EDITORIAL | The Nature of Campaigns

Above image from the 2009 TckTckTck campaign featuring partner 350.org. 

Jim Hogan, co-founder of desmogblog.com, as well as founder of the corporate communications agency ‘Hogan’, writes about the multi-million dollar worldwide campaign here. In 2013, as ecological collapse continues to accelerate, the world’s people have little to no understanding of the extensive damage this campaign actually did as the non-profit industrial complex grossly undermined the strongest positions put forward to the United Nations by the world’s smallest states. One could compare it to hammering nails in a coffin. [" The objective was to make it become a movement that consumers, advertisers and the media would use and exploit." | Source ]You can read about it here: The Most Important COP Briefing That No One Ever Heard | Truth, Lies, Racism & Omnicide.

Intercontinental Cry

By Jay Taber

Mar 19, 2013

Government of Bolivia Denounces Illegal Trade of Flora and Fauna by NGOs

March 18, 2013

 

The Government Minister Carlos Romero revealed that TIPNIS has become an object of predation illegal activities.

Recently some indigenous leaders pledged 200,000 hectares of forest and subscribed marketing contracts of 1,500 trees and wildlife utilization contracts with NGOs : Earth Rights International, Due Process of Law Foundation and To build Foundation, Amazon Legal Network.

As for the preliminary point of the consultation conducted in the TIPNIS, Minister Romero said that this process is subject to the minimum standards and requirements of the Commission.

Then he clarified that the consultation was made to magistrates of indigenous peoples and was applied in 58 of 69 communities in 11 months. It was 5 months for the consensus procedure and six for the query itself with full respect for the natural organic institutions.

On the alleged violation of the law of intangibility, Romero recalled that the realization of another indigenous march that rejected that condition forced the Bolivian government to conduct prior consultation, as it showed that demand for approval of such standard was not the product of the consensus of the TIPNIS communities.

The Indigenous Territory and National Park Isiboro-Secure (TIPNIS) is a protected area of Bolivia, created as a National Park by Decree 7401 on November 22, 1965 and declared Indian Territory on September 24, 1990, thanks to the claiming struggles of indigenous peoples of the region.

It has approximately 1,236,296 ha (12,363 km ²). It is located between the province of Beni (Moxos province) and Cochabamba (Chapare province).

It has 402 species of flora and estimated that there are 3,000 species of superior plants, in addition to 714 species of wildlife.

Source | www.opinion.com.bo