Oilwatch General Assembly

On the global level, we are living at a time when the criticism of the extractive industry is at its peak. The sharp decline in oil has provoked much aggression from those leading its extraction.

Never before has the relation of oil with the ills afflicting humanity been so clear: war, poisoning, the destruction of ecosystems, the pollution of the ocean, degenerative diseases, waste, the ravaging of communities, and climate change which has drastically altered the possibility for life on earth and seriously threatens survival of both humans and the entire biodiversity.

The recovery and development of new types of technologies that can liberate us from fossil fuels, advance the work to protect habitats and ecosystems threatened by the activity, and achieve overcoming our dependence on those who supply oil is a priority.

Oilwatch's International Assembly will take place in Ecuador, a country that has been the  stage for three of Oilwatch's initiatives which have been extremely important and emblematic for the organization: preventing the impunity of the transnational company BP, working with communities to achieve the rehabilitation and reparation of areas where oil industries operated (in the case of Texaco), and arriving at the point where  crude is left in the ground, not extracted (in the case of the Yasuni).

PROGRAM

21^st of July:
Inauguration of the Concrete Utopia Fair

22^nd of July:
PRECONFERENCE: Necessary Reflections for the Transition from Oil

• GEOPOLITICAL ANALYSIS OF AFRICA, ASIA, AND LATIN AMERICA
• THE METABOLISM OF OIL (THE CASE OF TEXACO, BP, AND THE YASUNI)

23^rd of July:

• REVIEW OF GLOBAL CRISES AND WORK GROUPS ON THE CASES
• REGIONAL GROUPS ON THE TRANSITION FROM OIL

 24^th of July: OILWATCH'S ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS

 25^th, 26^th, and 27^th of July,

FIELD TRIP TO THE YASUNI (lessons from the Yasuni)

MEETING FOR THE COORDINATION OF THE AFFECTED AND  OIL WORKERS

SPONSORS

OXFAM

Artists Project Earth (APE)

Andreuw Wainwright Reform Trust (AWRT)

Heinrich Boel Stiftung (HBF)

Global Greengrants Fund (GGF)

Broderlig Delen (BD)

Rosa Luxemburg Foundation

Seminar Particpants:

Oilwatch members from

Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Chad, Ghana, Tailandia,

Timor, Filipinas, Burma, Indonesia

México, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Perú, Bolivia, Brasil, Argentin

Special Guests:

Workers from: México, Venezuela, Brasil, Colombia y Ecuador.

Affected peoples from: México, Guatemala, Colombia, Perú, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Brasil, Perú.

Colaborators from Europe, the United State, China