This weekend, while this column is published and read, the second germination of Revueltas de la Tierra will take place. Last year, the first one, was in Mont-roig del Camp (Tarragona) against a project that exemplifies the trap that green capitalism proposes to us to reinvent the ways it subjugates and conditions territories. Always under the blackmail of jobs and the economic dynamization of the territory, it ends up colonizing them and turning them into sacrifice zones at the mercy of the profit generation of large international financial capitals. In the case of Mont-roig it was Lotte, a Korean company that plans to implement an industry for the manufacture of a component for the lithium batteries that power the misunderstood energy transition of the global north.This year it is in El Bages, where the company Israel Chemical Limited (ICL) has been exploiting salt mines for years that contaminate water and land with saline waste and, at the same time, sponsors the genocide in Palestine. A company in whose activity ecocide and genocide go hand in hand.Both the one and the other, accompanied in their development by the competent institutions of the moment and, in the second case, with the complicity and indulgence of the institutions in the face of non-compliance with rulings in which the company has already been condemned for environmental damage.From Mallorca, we have been involved from the beginning in the Revueltas de la Tierra movements. First, in meetings that have been held periodically for three years on struggles in defense of the territory of all Catalan-speaking regions. These meetings have been the seed for the collective construction of a proposal that is not defined as a coordinator of collectives, nor as a platform, but as a new dynamic of struggle. A dynamic that aims to spread like mycelium underground, to nourish it with a common sense and feeling, and to emerge at any point where there is a territory to defend against projects that attack life (human and non-human). It is at these points that the germinations will materialize, where a massive confluence of organizations, collectives, and individuals will be convened to confront disaster, sharpen challenges, and reorganize life. All, under other logics for inhabiting the earth without compromising the sustainability of life, and for this, precisely, to be the political horizon of the desirable transformation of how life and societies are organized in the territories that sustain it.This is why we learn together, we mobilize together, we organize together, to invent and reinvent, without ever losing hope, with other forms of relationship, other forms of resistance, other forms of collective construction, and other forms of inhabiting the present and the future together. Forms that draw from and recognize the learnings and journeys that have preceded us, with a critical gaze that allows us to transcend them rather than fossilize them, and that, at the same time, want to become a possibility and dispute the imaginaries of what is to be done, breaking the mental, action, and interaction frameworks recognized until now. Forms that recognize the large and small struggles in defense of the territory, the environmentalist struggles, the conservationist ones, the workers' ones, those of popular and communal organization, those of grassroots communities and infrastructures, the anti-racist and decolonial ones, the feminist ones, those from other territories that we find inspiring. The latter range from those of organizations from the global south against global extractivism to struggles coming from France or Germany, which deal with the occupation of territories, the reappropriation and resignification of what it means to inhabit land, bodies, and territories, and which are characterized by massive direct actions that allow for very broad confluences of organized people to claim and defend life, the life of all, in a time of death.It will be an intense weekend to meet, recognize each other, organize ourselves, inhabit ourselves, and inhabit the territory that welcomes us and that, in its welcome, recognizes us as part of it and with which we become a whole. A territory defending itself. Before it was Mont-roig, today it is El Bages, tomorrow perhaps –and for sure, I would say– it will be Mallorca.Therefore, this year, we will return, and next time, we will tell you about it.
