Cancun Photos: Indigenous Peoples Struggle for Climate Change

Photos copyright Brenda Norrell

Indigenous Peoples from Bolivia (top photo) have joined with Native people from around the globe at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 16. Photo 2: Outside the Climate Dialogue at the Casa Cultural. Photo 3: Ofelia Rivas, O'odham from the US/Mexico border, offers a water song at La Via Campesina where farmers, Indigenous Peoples and workers are gathered. Indigenous Peoples are carrying forward the standards of the Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Bolivian President Evo Morales will speak at La Via Campesina on Thursday at 3 pm.