To local, national, and international civil society
To organizations defending human rights
To the states and governments of Planet Earth
To movements, dignified struggles, and rebels
To the local, national, and international press 

Estando presentes 250 personas, integrantes de 60 comunidades, organizaciones y redes nos reunimos los días 25, 26 y 27 de julio de 2025 en la comunidad Ahlan Muc’ul Ha’ (Abajo del Río Grande), en el municipio de Chilón, Chiapas, con el objetivo de compartir experiencias organizativas y comunitarias en las resistencias y en la defensa de la vida, el agua, el maíz, el territorio y la Madre Tierra.  Somos mujeres, hombres, jóvenas, jóvenes, mayores y mayoras, niños y niñas, reconociéndonos en nuestras diversidades culturales, generacionales, espirituales y sexo genéricas. 

Venimos de diferentes territorios de México, tales como Oaxaca, Coahuila, Veracruz, Hidalgo, Guerrero, Puebla, Estado de México, Chiapas, así como Colombia, País Valenciano, y Alemania.  Nos hemos encontrado para buscar juntes cómo hacer frente a los proyectos de muerte tejiendo con mayor fuerza nuestras alternativas que ya estamos construyendo en cada familia, comunidad, pueblo, región, territorio, organización y lucha. 

After three days of sharing and analyzing what is happening in our regions and in the world, WE DECLARE AND REAFFIRM that: 

Our territories have a great biocultural diversity that we have inherited from our ancestors, which is seriously endangered by an extractive development model that, under an individualistic, capitalist, and patriarchal logic, is stripping us of everything that gives us life. We recognize that we suffer the same threats: a) the violation of our rights as women, children, youth, young people, men, gender diversities, peoples, and Mother Earth; b) the militarization of our territories by different local, regional, and national security forces; and c) the presence of organized crime and its complicity with governments and states. 

We denounce that, in all our territories, projects are imposed on us without the consent of the peoples, and consultations are used as a tool to carry out and consummate the dispossession. We also denounce how institutional power and the powers that be systematically instigate community division in favor of capitalist companies. In a world that is exhausted, we know that our enemy is the same, and that is why we declare that we are not in favor of colonialist and patriarchal development because it has never worked for us.  

THANKS TO THE SHARING WE HAVE DONE 

we have heard firsthand about the struggle of the women and peoples of the municipalities that make up MODEVITE (Movement in Defense of Life and Territory), the Community Government of Chilón, as well as their Autonomous Communal Pluriversity Yutsilal Bahlumilal-Ch'ich' Community Government. 

MODEVITE has shared with us their experience of more than 10 years of resistance against the San Cristóbal de Las Casas-Palenque Highway, misnamed “the Highway of Cultures.” This struggle resonated with the struggles of communities and civil society organizations in Oaxaca against the Interoceanic Corridor, the Margarita Maza de Juárez dam, and mining concessions. From southeastern Coahuila, they shared their resistance against an illegal and clandestine industrial toxic waste dump and their defense of the water of the San Miguel stream. Our sisters from Hidalgo shared their struggle against the solar park that is planned for the city of Sahagún and water contamination in Tula, coming from waste from the Mexico City metropolitan area. From northern Veracruz, participants denounced the government's distribution of fertilizers and agrotoxins that are poisoning the land and the health of communities.

A la par conocimos por parte de Crianzas Mutuas Colombia la defensa de los ríos en el municipio de Suárez en el valle del Cauca. De ese mismo país, nos trajeron las palabras de las luchas del Cabildo de Taganga, Santa Marta, realizada por las comunidades de pescadores de la costa atlántica colombiana quienes luchan por defender sus maritorios. Hemos compartido nuestros dolores, pero también nuestras esperanzas y fortalezas: nuestra organización comunitaria tejida a través de nuestros sistemas normativos, nuestras espiritualidades y ceremonias, así como el trabajo colectivo comunitario que sostiene las alternativas que caminamos en nuestra cotidianidad. 

We have woven our capacity to share and dream in the midst of the violence and wars that surround us.   

WE DENOUNCE 

las estrategias de los gobiernos, partidos políticos, élites empresariales y caciques locales que buscan desestabilizar nuestras organizaciones comunitarias para despojarnos de nuestros territorios, a favor de sus intereses capitalistas. Exigimos el respeto a nuestros derechos y los de nuestra Madre Tierra, así como el respeto a la vida de los y las defensoras del territorio y de los derechos humanos que están en pie de lucha en toda América Latina y el Planeta Tierra.

We demand respect for the autonomy of indigenous peoples, Black people, and people of African descent, and that the decisions they make in the exercise of their self-determination be respected, as well as all their collective rights recognized in national and international law. We demand the immediate halt of megaprojects in our territories, of mega-highways and concessions that allow the dispossession of Mother Earth and the extraction of natural resources, imposing a colonialist model of development that does not come from our wisdom as indigenous peoples.

We demand respect for women, youth, children, and gender diversity in general, and in particular for those of indigenous, ethnic, peasant, fishing, Black, and Afro-descendant communities. We, the youth, demand our right to flourish in our own communities, contributing our skills and knowledge. We stand in solidarity with the Colombian social movements that are protesting against transnational corporations that exploit gas and oil on the seabed, build dams that damage rivers, and engage in large-scale mining. We stand in solidarity with MODEVITE and all the collectives, communities, organizations, and networks fighting against extractive and predatory megaprojects.  

