Americas Social Forum
Assumption, August 15, 2010
Our America is on the way!
Nane TeeOñemongu Amerika 'Ehína!
social movements present in the Americas Social Forum, in Asuncion, Paraguay, we reaffirm our solidarity and commitment to the Paraguayan people to the urgent need for progress in the process of profound changes to recovery sovereignty over their territory, common goods, energy resources, the realization of land reform and democratization of wealth.
We are in a continent where, in recent decades has given the reunion between social movements and indigenous movements, which from their ancestral knowledge and historical memory radically question the capitalist system . In recent years, renewed social struggles led to the departure of neoliberal governments and the emergence of governments that have implemented positive reforms such as nationalization of vital sectors of the economy and constitutional redefinition processing.
But right on the continent is rearticulating quickly to stop any process of change. Continues to operate from their enclaves political, economic, media, judiciary, which adds a new offensive of imperialism - even military - in support. Since the previous Social Forum Americas, held in Guatemala in 2008, witnessed the coup in Honduras, the increased U.S. military presence throughout the Americas. Agreements proliferate military bases, the Fourth Fleet operating in our seas. This is a systematic effort to destabilize democracy in the continent is increasingly repressed and the criminalization of social movements.
denounce the illegitimacy of the de facto president of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, at the same time recognizing the strength of its people and support their struggle for a reworking of a true constitutional democracy.
We sympathize with the struggle of the Haitian people, you do not need a military and economic occupation for reconstruction. On the contrary, we demand that the country's sovereignty be respected and that other countries make joint cooperation in the fields of health, education, agriculture and those that are required. We demand the unconditional cancellation of the debt and reject the new process of illegitimate debt.
Complementing this offensive, continues the wave of free trade in all its variants. This is the central feature of the strategy of the European Union, the other neo-colonial power that operates in Latin America and Caribbean. The arms are implementing the International Financial Institutions, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, regional banks 'development' and private banking groups - are creating massive new borrowing to direct impacts for people and nature.
All these threats are linked to a single primary export model of development, exclusionary and predatory that delves into many areas, populations expelled, causing dislocation and migration. The current systemic crisis shows the depletion of the capitalist model - and more specifically its power centers, banks, corporations and governments of the G8. Today more than ever are visible attempts to drag the whole world to a limit even to have the threat of nuclear war by the United States.
defense of natural assets to capitalism eater has become central part of fighting dela agenda increasingly popular organizations and social movements. It reinforces a common front against the destruction of nature and against false solutions "market environmentalism" and "green capitalism", such as carbon markets, biofuels, GMOs and geoingenería, being promoted to the principal centers from the threat of climate change. We denounce the governments of Northern countries geopolitical, rather than confront serious thinking about climate change, are seeking to evade responsibility and to develop new carbon market mechanisms to make more profit, such as "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation "(REDD), which promotes the commercialization and privatization of forests and loss of sovereignty over the territories. We reject such arrangements.
demand that these countries reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases that constitutes an International Court of Justice Climate. We reaffirm the proposals of Cochabamba Agreement, a product of World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, who recognize that real solutions on global warming is climate justice, food sovereignty, the recovery of land and agrarian reform, peasant agriculture and the integration and solidarity among peoples.
social movements we have a historic opportunity to develop empowerment initiatives internacional.Sólo at the struggles of our peoples will enable progress towards ybymarane'y (land without evil) and realize the Tekoporâ (good living). We undertake to strengthen the struggle for the sovereignty of our peoples, food sovereignty, energy sovereignty and the sovereignty of women over their bodies and their lives and the recognition of sexual diversity. Build alternatives that are based on the cumulative resistance from the interplay of diverse perspectives anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchal, anti-colonial and anti-racist, while we go in search of another paradigm centered on equality, good living, sovereignty and integration based on the principle of solidarity among peoples.
Asuncion, Paraguay, August 15, 2010
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