North

Benevides

"In a fair future, there is freedom to be, see, act, and think, and nature is recognized as worthy of rights."

"In the future, both the hunger for bread and beauty will be satisfied."

"In fair futures, the doors and windows are opened, with all beings, the entire universe interconnected."

Dream Manifesto by participants of the workshop in the municipality of Benevides, Pará

Gathering held at the Garden Hotel, in Benevides-PA, on May 30, 2025

We represent a fair future with open doors and windows, for we must involve everything. We are all interconnected. A fair future is made today — it is not just for future generations, but also for the present. The future is not a distant place: it dawns every day, crosses our bodies, and demands decision. We are interconnected constellations — people, animals, rivers, forests, the visible and the invisible, the biotic and the abiotic. Caring for the whole is caring for oneself; caring for oneself is a condition for caring for the whole. We start from this element to care for the common house. We are part of this common house through our relationships, through our day-to-day, all the time, with ideas, with the people around us, with families. We want a future filled with love and care for people. The future is collectivity. There is a saying in Yoruba that says that for a child to be a child, it needs a whole community. The future is living the action and not surviving just to survive. In the future, we want no human being to die for lack of basic necessities. Thinking about a fair future begins with people having food on the table, having the minimum dignity of life, so 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 who are still to come, is caring for the soil, caring for the land, cultivating, and continuing what our ancestors 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 lives. If we want to live in this collapse, we need to care for the land, for the land and the forest scream… as if we are standing on something that is going to explode because it can no longer bear so much neglect that we have caused. A future where there is the overcoming of the State, the overcoming of the colonial vision that sees nature as a commodity. We exist because we want to exist. We insist that others exist with dignity. That they have: Hunger for bread and beauty, both satisfied. Without death, without oppression, without racism, without the command of money. Without the sexual division of labor. Without the criminalization of those who defend life. With justice for violations. With freedom and safety to express oneself. With listening — hearing the small murmur. With respect for the environment and diversity. With human and sustainable cities. With technology for life and good living. With spirituality. With a song of regeneration. A fair future is living — and living together. Now. With open doors. In constellation.

Participants
Turi Omonibo, Raissa Almeida, Alan, Miguel Dantas, Darlene Braga, Darcilene, Mauritius Cleberix, Nazaré Reis, Lucimar Moraes (the invited people come from four states in the Northern region)

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