Some of the conclusions drawn by the forum was that capitalism and the current phase of neoliberalism are to blame for leading the planet to its collapse. This complex scenario is the result of environmental degradation, genetic experimentation, greenhouse gas emissions, the use of fossil fuels and the promotion of industrial agriculture, which will lead to the “collapse of our Mother Earth”.

The participants accuse the agribusiness transnational corporations of land grabbing, water privatization, the monopoly of seeds, the increasing mining exploitation and the construction of mega dams.

“It is not possible to change the current system without destroying the old one. The only way to break with the structure of the terror and death regime is through alliances, the promotion of a real Agrarian Reform, Good Living and Food Sovereignty, based on the conviction that peasant agriculture is the only way to cool the planet”.

The forum was organized by the World March of Women, La Via Campesina and Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean. These organizations agreed on the importance of promoting the Peoples Trade Agreement, they backed the social movements’ proposal within ALBA and committed to struggle for food and energy sovereignty.

They also relaunched the movement of victims and affected by climate change, and exposed the false solutions like carbon credits, REDD and Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM).

“We take our commitment to the Peoples’ Agreement that came out of Cochabamba and we shall insisit in derailing the International Conference on Climate Change (COP 16) in Cancun, 2010”, they said.

They declared June 28 a day of Direct Action against the Coup in Honduras and especially referred to the struggle of the Aguan people who suffer displacement, deaths, repression and militarization as a result of agribusiness.

“We set an agenda of joint political action in Meso-America to Resist, Mobilize and Transform. Globalize the struggle, globalize the hope. We shall continue marching until we are all free”, they concluded.

Photo: Cesta - Amigos de la Tierra El Salvador