CHICANO PARK Chicano Park in San Diego, CA was founded on April 22, 1970 — the same day as the first Earth Day — when the community of Barrio Logan joined activists to protest the construction of a Highway Patrol station on the present site of the 8 acre park. The community had already been [...]

Follow the World People’s Conference here. View The City Project’s images from the Conference here http://is.gd/bK755 Read the Dispatch from Cochabamba by The City Project’s Robert Garcia here.

Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia, wrote in the Los Angeles Times: “Bolivia will not accept an agreement reached between the world’s biggest polluters that is based on the exclusion of the very countries, communities and peoples who will suffer most from the consequences of climate change. . . . This is why [...]

[According to Bolivian President Evo Morales:] to fight climate change, “we need to recover the values of the indigenous people.” Yet wealthy countries have little interest in learning these lessons and are instead pushing through a plan that at its best would raise average global temperatures 2 degrees Celsius. “That would mean the melting of [...]

Los Angeles Times Op/Ed April 23, 2010 When I arrived at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in late last year, . . .[w]e, the representatives of the majority of the world’s peoples, were effectively being left in the cold while a tiny group dominated by a few rich governments met in private to [...]

Click on the image to see a slide show of images by The City Project. Follow the World People’s Conference here. Read the Dispatch from Cochabamba by The City Project’s Robert Garcia here. Latino leaders participated in the World People’s Conference — Robert Garcia, President and Counsel of The City Project; Raul Macias, President of Anahuak [...]

Weekly Mulch: Citizens Lead Cochabamba Climate Negotiations POSTED APR 23, 2010 @ 11:06 AM BY SARAH LASKOW FILED UNDER: SUSTAIN by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Environmental advocates from around the world gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia, this week and resolved that, a year from now, they would hold a world’s people referendum on climate change to marshal support [...]

The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth concluded on Earth Day, April 22, with Venezuelan President Hugo Morales calling for publication of the recommendations presented by working groups at the conference, and a follow up conference in Cancun, Mexico. Over 35,000 accredited participants attended the Cochabamba conference.  Over 9000 [...]

Dispatch from the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia, by Robert Garcia An estimated 20,000 people are gathered at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia, called the conference after [...]