All these news have taken place in the North and reflect how the struggles of peoples who have for some time been opposing exploitation on their land are finally becoming visible. This new scenario is ideal to strengthen dialogue between peoples and organizations from different latitudes and thereby increase global conversations.
In this task, I think it is fundamental reflect together on strategies that people in the South have been historically developing to face similar challenges to those happening in the North.
First, we can discuss mobilization strategies at different points of power. Southern organizations have shown that successful strategies are those that are multi-focally built. In order to protect their rights, indigenous peoples have resorted to national courts, local congresses and international bodies. All at the same time. For example, the Sarayaku people have mobilized on all these fronts to make the Ecuadorian State comply with the sentence that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued in their favor.
As a second point, we can see that the more alliances, the more power that indigenous peoples can achieve through their struggle. As indigenous peoples in the South have done, working with organizations and peoples of other latitudes increases their ability to achieve their goals. Networks have become stronger and voices are louder when they have included other social sectors and have successfully mobilized farmers, students, trade unionists, and environmentalists among others. These alliances have allowed the message to reach other places and create an unexpected symbiosis to stop exploitation. Amazonian peoples, such as the Baguazo , are a living example of the success of the construction of multi-sectoral networks to stop the exploitation of hydrocarbons in its territory.
