North — Casa do Povo at COP

We dream that women are more valued, heard, and present in decision-making spaces. That collectives are truly collective: with affection, genuine care, less competition, and more mutual support. That no girl and no woman loses the light in her eyes, or is destroyed by violence. That there is respect in relationships (including marriages), with recognition of women’s mission and dignity.

We dream of not depending so much on money to realize our dreams, and of not living to pay debt. We dream of more collective, solidarity-based, regenerative, and territorial economies, whose goal is not only profit but a good, just, ecological life. That money circulates in the territory, strengthening communities, and that we can redefine “success” so it is less about meritocracy and more about connection, sufficiency, and dignity. We dream of concrete policies and support for small farmers, artisans, groups of forest women entrepreneurs such as the Mulheres Tapajônicas, and other invisibilized workers.

We believe that keeping the forest standing means ensuring that people can remain in their territories and villages without constant threats. We need to fight the impacts of agribusiness and its advance on our territories. An important part of this is our dream of achieving the demarcation of lands and settlements, recognizing that they are territories of native peoples, not merely “settlers.”

We dream of quality healthcare for women, especially women in the countryside. That serious illnesses such as breast cancer do not condemn so many companions who have no access to treatment.

That younger and older women are together, in shared spaces of exchange, building the future on memory. It is important that older people are valued as guardians of history, living with young people to share memories, ways of life, flour houses, and traditional knowledge. We dream that spaces such as the Rural Family House, agricultural schools, and others that follow peasant pedagogy can become references and receive visibility and care from those who govern.

Art, culture, and spirituality also inhabit our dreams — we dream of cultural houses for carimbó groups, well-structured agroecological collective kitchens where people can cook together, serve coffee, and produce. We dream of more flour houses, craft houses, and seed houses.

We recognize dream, music, carimbó, poetry, embroidery, collage, mural, collective work, conversation circles, and spirituality as ancestral technologies of struggle and of making dreams material.

Individual dreams that resonate in this circle — becoming a mother, having a home, finishing a house renovation, traveling to other places in Brazil and the world, opening a riverside restaurant, learning Portuguese better — connect with these collective dreams, because they find strength in the collective and constitute us as human beings.