EXTRACTIVISM IN LATIN AMERICA, LOOKING TO NEW ALTERNATIVES | PART 2

CASES FROM COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA, PERU & ECUADOR

EXTRACTIVISM IS NOT DEVELOPMENT!
In this session, we will look at campaigns from different parts of Latin America, from grassroots organisations and First Nations people on the front line of resistance and struggles.

Those who are fighting & denouncing extractivist neoliberal policies, in this case, currently implemented by mining corporations.

11:45-1:30pm | Campaigns – struggles and resistances
-Colombia Wayuu people from Guajira Colombia-Venezuela
-Peru (CNPIP),
-Ecuador (CONAIE- ECUARUNARI)

This is a follow on from the first session

10:30 am – 11:30 am | Political and historical context
Speakers:
-MST-Brazil (Landless rural-peasants workers movement) the largest social movement in Latin America, more than a million members)
-Critical Studies Institute from Chile
(The neoliberalism started in Chile and will die in Chile)