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Times of crisis and possibility

Evaluation and Pespectives from Argentina's campesinos

As the year draws to a close, Real World Radio had a chance to speak with Diego, member of the Union of Landless Rural Workers in the western province of Mendoza, who reflected on the victories and challenges of 2008 and those that await the movement in the new year.

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The struggle against mining

On December 19 in the Argentinean province of La Rioja, members of the Assembly of Self-Organized Neighbors were brutally removed from a public ceremony held by president Cristina Kirchner, after unfurling a banner and passing out fliers against the effects of mega mining on the region.

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Learning to take the fight to the streets

In the past few weeks, the Movement of Teresa Rodriguez (MTR) in the Argentinian province of Cordoba, have staged actions outside of local supermarkets in protest of hunger, unemployment, inflation, and the inadequate response of local government.

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Interview with Meena Raman, former chair of Friends of the Earth International who works in Friends of the Earth Malaysia

On the UN Human Rights Day, Friends of the Earth International warns that the lack of action from the industralized countries at the UN COP 14 on Climate Change is clashing with the international human rights obligations.

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Interview with Belmond Tchoumba, co-coordinator of the Forests and Biodiversity Program of Friends of the Earth International

Forests play a very important role in the struggle against climate change, and we should work against the deforestation and degradation of these ecosystems, but the countries at the COP 14 on Climate Change are not choosing the right people to do this job and are not identifying the people responsible for the destruction of forests.

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Interview with Yuri Onodera, from Friends of the Earth Japan

People are waiting for the industralized countries to determine how much they will reduce their emissions, not individually, but jointly. However, the US rejects the Kyoto Protocol and the rest of the industralized countries are waiting for the developing countries to make more commitments, Yuri Onodera, of Friends of the Earth Japan, told Real World Radio.

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Vía Campesina at the COP 14 on Climate Change

"Small-farmers and peasant communities are among the first victims of climate change. Everywhere, in our fields, amongst the plants we cultivate and the animals we raise, the consequences of climate change are evident. Yet, this is nothing new". This is how the political positioning issued by Vía Campesina at the COP 14 on Climate Change in Poznan, Poland, begins.

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“A climate justice movement is critical if we are to make the shift towards sustainable societies”.

Interview with Joseph Zacune, Friends of the Earth International Climate Justice and Energy co-Coordinator.

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The mining threat to indigenous communities across the Americas

“It is a form of cultural genocide when mining corporations come tearing into our territories and dividing our communties”.

A seminar titled “Land and Territory. No to Mining” was held on Wednesday as part of the Americas Social Forum that is taking place in Guatemala. The activity was organized by the National Peasant and Indigenous Coordination (CONIC).
Indigenous communities and organizations of all the Americas attended the seminar.