17 de septiembre de 2013
Señor Economista Rafael Correa Presidente
República del Ecuador
Estimado Señor Presidente,
Como académicos preocupados y autores de muchos países, estamos escribiendo para apoyar la iniciativa del Ecuador de no extraer petróleo del Yasuní-ITT.
Como miles de otros ciudadanos del mundo, miramos esta iniciativa como un paso pionero en la lucha internacional por una civilización pospetrolera. Nos ha inspirado la determinación de los ciudadanos ecuatorianos que están rejuveneciendo la iniciativa ante su decisión de abandonarla.
En este sentido, estamos extremadamente preocupados de que su gobierno esté reprimiendo las voces de la mayoría de los ecuatorianos que continúan apoyando la propuesta Yasuní. Entendemos que se podría estar bloqueando la posibilidad de que haya una consulta popular sobre esta cuestión, que la libertad de expresión estaría siendo coartada, y que el ejercicio del derecho de los estudiantes de disentir está siendo amenazado con la expulsión de sus colegios.
Continuaremos siguiendo el debate en Ecuador con la esperanza de que una solución en democracia a este tema pueda ser encontrada, y que la propuesta de dejar el petróleo en el subsuelo en el ITT, así como el respeto de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas, no muera.
Atentamente,
Dr. Vandana Shiva
Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
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Author, The Shock Doctrine
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Professor of Political Economy
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
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University of Coimbra
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Elmar Altvater
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Free University of Berlin
GERMANY
Joan Martinez-Alier
Former President
International Society for Ecological Economics
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Author, Envisioning a Post-Petroleum Economy
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Susanna B. Hecht
Professor of Regional Development and Environmental Analysis
University of California, Los Angeles
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Author, The Scramble for the Amazon and the “Lost Paradise” of Euclides da Cunha
US
Alf Hornborg
Professor
Human Ecology Division
Lund University
Author, Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange
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Timothy Mitchell
Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
Columbia University
Author, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
US
Erik Swyngedouw Professor of Geography Manchester University
Author, Social Power and the Urbanization of Water
UK
Nancy Fraser
Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics
New School for Social Research
Author, Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World
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Ulrich Brand
Professor of International Politics
University of Vienna
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Arturo Escobar
Professor of Anthropology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Chanthana Banpasirichote
Center for Peace and Conflict Studies Chulalongkorn University THAILAND
Donald MacKenzie
Fellow of the British Academy
Author, Material Markets
UK
Raj Patel
University of California, Berkeley
Author, The Value of Nothing
US
Prof. Dr. Norman Paech Professor of Law University of Hamburg GERMANY
Patrick Bond
Senior Professor
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban Author, Politics of Climate Justice SOUTH AFRICA
Harriet Friedmann
Professor Emerita of Sociology
University of Toronto
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David M. Driesen
University Professor of Law
Syracuse University
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Editor, Datang Gali dan Pergi: Potret Penutupan Tambang di Indonesia
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Barbara Harriss-White
Senior Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Development Studies
Oxford University
UK
Philip McMichael
Professor of Development Sociology
Cornell University
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Christoph Goerg
Professor of Environmental Governance
University of Kassel
GERMANY
Stephen Gudeman Professor of Anthropology University of Minnesota
Author, Conversations in Colombia: The Domestic Economy in Life and Text
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Dr. Ulrich Duchrow
Professor of Systematic Theology University of Heidelberg GERMANY
Rev. Daniel Dale
President
Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America
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Noel Castree
Professor of Geography Manchester University UK
Frederique Apffel-Marglin
Visiting Professor, Wesleyan University
Co-Editor, Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue
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Joel Kovel
Author, The Enemy of Nature
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David Barkin
Vice Presidente, Sociedad Mesoamericana de Economia Ecologica
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
MEXICO
George Caffentzis
Author, In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines and the Crisis of Capitalism
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Steffen Böhm
Professor
Essex Sustainability Institute
University of Essex
Co-editor, Upsetting the Offset: The Political Economy of Carbon Markets
UK
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Professor of Geography
University of California, Los Angeles
Author, In the Shadow of Slavery
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Prof. Dr. Helge Peukert University of Erfurt GERMANY
Sarah Bracking
Professor of International Development
Manchester University
UK
Robin Broad
Professor
School of International Service
American University
US
Christof Scherrer
Director
International Center for Development and Decent Work
University of Kassel
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Louise Fortmann
Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Author, Participatory Research in Conservation and Rural Livelihoods: Doing Science Together
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Berlin School of Economics and Law
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Bram Buscher
Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development
Institute of Social Studies
Erasmus University
THE NETHERLANDS
Eduardo Canel
Associate Professor
Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean
York University
Author, Barrio Democracy in Latin America
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Kathleen McAfee
Associate Professor of International Relations
San Francisco State University
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Anna Zalik
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
York University
CANADA
Joel Wainwright
Associate Professor of Geography
Ohio State University
Author, Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya
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Rob Fletcher
Associate Professor of Environment and Development
University for Peace, Ciudad Colon
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Geoff Mann
Center for Global Political Economy
Graduate Program Chair, Department of Geography
Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor of Economics
University of Utah
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University of Salzburg 1986-2010
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Salvatore Engel-DiMauro
