The Network of Resistance Murals is a artistic projectin coordination with the Caravan El Sur Resiste, that seeks to show the struggle of peoples who resist against megaprojects and against the climate crisis.
what’s it about? what is behind that movement? Here we tell you everything you need to know about it.
Network of Resistance Murals
The caravan El Sur Resiste is made up of members of the National Indigenous Congress. The objective is to visit various areas of the Mexican southeast to connect towns, communities and organizations that fight against the construction of mega-projects and the consequences of the climate crisis.
The collective of illustrators and illustrators, Red de Crisis Ilustrada, coordinated with this caravan and with local artists to create the Red de Murales de Resistencia.
The idea is to project the relationship between the peoples who fight against the megaprojects and who also pay the consequences of the climate crisis. They call on urban areas to create new forms of struggle.
And in all this context, the first mural to be painted as part of this movement was done in the community of El Bosque, in Tabasco.
Here we tell you more about this community. For several years the sea has been advancing little by little and has eaten at least two streets with everything and houses.
Just to give us an idea: to date, the rise in sea level has caused the disappearance of 30 houses, which implies the displacement of more than 50 families. In addition, the primary school and 20 other houses are in extreme danger.
The second mural was made in the community of Xpujil, in the municipality of Calakmul, in Campeche.
They intervened on the front wall of the Regional Indigenous and Popular Council of Xpujil with a mural that revolves around the theme “Sustaining Life. Defending the Territory”. In this area the fight is against the plunder brought by the Mayan Train.
Both murals so far have been done together with artists from both communities, with the support of Climate Connections and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
