Read the Aerocene Newspaper II

KACHI YUPI – “SALT FOOTPRINTS”
Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Communities “For the Communities of the Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin, Buen

Lithium: the senselessness of trying to mitigate climate change at the expense of both nature itself and local communities
Pía Marchegiani and María Laura Castillo Díaz The race to control the supply chain of what we now know as

A brief history of lithium: from the Big Bang to the Big Crash Claudia Aboaf
Claudia Aboaf Traces of outer space in the salt flats, vibrant lithium was already being cared for by indigenous communities

Towards an era, free from borders, free from fossil fuels, free from neocolonial extractivism
Aerocene Community While fossil fuel based industries continue their attempts to colonise other planets, the air, this common interface of

Fly with Aerocene Pacha
On January 25, 2020, the aerosolar sculpture Aerocene Pacha flew with a message “Water and Life are Worth More than

Notes on Aerocene Pacha
Tomás Saraceno Humans have always dreamt of flying, But, today, flight has become a nightmare. 1.3 million people in the

Aerocenic Struggles — Maristella Svampa
Leer este artículo español Art, when done with talent and passion, usually opens up a portal that allows us to

Lightness and gravity: flight and minerality
Janine Randerson Beneath the Salinas Grandes in Jujuy province luminescent, blue-green water swirls and eddies; in these fluid depths, adamantine

The resistance of indigenous communities against lithium extraction in a work of art in the Puna
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Estamos adentro de la luz: en el potrero de las llamas de Don Luis, rodeados de montañas,

The way it is – From Greta Thunberg to Aerocene in Salinas Grandes
Graciela Speranza The image on the cover of Greta Thunberg’s The Climate Book is enough to gauge the scale of

Challenging the future – Resistance to predatory colonial lithium extractivism
Melisa Argento The blind glare of the narratives surrounding lithium is expanding at enormous speed, obscuring the social and environmental

The Puna is not a Triangle
Godofredo Pereira Under the guise of the ‘green’ transition and implementing pathways to decarbonisation, a new frontier of capitalist expansion

Defending the Territory: A conversation with Pedro Uc Be
Facilitated by Antonia Alampi Pedro Uc Be is a Maya poet, a translator, an organizer, a mobilizer, living in the

What Mountains Hold
Marina Otero Verzier Energy dreams are too often realised at the expense of the lives of indigenous peoples, local communities,

Towards the Rights of Nature
Enrique Viale and Gastón Chillier The transition from “Nature as an object” to “Nature as a subject” has begun. Establishing

Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transition from the Peoples of the South
Pacto Ecosocial e Intercultural del Sur An appeal to leaders, institutions, and our brothers and sisters, from the Ecosocial and

DECLARATION OF THE SALINAS GRANDES AND LAGUNA DE GUAYATAYOC BASIN AS A SUBJECT OF RIGHTS
We, the communities, declare: That the Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin has the right to the integral respect