<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">especially: "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; ">We call on social movements, popular organizations and all people of the </span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">world to organize on <b>December 7, 2010, </b><span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; "><b>t</b></span><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none;
outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">housands of protests and </b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "><b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">actions</b> <b style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; ">to reject the false and market-based solutions</b>. We declare </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font: normal normal normal
12px/normal Verdana; ">ourselves in permanent mobilization until we defeat the big market </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.2em; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">negotiations in Cancun in December. "</div></span><br>--- On <b>Wed, 9/1/10, Silvia Ribeiro <i><silvia@etcgroup.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Silvia Ribeiro <silvia@etcgroup.org><br>Subject: [climate justice now!] Fwd: Via Campesina COP-16 Cancun<br>To: "CJN!" <cjn@lists.riseup.net><br>Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 10:28 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1183679924"><div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman';min-height:15px;"><b> </b></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 26px/normal 'Arial Rounded MT Bold';">La Vía Campesina </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 8px/normal 'Arial Rounded MT Bold';min-height:10px;"> <br class="yiv1183679924webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 8px/normal 'Arial Rounded MT Bold';">International Farmers Movement </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 8px/normal 'Arial Rounded MT Bold';">Movimiento Campesino Internacional </div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman';min-height:15px;"><b> </b></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><b>The people create thousands of solutions to confront climate change!</b> </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><b>Thousands of Cancuns for climate justice!</b> </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 18px/normal Verdana;"><b><i>La Via Campesina calls on social movements </i></b></div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 18px/normal Verdana;"><b><i>and all people to mobilize around the world</i></b> </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 18px/normal Verdana;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">Social movements from around the world are mobilizing for the 16th </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">Conference of the Parties (COP 16) of the United Nations Framework </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that will take place in Cancun </div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">from 29 November to 10 December 2010. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">The COP 15 in Copenhagen demonstrated governments' incapacity to tackle </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">the root causes of the current climate chaos. At the very last moment, the </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">US undemocratically pushed through the so called "Copenhagen accord", in </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">an attempt to move the debate out of the
UN and the Kyoto promises and to </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">favor even more voluntarily free market solutions. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><b>The climate negotiations have turned into a huge market place.</b> </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">Developed countries, historically responsible for most of the greenhouse gas </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">emissions are inventing all possible tricks to avoid
reducing their own </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">emissions. For example, the "Clean Development Mechanism" (CDM) under </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">the Kyoto protocol allows countries to continue polluting and consuming as </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">usual, while paying low prices supposedly so that developing countries </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">reduce <i>their</i> emissions. What actually occurs is that companies profit doubly: </div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">to contaminate and to sell false solutions. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">Monsanto tries to convince us that monoculture plantations of its GMO </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">Roundup Ready soybeans qualify for carbon credits because they contribute </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">to the reduction of greenhouse gases that heat the planet by accumulating </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">organic matter in the soil.
Communities living nearby soy monoculture </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">plantations are a living example of the mortal and destructive effects of these </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">monocultures. Similar false arguments are used to sell carbon credits based </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">on forest monocultures, agrofuel crops, or industrial animal production. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">Many governments of developing countries, attracted by the potential profits, </div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">are betting on these false solutions and refusing to implement measures that </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">effectively confront climate change, such as supporting sustainable peasant </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">agriculture, orienting production towards internal markets, establishing </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">effective energy saving policies for industry, etc. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana;"><b>We demand the application of thousands of people’s </b></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana;"><b>solutions to climate change</b><span style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"> </span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">It is now time for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">Change (UNFCCC) to embark on resolute policies to contribute to solve the </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal
Verdana;">climate chaos. Countries need to take strong and binding commitments to </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">radically cut gas emissions and radically change their mode of production and </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">consumption. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><b>Climate change also is worsening the migration crisis.</b> The droughts, </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">the terrible floods
caused by severe storms, water contamination, </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">soil erosion and degradation, as well as other destructive impacts of the </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">neoliberal environmental disaster, are bringing about the displacement of </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">thousands of people, mainly women and ruined farmers, from their rural </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">communities and forcing them towards the cities and the North in a </div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">desperate search for the means of survival for them and their families. It is </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">estimated that 50 million people have been forced to migrate due to the </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">effects of climate change. These “climate displaced people” have come to </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">swell the ranks of the more than 200 million human beings, according to the </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal
