7 p.m.
Paco Urondo Cultural Center - Salón de los balcones
(25 de mayo 201, City of Buenos Aires)
Panel discussion: “Women and the environment. Defending bodies, territories and natural resources”
Oppression and violence against women, added to the domination and constant deterioration of nature resulting from the use, control and exhaustion of natural resources, the displacement of peasants and the plunder of ancestral lands, water and air pollution, as well as the degradation of soils, forests and biological diversity, originate from capitalism, extractivism, heteropatriarchy and colonialism. In the last decade, social and environmental struggles have been driven and upheld by women—many of whom have become leaders of their communities and social movements—who stand up for the right to water, health, food sovereignty and territory. This panel seeks to give visibility to these pressing struggles in Latin American from an environmental and feminist perspective as complementary change possibilities.
Screening: Mujeres del río by Soledad Fernández Bouzo (work in progress).
Guests: Soledad Fernández Bouzo (sociologist from the Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani at UBA, she specializes in environment, social participation and gender from an audiovisual approach), María José Lubertino (Network of Women in Defense of the Environment and Well Living, attorney specialized in environmental law, member of Congress, Human Rights lecturer at UBA), María Elena Romagnoni (social anthropologist, UBA; master’s candidate in Gender, Politics and Society at FLACSO; since 2006, she has been working for the National Ministry of Social Development; co-author of the book “Eco-feminismo en la Argentina”), Silvina Reguera (member of the Asamblea El Algarrobo), Irma Caupan Perriot (member of the Indigenous Women’s March for Well Living).
Moderator: Gabriela Franchini (journalist and audiovisual producer. Member of the Network of Women in Defense of the Environment and Well Living).
Presentation of ecofeminist graphic design by Argentine artist Paula Cribani and distribution of materials for a special display during the 4th “Ni Una Menos” march, to be held on Sunday, June 3, 2018.
3 p.m.
Argentine Senate
Hipólito Yrigoyen 1849, City of Buenos Aires
A conversation about agroecology with Eduardo Cerdá, co-organized with the Argentine Senate Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development
7 p.m.
Paco Urondo Cultural Center - Salón de los balcones
25 de mayo 201, City of Buenos Aires
Panel discussion: “Protecting our Glaciers”
Water is the source of all life on Earth. Oceans account for 97.5% of all the water in our planet, while only the remaining 2.5% is fresh water. Glaciers and polar ice account for nearly 80% of all freshwater available. Recognizing the vital importance of the preservation of our main asset, the 2010 Glacier Protection Act (Ley 26.639) sets minimum budgets for protecting freshwater reserves in glaciers and periglacial environments. Moveover, according to a technical report issued by the Ministry of Environment, there are 44 mining projects in Argentine territory so far over bodies of ice protected by law. Concerned about the failure to enforce this Act fully and properly, as well as the blatant intention to flexibilize its implementation as expressed recently by the Government, we believe it is absolutely necessary to discuss and look into the legal tools available to us, citizens, to defend our freshwater reserves.
Screening: La Ley de Glaciares NO se Toca. 1300 km de pedaleo y convicción by Huerquen Comunicación en colectivo (5´09”)
Guests: Marta Maffei (former union leader, member of Congress and author of the Minimum Budgets for Glaciers Protection Act), members of the “Jachal no se toca” assembly, Cristina Martin (secretary and coordinator of Conciencia Solidaria’s “Los glaciares no se tocan” campaign), Guillermo Folguera (philosopher and biologist, UBA professor and Conicet researcher), Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales FARN, Maristella Svampa (sociologist, writer and researcher, main researcher at Conicet and head professor at the University of La Plata, member of the collective Plataforma 2012).
Moderator: Enrique Viale (UBA attorney specialized in environmental law, founder of the Argentine Association of Environmental Attorneys, member of the Ethical Tribunal for the Rights of Nature and Mother Earth).
12.45 p.m. to 8 p.m.
University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine - Aula Magna
Paraguay 2155, City of Buenos Aires
FINCA Day, “World Environment Day”, in collaboration with the Independent Study Program on Food Sovereignty - School of Nutrition, UBA
12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
FINCA FAIR
As part of a whole day devoted to FINCA, we will hold the traditional FINCA Fair, including stalls run by independent producers, organic foods, handicrafts and items made from recycled and waste materials.
12:45 p.m.
Opening of FINCA Day
1 p.m.
Panel discussion: “Water, source of life and health”
We are water. Water is the main source of life. It is a supply and a vehicle. But safe water is scarce. The grabbing of water resources by major industries and multinational corporations, the pollution of water and soils by chemical, agrotoxic, medication, antibiotics and other waste carried by water take a toll on the health of millions of people around the world, causing a myriad of diseases. This panel seeks to expose its causes and consequences to convey that access to clean water is a human right and that, together with the importance of water sanitation, it should be part of public health policy.
Screening: CoSensores - sensores comunitarios by VacaBonsai Colectivo Audiovisual (5´55” ) + Saneamiento de la Cuenca Matanza - Riachuelo. Fallo Mendoza by FARN Argentina (10´35”).
