• Date: July 24, 25, 26, and 27, 2025
• Location: Poblado Centro Ch'ich, Chilón, Chiapas, Mexico
• Website: https://encuentrodefensavida.jkopkutik.org/

We are collectives, organizations, movements, and networks of networks that have come together to share our organizational and community experiences in resistance and alternatives in the struggle to defend life, territory, Mother Earth, corn, and water in the face of the violence, dispossession, and aggression we experience in our diverse territories.

We meet face to face, body to body, to get to know each other better and to strengthen our local, regional, national, and international network of struggles for life. For a just, dignified, and full life for all.

Together, we are looking for the best ways to weave our alternatives against the systems of death. AlternativesAre activities and initiatives, concepts, worldviews, or action proposals by collectives, groups, organizations, communities, or social movements challenging and replacing the dominant system that perpetuates inequality, exploitation, and unsustainabiity. In the GTA we focus primarily on what we call "radical or transformative alternatives", which we define as initiatives that are attempting to break with the dominant system and take paths towards direct and radical forms of political and economic democracy, localised self-reliance, social justice and equity, cultural and knowledge diversity, and ecological resilience. Their locus is neither the State nor the capitalist economy. They are advancing in the process of dismantling most forms of hierarchies, assuming the principles of sufficiency, autonomy, non-violence, justice and equality, solidarity, and the caring of life and the Earth. They do this in an integral way, not limited to a single aspect of life. Although such initiatives may have some kind of link with capitalist markets and the State, they prioritize their autonomy to avoid significant dependency on them and tend to reduce, as much as possible, any relationship with them. that we are already building in each person, family, territory, organization, and struggle.

During the meeting, the “Declaration: Yes to life, no to death projects” was drafted, available at this link.

• Crianza Mutua Mexico (CMMCrianza Mutua Mexico)
• Crianzas Mutuas Colombia (CMCCrianza Mutua Colombia)
• Ch'Ch Community Government
• Yutsilal Bahlumilal Autonomous Communal Pluriversity
• PVIFS
• Oaxacan Water Forum
• GT CUTER, CLACSO
• CIESAS
• CESMECA
• UNICACH