in accord and fulfillment of the Declaration of Quito 1990 and the Treaty of Teotihuacan 2000.
• Implement the Archive of Abya Yala as a multimedia platform, with linkages and interactive connectivity and capacity for communication among indigenous youth, academia, media specialists, and organizations of the continental indigenous movement, including dissemination of the messaging of the Declaration of Quito 1990, the Treaty of Teotihuacan 2000, and the Pachacutic Kuntur Anka 2010.
• Institutionalize the Continental Alliance of the Pachacutic Kuntur Anka via the establishment of a PERMANENT CONTINENTAL INDIGENOUS FORUM, with voice and representation of its own, with liaison capacity to the international and multilateral agencies.
• Institute an ongoing working partnership among the Kuntur Anka Confederacy of Nations, Pueblos, and organizations to realize an Indigenous Peoples Geography Project of Abya Yala whose purpose would be to strengthen the process of continental self determination and decolonization through linkages of indigenous mapping networks, services and productions utilizing traditional and appropriate modern technologies.
• Facilitate the open exchanges of information and experiences, on an ongoing and sustained manner by prioritizing the development of multi-lingual communication networks among indigenous youth, Pueblos and Nations in pursuit of generating the new opportunities for mutual learning, training and communication between Indigenous Peoples globally.
• Strengthening the organizational strategies of indigenous communication and coordination built over the past twenty years, in the areas of academics, commerce, legal and political processes in order to reaffirm the historical memory of as Indigenous Peoples of Abya Yala, expressions of the particular and diverse forms of knowledge originating in the indigenous worldview of our distinct Pueblos and Nations.
• Address the Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth proclaimed at the April 2010 world conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia with the purpose of implementing our responsibilities as Nations and Pueblos of Abya Yala in terms of the Declaration, and in accord with our mutual obligations and particular traditions as members of the Continental Indigenous Confederacy of the Eagle and the Condor.
Logistics:
The celebration of the Pachacutic Kuntur Anka 20th will be held on 14, 15 and 16 June 2010, in the City of Quito, Ecuador at Nueva Vida Campgrounds, La Merced. This is the same location of the first Continental Indigenous Encounter of 1990. The site has capacity of for 500 attendees with room and board, meeting rooms and extensive open space in a campus setting.
The conveners of this 20th Anniversary Encounter are the Seventh Generation Fund Foundation -United States, the Scientific Institute of Indigenous Cultures, Ecuador- ICCI; TONATIERRA,Aztlan; Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade-Canada; Pluricultural University Amawtay Wasi- Ecuador; the Coordinating Body of Indigenous Organizations of the Andes-CAOI; the Consejo of Autoridades Mayas of the 48 Cantones of Totonicapan, Guatemala; and other sectors of Abya Yala such as indigenous communities, Indigenous Universities, Organization of Indigenous Women, Youth and Children.
The three-day event will be preceded by offerings of ceremonial nature and tradition by the Yachag (Spiritual Guides) of the Kitu Kara Nations of the Quechua and Aymara hosts. The themes for elaboration will be facilitated by discussion topics related to the goals and objectives that have been mentioned and others such as: spirituality, territory and natural resources, self-determination and territorial self-government of Indigenous Nations, among others.
A public act of inauguration and close will open and finalize the event.
Parallel events will be occurring in the City of Quito open to the general public.
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January 12, 2012 at 9:52 pm
Viola
The Continental Gathering “500 Years of Indian Resistance,” with representatives from 120 Indian Nations, International and Fraternal organizations, meeting in Quito, July 17-20, 1990, declare before the world the following:
The Indians of America have never abandoned our constant struggle against the conditions of oppression, discrimination and exploitation which were imposed upon us as a result of the European invasion of our ancestral territories.
Our struggle is not a mere conjunctural reflection of the memory of 500 years of oppression which the invaders, in complicity with the “democratic” governments of our countries, want to turn into events of jubilation and celebration. Our Indian People, Nations and Nationalities are basing our struggle on our identity, which shall lead us to true liberation. We are responding aggressively, and-commit ourselves to reject this “celebration.”
January 12, 2012 at 9:52 pm
Viola
Thank you a lot for the post. I also wish to say this:
The Continental Gathering “500 Years of Indian Resistance,” with representatives from 120 Indian Nations, International and Fraternal organizations, meeting in Quito, July 17-20, 1990, declare before the world the following:
The Indians of America have never abandoned our constant struggle against the conditions of oppression, discrimination and exploitation which were imposed upon us as a result of the European invasion of our ancestral territories.
Our struggle is not a mere conjunctural reflection of the memory of 500 years of oppression which the invaders, in complicity with the “democratic” governments of our countries, want to turn into events of jubilation and celebration. Our Indian People, Nations and Nationalities are basing our struggle on our identity, which shall lead us to true liberation. We are responding aggressively, and-commit ourselves to reject this “celebration.”