Los Derechos de la Pachamama (The Rights of Mother Earth)
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What do we understand about our Pachamama
Pachamama
is our mother
The rights of Mother Earth
What can be given to a mother?
Affection, of course, respect!
Only respect.
What is our Kawsay (life)?
Our Kawsay is all that we have here in the universe.
Our plants, our trees, our water, our birds, animals
the sun
the moon and the stars.
That depends on each person's faith.
Some say "don't listen to that"
"There is no Mother Earth"
"the moon and the sun are not alive"
it would be good that we have a declaration of rights
to protect the Mother Earth
Who is Mother Earth?
Rivers live and everything lives
it's just that they can't speak
or sometimes we don't understand them
However if you listen,
you could hear the river as if they were chanting
In the cultivating months, rivers play the flute
At carnaval, rivers play canaval music
At Easter they play mandoline and guitar
Sometimes, that happens behind my house
Nowadays no one's paying attention to the rivers
they are getting sad and hungry
Just as we sometimes walk around hungry, with no one to offer us anything
They are hungry too, that is why they go out of their way, looking for food
provoking landslide
crushing and eating people for ignoring them
That's why Mother Earth is always conscious, because she is alive
Mother Earth stays healthy when we carry out our duty towards Her
So we'll also be fine if we carry out our duty
If we revere Her our food will be secure
That's why we must remember Mother Earth at all the time for she has great power
Wherever we are, Earth is our mother
Glaciars are our fathers. They give us life
We say Papacha to our Mountain spirit Huaytapallana
we ask him to protect us all
Firstly, in order to ask for anything
we must eat and share our meal with Him
How have we lost our connection with Mother Earth?
In old times, our ancestors had a beautiful connection with mother Earth
They lived constantly offering Her coca leaves
Now, we yougsters, don't remember this affection toward Her anymore
We don't even know how to perform the rituals
In the old days, Mother Earth was deeply respected at many activities
Nowadays, this respect has decreased
Why has it decreased? Because the advances of science and technology are taking its place
Our Mother Earth is really passed off with us
For not remembering Her and not making offerings to Her.
That's why she is angry and mad at us
That's also why we have so many landslides and heavy rains
In other countries people are sad and live un pleasantly.
For they have forgotten the rituals to the mother earth
For us what are Mother Earth rights?
1st right: Right to be respected
The first right should be Respect for Mother Earth
In the present day, we don't lack such a declaration
For example, there are Human Rights, Children's right.
Those come with the constitution
According to these,
It is prohibited to ill treat children
and they can sue their parents
So, right now who's gonna stand up for Mother Earth
Mother Earth has Her rights too. She deserves respect
But multinational corporations mining companies have no respect.
They contaminate Her
Who's gonna protest for Her. Only us, the peasant community will defend her
For we will claim that Mother Earth has Her rights and she must be respected
2nd right: Mother Earth shall not be contamined
Mother Earth is sad these days
Up in the sky, planes pollute with their smoke trails
This also contaminates everything
Just as the smoke from cars and burning tyres and plastic
All those fumes from gasoline oil and all the bad odours
hurt the sun damage the ozone and damage us as well
Now the sun burns too hot as if wanted to burn us
3rd right: Agricultural activities should be done at the correct times respecting the rythms of the moon and the stars
Her right is that we sow on the proper day
Here we are watching the consequences of not sowing
in the right way and at the right time
of not understanding and respecting the rights of Mother Earth
Last time I sowed without the moon that's why we have no potatoes on this field
This is my punishment from Mother Earth
4th Right: We should not use fertilisers nor pesticides to agriculture
Because of this we are killing ourselves
and destroying Mother Earth no one's listens anymore
Mother Earth still provides us with food
but in the end we're eating poison, we're being intoxicated
We have gastritis, we are being poisoned
These things didn't happen before, people were healthy, strong
and able to do many things.
It would be good if we all agree to grow food in the natural way
as we used to do before
In old times, we needed no chemicals, no pesticides
only natural fertilizers
Now, the more we treat the plants, the more we spoil the soil
We wish from our hearts that these rights we are proposing will be added to and that people across the world recover their harony with our Mother Earth
Today my village Karhui is very beautyful
We don't throw plastic out anymore
We collect the platics and waste products little by little into one single spot
In this way, we are taking care of Mother Earth and our crops grow fine.
Plagues and diseases don't get into our fiels
and Mother Earth is nurturing us
We must live in harmony like brothers and sisters
without resentment
Sometimeswhen we fight each other, bad things can happen
Like landslides, heavy rains and earthquakes
it is time to live well and in harmony
One day I am going to come with all my people.
I have cleaned some garbage from you
I'm happy I could make it up here, to be close to your heart
Thank you for life you give me breath
maybe I can live a little longer
I want you to look after me, my father.
and when people come to you, talk to them in their dream
so they clean a little too
So that they all come to care for your beautiful heart
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