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Information on Summits
The People’s Summit website offers a wealth of information about the Summit, organizing themes, events, and materials to prepare you for participation. Main themes include:
- Ethical and philosophical fundamentals: subjectivity, domination, and emancipation
- Human rights, peoples, territories and defense of Mother Earth
- Political subjects, the architecture of power and democracy
- Production, distribution and consumption, access to wealth, common goods and the economies in transition
Statements on the People’s Summit and Rio+20
Reclaiming our Future: Rio+20 and Beyond, a call to action by La Via Campesina. (posted 5/29/12)
People’s Summit at Rio+20 for Social and Environmenal Jusice, Against Commodification of Life, and in Defense of the Commons, Call to Action for June 5th and June 20th. (posted 6/12/12)
A Focus on Brazil
Food and Energy Sovereignty Now: Brazilian Grassroots Position on Agroenergy, written by The Oakland Institute, 2/25/08 (posted 6/5/12)
International Rivers, an organization at the heart of the global struggle to protect rivers and the rights of communities that depend on them, reported on various actions that took place in various South American countries. Scroll to see what has taken place in Brazil. (poste 6/5/12)
Statement by Joao Pedro Stedile in meeting with President Dilma. This is a transcript of the talk by Joao Pedro Stedile of the MST in the meeting between Dilma and representatives of civil society held on January 26, 2012 during the Thematic Social forum in Porto Alegre. (posted 6/5/12)
The Neoliberal Agrarian Model in Brazil, an article by Joao Pedro Stedile in Monthly Review (posted 6/5/12)
Useful Multi-Media Pieces
- Real World News
- Anil Nandoo on the Importance of the People’s Summit, posted to YouTube by La Via Campesina. The challenge…is to come together against one common agenda – whether you work on land, finance, trade, food water, climate…this will impact all of it.
- Brazil Drought Threatens Millions, a video by Aljazeera (posted 6/7/12)
- Corporate Colonialism, Nettie Weible from La Via Campesina speaks of the Rio+20 agenda as a new wave of corporate colonialism. (posted 6/5/12)
- Rio+20: From sustainable development to green economy, what is at stake? Which alternatives? A 16-minute, English subtitled video with interviews of Pablo Solon, Edagardo Lander, Yvonne Yanez, Silvia Ribeiro, Tony Clarke, Nnimmo Bassey, Anabella Rosemberg. (posted 6/10/12)
Articles
- Representantes da Cúpula dos Povos criticam ‘economia verde’ no Rio, an article discussing the criticism by People’s Summit representatives of the green economy. The article appeared in G1 O portal de noticias da globo and is in Portuguese. (posted 6/5/12) Note: GGJ National Coordinator Cindy Wiesner appears in the article’s photo.
- Rio+20 and the Greenwashing of the Global Economy, an article by Olivier Hoedeman on the website of the Transnational Institute. (posted 5/29/12)
- Sustainable Energy for All – Or Sustained Profits for a Few, a statement by Biofuelwatch. (posted 6/4/12)
- The Green Economy: The wolf in sheep’s clothing, by Edgardo Lander. A publication available by the Transnational Institute. (posted 5/29/12)
- Why the Earth Summit Failed, by David Treece in International Socialism (posted 6/4/12)