Free Trade and Climate Change Resistance: Voices from the South

Trade to Climate Caravan

December 2009

Free Trade and Climate Change Resistance: Voices from the South

Trade to Climate Caravan with activists from the global South and Europe travelled from the 7th WTO ministerial conference in Geneva to the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. Its aim was to draw attention to the consequences of globalisation and climate change on the lives of the people in the South.

Yoon Geum Sum, a peasant leader in South Korea, joined Trade to Climate Caravan to advocate for the right of small farmers and peasants to produce food locally and sustainably to feed themselves and their communities.

Pablo Rosales, leader of a national alliance of fishers, joined Trade to Climate Caravan to fight for the fishers’ right to access and control their fishing grounds.

Betina Cruz Velásquez from Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) joined Tade to Climate Caravan to denounce the malicious practices behind the clean-energy windmills set up in Oaxaca, which are displacing indigenous communities from their land.

Jorge Galeano, Movimiento Agrario Popular
As a farmer from Paraguay affected by genetically modified soy monoculture plantation, Jorge Galeano is part of the resistance against false solutions to climate change. He is a part of Trade to Climate Caravan

Amparo Miciano, an activist travelling in the caravan who works mainly on women's rights in rural areas.

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