[IPSM] Global Minga in Defense of Mother Earth and Her Peoples, October 12-16

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Anyone planning any actions in Canada? Please let me know /Ahni

http://intercontinentalcry.org/global-minga-in-defence-of-mother-earth-and-her-peoples/


  Global Minga in Defense of Mother Earth and Her Peoples, October 12-16

On May 31 the IV Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples of Abya Yala 
<http://www.ivcumbrecontinentalindigena.org/?p=313> (the Americas) 
called for a Global Mobilization 
<http://www.ivcumbrecontinentalindigena.org/?p=255> “In defense of 
Mother Earth and Her People and against the commercialization of life, 
pollution and the criminalization of indigenous and social movements.”

Marking the day Christopher Columbus first set foot on Abya Yala, 518 
years ago, the mobilization will begin on October 12, 2009.

Numerous organizations and social movements have endorsed the 
mobilization. Among them: /ONIC/, National Indigenous Organization of 
Colombia; /CONACAMI/, National Confederation of Communities Affected by 
the mining Industry in Peru; /ECUARUNARI/, Confederation of the Peoples 
of Kichwa Nationality of Ecuador; /ONPIA/, The Organization of 
Indigenous Peoples and Nations in Argentina; Araucanian Parliament 
(Chile); /CONAIE/, Confederation of Indigenous Nationalties of Ecuador; 
/CONIC/, National Coordination of Indigenous and Farmers; Council of 
Peoples of the San Marcos Community; /CONAVIGUA/, The National 
Coordination of Guatamalan Widows; /ARPI/, Association of Indigenous 
Peoples of the Central Rainforest of Peru; /MCP/, Summit Movement of the 
Peoples; /CRIC/, Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca; /FDCC/, The 
Departmental Federation of the Peasants of Cusco; /ATTAC/ France; 
Rootforce 
<http://www.rootforce.org/2009/08/19/take-action-oct-12-16-global-mobilization-in-defense-of-mother-earth-and-the-peoples/> 
(America); and others.

Some of the actions being organized around the world, will include:

# Demonstrations in cities and urban communities and rural areas of the 
world, demanding specific local and national goals, and the common goal 
of the global Minga <http://www.ivcumbrecontinentalindigena.org/?p=255> 
(the Defence of Mother Earth and all forms of life);
# Protests in front of the offices of transnational extractive (oil, 
mining, timber, water) agrofuel, and other companies;
# Protests and other (non-violent) actions targeting infrastructure, such 
as highways, mines, power plants, pipelines and other industrial 
developments; and
# Forums and conferences on cultural and political defense of Mother Earth 
and the People Against Commodification of Life, Pollution and 
Criminalization.

Several other efforts will also carry forward, as expressed in the 
document, Minga in Defence of Pachamama, Mother Earth, and her Peoples 
<http://www.ivcumbrecontinentalindigena.org/?p=255>: the development of 
Climate Justice Courts (in coordination with the Foundation of Bolivia 
Solon, Climate Action, Friends of the Earth and other allies); The 
organization of Assemblies and joint strategies aimed at the Kyoto 
Protocol conference in December 2009 in Copenhagen; and proposals for 
alternatives to the Climate Change Convention, Biodiversity Convention, 
UN, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and similar bodies from 
other continents.


    Learn More, Prepare.

1. For more information and updates, including media coverage once the 
MINGA begins, visit http://www.movimientos.org/defensamadretierra/

2. If you are in Canada or the United States and want help planning and 
publicizing actions, contact Root Force: rootforceriseupnet or visit 
http://rootforce.org

3. If you have actions that you wish to announce, you are welcome to do 
so at 
http://intercontinentalcry.org/global-minga-in-defence-of-mother-earth-and-her-peoples