 Me akkordare, me akkordare, me akkordare de la diemla Do you remember? I will remember, I will remember, I will remember the land Je me subiendre, je me subiendre, je me subiendre la diemla The atrocities caused by the mining companies to our people and the environment are immeasurable My people have been displaced from their natural environment And when people are displaced, it is almost impossible to reconstruct your community, your families and your life Lives are at stake. That's what people in Canada don't often understand They cannot comprehend. Lives are at stake right now As well as livelihoods and traditional ways of life And life itself, the earth around us, which is dying This is Wilson. He used to be a fisherman But he was poisoned because of the thumping of the waves into the bay His upper mercury poisoning and his legs needed to be amputated He didn't get into an economic analysis of the market's logic Because in the market's logic, what matters is how much I'm going to win, how much I'm going to invest But you lose the spiritual human values We were controlled by Spanish, Portuguese, German, UK, Japan, Holland and now Indonesia Why? Because our sources Resource extraction, mining has aggravated and continuously aggravates the human rights violations in Papua When you're speaking about Indigenous peoples and resource development You're not talking about the quality of life You're talking about the way of life and you're talking about life itself Indigenous peoples have been living prophetically to defend that idea That God has given us a unique relationship with the earth Part of solidarity between the churches And the people has to do with understanding that very simple thing They are going to destroy the Mother Earth That for us, Indigenous peoples, has a lot of value That depends on our life Because the Earth gives us our food What is the space where we are? The social, natural, cultural space The political, economic space Where we carry out all our vital activities That is the territory of Indigenous peoples We not only resist, but Indigenous peoples have proposals And we have a way of life in which we are defending And our proposal is to respect nature Respect our cosmovision, our way of life God's mandate was that humankind has the responsibility to tell the land And make it productive for the benefit of all living things It's not for us to exploit it It's not for us to derive wealth out of it But it's to make sure that out of it we have life And so we must treat the environment, we must treat the resources And trust to us knowing that there are generations yet to come Who must benefit from it And how can we then with this mandate just stand by And watch as these things are happening The fundamental basis for churches' pursuance of social justice M&S from the biblical moral imperative That every human being is God's creation And that has intrinsic value There is a need to elaborate international laws That are fulfilled and that ensure the right To a natural, secure and healthy environment Now it is clear that the legal norms are not enough We can think that there is a perfect legal system That protects the environment But that is absurd, at least in the case of Guatemala Where we have a law that is extremely weak And that is really not taking into account very important aspects As the same respect to the decision of the populations The words are really diplomatic They remain empty when it is about defending life When it is about talking about life that has already been lost To the sincerity I prefer to tell them with my thousands of words What we think and feel Maybe they think that I come from far away But that area where I come from Is also part of the global aldean It is sufficiently known That economic model has produced so many victims And that therefore we are in the duty To rethink it and look for the construction Of a society that is really democratic and sustainable Therefore what we are required to do of course Is to organize ourselves, to network ourselves Both at the local as well as national and international We need to do that if we have to survive To be in solidarity with the struggle of the people Requires of the churches to be ecumenical And when I say that it is going to be It is bound to be a choice between churches Remaining as monuments or being movementists I will remember I will remember I will remember the land Just in Canada Was a mining conference looking specifically At Canadian mining companies in what we are doing Throughout the world especially in countries In Africa, Latin America and Philippines And it was attended by 150 people 50 of those people were church leaders Around the world in these countries in the global south So these were their first hand experiences That they were sharing with us And it was very much an eye-opener for me personally And I had to after this conference Take a look at my own ethical investing And make some changes So this motion is a way for us to engage This issue at every level, members, congregations Sinners and the national church So I urge you to pass this motion In order to ask us to wrestle with this ethical issue Please vote The motion is carried Thank you very much