Associate Professor of Geography
State University of New York, New Paltz
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York University
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Director
Masters Programme in Environmental Sciences and Humanities
University of East Anglia
UK
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Associate Professor
Department of Finance, Accounting and Statistics
Vienna University of Economics
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Les Levidow
Senior Research Fellow
Open University
UK
Lorenzo Pellegrini
Senior Lecturer
Institute of Social Studies
Erasmus University
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Pat Devine
Honorary Research Fellow
University of Manchester
Author, Democracy and Economic Planning
UK
Dr. Oliver Schweiger
Department of Community Ecology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ GERMANY
Sian Sullivan
Senior Lecturer in Environment and Development
Birkbeck College
University of London
Author, Financialisation, Biodiversity Conservation and Equity: Some Currents and Concerns
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Isaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka
Post-Doctoral Visitor
Faculty of Environmental Studies
York University
CANADA
Dr. Laurence Cox
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Author, Buddhism and Ireland
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Michael K. Dorsey
National Advisory Committee Environmental Protection Agency* US
Dr. Zeynep Kadirbeyoglu
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science and International Relations
Bogazici University
TURKEY
Gareth Dale
Senior Lecturer in Politics
Brunel University
UK
Christian Scholl
University of Louvain
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PD Dr. Aram Ziai
Heisenberg Fellow in Political Science
University of Kassel
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Senior Researcher
Center for Social Studies
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Assistant Professor of Mathematics
City University of New York
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Technische Universität Berlin
GERMANY
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Faculty of Political Science Chulalongkorn University THAILAND
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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ GERMANY
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Research Scientist
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ GERMANY
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Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Gender Studies
Utrecht University
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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ GERMANY
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Co-author, No REDD: A Reader
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Co-author, Trading Carbon: How it Works and Why it is Controversial
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Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
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Author, Carbon Trading: How it Works and Why it Fails
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Benjamin Stephan
Research Fellow
Center for Globalisation and Governance
University of Hamburg
GERMANY
Dr. Ruth Makoff
Honorary Research Fellow in Philosophy
University of East Anglia
UK
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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ GERMANY
Nancy Duxbury
Senior Researcher
Center for Social Studies University of Coimbra PORTUGAL
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Center for Social Studies University of Coimbra PORTUGAL
Rolf Schroeder
Co-Editor, Bibliography of Community Currency Research
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Ricardo Coelho
Researcher
Center for Social Studies University of Coimbra PORTUGAL
Josep de Trincheria
Hamburg University of Technology
GERMANY
Herbert Docena
University of California, Berkeley
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Bartosz Bartkowski
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ GERMANY
Melissa Checker
Associate Professor of Urban Studies
Queens College
City University of New York
US
Karin Walther Bewegungsakademie GERMANY
Torsten Krause
Center for Sustainability Studies
Lund University
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Christoph Omann University of Vienna AUSTRIA
Nicholas Hildyard
Co-author, The Politics of Industrial Agriculture
UK
Mirko Petersen University of Bielefeld GERMANY
Vanessa Redak
Head of Unit
Banking Analysis Department Oesterreichische Nationalbank Vienna
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Jeroen Everaars
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ GERMANY
Quincy Saul
Co-Founder, Ecosocialist Horizons
US
Jessica Richter
Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte
University of Vienna
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Cristian Alarcon Ferrari
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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Julian Kolm University of Vienna AUSTRIA
Miriam Boyer Columbia University US
Barbara Stefan
Institute for Advanced Studies
AUSTRIA
Nino David Jordan University College London UK
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University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
Vienna
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Larry Lohmann
Author, El Mercado de Carbono: La Neoliberalizacion del Clima
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Janet Riedl
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ GERMANY
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
University of Victoria
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Amelie Huber
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Bogazici University, Istanbul
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Ali K. Saysel
Institute of Environmental Sciences
Bogazici University
TURKEY
Lauren Gifford University of Colorado US
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J. Gray Cox
Professor of Human Ecology
College of the Atlantic
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Dr. Wolfgang Fellner
Institute for the Environment and Regional Development
Vienna University of Economics and Business
AUSTRIA
David Llistar
ODG
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) SPAIN
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ODG
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) SPAIN
Luis González Reyes Ecologistas en Acción, Madrid SPAIN
Laura Calvet Mir
Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Ambiental Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) SPAIN
María Heras López
Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Ambiental Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) SPAIN
Jaime Paneque Galvez
Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Ambiental Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) SPAIN
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
SPAIN
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ODG FLACSO ECUADOR
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Vaya, parece que nuevos ecologistas infantiles internacionalistas inflan la disidencia de las filas ecuatorianas. Verdad señor Presidente?
Dicen por ahí que los Rockefeller, Rothschild, Morgan, Bush, Gates, Soros y Murdock van a enviar otra carta pero mencionando que destroce el Yasuní nomás, sin consulta popular ni nada por el estilo, que chulla vida.