HONOR THE WATER, RESPECT THE WATER, BE THANKFUL FOR THE WATER, PROTECT THE WATER
A CALL TO ACTION
INDIGENOUS WORLD WATER DAY MARCH 22, 2007
INDIGENOUS BROTHERS AND SISTERS STRUGGLING TO DEFEND THE ANCESTRAL LANDS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Free Trade Agreements and neo-liberalism have brought about a rapid expansion in economic globalisation in recent decades. We now see how poor and indebted countries look to the exploitation of natural resources as the solution to their economic problems. The wealthy and industrialized nations continue this resource exploitation within their own countries as well as continuing the resource incursions into other people’s lands in other parts of the world. In many cases, these resources are found on the ancestral lands of Indigenous Peoples. Mining, oil, gas, corporation agriculture, and water extraction, water privatisation and pollution are at the heart of many resource conflicts on and around Indigenous Lands throughout this Western Hemisphere. In the past, we have been marginalized in the decision-making processes that end up harming our People and the land we care for.
WE ARE NOT INVISIBLE
Our Indigenous Peoples and communities have known and demonstrated that we have the knowledge and capacity to take care of the Earth and various cultural and natural resources that we have been given. Governments and corporations have sought our Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge that may be beneficial to their interests. When Indigenous and corporate interests collide, governments politically, socially, and economically isolate us into geo-political paradigms where we are forced to make decisions about the sanctioning exploitation of mineral and fossil fuel resources. In other situations, water and air pollution come from sources outside of our territories. This exploitation, privatisation and contamination upset the balance of cultural resources and sacred sites. As Indigenous Peoples and communities come to better understand the risks associated to resource exploitation, there is an increasing amount of resistance to project proposals and/or a growing demand for remediation of existing problems. This has had the effect of forcing governments and corporations to respond to our concerns.
WE HAVE THE POWER TO BRING CHANGE (Please continue.)
http://www.ienearth.org/water_campaign.html#iwwd032207
Please also see:
Miraculous Messages from Water
How water structure reflects our consciousness
http://www.life-enthusiast.com/twilight/research_emoto.htm
Masaru Emoto’s Website
http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/entop.html
World Water Day
http://www.unwater.org/wwd07/flashindex.html
The World Conservation Union launches PAY – An innovative book providing practical solutions and case study examples on payment schemes for watershed services. http://www.iucn.org/themes/wani/news/pay.html
WORLD WATER DAY-GULF: Forced to Look Beyond Desalination Plants
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37013
Snowbowl owner vows to pursue snowmaking
http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2007/03/13/news/20070313_news_12.txt
U.S. Federal Court Blocks Artificial Snowmaking at Resort on Sacred Lands
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=3273&blz=1
World-Wide Water Crisis Worsening, by Shepherd Bliss
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=382&blz=1
A CALL TO ACTION
INDIGENOUS WORLD WATER DAY MARCH 22, 2007
INDIGENOUS BROTHERS AND SISTERS STRUGGLING TO DEFEND THE ANCESTRAL LANDS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Free Trade Agreements and neo-liberalism have brought about a rapid expansion in economic globalisation in recent decades. We now see how poor and indebted countries look to the exploitation of natural resources as the solution to their economic problems. The wealthy and industrialized nations continue this resource exploitation within their own countries as well as continuing the resource incursions into other people’s lands in other parts of the world. In many cases, these resources are found on the ancestral lands of Indigenous Peoples. Mining, oil, gas, corporation agriculture, and water extraction, water privatisation and pollution are at the heart of many resource conflicts on and around Indigenous Lands throughout this Western Hemisphere. In the past, we have been marginalized in the decision-making processes that end up harming our People and the land we care for.
WE ARE NOT INVISIBLE
Our Indigenous Peoples and communities have known and demonstrated that we have the knowledge and capacity to take care of the Earth and various cultural and natural resources that we have been given. Governments and corporations have sought our Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge that may be beneficial to their interests. When Indigenous and corporate interests collide, governments politically, socially, and economically isolate us into geo-political paradigms where we are forced to make decisions about the sanctioning exploitation of mineral and fossil fuel resources. In other situations, water and air pollution come from sources outside of our territories. This exploitation, privatisation and contamination upset the balance of cultural resources and sacred sites. As Indigenous Peoples and communities come to better understand the risks associated to resource exploitation, there is an increasing amount of resistance to project proposals and/or a growing demand for remediation of existing problems. This has had the effect of forcing governments and corporations to respond to our concerns.
WE HAVE THE POWER TO BRING CHANGE (Please continue.)
http://www.ienearth.org/water_campaign.html#iwwd032207
Please also see:
Miraculous Messages from Water
How water structure reflects our consciousness
http://www.life-enthusiast.com/twilight/research_emoto.htm
Masaru Emoto’s Website
http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/entop.html
World Water Day
http://www.unwater.org/wwd07/flashindex.html
The World Conservation Union launches PAY – An innovative book providing practical solutions and case study examples on payment schemes for watershed services. http://www.iucn.org/themes/wani/news/pay.html
WORLD WATER DAY-GULF: Forced to Look Beyond Desalination Plants
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37013
Snowbowl owner vows to pursue snowmaking
http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2007/03/13/news/20070313_news_12.txt
U.S. Federal Court Blocks Artificial Snowmaking at Resort on Sacred Lands
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=3273&blz=1
World-Wide Water Crisis Worsening, by Shepherd Bliss
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=382&blz=1