This clip has a really interesting bit about indigenous language, and I think he has quite a point in that the global north will have no choice but to listen to language they do not understand quite soon. Also quite a good quote on the value of land and territory over financial gain...
“The World Is Changing in a More Progressive Way, and It’s Taking Place Here”–Boaventura de Sousa Santos on Bolivia Climate Summit
Among the thousands of participants at the World Peoples’ Climate Conference in Cochabamba is Boaventura de Sousa Santos, an internationally respected scholar and one of the leading organizers of the World Social Forum. He is a professor of sociology at the University of Coimbra in Portugal and a distinguished legal scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/21/the_world_is_changing_in_a
