Showing posts with label Water and Soil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Water and Soil. Show all posts

Friday, June 29, 2012

Consum'actions Facing Crisis

 

The host organization: Les Alternatifs


The description/explanation of the session

Food, Agriculture and Empowerment
Produce and consumer alternatives against supermarkets and commercial laws. 

Self-organization and exchange systems without money.

Ways of development to accede to food sovereignty (including access to land and seeds).

Local and regional experiences (Greece, French and Spanish States...), enlarging to social, environmental and international issues.

The type of the session:  Workshop

The anticipated duration of the session: 90 mins



Thursday, June 28, 2012

Privatization of Water


The host organization: Les Alternatifs

The description/explanation of the session

Assertion that water as a common good and not as a commodity, and recalled the statement of the alternative forum World Water in Marseille. Management and control of water must be public, cooperative, participatory, equitable and non-profit-oriented. Rights of indigenous peoples and women are fundamental in the global fight for water. Access to water and land for food sovereignty.

Proposals and comparisons between public and private management in France

The type of the session: Debate

The anticipated duration of the session: 90 mins


Note: This workshop will be in French, and will have English (and Turkish) translation.


Recolonisation et luttes populaires contre la marchandisation des biens communs naturels dans Notre Amérique

Grupo de Estudios sobre América Latina y el Caribe, Study Group on Latina America and Caribbean, GEAL-COMPA Coordination of Argentine Popular Movements


RÉSUMÉ EN FRANCAIS

L'amplification des effets de la crise capitaliste globale se manifeste, entre d'autres formes, dans Notre Amérique à travers de l'intensification des processus d'appropriation privée transnationale et nationale des biens communs naturels. Pour sa part ces processus supposent l'intensification des schémas de recolonisation privée transnationale caractérisés aussi par la “de-démocratisation” des relations sociales et politiques dans la région. Face à cette offensive extractiviste que caractérise le développement de la crise en Amérique latine, les peuples et les communautés expriment son reset croissant de ces logiques. Ce rejet est présent dans la plupart des conflits environnementales dans tous les pays de la région. Les luttes en défense de l'eau et des sols constituent aujourd'hui l'une des manifestations les plus dynamiques, bien que non exclusives, de ces processus. Notre exposition vise à faire une présentation synthétique de ces expériences, des sujets et des mouvements plus emblématiques engagés dans les résistances aussi bien que des processus de convergence des luttes autour de la défense des biens communs et de la vie.



Recolonización y luchas populares contra la mercantilización de los bienes comunes naturales en Nuestra América


Grupo de Estudios sobre América Latina y el Caribe, Study Group on Latina America and Caribbean, GEAL-COMPA Coordination of Argentine Popular Movements

RESUMEN EN CASTELLANO

La amplificación de los efectos de la crisis capitalista global se manifiesta, entre otras formas, en Nuestra América a través de la intensificación de los procesos de apropiación privada transnacional y nacional de los bienes comunes naturales. Por su parte estos procesos suponen la agudización de los esquemas de recolonización privada transnacional con la consecuente secuela de desdemocratización de las relaciones sociales y políticas en la región. Frente a la ofensiva extractivista que signa el desarrollo de la crisis en Latinoamérica el creciente rechazo de pueblos y comunidades se expresa en el incremento de los conflictos socioambientales en todos los países de la región. Las luchas en defensa del agua y de los suelos constituyen hoy una de las manifestaciones más dinámicas, aunque no excluyentes,de estos procesos. Nuestra exposición tiene por objetivo hacer una breve presentación de estas experiencias, de los sujetos y movimientos más emblemáticos portadores de las resistencias y de los procesos de convergencia en curso de la luchas en torno a la defensa de los bienes comunes y de la vida.



Recolonization and Popular Struggles Against Merchandisation of Natural Common Goods in Our America.




The host organization:

Grupo de Estudios sobre América Latina y el Caribe, Study Group on Latina America and Caribbean, GEAL-COMPA Coordination of Argentine Popular Movements)

The description/explanation of the session

The amplification of the effects of the capitalist global crisis in Our America demonstrates, between other forms, across the intensification of the processes of private transnational and national appropriation of the common natural goods. These processes suppose the increase of the schemes of private transnational resettling with the consistent sequel of “de-democratisation” of the social and political relations in the region. Opposite to the extractive offensive that seals the development of the crisis in Latin America the increasing rejection of peoples and communities expresses in the increase of the environmental conflicts in all the countries of the region. The fights in defense of the water and of the soils constitute today one of the most dynamic manifestations, though not exclusive, of these processes. Our exhibition has for aim do a brief presentation of these experiences, of the subjects and more emblematic carrying movements of the resistances and of the processes of convergence of the fights concerning the defense of the common goods and of the life.

The type of the session: Speech

The anticipated duration of the session:  maximum 25 minutes