The multi-form and multi-lingual contribution from Sharon Mercado Nogales and Eli Wewentxu, co-founders of Moviendo Territorios, is a five-part tapestry made up of materials gathered since before the formation of the collective in 2020, up to now. They refer to this material as living – made up of videos of journeys, soundscapes of collective labour, images of encounters and amended memories, poems and stories of what has occurred. Like many of the offerings in this e-journal, this is time and place travelling, learning from and with territories, places, people and stories that have emerged along the way.
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Moviendo Territorios is a collective formed by Eli Wewentxu (Wallmapu-Chile) and Sharon Mercado Nogales (Bolivia Andes), which was born with the intention of building relationships and activating spaces through the construction of greenhouses in different places and within different communities in Abya Yala. Moviendo Territorios creates a direct bridge with communities and spaces that are working the land, building self-sustenance, caring for the seeds, and through the recognition of their territory are fostering la resistencia del pueblo, the peoples’ resistance, without the promotion of conventional institutionalism. Since 2020, we have been able to collaborate with 3 territories: Chomio-Wallmapu, Cusijata-Bolivia, and El Chaco-Argentina. Through these connections, an alternative reality to the concept of “solidarity” opens up, questioning the power dynamics that diminish the role and voice of ancestral peoples in the face of the patriarchal institutionalism of NGOs, Foundations, and the State. Moviendo Territorios organizes Soli Fiestas in Berlin, Germany, with the intention to collect a significant amount of money. This financial support is used to pay for materials, transportation, refreshments, and other needs agreed upon with each community, ensuring that their needs and desires are met. All of this is made possible only through the network of friends, spaces, and collaborators who support us at every event we hold.
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