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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Para su información </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Abrazos </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Janneth</FONT></DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 16pt"
lang=EN-US><B><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#ff213c>QUITO
DECLARATION</FONT></B></SPAN>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US><FONT class=Apple-style-span
color=#ff213c> </FONT><B><FONT class=Apple-style-span
color=#ff213c>RESISTANCE, </FONT><I><FONT class=Apple-style-span
color=#ff213c>“LIVING WELL” AND </FONT></I></B></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US><B><I><FONT class=Apple-style-span
color=#ff213c>“LIVING WELL IN COEXISTENCE”</FONT></I></B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US><BR></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
lang=EN-US>Between October 8<SUP>th</SUP> and 11<SUP>th</SUP>, 2009, in
Quito, we, women and men from various organizations and networks, came
together to listen, discuss and debate the close relationship between
energy projects, external debt, ecological debt, climate change,
dispossession of territories, repression and resistance. </SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
lang=EN-US>During these days, we shared real solutions to the different
crises, and we put on the table options and alternatives that can achieve
the “living well” (<I>buen vivir</I></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US>) and a <I>“living well in
coexistence” (buen</I></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US>
convivir<I>).</I></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
lang=EN-US>We ratify that capitalism would not have been possible without
the looting, plunder and exploitation of our land, particularly of fossil
fuels<B>:</B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US> coal, oil
and gas. </SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
lang=EN-US>We also affirm that in Latin American countries, as well as in
other regions, national States, in the present context, assume a growing
role as the planners and managers of this model, with similar features of
extraction and exploitation of our land as the transnationals have had.
</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
lang=EN-US>In this new scenario, the State has assumed a leading
role in reproducing and deepening this same capitalist economic
system. Different adjustment programs are being applied, now not only to
insert our countries into world markets, but also to tackle energy
insecurity in the North and ensure further accumulation due to climate
change. To this end, a carbon market<SPAN
class=google-src-text1>.</SPAN>and its programs are created, shifting the
burden of the climate crisis onto the shoulders of communities in the
South. All the initiatives for climate change mitigation, as well
as adaptation plans, proposed from the logic of this
market-based model, will result in new forms of domination and debt and an
increase in the accumulated ecological debt which is owed to the peoples
of the South and to nature.</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
lang=EN-US>Thus, state enterprises such as Petrobras and PDVSA are
structuring alliances that allow them to expand their interests on the
last frontier, affecting traditional communities and territories that have
preserved and protected these natural sanctuaries. </SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
lang=EN-US>In this context, and despite some progress in the strengthening
of collective rights, environmental rights, and the recognition of Nature
as a holder of rights - as in the case of Ecuador -, new legal structures
are being built that allow for the implementation of development and
extractive policies that destroy nature, and with it, cultures.
</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES-EC>It is clear that the changes
necessary for a profound transformation of the model are not being
made<SPAN class=google-src-text1>.</SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US>Such changes must place
environmental justice at the core, meaning justice for peoples and justice
for nature; they must also mean incorporating the demands and recognizing
and protecting the rights of indigenous peoples, traditional communities
and local populations.</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES-EC>In this scenario, any criticism,
opposition, or demand is censured and stigmatized. People are being
prosecuted, and ways of living that offer real alternatives to this system
are being repressed. Territories are being militarized, and
private armies and security firms are being hired for these purposes.
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES>This is a
criminalization of <I>living well</I></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES>. </SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
lang=EN-US>On the other hand, over recent years, in the face of official
discourse that is anti-neoliberal and anti-imperialist, and the
strengthening of proposals for South-South integration, many political and
social movements in the region are being conformed and demobilized.
</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
lang=EN-US>Indeed, due to ignorance or pragmatism, some sectors of the
left do not recognize the dangers represented by this developmentalism,
this <B>green capitalism,</B><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US>this market environmentalism.
With their alignment or withdrawal, they permit the restructuring of the
sectors of power and the retreading of a capitalism in crisis.</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES-EC>The extraction of oil and other
fossil fuels is an impediment to starting on any new path. As a
result, voices of opposition to this model and to hydrocarbon extraction
projects are arising in various parts of the world. In this way, they are
able to safeguard natural cycles and the survival of life on the planet.
