Northeast — Dom Fragoso Agricultural Family School - CE (Adults)

For a world where peoples can be free and sovereign.

In this new world we dream, we desire a happy future, a more just and fraternal society, with our new hope, with better cosmologies for our families and for everyone, with a better way of living, without social inequalities.

A future of free access to all knowledge and balance, in which countries do not abandon children, their sons and daughters, their ancestors, thus creating a new time.

We want to know our social formation and the struggles that came before us so that there is no inequality and everyone helps one another, and so that the future generations who are our children can live the life every child desires. If we do not know where we came from, how will we project the future, tomorrow?

We dream of a future where life flourishes like the mandacaru in the sertão: resistant, beautiful, and fertile. Where, like the phoenix, we can be reborn from pain and find light at the end of the well, and have faith in a better tomorrow.

We want a future with health for all, dignified wages, a home of one’s own, quality schools, leisure, and prosperity. A just future is one in which the Indigenous population remains here, with the right to the land they deserve. A future in which everyone has their land to plant, harvest, and live with dignity. Because through agriculture and healthy food, care for the land and giving it what it needs, we will have preservation, a good climate, well aired. All of this happens because of work done by us, family farmers. Indigenous people and agriculture walk together. The two complement the land in order to work and protect the forest itself.

We dream of clean rivers, preserved forests, protected fauna, and pure air. We want an end to deforestation, predatory hunting, and practices that destroy biodiversity. Take from the land only what we need. Not for profit. Our future is harmony among rocks, sea, earth, sky, people, and all living beings.

A just future has no racism, inequality, or discrimination. It is a future of social equality, mutual respect, peace among peoples, and the valuing of original and ancestral knowledges. A future in which there is no more war, but a friendly shoulder, a helping hand, and where peace will reign in our land and in our homes.

We believe that where there is no culture, violence becomes spectacle. That is why our future is full of living culture, collective celebrations, and solidarity. Today there is a hegemonic media and we need to build our own history, our own narrative — what we want and where we are going.

That music may always accompany us, always cheer us on the walk until dusk. Rosa Luxemburg already said, do not call me to a revolution if there is no dance. It is important that we also have this moment of leisure, because today we have only heavy, hard work.

For our children and young people, we want a future of movement. That all the children of the world have the right to study and play, for that is the good of life. Football, coexistence, and play are paths of development and resistance against loneliness, sedentary life, and addiction to screens and modern technologies.

In the end, a future in which we can all live, eat with plenty, and feel the aromas and tastes and the colors and scents of life. Back to the origins, not living in a virtual world. We wish, at last, to be able to lie in the hammock and rest from the struggles, and say that it was worth it.