Hack The Earth 2026: In Defense of Territories is a gathering to weave alliances between defenders of territories and the networks of life, ancient and communal knowledge, and the internet and free media.

American billionaire Warren Buffett, with an estimated fortune of 133 billion dollars, has said: "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." We keep experiencing situations of disbelief, fear, and anger related to the accelerating destruction by the criminal alliance formed by capitalism, patriarchy, and colonialism. Genocide of the Palestinian people with the help of META and Microsoft, invasion and usurpation of oil-rich countries, conversion of territories into extractable strategic resources through the murder of defenders and resisting communities, destruction of ecosystem diversity to add more cement and data centers, distortion of truth and evidence through AI-generated videos.
We've seen how tech giants finally removed their politically correct mask to show their true face: technofascism based on mass surveillance, militarization of their technologies, outrageous proposals to feed their clouds while they dry up the rivers.

How do we break out of this loop where we can only react to the neocon agenda and find ways to rethink new forms of collective action, self-management processes, and convergence between movements? Our humble proposal for this Hack the Earth (HTE) is to bring together defenders—of the land and of the internet—to exchange knowledge, learn, and, if possible, create new forms of articulation to defend territories while we defend ourselves from this system.

We defend territories and the webs of life, we defend ancient and communal knowledge, we create new worlds. We know that the diversity of ecosystems and technical systems must take priority. In this HTE we're going to build bridges and weave alliances between the sovereignty of our bodies, food sovereignty, and technological sovereignty.

Starting from communality and from the fact that we all share the need to inform and communicate with our support networks and allies, we want to make explicit what we do so that our reflections, demands, proposals, and collective actions reach more people. We want to document our memories, collect evidence and testimonies, so that our struggles, so necessary to transform and change the world, are not left without a voice, without a space to build. In this HTE we're going to discuss and politicize our practices with information and communication technologies, and we're going to reflect on their psychological, social, political, ecological, and economic costs. We'll also look at ways that movements defending digital rights can weave alliances with movements defending territories.

Hackeja La Terra Is the main event of Calafou, colònia ecoindustrial postcapitalista, an ancient industrial colony and now a space of technological, social and political innovation placed at Vallbona d'Anoia. Catalunya.

This HTE marks 15 years of Calafou's existence, our collective proposal to inhabit a territory contaminated and abandoned by the old patriarcapitalist system of "industrial colonies" and resignify it together. Throughout the process, we've learned that the best way to organize an event like this is through self-managed processes and collective action converging for a few days. For our part, we'll offer:

• A space to sleep (in various ways: camping, hostel, van...)
• Food (thanks to our collective kitchen working group)
• Space to gather, talk, and learn (workshops, talks, conferences, round tables)
• Moments and spaces to celebrate (with performances, concerts, and a party for everyone)
• Places to distribute essential care among everyone (caring for and maintaining spaces, waste management, child-friendly space, translation and documentation)

MAP

By train from Barcelona Plaça Espanya

• Take the train R6 or R60 "Igualada". Train timetables FGC R6 o R60.
• The first train leaves at 5:30am and the last one at 22:00h, arribing to Vallbona d'Anoia at 23.28.
• You can take a train every hour and lasts 1 hour and 20 min to arribe to Vallbona d'Anoia.
• Once in Vallbona d'Anoia station, follow the instructions to arrribe to Calafou.
• Atention: you need a 5 zones tiket for the train.
• The tikets are only sold in the machines of "Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya" (FGC), not in the subway stations.