FROM THIS SACRED MAYA TERRITORY, WE MAKE A STRONG CALL:

To the indigenous peoples and local, national, and international civil society to accompany, in person or from afar, on August 9, 2025, International Day of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the pilgrimage called by the Believing People of the Jesuit Mission of Bachajón to show their rejection of the highway that will cross these indigenous Mayan territories, whose implementation has not respected the rights of indigenous peoples and which, together with the Interoceanic Corridor, the misnamed Maya Train, and the privatization of water, are part of the territorial reorganization of southeastern Mexico in the service of big capital. 

We urge you to continue weaving together, through all the diverse means and forms available to us, our ancestral wisdom and our spiritualities to strengthen what we have in common in the search for peace with justice and dignity and in the defense of life. We invite you to revalue the life of peasants and the communities that sow our food, as well as the defense of native seeds free of GMOs and the natural production of our food to recover the fertility of our lands. We know that neither governments nor states will solve our problems, which is why we must continue walking together, weaving our knowledge and spiritualities for the respect of LIFE, beginning with our bodies, our territory, and our land. We call on all peoples and local, national, and international civil society to continue fighting with one heart. 

WE SALUTE AND EMBRACE TO OUR COMRADES OF: 

The community of Cherán K'eri. We say to you: You are not alone, and your struggle is our struggle! We support the struggle of Jlumaltik Candelaria for the recognition of her government and community autonomy.

We embrace the Zapatistas and the Encuentro de Resistencias y Rebeldías “Algunas Partes del Todo” (Encounter of Resistance and Rebellion “Some Parts of The Whole”) convened by them in their territory to take place from August 2 to 17. We support the struggle of the Organization Sociedad Civil Las Abejas for justice, peace and dignity.
We support the organizers of the Regional Forum in Defense of Territory and Autonomy against Megaprojects in Chontal and Istmo, to be held on August 9.
To the International Congress on Communality in Oaxaca, to be held on August 7, 8, and 9
To the struggle of the education workers of the CNTE. To our sisters at the Jineolojî Academy in Rojava, as well as the Modern Democratic Academy and the entire Kurdish women's movement and the Democratic Confederalism of Kurdistan.
To our comrades who are part of the Global Network of Alternatives (TGA): Crianzas Mutuas Colombia, Vikalp Sangam of India, and the Movement for Alternatives and Solidarity in Southeast Asia (MASSA). 

No to genocide in Gaza!
No to wars, Yes to Life!
Planet Earth, Ahlan Muc’ul Ha’ Community. Chilón, Chiapas
Sunday, July 27, 2025 

Collective signatures:

• Mutual Nurturings Mexico part of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA)
• Mutual Nurturings Colombia part of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA)
• Movement in Defense of Life and Territory (MODEVITE), Chiapas, México.
• Association of Community Councils of the Municipality of Suárez, Cauca, Colombia
• Chilón Community Government, Chiapas, México.
• Indigenous Council of Taganga, Santa Marta, Colombia
• Ahlan Muc’ul Ha’ Community, Chilón, Chiapas, Mexico
• Yutsilal Bahlumilal Autonomous Communal Pluriversity of Ch'ich' Community Government, Chiapas, México.
• Movement of Living Rivers of Colombia
• Corporation of Chinchorreros of Taganga, Colombia
• Proyecto de Educación Alternativa (PEA), Región Selva Ocosingo,  Sección VII de la CNTE Chiapas, México
• Water Custodians of southeastern Coahuila, Mexico
• Bachajón Mission, Chiapas, Mexico
• Center for Indigenous Rights A.C.- CEDIAC, Chiapas, México
• Collective Project of Indigenous Videographers of the Southern Border - PVIFS, Chiapas, México
• Oaxacan Water Forum, Oaxaca, México
• Working Group “Bodies, Territories, Resistances” - GT CUTER CLACSO
• Yes to Life Collective, Coahuila, México
• Community of Critical Pedagogues and Popular Educators of Chiapas, México
• Huitzo Yelao University of the Earth, Oaxaca, México
• Guelatao Community University Center of the Autonomous Communality University of Oaxaca, Mexico
• Observatory of Social Participation and Democratic Quality of the University Iberoamericana Puebla, México
• Observatory of Citizen/Community on Water and the Environment in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, México
• Observatory of Democracies: Southern Mexico and Central America
• Colectivo Tsijilba Bij de Agua Clara de Chiapas, México
• Healing Networks of Oaxaca/Mexico City
• Oaxaca Community Services
• Kokopelli Collective of Northern Veracruz, Mexico
• San Pedro Comitancillo Community University Center of the Autonomous Communality University of Oaxaca, México
• Transnational Network of Other Knowledge RETOS Publishing Cooperative – RETOS, Chiapas, México
• Machtia Collective of Hidalgo, Mexico (Free Learning)
• Silvestra Project: Compost Toilets of Oaxaca, Mexico
• Satil Film, Chiapas, Mexico
• Savi Network of the Mixteca Region of Oaxaca, Mexico
• Colectivos Nichimal Cuxlejalil (Floreciendo la vida), Chiapas, México (Flourishing life)
• Principal Musicians Collective, Región Ch'ich’, Chilón, Chiapas, Mexico
• Ach’ix Querem Ec’ Chilón, Chiapas, México
• Network of Collectives of the University of the Earth, Caldas and the Colombian Southwest