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Bolivia: La Via Campesina Participates in Peoples' Climate Conference

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(Cochabamba, April 20, 2010) This morning Itelvina Masioli, a Brazilian leader of the international peasant movement La Via Campesina, spoke at the inauguration of the People's World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Bolivian President Evo Morales was the keynote speaker to the crowd of several thousand.
The conference, organized by the Bolivian government after countries failed to agree on a plan to stop climate change in Copenhagen last December, is being held from April 19 thru 22. Its goal is to amplify the voices of those who were not heard in Copenhagen.
"We are here together with President Evo Morales to play an active role in this grand global mobilization in Defense of Mother Earth," said Masioli. "Our planet is in danger, and if our planet is in danger, then life is in danger."....read more