What are the Earth Revolts?

This weekend, while this column is published and read, the second germination of Earth Revolts 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 economic dynamization of the territory, it ends up colonizing them and turning them into sacrifice zones at the mercy of profit generation for 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 misguided energy transition of the global north.This year it is in Bages, where the company Israel Chemical Limited (ICL) has been exploiting salt mines for years that contaminate waters and lands with salt dumps and, at the same time, sponsors the genocide in Palestine. A company in whose activity ecocide and genocide go hand in hand.Both one and the other, accompanied in development by the competent institutions in turn and, in the second case, with the complicity and indulgence of the institutions in the face of non-compliance with judgments in which the company has already been convicted for environmental damage.From Mallorca, we have approached the Earth Uprising movements from the beginning. First, in meetings that periodically and for three years have been held on struggles in defense of the territory from all Catalan-speaking regions. These meetings have been the seed for the collective construction of a proposal that does not define itself as a coordinator of collectives, nor as a platform, but as a new dynamic of struggle. A dynamic that aims to spread like a mycelium underground, to nourish it with a common sense and feeling, and to emerge at any point where there is a territory that wishes to be defended against projects that threaten life (human and non-human). It is at these points that the germinations will materialize, where a massive confluence of organizations, collectives, and people are convened to confront the disaster, sharpen the challenges, and reorganize life. All, under other logics for inhabiting the earth without compromising the sustainability of life, and that this, precisely, be the political horizon of the desirable transformation of the way life and societies are organized in the territories that sustain it.This is why we learn together, mobilize together, 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 future together. Forms that draw on and recognize the learnings and paths that have preceded us, with a critical gaze that allows them to be transcended rather than fossilized, and that, at the same time, seek to become 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 great and small struggles in defense of the territory, the ecological struggles, the conservationist struggles, the workers' struggles, those of popular and communalist organization, those of base communities and infrastructures, the anti-racist and decolonial struggles, the feminist struggles, those from other territories that we find inspiring. The latter range from those of organizations from the global south against global extractivism to the 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 each other, recognize each other, organize ourselves, inhabit ourselves and inhabit the territory that welcomes us and that, in its welcome, recognizes us as part and with which we become a whole. A territory defending itself. Before it was Mont-roig, today it is Bages, tomorrow perhaps –and certainly, I would say– it will be Mallorca.Therefore, this year, we return and, in the following, we tell you about it.