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When you see
this wonderful lake that we have,

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you inevitably think of sacredness.

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However, we as a culture
contradict what we feel for the lake.

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Our actions, our individual, social
and cultural bad habits,

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are causing this lake,
which we consider sacred,

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to lose its meaning.

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There\'s carelessness
on the part of all of us,

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about where we leave rubbish.

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So that\'s where
the cleanup campaigns come about,

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sending a message
to future generations.

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Libertad has been in charge
of cleaning the shore, the beach,

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clearing it of garbage,

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they say there was no garbage before.

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Because the lake makes us feel
differently,

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and for this reason,
we have to care for and protect

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this important legacy,
which is water.

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Water is life.

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My name is
Libertad Karen Ortega Foronda

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and I was born
in the city of La Paz,

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in a humble little house,
to revolutionary parents,

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so I have that kind
of education and conviction.

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I\'m an Agricultural Engineer,

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and all the jobs I\'ve had
are with men.

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I\'ve always been discriminated against,

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and I\'ve never felt comfortable
in that hypocritical environment,

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where you have to obey the boss,
he gives the orders,

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and you as a woman
can’t voice opinions

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about what work should be like.

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He always looked down on me.

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And maybe I didn\'t fit into the prototypes
that society imposes on you.

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I\'m someone who hasn\'t
wanted to get married,

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who doesn’t want to be
with a husband who mistreats her,

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that deceives her
and doesn\'t value her.

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From that point,
I decided to set this life project,

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and own all this.

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I bought the land excitedly...

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But that didn\'t last long,
because the owner deceived me,

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I didn\'t know the law,

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and I asked the lake,
\'what am I going to do now?\',

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because I felt, at one point…
hopeless.

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About a year ago,
I went into the lake almost every morning,

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so that I could heal
from that despair

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or pain that I felt here,
and I didn\'t want to feel,

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that kept me from doing anything,
or thinking straight.

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And then, the Community
appointed me as a leader,

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and I think it\'s He who’s chosen me

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so that I can understand certain things
and reach people.

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It’s been a source of pride for me
to be an indigenous community leader.

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And since then I\'ve decided
to face all these fears and problems.

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Welcome to
Kasa Kultural Sol y Luna.

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We\'re a self-run project

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and we try to create awareness
about the Pachamama, Mother Earth,

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in this case, a cultural
and ancestral resource as important

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as the Sacred Lake Titicaca.

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Walking around,
because I like to walk a lot,

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I saw there was
a lot of rubbish, right?

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And that bothered me,
and I said,

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\'Well, I think here in Copacabana,

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someone who wants to do things,

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needs to recycle with young people,
do workshops, form an organization,

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an environmentally responsible,
ecological community\', right?

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I decided to clean up the lake,

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because people never cleaned here.

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The indiscriminate, senseless consumption,

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comes from a way of life

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that transnationals
and savage capitalism impose on us,

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that makes us forget
our ancestral roots,

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and steers us away

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from living in harmony
with Mother Earth, with Pachamama.

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What’s important and worth emphasis
is the history of Lake Titicaca,

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the origin of the surrounding cultures,

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and this goes back more than 500 years.

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Long before the Inca empire,
which colonized and oppressed,

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there was a small empire
called the Tiwanakota,

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located on the southern shores
of the Sacred Lake Titicaca,

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and it started as a small,
humble agrarian community,

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but has influence to this day.

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The Tiwanakotas, as far as we know,

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managed agriculture
as the core of this civilization,

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and they left us an important legacy.

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They had a unique farming system,

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that now, little by little,
is being lost,

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and we Bolivians

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are not valuing what we have
in terms of nutritional or dietary value,

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a great legacy that we have inherited.

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We have to merge this legacy
with today\'s technology

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to move forward,

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and confront and alleviate
what is coming with climate change.

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What do I mean?

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Lake Titicaca
evaporates 2 meters a year.

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We ourselves are accelerating this
evaporation and contamination of the lake.

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We\'re talking about a population of 1,200,000
who live between El Alto and Viacha,

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these two big cities
that are gravely polluting the lake.

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Plus the population of Copacabana,
we’re around 15,000 inhabitants,

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and let\'s not forget
that it’s a tourist area.

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We\'re not managing it well,
there\'s no proper landfill,

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and we\'re not realizing the danger
this poses to the Sacred Lake Titicaca.

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Good afternoon, sister.

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- Good afternoon.
- How are you?

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Considering all this, and with the taboos
of this sexist society,

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both from women and men,

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for example, in the meetings, when I spoke
about the pollution of the lake,

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they told me
to get me a man to serve,

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so that I have children to cook for,
because I\'m talking nonsense.

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I feel like I’m
between a rock and a hard place,

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I wanted to do something
for my country, for the lake,

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but I see a wall, a barrier,
and I say: what do I do now, Lake?

