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

We represent a just future with doors and windows open because we have to involve everything. We are all interconnected. The just future is made today — it is not only for future generations, but it is for the present. The future is not a distant place: it dawns every day, traverses our bodies, and demands a 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 home. We are part of this common home through our relationships, through our daily lives, all the time, with the idea, with the people around us, with our families. We want a future filled with love and care for people. The future is collectivity. There is a saying in Yorubá that says a child needs an entire community to be a child. The future is to live the action and not just survive for the sake of surviving. In the future, we want no human being to die for lack of basic needs. Thinking about a just future begins with people having food on the table, having a minimum standard of dignity in life, so that they can also have the best dreams, have support, have power, and have things we never thought possible. The future of our generation, of our descendants who will come, is about caring for the soil, caring for the land, cultivating, and continuing what our ancestors used to do. Modern practicality kills us. Everything is so beautiful, but it's 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 it and the forest scream... as if we are on top of something that will explode because it can no longer bear the neglect 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 sexual division of labor. Without criminalization of those who defend life. With justice for violations. With freedom and security 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 well-being. With spirituality. With a song of regeneration. A just future is living — and living together. Now. With doors open. In constellation.

Participants
Turi Omonibo, Raissa Almeida, Alan, Miguel Dantas, Darlene Braga, Darcilene, Mauritius Cleberix, Nazaré Reis, Lucimar Moraes

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