Rebellion

Due to various personal and work-related reasons, we have decided to put the More of Us editorial project on hold. Therefore, this is the last issue we will publish for now. We recognize that we do not have enough time and energy to continue with this effort, which has tended to be more burdensome for all the people involved and has led us to abandon the collective work at different times.
With the intention of reflecting on the process, and by way of closure, we had the following conversation to think together about this process and the reasons that have led us to make this decision.
We greatly appreciate the dedication and patience of all the people who in one way or another have contributed to build this platform for thinking about the South: writers, photographers, translators and artists. Especially to those who have performed administrative and maintenance tasks. We hope that we will be able to coincide in other dialogues.

Fear of violence has always been part of our daily lives. For some, rebellion is the best way to make their voices heard. For others, it is a torment. They become victims of situations they didn’t create. Fear creates endurance, and endurance leads to rebellion. In times like these, rebellion always has two sides: it serves the oppressor and victimizes the oppressed. But when the oppressed rebel, another story begins!

The use of medicinal and nutritional plants has persisted as a mechanism of cultural resistance and food sovereignty at the margins of agribusiness and transnational pharmaceuticals in Mexico. Through drawing, Dulce Chacón explores inherited family knowledge, botanical records, and field observation to insist on how important it is to recognize and value the plant biocultural diversity in the country. While learning and sharing knowledge about these plants, the artist reflects on what of this knowledge can be revealed and what is better kept silent.

The First Andean Ceremonial Race in Unity for Water (Primera Carrera Ceremonial Andina en Unión por el Agua) was held in August 2011. It brought together more than fifty representatives of different native, Afro-descendant, peasant, and urban South Americans. This was the starting point for the foundation of the Willka Yaku Ancestral Council for the preservation of the millenary memory of the Colombian Andean Massif, the mountains and mother lakes of the Latin American territory.