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It\'s 20 minutes to noon,
dear listeners,

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we had a bit of national news.

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Well, now something important,

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as we had anticipated
a few days ago,

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on Saturday we\'ll have
a very important event.

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A great campaign, we could say.

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So it would be good to formalize it.

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Libertad, it\'s a pleasure,
thanks for coming.

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Well, we were a bit inactive,
but we\'ll be working together.

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Hello Libertad. How many people are coming,
what are we going to do?

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A pleasure, good morning.

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Good morning, brother Nacianselmo,
thanks for the coverage,

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and good morning to all the listeners
around Lake Titicaca.

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The activity starts
at 10 AM, on the beach,

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Chaapampa, there we\'ll start
the cleaning at 10 AM,

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At 12 we\'ll have a community Apthapi,

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so if the moms, dads,
want to come and share,

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come, because we\'re preparing
something delicious, special,

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and everyone also bring
your contribution for the Apthapi.

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And at 1 we plan for everyone to clean.

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Also, brother Nacianselmo,

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it won\'t be a regular cleanup,

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because we\'ll propose solutions
for changing habits in our home.

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Important, because...

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We’re people,
we have to adapt to the means available,

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we have to be aware
of what\'s happening in the world,

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aware of climate change.

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There, the white ones, what\'s that.

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Well, the spiritual issue,
with the ancestral worldview,

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I\'ve lived it since I was a child, because
my mother always did smudging rituals.

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She used to buy the altar,
which is made up of sweets,

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and you have to arrange them,

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and she always blessed us,
with smoke,

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and since I became independent,
I’ve done it,

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and I fervently believe that
it\'s a living being, that listens to you,

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and that if you do it,
beyond mere faith,

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she\'s with us, now,
listening to us, and feeling us.

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June 21 is the Aymara New Year,

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it\'s not like the Gregorian calendar
that we use, see?

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This one has 13 months.

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Every 23 days,
like the woman\'s cycle, is a month.

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That month goes with the moon.

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But they have taken
all that from us,

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that\'s also why we\'re like this,
in an undefined place,

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we want to be something,
but we’re ashamed,

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because they\'ve also taught us
that being a peasant,

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and experiencing the k\'oa,
the offering to Pachamama, was bad.

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- Raise your hands!
- Up!

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With that faith, with that greatness!

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For our Tata Inti to heal us,

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and also heal all the brothers
and sisters who are sick,

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with the sun\'s rays!

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And there I’ve received
the sun rays, the energy.

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It\'s part of my life.
For me, it\'s respect,

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It\'s part of my culture,
and I want to revindicate that.

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That’s what’s most important,
to revindicate our identity,

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these things have been taken from us,

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we used to live
using all our senses,

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and now they\'ve made us live
in a square room,

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with everything, yes,
a kitchen, a bathroom,

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but we don\'t hear
the bird calls,

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we don\'t know what
a bee, a flower, or anything is like.

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They’ve taken our spiritual side
away from us,

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and everything is material, maybe that\'s why
we sometimes don\'t react well.

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When love is true,

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both who are in the grave
love each other.

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If you have many loves…

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My name is Cisco,
born on the shores of the lake,

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between the reeds,
and at the lakefront.

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I\'ve always liked seeing the lake,
and I\'ve always coexisted with it,

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my parents made offerings
to the lake,

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to the hills, the sun, the moon.

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It\'s a lake of judgment…

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Its name means, “the water
that was left after the judgment.\"

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From here came the first man
and the first woman,

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named Manco Kapac
and Mama Ocllo.

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It\'s a form of Achachilas:

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holy places,
or an object of worship.

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Good morning, Liber!

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Good morning, Cisco!

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I made it.

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I met Libertad
working in handicrafts.

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She was always
doing the cleanups,

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organizing recycling activities,

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she’s launched a lot of initiatives,

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that little by little have grown,

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so now a lot of people have come
from Peru, from La Paz,

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people from around here...

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When people arrive
at the Kasa Kultural,

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they see the project,

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what we want to do,
there are still many things to do,

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and I have a team there,

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who don\'t live with me,
although sometimes they do.

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Among them is Cisco.

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I used to come to visit,
hang around, sometimes cook

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from there she had the idea
of a solar shower,

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and we started to work...

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He\'s very creative,
I supply the ideas and he shapes them.

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And well, a friendship was born there,
like a siblinghood,

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and we\'re totally different,

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but from this difference
came the product that you see here,

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he\'s the one in charge
of the solar shower,

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and of things that require more strength
that I sometimes can\'t do.

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The idea is that all houses,
in the city and the countryside,

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can have a simple solar shower,
for people.

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Those bottles that are thrown away,
can be used,

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so we can clean up a little,

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and without bottles
the beaches can be clean.

