Bolivian President Evo Morales launched the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth...welcoming over 10,000 people from 135 countries and dozens of social organizations to what he declared to be an alternative to the United Nations climate talks..."Capitalism is what is causing this problem..."..Workshop No. 18 is a self-declared rebel workshop. Morales' government doesn't want to hear the demands of the social organizations there because they are exposing environmental problems caused by extractive activities like mining, new projects hydroelectric dams and water legislation within Bolivia, participants said...community members from Nor Lipez province...are in the midst of a conflict...The protest is against the San Cristobal mine, which is owned by Sumitomo Corporation. It has been in operation for more than three years...but for the past week and a half, it has been largely shut down by the protesters...the communities are demanding that the silver and lead mine replenish the water expended by the extraction processes...and that it be taxed.