A particle of the futureNorth — Belém
(Opens in a new tab)“The future is a place where all creatures are respected and collectivity builds new paths.”
“A future is just when a territory is sovereign.”
“In a just future children are heard, welcomed, and participating, and women can walk without fear.”
(Opens in a new tab)Dream manifesto by the participants of the gathering in Belém, Pará
Gathering held at Gheto Hub, in the Jurunas neighborhood, Belém, Pará, on 2 June 2025.
The just future is born in the understanding of the history and memory that workers today carry out with dignity.
A just future is a place where all creatures — human and more-than-human — are respected, where collectivity builds new paths. It is when the being is sovereign, with equal right, influence, and possibility of existing, independent of phenotypes, geography, faith, money.
A just future is accountability. It is caring for the repercussions of our acts on the other, on the land, on the water, on time. It is freedom so that the true self is not silenced by prejudices or by violences.
A just future is synergy. Nothing can flourish in isolation. Things need to happen together — the simultaneous is the revolution. Work, rest, care, art, affection, politics, joy: all of this needs to pulse at the same time, in the same collective body.
A just future happens when territories become sovereign in identity and collective management, respecting the specificities of the living beings and landscapes that reside there. It is when the waters run free again, seeds return to the land, and bodies have a place to dwell again.
A just future is body and housing. A dignified house for artists, women, Black people, so that childhoods can be cared for, so that children grow safe, so that young Black people and Black women can grow old.
A just future is visible love. Where women can love one another in public without fear. Where the city is livable, with drinking water, with laughter, with music, with dance. Because without dance there is no revolution.
A just future is living youth. It is leisure as a tool of revolution. It is peripheral culture celebrated and the right to exist, dream, and rest without life charging so early the price of survival.
A just future is memory and continuity. It is recognizing that nothing begins in us. It comes from the trajectory, from mothers and grandmothers, from the hands that planted before we had a voice. We are already ancestors of someone. What came before echoes onward.
A just future is synergy in the now. It is not a distant tomorrow. It is the invitation to change narratives that keep us from resting today, and to begin creating safe spaces, cultivating what feeds us, caring for those who care for us.
The just future is not an individual dream. It is collectivity in movement, it is the being sovereign in the whole, and not at the top. It is the full happiness of the periphery, safe childhood, free water, freedom.
The just future is now. And it begins with all of us.
(Opens in a new tab)Participants
Jean do Gueto (Jean Ferreira), Maili Veiga, Emanuelly Silva, Jessica Oliveira, Richard Paiva, Suane Barreirinhas, Ruth Costa, Kauê Holm Aris, Bia Viana.
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