La Minga: Peru
October 14th, 2009
Global Minga Peru: the Huaca Perales Statement
original in Spanish here
rugged and poetic auto-translation below:
Indigenous Organizations of Peru in the framework of the Global Minga for Mother Earth
We peoples and nations of Peru, meeting in Lima, on 10, 11 and 12 October within the framework of the Global Minga for Mother Earth, we headed into the world to make a strong call to those who deliberately promote the destruction of the earth putting their economic interests before very life of its inhabitants.
WE THE PEOPLE SAY:
Indigenous peoples of Peru, we are against consolidation processes of colonization imposed upon us by the mercantilist doctrines, especially the northern countries, and that is reflected in the economic, educational, ideological, religious, makes 517 tax causes years.
Multinational corporations and countries complicit, eager thirst for economic and political power, are leading to extreme destruction of planet earth. In this way promote policies for the commercialization of all natural assets such as forests, rivers, animals, among others, the same as those held by indigenous peoples for millions of years and are the only hope for the existence of mankind. In the process of commodification has polluted the environment affecting the health of all human beings.
Ignoring the call of the defenders of Mother Earth, arriving from all over the world for this not to continue, those responsible for this destruction process undertaken against them criminalization policies, judicial persecution, enforced disappearances, killings, torture, imprisonment imposing a fascist policy alone in seeking to increase their profits.
The earth, a living being, is seriously ill because the increase in global temperature will reach in a few years increased by 2 ° C, then only mother earth can be saved because it will exist, while we will have disappeared from the face of the earth.
Therefore we demand:
- The cessation of all types of extractive activities, mining, petroleum, hydrocarbons, which threatens the existence of life and is the main pollutant of the earth.
- The protection of all sources of life, forests, watersheds, wilderness, animals and all types of biodiversity, which are the only hope for the existence of mankind.
- That the international financial institutions like the Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, the World Bank stop funding projects that concern against the existence of life as they do in the mining and hydrocarbon projects in the watershed and the Peruvian Amazon, contributing to the depredations of the world’s largest lung.
- Immediate cancellation of all the processes of implementing free trade agreement, that all he does is deepen the commodification of natural assets and thereby accelerating the destruction of life.
- That the President of the United States, Barack Obama, giving value to the title bestowed as the Nobel Peace Prize, to sign the Kyoto Protocol and make an international call to other industrialized countries also assume that responsibility to download all kind of emissions gas well horra its commitment to humanity to grant peace, given that the major conflicts in the world, especially in Peru, social and environmental impacts generated by climate change and stressing criminalization.
- Let the bodies as UN and international human rights institutions to take effective measures for states to respect and implement international treaties on protection of human rights of indigenous peoples and of Mother Nature: UN Declaration on the Rights of indigenous peoples, ILO Convention 169, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, among others.
We undertake:
- Knowing that the maximum permissible limits established by the international scientific community have failed to prevent climate change and have not been respected, as part of the global minga Mother Earth we are committed to promoting a global environmental agenda from the indigenous peoples’ eyes, the same must be monitored and sanctioned by the International Court of Justice Climate.
- Indigenous peoples are and will be the guardians of our mother earth to ensure the existence of mankind. Therefore, we declare ourselves in ferrous protectors of life, against any activity that threatens the demise of all living things.
- To promote a worldwide campaign for the decolonization of knowledge and power imposed from 517 years ago in our Abya Yala and has generated a process of dehumanization and destruction of the planet.
- Continue with the construction of the proposed multi-state policy for the good life as an alternative to civilization crisis, environmental, economic, political and above all the product of this massive dehumanization imposed since colonial times.
Santa Anita – Lima, 12 October 2009.
National Confederation of Communities Affected by Mining –
CONACAMI PERU.
Interethnic Association for Development of the Peruvian Amazon – AIDESEP.
Andean Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations IOTC.
Advisory Council of Indigenous Peoples of the Andean Community
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