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Now, a big lake cleanup
is being done on June 23rd.

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We’ve been preparing,
for two months already,

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we went to drop off letters,

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we\'ve gone door to door
to all the institutions, groups, collectives.

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Our first allies have been
the RUA of Puno and Juliaca,

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which is the
Environmental University Network,

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some young people,
you\'ll meet them,

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who want to do something for the lake,
because they live on its shores.

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It\'s a self-run proposal,

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that\'s what’s impressive,
it achieves its goals.

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It works with volunteers,
men and women,

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and it does so freely,
just like her name, Libertad.

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It\'s surprising, because it\'s a job
that wasn’t done in a day,

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and she hasn\'t stopped doing it.

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I believe it\'s a project
conceived for the long term,

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and that\'s what convinces people
who are familiar with her and her house.

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All the details
that you can see in the house

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have been designed ecologically.

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I believe that\'s a characteristic
that few people have,

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so I believe that Libertad
is creating

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an impressive example here,
in Copacabana.

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My name is Maite, I\'m from Spain,
from the Basque Country.

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We got here because
we met an Argentine guy,

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who had a Brazilian friend
who had been here years ago.

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He recommended we come.

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Everyone had told us
about Copacabana\'s touristic side,

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but these guys told us
to come here,

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and we did, for one day,
we stayed two, three,

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and it\'s an incredible place.

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Apart from its absolute peace,
the lake, the sunrise, the house,

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the people, Libertad, Cisco,

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the people we\'ve met here.

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And all of us,
we hardly knew about bioconstruction,

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and after two days, they\'ve taught us
how to take the sackcloth, the dung,

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to build the pools, let it ferment,
then collect the straw,

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and we see how they’ve built
a beautiful wall for the kitchen,

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and being able to help,
and contribute to it,

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is the most beautiful thing
we\'ve done on the trip.

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And making a little bit of a mini life,
a mini routine,

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working all together
as a team,

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it\'s beautiful, because in the end
you create a small family,

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and we don\'t know each other at all

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but everyone works as a team,
each has their role,

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and everything fits and works.

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An essential and important task
we have this year

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is the dry toilet.

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We spend almost 25 liters of water
every time we flush.

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Imagine, if we go to the bathroom
three times a day,

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we use 75 liters of water
for our needs.

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Water with poop
is harmful,

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smells bad, it\'s toxic.

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The water, with soil, ash and sawdust,
becomes fertilizer.

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So the message is:

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What are we giving back
to Pachamama, to the Earth?

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Beyond the institutions and otherwise,

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I think citizens are becoming aware
little by little.

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This Kasa is an important example.

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There are also other small groups,
continually organizing.

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Something has to be done,
but daily, every day.

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And it is also necessary
to change our habits.

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Considering that our habits,
and our change of habits…

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if we don\'t take action,
this will get worse and worse.

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Our unnecessary consumption,

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we don\'t know
where we’re putting the garbage.

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We like something, we eat it,
but where does the packaging go?

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The issue is: we have to be
responsible for our consumption,

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where we throw that garbage.

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We can reuse, reduce,

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to be able to leave behind a good legacy,
a good Earth for future generations.

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That\'s our plan.

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So, Kasa Kultural
is like a research laboratory,

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we\'ve been doing tests,
real and experiential ones,

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and we share them with the community
to which we belong.

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Recycling all the garbage
that\'s in the lake,

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especially the bottles
that are in good condition,

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we turn them into flower pots, right?

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We turn them into solar showers,

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we have self-watering pots,

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and also using glass bottles
we make our own cups,

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our own pitchers.

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Everyone asks me,
\'Where\'s your dad, your mom?\'

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But I’m not in need,
because when I enter the lake,

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I feel its embrace, its affection,
its waves, everything.

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We see each other
every day from dawn to dusk.

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It\'s my advisor too, right?

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Thank you for giving me the opportunity
to be free, to be Libertad.

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If I hadn’t reached this place,
I wouldn’t have waded into you,

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I wouldn\'t have had that strength
to be able to take care of you.

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And I promise you that
it will be better, ok?

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We will take better care,

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people will respect you
and caress you as I do.

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This lake gives us life.

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When we pollute it, we\'re rejecting
the life that it\'s offering us,

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therefore we’re desecrating

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this vitality that this space
is giving us for free.

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This lake is
something very special to me,

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and I don\'t know if others also get it,
but I do like it,

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just as I’ve seen it,
glassy, transparent, clean.

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Beneath these waters
is our ancestral culture,

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and it’s necessary
that we be responsible,

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and leave behind a good legacy
to future generations,

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so that children can enjoy,
as we are enjoying,

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its omnipotent energy,
its mysticism,

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our ancestral culture
that the Sacred Lake Titicaca gives us.