Northeast

For us, young farmers educated at the Agricultural Family School Dom Fragoso, a just future is an ancestral and sovereign future in which we can understand our identities and, from them, build a good living in our communities of plural peoples — Indigenous, Afro-Indigenous, and "terreiro" peoples. As youth, we believe that a just future is about connecting with our ancestors so we can break free from the alienation that is imposed on us. It is about having our basic rights guaranteed, having access to contextualized education, access to agroecology, religious freedom, health, land, water, culture, and harmony among the diverse aspects of life. A just future for us is a future with equality, respect, and harmony with others, free from racism, machismo, and homophobia. To think about a just future, we have to think from the beginning of the construction of this 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 just future: We want a future in which youth is happy, can work in what they love, and live with whom they love. We wish for our communities to be recognized, respected, and for everyone to fully enjoy their rights. May we help others and may we respect each other, especially with the support of spiritualities. A just future is one in which we achieve our struggles: quality education, health, basic sanitation, land, water, decent housing, leisure, transportation, and the freedom to practice the faith and culture of each individual. We want sovereignty over our land. Our dream is to have access to land and water, to produce dignified and quality food. Agroecology is the path of freedom and resistance: planting trees, cultivating life, creating agroforestry systems, and caring for desertification. We want family farming that produces for families and communities, not for capitalism. We want an end to wildfires, deforestation, large mining operations, agrochemicals, and the destruction of fauna and flora. The just future is agroecological, sustainable, in connection with the cycle of life. A just 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 region, of peasant struggles, and of the Afro-Indigenous heritage. We want to rescue and value our identities, our rural schools (Agricultural Family Schools), our ways of being, acting, and thinking, keeping alive the stories of our ancestors so that we can break free from alienation and live in 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 say are things that should constitutionally be guaranteed and are not. So, above everything, we are today making a denunciation to a state that is criminal, that claims to guarantee rights and robs us of the most basic things in life. The just future we want is that which should already be 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 achieve.