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In times of global nightmares, there is good news! Through the gauntlet of world war and mass extinction, the message arrives: in a maroon municipality in the mountains of the Venezuelan northwest, one hundred delegates from five continents came to consensus and made a covenant with Mother Earth, registered in a combined strategy and a 500 year plan of planetary action.

A reflection on the founding of the First Ecosocialist International by Kanya D’Almeida.

An evening of visionary art and politics, to map a route of struggle which connects continents and consciousness in a 500 year plan for the salvation of Mother Earth, featuring founding delegates of the First Ecosocialist International.

The First Ecosocialist International is not just another meeting, nor another conference of intellectuals to define ecosocialism. We believe that ecosocialism will define itself to the extent that it is reflected and conceptualized in praxis; based on what we do and what we are. Nor is the First Ecosocialist International a single organization or a rubber stamp in constant danger of becoming a bureaucracy. It is a common program of struggle, with moments of encounter and exchange, which anyone may join, by committing themselves to fulfilling one or more of the various actions agreed upon here in order to relieve our Mother Earth.

This video was inspired by the convocation of Ecosocialist activists who met last year up in the hills of Monte Carmelo outside of Caracas, Venezuela.

“The Calling of the Spirits”: Pluricosmovisionary Council of Activators for the Convocation of The First Ecosocialist International

“Nature will always prevail,” says Angel Moreno, a campesino and leader in the National Network of Popular Agroecological Schools, as he points to the grass sprouting through the sidewalk in the mountain village of Monte Carmelo in Venezuela. “But if we’re going to fight imperialism, we need seeds.”

United and reunited in the Sixth Venezuelan Congress of Biological Diversity, in the state of Carobobo, hosted by the Aldea Heroes de Canaima 4F, from the 8th to the 12th of October, we discussed and debated the seed, as an essential element for the defense of life and food sovereignty.

A poem in Spanish dedicated to the revolutionary legacy of maroons.

In Maracaibo, July 21-26, 2014, at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela, the following declaration was developed by the Fifth Congress of Biological Diversity.

The goal — in the capital of capitalism — to isolate the dollar for a single day. To bring together people to exchange products, services, food, and knowledge, without the use of money. To prefigure a diverse and complex human community, a free association of producers and consumers (“prosumidores” is the term they use in Venezuela). Bring books, clothes, posters, tools, art, etc: anything of value (use, exchange and/or intrinsic), and participate in an experiment to rediscover our humanity in the ancestral art of unalienated economics!

The following document was drafted and revised in an assembly of hundreds of people on the last day of the Fourth Congress of Biological Diversity, Paraguana, Venezuela.

A Transcript of speech by Quincy Saul, June 26, 2013 at the IV Congress of Biological Diversity in Paraguana, Falcon, Lara, Venezuela, 2013.

Juan José Escalona Betancourt and Juan Ramón Escalona Betancourt, twin brothers, known throughout the community as “los morochos,” live in a small house on the mountainside above Monte Carmelo. For the occasion of the Congress of Biological Diversity, they produced a remarkable document, titled “Sanare Ecosocialista”

The following paper by Quincy Saul and David Schwartzman was written for the “Moving Beyond Capitalism” Conference, which took place Jul. 29-Aug. 5, 2014 at the Center for Global Justice, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico.

Ecosocialist Videos produced in Venezuela.

Translated from Spanish by Quincy Saul and Salvatore Engel-DiMauro of Ecosocialist Horizons at the request and on behalf of our Bolivarian comrades. We believe that this is a historic text and a beautiful articulation of ecosocialism, which will resonate globally in the years to come, and are thus very honored to present here its first translation into English.]