Guests: Damian J. Marino, PhD (Conicet researcher and professor at UNLP’s School of Exact Sciences), Beatriz Mendoza (social psychologist, Geography professor and advocate for the Matanza-Riachuelo case), Chanda Chevannes (Canadian filmmaker, director of Unfractured), Juan Gabriel Kersich (medical doctor, promoter of the Kersich, Juan Gabriel y otros c/Aguas Bonaerenses legal case concerning arsenic-contaminated water), CoSensores - sensores comunitarios.
Moderator: María Esther Lasta (clinical immunologist, scientific advisor of the Argentine Celiac Association, founder of the Program for Food SelfProduction, UNMDP).
3:15 p.m.
Panel discussion “From the Monsanto Tribunal to the People’s Assembly: action and struggle strategies”
The People’s Assembly organized during the International Monsanto Tribunal, held in October 2016 in The Hague (Netherlands), is clear evidence of the power of individuals and social organizations coming together against human rights violations, crimes against humanity and ecocide as committed by the Monsanto corporation. The People’s Assembly has opened roads and served as a platform for future strategies and collective struggles.
Screening: Monsanto Tribunal and People’s Assembly, The Hague, 14-16 October 2016 by Navdanya International, International Environmental Film Festival - FINCA, International Monsanto Tribunal in the Hague and People’s Assembly (5´37”).
Guests: Eleonora Lamm (PhD in Law and Bioethics, deputy director of human rights at the Mendoza Supreme Court), Damián Verzeñassi (medicine doctor, university professor, head of UNR’s SocioEnvironmental Health Institute, School of Medical Sciences, head of the Medicine program at UNCAus, member of the South American Association of Social Medicine, ALAMES, and of the People’s Health Movement), Miryam Gorban (degree in Nutrition, Chief Coordinator of the Independent Study Program on Food Sovereignty, FMED - UBA, School of Nutrition. Honorary Head of the Executive Board of Doctors of the World, Argentina).
Moderator: Florencia Santucho (director of the International Environmental Film Festival - FINCA).
4:30 p.m.
Presentation of the collective audiovisual mapping project “Let’s stir the water” about the struggle of peoples for water in Argentina.
The International Environmental Film Festival (FINCA), Huerquen Comunicación en Colectivo and Vacabonsai Colectivo Audiovisual join forces under the motto “Let’s stir the water” to create a collective participation platform by means of an audiovisual mapping in order to give visibility to the main issues in connection with water in Argentine territory. Our society faces constant violations to the right to water, such as the grabbing of rich lands in watersheds for farming exploitation purposes, water privatization by large corporations and its advantageous use for energy generation with extractivist purposes; drinking water scarcity threatening the wellbeing of the peoples; the pollution of rivers, seas and lakes and the resulting death of its fl ora and fauna; droughts and extreme floods as a consequence of climate change; and forced displacements and migration brought about by these phenomena. A video has been made out of the testimonies condemning these conflicts across the country so as to raise awareness within the public opinion of its actual impact, empowering us through international sharing and common action platforms.
5:15 p.m.
Panel discussion “The struggle of peoples for water”
Our age is one marked by social movements and struggle. Citizens and communities express themselves, march and stand up for their rights. In different points across the country, multiple struggles have taken place or are currently underway to defend the right to water and a pollutant-free environment, setting a strong precedent and gradually building tools to be used in future territorial struggles. This large popular movement needs to go hand in hand with an alternative horizon that gives way to the integration and strengthening of different resistance movements, contributing to an amalgamation of struggle an organization experiences, while establishing strategic ties between different sectors of society. Faced with this outlook, it becomes necessary to promote a global vision of environmental issues that evolves from an individual to a general approach, overcoming the decentralization of struggles.
Guests: Elsa Bruzzone (Geopolitics, Strategy and Defense specialist, secretary of CEMIDA, author of Las guerras del agua: América del Sur en la mira de las grandes potencias; Minería Argentina: la encrucijada; Manuela Saénz, amor y pasión del Libertador Simón Bolívar, with foreword by Osvaldo Bayer; advisor and participant of the documentary Sed: Invasión gota a gota), Lefxaru Nawuel (Mapuche confederation of Neuquén - Zonal Xawvn Ko), Vidal Merma Maccarcco (human rights advocate and communicator from the great nation K’ana, from the Huancané Bajo community, province of Espinar, Cusco region, Peru), movement leader against pulp mills in Gualeguachú, movement leader against the building of dams, Nora Cortiñas (Mothers of Plaza de Mayo - founding line).
Moderator: Carlos Vicente (Pharmacy graduate, member of the international organization GRAIN in Latin America, winner of the Right Livelihood Award —the “alternative Nobel prize”— in 2011, member of the editorial board of Biodiversidad, Sustento y Culturas, and of the Argentine organization Acción por la diversidad).
+ Encounter with socio-environmental organizations working for an action platform around the struggle for water as a human right and a nature right.
