Project Whale: Earth

Between Wednesday, June 9th and Saturday, June 12th, the second edition of Proyecto Ballena takes place, a space for dialogue and debate in relation to two urgent issues: the destruction of the environment and the inequalities deepened by an unbridled capitalism that generates hunger and poverty.

Thinkers, politicians, social movements, artists, and regional organizations reflect on the resonance of environmental struggles in the current landscape, the advance of neoliberal policies, the struggle for land, the complex relationship between humanity and nature, and the still-present wounds of colonization in Latin America. What alternatives can we devise to improve humanity's relationship with its environment? How do we conceive of the relationship with land from a Latin American perspective? Is land wealth? What kind of wealth, and for whom? Can we promote economic development that breaks with the extractive model of this phase of capitalism? All these perspectives, with their nuances and particularities, trace a regional map of our political and ecological landscape.

On Thursday the 10th, at 17pm (ARG/URU – UTC-3), the Latin American Council of Social Sciences is organizing the panel discussion “History and struggle of the Landless,” with the participation of CLACSO's Director of Training, Nicolás Arata, Diana Itzu from Mexico, and Ana Terra Reis from Brazil.

All activities can be viewed online through the YouTube and Facebook channels of the Kirchner Cultural Centre and the website https://proyectoballena.cck.gob.ar/

To discuss the Whale Project, Gustavo Lema interviewed Martín Bonavetti, Undersecretary of Management of Spaces and Special Projects of the Ministry of Culture of the Argentine Nation, at the InfoCLACSO on June 9.

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