[WSMDiscuss] Global Assembly on the Amazon from Friday 17th of July, to Sunday the 19th of July.

Tue Jul 14 06:03:48 CEST 2020

I also want to participate ,please

I D Khajuria
Kathua..184102
JammuKashmir (INDIA)
idkhajuria at gmail.com

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:33 PM Jai Sen <jai.sen at cacim.net> wrote:

> Monday, July 13, 2020
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> Thanks Gus, for reminding us all of this very important gathering of
> energies and forces…
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> I’m taking the opportunity of also reminding others, by copying my reply
> on other lists.
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>             Jai
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> On Jul 12, 2020, at 4:31 PM, gustave massiah <massiah at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
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> *GLOBAL ASSEMBLY FOR THE AMAZON*
> *virtually from Friday 17th of July, to Sunday the 19th of July. *
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> *The Global Assembly for the Amazon will be held virtually from Friday
> 17th of July, to Sunday the 19th of July. The first part of the Assembly,
> July 17th, is being organized by COICA, the main indigenous federation in
> the Amazon basin, with affiliated organizations in each of the nine
> Amazonian countries. This first day will be mostly centered on
> participation by indigenous peoples and organizations from the region. *
>
> *On Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th of July the Assembly will start at 3:00
> p.m. in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru, 4:00 p.m. in Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay,
> Guyana and Venezuela, and 5:00 p.m. in Brazil-Sao Paolo, French Guyana and
> Suriname. Each of these two days we will have a two-and-a-half-hour session
> and will have simultaneous translation into Spanish, Portuguese, English
> and French. *
>
> *To participate in this process and receive the respective Zoom link you
> must fill out the following form **https://forms.gle/UbPArHEebwV9jxG99
> <https://forms.gle/UbPArHEebwV9jxG99>*
>
> *The First Global Assembly for the Amazon will also be broadcast by**https://www.facebook.com/asambleamazonica/
> <https://www.facebook.com/asambleamazonica/>** and ** https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5uRVxQWBKbtyYZXj4_8Zkg
> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5uRVxQWBKbtyYZXj4_8Zkg>*
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> *Link to the Assembly program: **https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x0SXoEfCi4GeUs_OS_ZYFFlrqMw1a3J3LyeIl_eCpCM/edit?usp=sharing
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x0SXoEfCi4GeUs_OS_ZYFFlrqMw1a3J3LyeIl_eCpCM/edit?usp=sharing>*
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> *More information and contact: **asambleamazonica at gmail.com
> <asambleamazonica at gmail.com>*
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> *Self-convened*
> *First Global Assembly for the Amazon*
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> *Against ethnocide, ecocide and extractivism in the Amazon*
> *which is aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic*
>
> The Amazon is being flooded with death in its communities, villages, towns
> and cities. The COVID-19 is raging with the so-called "forest peoples" who
> are suffering from centuries of exploitation, extractivism, racism and
> ethnocide. This region, which is essential to the stability of the Earth's
> ecosystem, is experiencing accelerated terricide and ethnocide.
>
>
> The causes of the deterioration of the Amazon are agro-industrial
> corporations, monocultures, the planting of transgenic seeds, agro-fuels,
> legal and illegal mining, the extraction and spillage of hydrocarbons,
> bio-piracy, hydroelectric and waterway mega-projects, poorly planned
> transmission lines and highways, international financial organizations and
> their loans and investments, drug trafficking and organized crime.
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> The governments of the North and the South, both neoliberal and
> progressive, encourage extractivism in different ways, weakening the Amazon
> on a social and ecological level. Now, under the title of "reactivating the
> economy to get out of the COVID-19 crisis", the governments of the region
> are flexibilizing environmental, indigenous and social legal provisions to
> further promote extractivism.
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> *The destruction of the Amazon brings us closer to the precipice and the
> climatic hecatomb. Without a living Amazon, there will be no future for
> humanity.*
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> Many are fighting and resisting in the face of this destruction. The women
> of the Amazon are the most threatened and at the same time the most
> creative and resistant in the defense of their bodies-territories.
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> The challenges are very great and unity in diversity is urgent and
> unavoidable, with the protagonism of the original peoples, guardians of
> ancestry and Good Living.
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> Faced with this reality, movements, collectives, networks, activists and
> organizations of indigenous peoples, quilombolas, riverine people,
> siringueros (rubberes), caboclos, marrons, peasants, artists, religious
> groups, defenders of nature, communicators, academics, women, youth and
> inhabitants of the Amazonian cities, we self-call ourselves in the First
> Global Assembly for the Amazon that will take place virtually from July 17
> to and July 19.
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> Our objective is to articulate an alliance at the service of existing
> platforms and campaigns, to strengthen our actions and impact in the
> defense of human rights, the rights of indigenous peoples and the rights of
> nature. We seek to build a spiral process of cycles of assemblies/actions
> in order to add wills, reach consensus on common objectives and agree on
> mobilization initiatives around proposals that emerge from the debate and
> consensus.
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> To this end, Saturday’s meeting will be dedicated to reflect and debate
> the problems of the countries and the pan-Amazon region, and on Sunday we
> will discuss proposals for action and enrich three campaigns that we are
> building:
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> 1.    Global campaign to address the serious impacts of the Covid-19 on
> indigenous populations, afro-descendants and the entire Amazon.
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> 2.    Global campaigns to boycott products, companies, investments,
> government policies, trade agreements and extractive industries that
> destroy the Amazon.
>
>
> 3.    Global mobilization days to stop ethnocide, ecocide and
> extractivism, and to save the Amazon which is essential to face climate
> change.
>
>
> The Global Assembly for the Amazon will be held virtually from Friday 17th
> of July, to Sunday the 19th of July. The first part of the Assembly, July
> 17th, is being organized by COICA, the main indigenous federation in the
> Amazon basin, with affiliated organizations in each of the nine Amazonian
> countries. This first day will be mostly centered on participation by
> indigenous peoples and organizations from the region.
>
>
> On Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th of July the Assembly will start at 3:00
> p.m. in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru, 4:00 p.m. in Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay,
> Guyana and Venezuela, and 5:00 p.m. in Brazil-Sao Paolo, French Guyana and
> Suriname. Each of these two days we will have a two-and-a-half-hour session
> and will have simultaneous translation into Spanish, Portuguese, English
> and French.
>
>
> To participate in this process and receive the respective Zoom link you
> must fill out the following form https://forms.gle/UbPArHEebwV9jxG99
>
>
> The First Global Assembly for the Amazon will also be broadcast by
> https://www.facebook.com/asambleamazonica/
> <https://www.facebook.com/asambleamazonica/> and
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5uRVxQWBKbtyYZXj4_8Zkg
>
>
>
> Link to the Assembly program:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x0SXoEfCi4GeUs_OS_ZYFFlrqMw1a3J3LyeIl_eCpCM/edit?usp=sharing
>
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> More information and contact: asambleamazonica at gmail.com
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> *In order to ensure a healthy humanity for now and in the future, you need
> living amazon communities and forests.*
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> To subscribe the self-convened call https://forms.gle/QP4V7BE3cR8FWLt77
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> <Self-convened Global Assembly for  the Amazon.docx>
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