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DESCRIPTION:On Earth Day this year, Bolivia hosted the World People's Conference on 
 Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth (CMPCC) in the central 
 city of Cochabamba. Some 30,000 people from over 150 countries attended the 
 CMPCC, which sought to bring governments and civil society groups together 
 to work to address climate change. Ironically, the days around the 
 Cochabamba summit saw a wave of campesino and indigenous protest over 
 development projects and land rights throughout Bolivia, and the immediate 
 aftermath of the CMPCC saw a nationwide general strike by workers who 
 rejected the government's offer of a 5% wage increase. These conflicts 
 bring home the contradictions that Morales and his ruling Movement to 
 Socialism face as they try to balance the dictates of state power and 
 economic reality with an indigenous and ecological sensitivity. Meanwhile, 
 in neighboring Peru, Washington's free trade ally in South America, general 
 strikes have repeatedly paralyzed the country this year as peasants and 
 indigenous peoples continue to protest plans for massive resource 
 exploitation on their lands. \n\nJournalist Bill Weinberg, who covered the 
 Cochabamba summit for NACLA Report on the Americas, reports back and leads 
 a discussion on indigenous, peasant and ecological struggles in Bolivia and 
 Peru, and the challenges of building solidarity.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/08/18660912.php
SUMMARY:THE COCHABAMBA CLIMATE SUMMIT AND THE INDIGENOUS STRUGGLE IN BOLIVIA & PERU
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA 94609
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/08/18660912.php
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