From Our Women in Bolivia

April 19, 2010 at 11:32 am · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: ayya, bristol no borders, cochbamba, earth summit, la paz, morales, sumitomo, water

Several Excellent Reports have already been posted by westsiders/bristol no borderers attending the Earth Summit in Cochabamba called by Bolvian President Evo Morales. There blog “ayya” can be found here.

march to commemorate 10 years since the water wars

They report on a immigration raid and the ‘co-opting’ of grassroots campaigns by the government , also report on local solutions to among other things sewage and composting and a commeration of 10 years of struggle for water rights.

Meanwhile, in La Paz, Bolivia a government spokesman said that ‘Indian’ protesters set fire to the offices of a Japanese mining subsidiary to demonstrate against unwanted development and theft of water from the local populace.

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