Bolivia

Bolivia Set to Pass ‘Law of Mother Earth’

I don’t really want to keep posting newgrabs and would prefer to just post interesting news to my accounts on facebook and twitter, but some news is just so fantastic that I can’t help but get excited and repost it! With Earth Day coming up on Good Friday, Bolivia is showing us all what we should have done decades ago. As more and more environmental disasters kill off all species and mining for uranium, gas, oil, lumber etc create huge abscesses into our mother’s flesh, I pray that every country follows Bolivia’s example.

Bolivia enshrines natural world’s rights with equal status for Mother Earth: Law of Mother Earth expected to prompt radical new conservation and social measures in South American nation. Please read the full article here.

History & Resources – On Guerrilla Gardening

History & Resources – On Guerrilla Gardening

The 17th of April is the International Day of Peasant Struggle. On April 17 1997, after three months of protest for the defence of Mother Earth and for the cultivation of the coca leaf in Bolivia, seven indigenous peasants, including a child and its mother, were massacred. Today is the day, around ...

Guest Blog – Beautiful Bolivia

Guest Blog – Beautiful Bolivia

Raewyn our world travelling photographer sends in lovely photos from Bolivia. Bolivia, officially Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country in central South America.  The Bolivian population, estimated at 9 million, is multiethnic, including Amerindians, Europeans, Asians and Afric ...