North — Benevides

We represent the just future with open doors and windows, because we have to involve everything. We are all interconnected. The just future is made today — it is not only for the next generations, but also for the present. The future is not a distant place: it dawns every day, crosses our bodies, and asks for a decision.

We are interconnected constellations — people, animals, rivers, forest, the visible and the invisible, the biotic and the abiotic. To care for the whole is to care for oneself; to care for oneself is the condition for caring for the whole.

We start from this element in order to care for the common house. We are part of this common house through our relations, through our everyday, all the time, with the idea, with the people around us, with families. We want a future with love and care for people.

The future is collectivity. There is a Yoruba saying that for a child to be a child, a whole community is needed.

The future is living the action and not surviving for the sake of surviving. In the future, we want no human being to die for lack of basic needs. Thinking a just future begins with people having food on the table, having a minimum of dignity of life, so that they can also have the best dreams, have support, have power, have things we never thought of.

The future of our generation, of our descendants still to come, is care for the soil, care for the land, cultivating, and continuing what our ancestor already did. Modern practicality kills us. Everything is so beautiful, but it is poisoned.

When we care for what we plant we care for our life. If we want to live in this collapse, we need to care for the land, because it and the forest scream… as if we were standing on something that is going to explode because it can no longer bear it, such is the neglect we have caused.

A future in which there is overcoming of the State, overcoming of the colonial view that sees nature as merchandise. We exist because we want to exist. We insist so that others exist with dignity. That they have: hunger for bread and for beauty, both satisfied. Without death, without oppression, without racism, without the command of money. Without sexual division of labor. Without criminalization of those who defend life. With justice for the violations. With freedom and safety to express oneself. With listening — hearing the small murmur. With respect for the environment and for diversity. With human and sustainable cities. With technology for life and good living. With spirituality. With a song of regeneration.

A just future is to live — and to live together. Now. With the doors open. In constellation.