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From Copenhagen to Cochabamba
Last night I attended an orientation session for the New York delegation to the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Boliva. The forty-odd members...
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People’s Conference on Climate Change, Analysis of Day 1
Many of the pronouncements and plans advanced during the Action Strategies Working Group on day one were important, perhaps even essential, but did not strike me as particular original. The need for...
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People’s Conference on Climate Change, Coverage
My second day at the conference, including a massive inauguration ceremony. All documented over at Social Text. I should add that there is, of course, lots and lots of media coverage here. Not enough...
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People’s Conference on Climate Change, Analysis of Day 2
Pache mama o muerte! (Mother Earth or Death) Evo’s rallying cry at the beginning and end of his speech confirmed everything that I’d hoped to find in Bolivia. Here is a leader who really understands...
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Pachamama o muerte!
Before everything else, the Cochabamba conference was remarkable for bringing together a large group of radical activists from all around the world. The social connections and sense of possibility...
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What We Communists Want
Following on my last post concerning the danger of reproducing the dismal logic of contemporary capitalism in representations of uneven development, this morning I began thinking about the question of...
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