Verdana;">International Organization for Migration (IOM), that today represent the </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">worse crisis of migration that humanity has faced. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><b>Solutions do exist.</b> More than 35,000 people gathered in Cochabamba, </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">Bolivia at the People Conference on Climate Change and for the Rights of </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal
Verdana;">Mother Earth broadening new visions and proposals to save the planet. These </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">thousands of solutions coming from the people effectively confront the </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">climate crisis. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">We demand that the UNFCCC endorse the Cochabamba People’s Agreement </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">proposals and to reject all false solutions being cooked up for the moment. </div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">Among them: </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><b><i>Defend land and forest rights: </i></b><i>The REDD + initiative (Reducing Emissions </i></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><i>from Deforestation and Degradation</i>) should be rejected. Protecting forests </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal
normal 12px/normal Verdana;">and reforesting degraded forests is an obligation of all governments that </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">should be implemented without limiting the autonomy, the rights or the </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">control of indigenous and peasant peoples over the land and their territories, </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">and without serving as an excuse so that other countries and corporations </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">continue contaminating and planting tree monocultures. Territorial and </div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">cultural rights of indigenous and peasant peoples should be explicitly </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">recognized in any climate accord. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><b><i>Reject geoengineering</i></b>: Large-scale proposals to deliberately alter the </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">climate, such as biochar; genetically modified plants to supposedly increase </div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">reflectivity and resistance to drought, heat and salt; the fertilization of the </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">ocean or the massive creation of clouds, only create new unmanageable </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">problems, they are not solutions. Geoengineering is only one example of how </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">transnational companies are willing to play with the future of the planet and </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal
Verdana;">humanity in order to create new sources profit. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><b><i>Reject all carbon trading schemes and Clean Development </i></b></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><b><i>Mechanisms (CDM)</i></b>: Carbon trading has proven extremely lucrative in </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">terms of generating investor dividends, but has completely failed in reducing </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal
Verdana;">greenhouse gas. In the new invented "carbon market" the price of carbon </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">keeps dropping to rock bottom, which encourages further pollution. All </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">carbon emissions should be reduced from the source, rather than allowing </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">payment for the right to pollute. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><b><i>Reject any
participation of the World Bank</i></b> in the management of funds </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">and policies related to climate change. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana;"><b>We need millions and millions of peasant communities and </b></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana;"><b>indigenous territories to feed humanity and cool the planet. </b><span style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"> </span></div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana;"><span style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">Scientific research shows that peasant and indigenous peoples could reduce </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">current global emissions to 75% by increasing biodiversity, recuperating soil </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">organic matter, replacing industrial meat production with small-scale </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal
Verdana;">diversified food production, expanding local markets, halting deforestation </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">and practicing integrated forest management. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">Peasant agriculture not only contribute positively to the carbon balance of </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">the planet, it also gives employment to 2.8 billion people, women and men </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">around the world, and it remains the best way to combat hunger, </div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">malnutrition and the current food crisis. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">The right to land and the reclaiming for territories, food sovereignty, access </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">to water as a common good and a human right, the right to use, conserve </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">and exchange seeds, the de-concentration and promotion of local markets, </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">are the indispensable
conditions so that peasant and indigenous peoples </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">continue feeding the world and cooling the planet. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana;"><b>Join us to organize thousands of Cancuns!</b><span style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"> </span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana;"><span style="font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal
Verdana;">Together with diverse organizations we will set up in Cancun, during the </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">dates of the COP 15, the <b>Alternative Global Forum “For life, and </b></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><b>environmental and social justice”</b>, which will unite the force and </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">resistance of peasant peoples of the world, who are already cooling the </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">planet (the Agenda towards Cancun 2010 is attached). </div><div
style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">We call on social movements, popular organizations and all people of the </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">world to organize on December 7, 2010, <b>thousands of protests and </b></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><b>actions</b> <b>to reject the false and market-based solutions</b>. We declare </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">ourselves in permanent mobilization until we defeat the big
market </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;">negotiations in Cancun in December. </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana;"><b>Peasants are cooling down the planet! </b></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana;"><b>Globalize the struggle! </b></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana;"><b>Globalize hope! </b></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font:normal normal normal 12px/normal
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