Comments on: The Bolivian Climate Revolution

By: Radio show – The Bolivian Climate Revolution | Arthur Girling – notes and scribbles

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:07:42 +0000

[...] to Cochabamba and recorded this radio programme for Resonance 104.4 FM. Tune in for 48 minutes of political debate, music and talk of revolution [...]

By: Arthur

Arthur — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:51:11 +0000

Here is group 18′s final declaration – I can only find it in Spanish I’m afraid – does anyone else have a better link?

http://www.aininoticias.org/?p=671

Interestingly, the only acknowledgement of Mesa 18 from the Bolivian government was from Vicepresident Linera, who called it an ‘orgy of NGOs’.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:31:29 +0000

Nice work Arthur. Enjoyed listening

By: Phil England

Phil England — Sat, 01 May 2010 20:11:22 +0000

Arthur, Do you have a link for working group 18′s final declaration?

By: Arthur

Arthur — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:05:34 +0000

The 18th group were never acknowledged by Morales or the main conference as far as I know. They did put out a final declaration though, which called for all multinational mining companies to be thrown out of Bolivia, along with any organisations or media outlets which support them.

Glad you enjoyed it, perhaps see you in Mexico!

By: Aneaka

Aneaka — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:43:56 +0000

Nice one Arthur.

What happened with the 18th group in the end? Did Morales etc… recognise what they were doing in the conference? How did he respond?

Also really like the point at the end about people having different ideas about what is the cause of climate change being ok. We dont need to reduce it to – THIS etc – is the cause, but be in conversation (maybe??) and find resonance bewteen different ideas.

Though a part of me feels like its too much talk and academic stuff again and feel like were buggered anyway… (might not be useful to say, but is how I feel…)

Anyway, thanks for that Arthur, maybe Ill try to make it next year