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The Rights of Mother Earth/Los Derechos de la Madre Tierra

Date & Time:
June 9, 2016 | 7:00 pm
Location:
Senate Room, Hotel Alma

DOES THE EARTH HAVE RIGHTS? LARC and University of Calgary International will be hosting Bolivian Foreign Relations Minister David Choquehuanca Céspedes for a public talk on Los Derechos de la Madre Tierra (The Rights of Mother Earth) to discuss our connections and obligations to the environment.  Minister Choquehuanca has served in the Bolivian cabinet since President Evo Morales took office in 2006. He has extensive experience in political and social activism in support of indigenous groups and campesinos in Bolivia. Presentation in Spanish with English interpretation. Free and open to the public. RSVP to larc@ucalgary.ca