Against the multiple violences of the current capitalist conjuncture, what the Zapatistas have named The Fourth World War, an autonomous energy surges to collectivize and communalize everyday life and reclaim vernacular values. From a network of autonomous health practices and projects in Greece that confront the dominant biomedical industry, to families and communities organizing transterritorially to reclaim subsistence practices, including milpa, from the extractivist agroindustry in Pajaro Valley, to autonomous learning spaces across the Bay Area that issue a call to relearn the habits of assembly, we invite comrades and collectives to join us for an instantiation of the Counter Counterinsurgency Lab, conspiring with CareNotes collective, Tierras Milpas, and the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy (CCRA) to ask, how might we proliferate fierce care? Can we initiate a collective cartography in the present of the ways we are already confronting dominant industrial systems, imagining new collective ways of being, building a life in common, and collectivizing and politicizing suffering, organized as a Defense of Territory and Care for Life?

CareNotes is a collective of care workers who are organizing for health autonomy.

Tierras Milperas is an autonomous community of families, migrants and campesinos organized around milpa and assembly in the Pajaro Valley.

Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy (CCRA) is a collective knowledge production project committed to recovering vernacular knowledges and subsistence practices in service of autonomy.