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The Council of Canadians participated in the historic World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth, April 19-22, 2010 in Cochabamba Bolivia. The Conference brought together over 34,000 people representing social movements, indigenous peoples, organizations and governments for a dialogue on alternative proposals to the climate crisis. Climate debt, the dangers of the carbon market, structural causes of the climate crisis including over production, consumption and trade and alternatives to this, were central themes of the event. The conference produced an agreement that is being promoted as an alternative to the Copenhagen Accord. Here are some of our news updates, blogs, media releases and videos from reporting from this historic conference.
Multimedia taken by the Council of Canadians while on the ground in Cochabamba below.
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Photo: (L-R) - Brent Patterson (Director of Campaigns and Communications), Maude Barlow (National Chairperson), Anil Naidoo (Blue Planet Project Organizer), and Andrea Harden-Donahue (Energy Campaigner) proudly holding the Council of Canadians' banner in Cochabamba on April 21, 2010.
Council of Canadians team prepares for Cochabamba Photo: (L-R) - Anil Naidoo (Blue Planet Project Organizer), Maude Barlow (National Chairperson), Andrea Harden-Donahue (Energy Campaigner), and Brent Patterson (Director of Campaigns and Communications).
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Conference call from Cochabamba
On Wednesday April 21 Maude Barlow and climate justice campaigner Andrea Harden spoke with over 25 chapter activists on a conference call from Cochabamba. Listen to the audio of the call here.
Radio interview
Conversation with Andrea Harden-Donahue, Energy Campaigner, Council of Canadians, live from Cochabamba at the Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth, The Jeff Farias Show. April 22, 2010. Listen here.
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Maude Barlow - Main plenary panel
Maude Barlow was formally invited by the Bolivian government to speak in a main plenary panel at the historic Cochabamba conference on April 20, 2010. Maude joined Patrick Mooney, Timothy Byakola, Jose Bové, Alberto Gómez Flores, Hildebrando Vélez, and moderator Duttga Soumya in the Forests, food and water under climate change panel. Watch the video recorded by Andrea Harden-Donahue, Energy Campaigner for the Council of Canadians here:
Maude speaking at a panel on glaciers and climate change at the Cochabamba climate conference, April 21, 2010
VIDEO: Maude Barlow discusses glaciers, climate change and water in Cochabamba with Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! April 22, 2010
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