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Dear friends and comrades,
Given the importance and significance of this
resolution emanating from Social Summit of
indigenous, campesino and popular organisations
of Bolivia, which lays out their 18 strategic
points for the new Bolivia constitution, I
encourage all of you to help get this
translation out as far and wide as possible.
Below it is also the 10 point action resolution coming out of the same meeting
In solidarity
Federico Fuentes
<http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/09/manifesto-to-bolivian-people.html>Manifesto
to the Bolivian People
Summit of the social organisations of the
indigenous, originario, campesino peoples and
nations and the popular organisation of the cities of the Bolivia
<http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/09/manifesto-to-bolivian-people.html>http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/09/manifesto-to-bolivian-people.html
The demand for a Constituent Assembly arose as a
democratic and peaceful response by the working
people, in the face of the genocide and
massacres by Banzer, Tuto Quiroga, Sanchez de
Lozada, the same ones who preferred to drown the
homeland in blood or divide the country rather
that lose their class and caste privileges.
It was the democratic vote of the people which
guaranteed the convoking of the Constituent
Assembly, it was the democratic vote which
elected the constituent delegates, providing
space for minorities and majorities, with the
responsibility of uniting Bolivians, ending
injustices and recognising the rights of the
excluded and discriminated indigenous peoples.
That is why today, at the same time as telling
Bolivia and the world that we are here, standing
up with dignity and commitment in order to
defend to Constituent Assembly, we call on all
Bolivian people, workers and business owners,
indigenous peoples and mestizos, citizens of the
east and west, students, professionals, middle
classes, neighbours, house wives and young
people who love our beloved homeland to
struggle, distribute, mobilise and defend the
following 18 strategic points of the new
Political Constitution of the State that will
guarantee the democratic unity of the homeland,
equality between people, the collective rights
of the indigenous, originario, campesino
peoples, the nationalisation of natural wealth
and the widening of social rights.
1. A Unitary, Plurinational, Communitarian and
Democratic State , where all peoples, cultures,
languages, have the same rights, opportunities
and are recognised in the same manner in front
of the law, institutions and society. The
Plurinational Communitarian State has as its
foundation well being, and the decolonisation of
the state that for centuries has discriminated
and marginalized people due to their language,
their skin colour, their surname or tradition.
The Plurinational, Communitarian and Democratic
State guarantees the unity of all Bolivians
within a single and indivisible homeland, but at
the same time recognised the right of each
indigenous people to preserve their culture and tradition.
2. Plurinational Public Adminstration. All
public functionaries should know the dominant
indigenous language of the region where they
work so as to be able to communicate with the
peoples, the Spanish language, to be able to
communicate with the rest of the Bolivians, and
a foreign language, in order to be linked with the world.
3. A Unitary State with municipal, departmental,
regional and indigenous, originario, campesino
autonomies that guarantee the unity of the
state, solidarity between regions and the democratic decentralisation of power.
4. The Nationalisation of Natural Resources,
renewable and non-renewable, under the control
and ownership of the Bolivian people. Never
again will gas, petroleum, mining resources,
water, land nor forests be the property of
foreigners. All natural resources will be the
property of Bolivian, for use by Bolivians, and for the benefit of Bolivians.
5. Sovereign Natural Resources. It is totally
prohibited for non-state organisations to
directly involve themselves in the
administration, management, control and
preservation of forests, parks and natural
reserves, as well as biodiversity, all of which
are under the control of the state.
6. Taxes on large fortunes. Those that have
accumulated enormous wealth should pay larger
taxes for the benefit of the most needy.
7. Social and Communitarian Economy. The state
will participate in the strategic sectors of the
economy. The state recognises that private
Bolivian investment is a factor in productive
development, and that foreign private investment
will be subordinated to national development
plans, and that medium and small rural
producers, agrarian communities and productive
associations will receive state protection,
economic support, credits, technology and
infrastructure in order to guarantee the well being of society.
8. The state respects, guarantees and protects
medium and small private property, and
communitarian, cooperative and mixed property.
Private property should guarantee that it plays
an effective social function in the benefit of human beings.
9. Expropriation without indemnification of
latifundio and its immediate distribution
between producers and those from the countryside
and city who are willing to produce for the benefit of society.
10. Re-election and revocation by popular
mandate of any elected authority. Now, never
again will authorities be immovable nor owners
of their positions. The people are sovereign and
the people can ratify or change their authorities when they so desire.
11. Election of all authorities of the Judicial
Power to democratise, decolonise and nationalise
the justice system. Now, never again will
citizens be the objects of blackmail by a
dehumanising, insensitive and abusive justice system
12. Recognition of communitarian justice as an
alternative, complementary and ancestral form of
solving differences and conflicts.
