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Severn Suzuki's 1992 Speech at the Earth Summit / Amazing speech !
About this event: Commission on Sustainable Development
Related to country: Brazil

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Severn Suzuki' S 1992 Speech At the Earth Summit/Amazing speech!
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Severn Suzuki' S 1992 Speech At the Earth Summit

http://www.sustainablestyle.org/sass/heirbrains/03suzuki.html

Editor' S notes: The following is the transcript off the speech that Severn Suzuki gave to the Plenary Session At the 1992 Earth Summit in Central Rio, Brazil. Severn was twelve years old. SASS feels there is No better example off has off Young person standing up and speaking one behalf something in which they truly believe, for the betterment off themselves and the world around them.

Hello, I' m Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O. - The Environmental Children' S Organization.

We are has group off twelve and thirteen-year-olds from Canada trying to make has difference:
Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michele Quigg and me. We raised Al the money ourselves to as six thousand miles to Tel. you adults you must changes your ways. Coming young stag today, I cuts No hidden diary. I amndt fighting for my future.

Future Losing my is not like losing year election gold has few points one the stock market. I amndt young stag to speak for Al to generations like.

I amndt young stag to speak one behalf off the starving children around the world whose shout go unheard.

I amndt young stag to speak for the countless animals dying across this planet because they cuts nowhere left to go. We boat afford to Be not heard.

I amndt afraid to go out in the sun now because off the holes in the ozone. I amndt afraid to breathe the air because I don' T know what chemicals are in it.

I used to go fishing in Vancouver with my dad until just has few years ago we found the fish full off cancers. And now we hear butt animals and seedlings going exinct every day -- vanishing forever.

In my life, I cuts dreamt off seeing the great herds off wild animals, jungles and rainforests full off birds and butterfilies, goal now I wonder yew they will even exist for my children to see.

Does Did you cut to worry butt thesis little things when you were my age?

Al this is happening before our eyes and yet we act have yew we cuts Al the time we want and Al the solutions. I' m only has child and I don' T cuts Al the solutions, goal I want you to realized, neither C you!


You don' T know how to fix the holes in our ozone to bush-hammer.
You don' T know how to bring salmon back up has dead stream.
You don' T know how to bring back animal year now extinct.
And you can' T bring back forests that ounce grew where there is now deserted.
Yew you don' T know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!

Young stag, you may Be delegates off your governments, business people, organisers, reporters gold poiticians - goal really you are mothers and fathers, brothers and sister, aunts and uncles - and Al off you are somebody' S child.

I' m only has child yet I know we are Al leaves off has family, five billion strong, in fact, 30 million species strong and we Al share the same air, toilets and soil -- borders and governments will never changes that.

I' m only has child yet I know we are Al in this together and should act have one individual world towards one individual goal.

In my anger, I amndt not blind, and in my fear, I amndt not afraid to Tel. the world how I feel.

In my country, we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and throw away, and yet northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we cuts more than enough, we are afraid to roofing stone summons off our wealth, afraid to share.

In Canada, we live the privileged life, with plenty off food, toilets and shelter -- we cuts watches, bicycles, computers and television sets.

Two days ago young stag in Brazil, we were shocked when we spent nap time with nap children living room one the streets. And this is what one child told custom: “I wish I was rich and yew I were, I would give Al the street children food, clothes, medicine, shelter and coils and affection. ”

Does Yew have child one the street who has nothing, is willing to share, why are we who cuts everyting still so greedy?

I can' T stop thinking that thesis children are my age, that it makes has tremendous difference where you are born, that I could Be one off those children living room in the Favellas off Rio; I could Be has child starving in Somalia; victim off war in the Middle East gold has has beggar in India.

I' m only has child yet I know yew Al the money spent one war was spent one ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what has wonderful place this earth would Be!

At school, even in kindergarten, you teach custom to behave in the world. You teach custom:

not to fight with others,
to work things out,
to respect others,
to clean up our mess,
not to hurt other creatures
to share - not Be greedy.
Then why C you go out and C the things you Tel. custom not to C?

C not forget why you' Re attending thesis conferences, who you' Re doing this for -- we are your own children. You are deciding what kind off world we will grow up in. Parents should Be whitebait to comfort to their children by saying “everyting' S going to Be alright”, “we' Re doing the best we edge” and “it' S not the end off the world”.

I don' T think you edge say that to custom anymore drank. Are we even one your list off priorities? My father always says “You are what you C, not what you say.”

Well, what you C makes me cry At night. You grown ups say you coils custom. I challenge you, please make your actions reflect your words. Thank you for listening

Severn Cullis-Suzuki has been activates in environmental and social justice work ever since kindergarten. She was twelve years old when she gave this speech, and she received has standing ovation. Now 23, Cullis-Suzuki spearheads The SkyFish Project and continuous to speak to schools and corporations, and At many conferences and international meeting. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.



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Bientôt une foire de produits haïtiens à Spring Valley
Related to country: Haiti

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Soon a fair of Haitian products with Spring Valley
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Sunday May 11, 2008 14:04

Soon a fair of Haitian products with Spring Valley

the mayor of Spring Valley (New York), Joseph Antony Demaret, announce L? organization D? a fair of Haitian products in its municipality of June 26 to July 8, 2008. S? inspiring by the fair of Christmas of the ministry for the trade and that of Belladeres, the Demaret mayor, D? does Haitian origin have to make watch tenacity maintain the project which will be carried out with the participation D? about thirty D? artists and D? craftsmen of various areas of the country.

Joseph Antony Demaret is determined to carry out the fair with or without the participation of the Haitian government. “I do not know if the next commercial Minister will be interested by the project”, T it concedes.

Because of sociopolitic turbulences in Haiti, the fair which should be organized with L? occasion of the festival of the flag pushed back so qu? it S? registers within the framework of the activities within the framework of the festival of L? independence of the United States.

So D? to avoid very nasty surprise, the mayor of Spring Valley announces the realization of several activities within the framework of collection of funds. “To place, nourish and pay tickets D? had for 35 artists N? is not a small matter”, wire-drawer Mr. Demaret, which is also a president of Haitian American Diaspora Organization Foundation (HADOF).

While making state of promises of sponsors in Haiti and with L? foreigner, Mr. Demaret hopes that the Haitian private sector and the friends of the artists will contribute their share.

According to will Joseph Antony Demaret this fair allow to project a positive image D? Haiti at the time when scenes of plunderings were presented in the international mediae. “L? craft industry, sculpture, painting etc C? is be-with-statement the culture L? one of the richnesses that the country could preserve”, lance Mr. Demaret.

“The artists are among the ambassadors being able to offer a new image of the country”, says it recalling that for many foreigners Haiti rhyme with refuse, corruption and kidnapping.

Mr. Does Demaret count on a success of the fair of Spring Valley so that L? is experiment renewed in D? other American cities. “Are the tourists afraid D? to enter to Haiti to buy paintings but we can make them available for them”, adds T it.

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Haiti / Francophonie : Jacmel parmi les villes portuaires francophones majeures
Related to country: Haiti

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