OUR WORD, OUR STRUGGLE
Our Principles and Values
For a political ecology from the South.
We are living in a moment of civilizational breakdown. The web of life, which sustains our territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, is threatened by a model of dispossession that advances over our bodies, our waters and our ancestral knowledge. In the face of this crisis, we refuse to be mere spectators.
The Tejido Latinoamericano de Ecología Política (TELAR) was born from the urgency of articulating the resistances that already exist. We are aware that the solutions will not come from above, nor from the logics that generated the problem. The solution is collective, it is communal and it is from the land.
The Tejido Latinoamericano de Ecología Política (TELAR) was born from the urgency of articulating the resistances that already exist. We are aware that the solutions will not come from above, nor from the logics that generated the problem. The solution is collective, it is communal and it is from the land.
We do not defend nature; we are nature defending itself.
OUR HORIZONS
Our bet is for re-existence. This implies not only resisting extractivism, but also weaving concrete alternatives for food sovereignty, water defense, feminist economies and community care.
- Decolonizing knowledge: We recognize the epistemologies of the South and community knowledge as fundamental pillars to understand and transform our reality.
- Territorial feminisms: We understand that the defense of territory-land is inseparable from the defense of territory-body. There is no environmental justice without patriarchal justice.
- Articulation as a method: Like mycelium, we operate in a network. Isolated struggles are vulnerable; connected struggles are invincible.
We call on activists, researchers, collectives and communities to be part of this web. TELAR is a tool, a space of encounter and a front of shared struggle..