13. Racism is a grave crime against society and
the state. All manifestations, public or private
expressions of racism, of exclusion for ethnic,
cultural, linguistic reasons will be criminally sanctioned.
14. Plurinational Parliament with only one
chamber guaranteeing the same number of current
representative for each department. No more chambers of elites and privilege.
15. In the fight against corruption, the state
does not recognise the prescription of the crime
and investigations can be retroactive. Widen the
power of the state to investigate fortunes.
16. All goods implicated in acts of corruption
will be confiscated by the state for the benefit of the people.
17. All Bolivian men and women, from birth until
death, have the right to health service in equal conditions.
18. Total Elimination of illiteracy
Passed on tenth day of the month of September of two thousand and seven.
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<http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/09/bolivias-indigenous-and-social.html>Bolivia's
indigenous and social movements: "If dialogue
ends, we will assume more radical measures"
Resolution passed by the Social Summit of Social Movements, held in Sucre on
September 10, 2007
<http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/09/bolivias-indigenous-and-social.html>http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/09/bolivias-indigenous-and-social.html
Considering:
That, the Constituent Assembly is a space for
the construction of a new state, with the
participation of all Bolivian men and women, and
is a conquest of the people, which has cost the
blood of the indigenous, originario, campesino
nations and popular classes, and a long historic
resistance in the face of the neoliberal
roscas[1], who privatised natural resources,
strategic companies and took advantage of the
spaces of power for their own personal benefit.
That, the Bolivian people, expressed in the form
of the social movements, for the first time are
actors in the construction of a new state,
having been marginalise for more than 500 years,
where injustice and inequality created great differences.
Therefore, the summit of the social
organisations of the indigenous, originario,
campesino nations and people and the popular
organisations of the cities of Bolivia, resolves:
1. Defend, including with our lives, the
Constituent Assembly and this process of
irreversible profound change being driven
forward by the historic forces of our peoples
and the indigenous, originario and campesino
nations, together with the popular organisations.
2. That in the case of there not being
democratic guarantees for the installation of
sessions [of the Constituent Assembly], we
demand that the sessions should be immediately
installed in another department, maintain the
city of Sucre as the centre of operations.
3. We support our sister Silvia Lazarte Flores,
president of the Constituent Assembly who, due
to being an indigenous woman who wear a pollera
[indigenous dress], was discriminated against by
racist oligarchic sectors from the city of Sucre.
4. We rule out and reject in a firm manner, the
ruling laid down by the District Superior Court
of Chuquisaca [2], which was an act that was a
perversion of justice and an attack on the
independent and foundational character of the
Constituent Assembly. We can not allow a
resolution approved by a majority of assembly
delegates, elected by the people, to be ruled
out of order by two judges named from above,
according to a sharing out of quotas of power
between the traditional parties of the right.
5. We demand that the assembly delegates, in
accordance with moral and ethical principals, do
not receive their salaries for days not worked.
6. The social movements of the countryside and
city will defend the process of change, headed
by Evo Morales Ayma, Constitutional President of
the Republic, who has been carrying out deep
structural changes, in the economic, in the
political, in the social and in the cultural
sphere, in compliance with the mandate of the people.
7. We demands that the convening of the National
Congress and the presidential report given every
August 6, take on a rotational character between
the 9 departments, based on a principal of equality, equity and justice.
8. We denounce in front of the international
community and human rights organisations, the
aggression and insults directed at social
organisations and assembly delegates, the
burning of the symbols of the indigenous,
originario and campesino peoples, and the
destruction of the headquarters of the social organisations.
9. We warn that a small groups of the fascist
elites, by continuing to misinform the
population, are prejudicing the Constituent
Assembly, and that if the dialogue ends, we will
assume other more radical measures, which we as
social organisations reserve the right to use.
10. The social organisations of the countryside
and the city declare ourselves in a state of
emergency, permanent vigil and commit ourselves
to organising Committees in Defence of the
Constituent Assembly, via out confederations,
federation, neighbourhood committees,
associations, unions, capitanÃas, tentas,
ayllus[2] and all social and popular
organisations to guarantee the functioning of
the Constituent Assembly and consolidate our
proposals in the new Political Constitution of the State.
Passed in the city of Sucre on the ten day of the month of September of 2007.
Notes
[1] Rosca was the word given to describe the
oligarchy tie to tin and silver mining during
the first half of the 20 th century.
[2] The Superior District Superior Court of
Chuquisaca ruled the overturning of a plenary
decision by the majority of the delegates of the
Constituent Assembly to eliminate debate around the capital.
[3] capitanÃas, tentas, and ayllus Indigenous
communitarian forms of organisation
Michael A. Lebowitz
Professor Emeritus
Economics Department
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6
Director, Programme in 'Transformative Practice and Human Development'
Centro Internacional Miranda, P.H.
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