MOVEMENT FOR THE LIBERATION AND DEFENSE OF MOTHER

ORIGINAL EN CASTELLANO

FOUNDING DECELERATION

April 1, 2012

The Movement for the Liberation and Defense of Mother Earth, made up of the below signing organizations, is born from the initiative of diverse processes of resistance with the purpose of defending the territories, biological and genetic diversity, the cultural patrimony of the Nation, the reaffirmation of the reservations from the colonial era and all the communities affected by the mining-energy mega-projects and agribusinesses that have been ceded by the national government to national and transnational corporations such as: ENDESA – EMGESA – ENEL- EMERALD ENERGY – ANGLO GOLD ASHANTI –TECNICA VIAL S. EN C.A T– among others.

The struggle of peaceful resistance and civil disobedience against corporate control of the territories proposes; the construction of a new Mining-Energy policies and Agro Nutritional Sovereignty and Autonomy; an Integral Agrarian Reform that guarantees self-control of the territories by Indigenous Peoples, Campesinos, and the Legitimate Inhabitants of those lands; the construction of a New Environmental Statute; the recognition traditional and ancestral authorities; the Universal Right to a Health Environment that impedes the appropriation of our territories and vital ecosystems from transnational companies; Autonomous Agro Nutritional Campesino Reserves and the suspension of existing and future environmental licenses for the extraction of our natural resources.

We reject the Plan of Development of the Santos Government, its "locomotives" of mining-energy and rural development, the Zones of Business Development and the violent actions of displacement against the affected communities, in particular the displacement ordered by the Ministry of the Interior against the affected of the Quimbo Hydroelectric Project. We equally reject and condemn the threats, persecution, stigmatization, singling out and judicial processes against the social protests.

The Movement reaffirms its fundamental strategy of articulation and social mobilization of all the sectors that share our proposals for the Liberation and Defense of Mother Earth. With this sentiment we convoke as of now the organizing of local committees of the Movement in function of a grand action of Resistance and Defense of the Magdalena River as a fundamental part of the recuperation and protection of the territory and our life projects.

¡FREE RIVERS, FREE PEOPLES!

IN MINGA FOR THE RECUPERATION AND LIBERATION OF MOTHER EARTH

SIGNED

CRIHU – ASOQUIMO- COORDINADOR NACIONAL AGRARIO- ADIH – COM-UNIDAD- ACAS- OBSURDH –OBJETORES DE CONCIENCIA – PASTORAL SOCIAL – ANDAS – MOVIMIENTO CIVICO DE LA PLATA -