Autonomous, anti-extractivist and feminist experiences of production of the commons for the defense of life. Confluences between the rural and the urban

Abstract

In this text, starting from my life and political trajectory of the last 25 years, I recover and describe 3 experiences of production of the common, mainly in confluence efforts that have sought to challenge the separation between the country and the city and the political fragmentation it entails. A first process focuses on the construction of autonomy in urban collectives as a field of possibility to produce the common, in dialogue and resonance with indigenous autonomies and with the Zapatista experience. A second experience emphasizes the recognition of a common dimension of several urban and rural struggles, affected by the extractive contents of the metabolism of capital and the repeated separations it produces. And finally, a third experience, delves into efforts against patriarchy and the need to rethink the codes and formats of the political from feminisms and the struggles of recent women, in rural and urban contexts of growing violence. The objective of this recovery is to recognize the learning of autonomous, anti-extractivist and feminist experiences around ExpEriEncias autónomas, antiExtractivistas y fEministas dE producción dE lo común para la dEfEnsa dE la vida303 the generation of bridges and confluences between rural and urban worlds, from the recognition of what is shared and common to amplify the struggle in defense of life.