</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES-EC>These courageous, bold, and coherent
proposals, protect territories and rights and address climate change. This
is real climate justice!</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
lang=ES-EC> T<SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES-EC>he
resistance of peoples of the South is a contribution to
humanity,<SPAN> </SPAN>for it is a call to live in harmony with the
earth, and to protect our health and water. They are the present and the
future of the earth.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES-EC><SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" class=MsoBodyText><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES-EC><B>WE COMMIT TO:</B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES-EC> </SPAN></P>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES-EC>1.<SPAN>
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES-EC>Strongly
denounce new hydrocarbon and coal operations (both transnational and
domestic firms); oppose gigantic projects like the Pre-sal in Brazil, to
support national campaigns to leave the oil in the
soi<B>l,</B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES-EC> to fight
for an Oil-free Amazon.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES-EC>2.<SPAN>
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES-EC>Demand
non-payment of illegitimate debts that have generated social and
ecological debt and denounce new debts that would further increase them.
</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES-EC>3.<SPAN>
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=ES-EC>Work towards the
recognition and claiming of the ecological debt caused by mining projects,
oil and other extractive projects, as well as climate change.
</SPAN></DIV>
<OL style="MARGIN-TOP: 0in" type=1 start=4>
<LI class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US>Reject
green capitalism projects such as the <B>c</B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US>arbon market, REDDs mechanisms,
agrofuels<B>,</B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US> the
sale of environmental services<B>,</B></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US> and, in this sense, the
misrepresentation of claims to ecological debt and climate justice.
</SPAN>
<LI class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US>Oppose
new mining projects that threaten the rights of peoples in the region.
</SPAN>
<LI class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
lang=EN-US>Strengthen our work in supporting the defense of
territories<B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
lang=EN-US>and the rights of peoples and of nature. </SPAN>
<LI class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US>Denounce
the militarization of Latin America, the Caribbean and other regions of
the global South and the increasing repression of peoples who resist in
defense of nature<B>.<SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-WEIGHT: normal"
class=Apple-style-span><SPAN class=google-src-text1><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US><B>.</B></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US>Mobilize in support of processes
of resistance to the capitalist model and demand respect for the right
to resist<B>.</B></SPAN></SPAN></B></SPAN>
<LI style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US>Sustain processes of defense,
construction and transformation necessary to ensure a “living well”
(<I>buen vivir</I></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
lang=EN-US>)<B>,</B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US>
inspired by indigenous peoples, peasants, fisherpeople and
afrodescendents, for a present and a future of transformation.
</SPAN></LI></OL>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><SPAN class=google-src-text1><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
lang=EN-US><I>¿QUIÉN DIJO QUE TODO ESTÁ PERDIDO...?</I></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US> “<I>WHO SAID THAT ALL IS
LOST...?</I></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
lang=EN-US>”</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US>The best allies of the people are
people themselves. </SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" align=center><SPAN
class=google-src-text1><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US>¡Hay
que ponerle corazón a todas las luchas!</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US> We must put our hearts into all our
struggles! </SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial" lang=EN-US>Quito, Ecuador, October 12,
2009 </SPAN></P>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"
lang=ES-EC>-<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=ES-EC>South Peoples’
Ecological Debt Creditors’ Alliance - SPEDCA</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"
lang=ES-EC>-<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=ES-EC>Alliance for a
Responsible, Pluralistic and Solidarity Economy – ALOE</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"
lang=ES-EC>-<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=ES-EC>Friends of the
Earth International</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"
lang=ES-EC>-<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=ES-EC>FASE, Brazil
</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"
lang=ES-EC>-<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=ES-EC>FERN
(UK)</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"
lang=ES-EC>-<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=ES-EC>Jubilee
South/Americas</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"
lang=ES-EC>-<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=ES-EC>Observatory of
Mining Conflicts in Latin America -OCMAL</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"
lang=ES-EC>-<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=ES-EC>Oilwatch
Internacional</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"
lang=ES-EC>-<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=ES-EC>Brazilian Network
for Environmental Justice</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"
lang=ES-EC>-<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=ES-EC>Latin American
Network on Debt, Development and Rights - LATINDADD</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"
lang=ES-EC>-<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=ES-EC>Network for a
GMO-Free Latin America - RALLT</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"
lang=ES-EC>-<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=ES-EC>World Council of
Churches- WCC</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"
lang=ES-EC>-<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11pt" lang=ES-EC>World Rainforest
Movement -WRM</SPAN></DIV><BR><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: rgb(255,0,127)">Magda Lanuza<BR><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"></SPAN><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><SPAN
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><SPAN
style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT>email:
eliamag@alumni.brandeis.edu<BR>Facilitadora para America Latina
<BR>Iniciativa contra los Agronegocios - AAI <BR>skype:
magdelia21<BR>Mobile: .503. 71957924<BR>Nicaragua - El Salvador<BR>Centro
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