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For us, young farmers educated at EFA Dom Fragoso, a fair future is an ancestral and sovereign future where we can understand our identities and, from them, build a good life in our communities of plural peoples — indigenous, Afro-Indigenous, and people of the earth. As youth, we believe that a fair future is about connecting with our ancestors so that we can escape the alienation imposed on us. It means having our basic rights guaranteed, access to contextualized education, access to agroecology, religious freedom, health, land, water, culture, and harmony among the diverse aspects of life. A fair future for us is a future with equality, respect, and harmony with others, free from racism, machismo, and homophobia. To think about a fair future, we have to start from the beginning of building that future. We want other young people to also know the Agricultural Family Schools, to become familiar with their ancestors, and to work with empathy for those who do not have land to work. May we be revolutionary youth, may we help others, and may we respect each other, especially with the support of spiritualities. We unite our voices to affirm the dreams that move us and the principles that guide the construction of a fair future: We want a future in which youth are happy, can work in what they love and live with those they love. We wish that our communities are recognized, respected, and that everyone can fully enjoy their rights. A fair future is one in which we overcome our struggles: quality education, health, basic sanitation, land, water, decent housing, leisure, transportation, and freedom to live out our faith and culture. We want to have sovereignty over our land. Our dream is to have access to land and water, to produce dignified and quality food. Agroecology is a path of freedom and resistance: planting trees, cultivating life, creating agroforestry systems, and caring for desertification. We want smallholder farming that produces for families and communities, not for capitalism. We want an end to wildfires, deforestation, large mining, pesticides, and the destruction of fauna and flora. A fair future is agroecological, sustainable, in connection with the cycle of life. A fair future means ending all forms of inequality, racism, machismo, homophobia, religious prejudice, or discrimination for being, thinking, and acting differently. Our color, our hair, our cultures and spiritualities are symbols of resistance, pride, and struggle. We recognize ourselves as children of the drought, of the semi-arid, of peasant struggles, and of Afro-Indigenous heritage. We want to rescue and value our identities, our rural schools (EFAs), our ways of being, acting, and thinking, keeping alive the stories of our ancestors, so that we can escape alienation and live freedom in the various aspects that define our lives. We want young people to dream and achieve collectively. Revolutionary, empathetic youth, who care for the environment, share knowledge, participate in social movements, and inspire children and other young people to fight for their rights. Above all, what we want to do, besides dreaming of a proposal for a new society, is to denounce as well. Everything we speak about are things that should be constitutionally guaranteed but are not. So, beyond everything, we are today denouncing a State that is criminal, that claims to guarantee rights but robs us of the most basic things in life. The fair future we want is composed of what should already have been guaranteed to us — a future of equality, respect, solidarity, agroecology, freedom, ancestral memory, and dignity for all peoples. We dream of a world where no one is left behind and where life flourishes in harmony among human beings, nature, and spiritualities. Because alone we dream, but together we make it happen.