BLUE OCTOBER START IN BOLIVIA
With dozens of activities for the protection of water and against its commercialization and strong support for the achievements of water in the new Constitution, the organizations of the campaign started a week
debates Tuesday morning Oct. 7 in the city of La Paz with a press conference and the participation of social organizations, activists and institutions in various parts of the country, officially launched the campaign Blue October, which now totaling more than fifty civil society organizations and the state to amplify the various struggles of the peoples of the continent to defend the Water profits and capital out of the neoliberal management that seeks grab this invaluable resource for life.
Blue October is a political action campaign that draws thousands of fighters and fighters in the world by recalling one of the precedents of major legislative change made, when the Uruguay through a referendum constitutionalised water as a common good commodified . So, picking the recent struggle of peoples, including the Bolivian people in the region had begun to gain positions from those values \u200b\u200bthat social movements postulated in the South American continent and the world through their struggles against privatization .
Today, 7 years after the Water War in Cochabamba and 4 years of the Referendum for the Water in Uruguay are people in this building democratic progress slowly, sometimes painful, sometimes critical, sometimes festive to strengthen this meaning wove collective peoples throughout our history: WATER IS LIFE, IS A HUMAN RIGHT, IS RIGHT AND GOOD FOR OUR LIFE ON EARTH AND IN THE WORLD. And today, more than ever, the validity of these assumptions is evident in the political situation of our country: the adoption of the proposed Bolivian Constitution, still waiting to be supported by all of society through a referendum, progress in the new constituent of Ecuador, the proposals of the organizations of the Americas and the world for a social water management: processes that account for very important changes implemented by the action of the people.
These are the issues that make our campaign in this version of Blue October in Bolivia. One of the important issues this year will be the dissemination and analysis of consensus and agreements reached in the proposed Constitution of the State in Bolivia that transcends the concept of "human right", recognizes water as a "right to Life expressly prohibiting privatization. We will to do with constituents, activists and authorities, and even international guests. The thematic panels that start this week also discussed other issues such as public models of social management and control of water, the impact of biofuels on water, water pollution from mining, management of international waters and one axes will also be the impact of climate change on water rights and their relation to the challenge of changing a model of unsustainable and inequitable development.
take this opportunity to invite you to seminars that will take place this week in the city of La Paz:
- Wednesday, October 15: Women and Water. A tribute to the Bolivian Women's Day (from 16:30)
- Thursday, 16 October: Climate Change and Water - International Water Management (Parallel events throughout the day from 9:00)
- Friday 17 October: Water pollution by mining
The right to water in the Constituent Assembly (side events to 14:00) 14:30
Reading of the Declaration and support Caravan Popular Mobilization for the Referendum for Constitutional
The panels are made in the halls of the Convention Center Auditorium (C. Fernando Guachalla No. 421. Sopocachi) from 9:00
To see the schedule at Blue October National visit Greetings solidarity http://www.octubreazulbolivia.blogspot.com
Elizabeth Peredo
Solon Foundation
www.funsolon.org
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