Desde Vallbona d'Anoia

• There is no public transport from Vallbona d'Anoia to Calafou.
• La ruta per a arribar des de l'estació de tren de Vallbona d'Anoia a Calafou, a peu, monopatí, bici, cotxe o furgoneta és gairebé la mateixa.
• Cal baixar direcció sud-oest, sortir del poble i passar pel Polígon Industrial la Plana.
• Quan arribes al polígon hi ha una carretera asfaltada que baixa cap a vall, segueix-la fins al final i creua el va riure.
• Local people will help you to find the place

ROUTE IN OPENSTREETMAP

Participating Collectives and Projects (under construction)

• Myceliating Damage. Fungal Alliances to Inhabit a Damaged Territory - Sporótrica (eemeemee network)
  Sporótrica is a nomadic laboratory of fungal imagination and cultivation practices with others. It is a node of the eemeemee network (Mutant Mycopirate Enclave). The objective of eemeemee Mutant is to maintain a network of experiences, processes and knowledge generated around DIWO mycology.
  https://eemeemeee.org

• Tu Nube Seca Mi Rio (Your Cloud Dries My River)
  Awareness campaign about the environmental impact of digital infrastructures, especially data centers that consume large amounts of water and energy, drying up rivers and local ecosystems.
  https://tunubesecamirio.com/

• The Cloud Was Under Our Feet
  Research and resistance collective that makes visible the materiality of digital infrastructures. Exposes the environmental and social devastation of data centers and other technological mega-infrastructures, especially in France. Follows submarine cables, data centers, and the complicity of public authorities to understand what is mobilized when we tap our screens: what travels, pollutes, heats, digs, and exploits. Maintains a participatory map of projects and resistances against data centers.
  https://lenuageetaitsousnospieds.org/

• Project Una - The Virality of Evil
  Critical analysis of how disinformation and hate speech spread virally on social networks and digital platforms.
  Project UNA is a writing collective with the mission of both unmasking the new forms of fascism that hide under apparently harmless symbolism and recognizing and valuing the feminist alliances forged in the heat of pixels. From the popular and collective sphere, they investigate digital communities, new forms of propaganda on the internet and the relationship with technology. They are willing to laugh heartily from the barricade, because they are risking their lives.
  https://pantube.tv/proyecto-una/

• Latin American Institute of Terraforming - What to do if they plan to create a data center in your community?
  Practical workshop on strategies of resistance and community organization in the face of the imposition of data centers and other technological mega-infrastructures on territories.
  https://terraforminglatam.net/datacenterboom-cuando-la-nube-se-instala-en-nuestro-territorio

• Rage is Ours, A Political Emotion in Dispute
  Presentation of Oriol Erausquin's book that explores rage as a political emotion and tool for social transformation. He is currently researching a doctoral thesis in sociology on far-right conspiracy theories, focused on the "Great Replacement" theory. He is known on social networks for his political activity with the user Ideological Infusion.
  https://pantube.tv/infusion-ideologica/

• Fembloc - Digital Feminist Self-Defense
  Collective that works on feminist self-defense in the digital sphere, offering tools and strategies to protect ourselves from sexist violence on the internet.
  https://fembloc.cat/

Program (under construction)

Thursday, April 02

Friday, April 03

Saturday, April 04

Sunday, April 05

• You can participate in Hack The Earth as an attendee to the talks and workshops.
• You can also participate by offering a workshop or talk related to this year's theme.
• We will have a limited capacity of 150 people.

If you are interested in attending HTE 2026, please register here and indicate your preferences (days, needs, accommodation, meals, economic capacity). If you are interested in proposing a workshop, a talk or a performance, please also register your proposal here.

FORM

We do not have grants or budget, but we will look for ways to cover, as far as possible, travel and material costs for selected proposals. Regarding travel coverage for people participating in the program, we will only be able to cover short or cheap trips.
Base prices:

• 25€ per day (15€ breakfast/lunch/dinner + 5€ calafou maintenance costs + 5€ workshops)
• 90€ for 4 days

In the registration form you will be able to indicate your economic capacity. We understand that everyone's situation is different and we want to facilitate everyone's participation.
Contribution options:

• I can pay the full price
• I want to make a solidarity contribution to cover the costs of the workshop facilitators and Calafou's organization
• I need financial help and can contribute a smaller amount
  In the form you will be able to specify the amount you can or want to contribute.