South

We want a just future that starts now, where life — human and more-than-human — is at the center. A future where the national and global political system does not exist to plunder the nation. A future with less individualism, whether in the form of privatization, social networks, or other expressions. We want a future where nature is our partner in home and sustenance, where forests, waters, seas, and fantastic biodiversity thrive, and where we can live off what the land gives without exhausting it. In it, ancestral and community knowledge walks alongside science to guide choices that regenerate, and art becomes daily nourishment again, opening paths of sensitivity, critique, and imagination. It is a future in which every child is born and grows up with protection, affection, and freedom to play; where early childhood organizes policies and priorities. Women — in the countryside and in the city — have their work recognized, their income secured, and their places of decision. Indigenous peoples, diverse cultures, and multiple spiritualities are respected and celebrated as living sources of wisdom. Black protagonism is real and not decorative; diversity ceases to be aesthetic and begins to structure the common. In this future, home and territory are gateways to all other rights: dignified housing integrated into the natural environment, well-being, anti-racism, gender equality, healthy food, harmonious coexistence with all. Animals — wild and domestic — are treated with dignity. Technology and knowledge, instead of subordinating life to profit, strengthen care, equity, affection, and good living. We work on what is necessary to sustain existence with dignity and dedicate ample time to culture, art, science, and community life. The way to build this future is collective. Projects are both "what" and "with whom" at the same time: they arise from social bonds. We do this through liberating education, popular participation, and active listening — to nature, to the elders, to children, and to ourselves. We advance in a spiral, recognizing cycles, learning, unlearning, and relearning. We cultivate relationships as one tends to a plant: presence, watering, patience. And we put our talents in the light — "every talent is grand" — to touch others and transform what surrounds us. We do not seek unanimity; we practice dissent with respect, overcoming authoritarianism and opening space for plural existences and a harmonious evolutionary process. Politics becomes the task of producing collective happiness again. The city no longer constrains bodies and ways of life: it is redesigned by those who inhabit it. The decisions that matter are made with those who live their effects. And when we disagree, let it be in the paths — not in the common goal of dignity, justice, and shared joy. This desired future is not distant: the time for the future is today. It starts when each transforms in themselves what they ask of the world, finds others who dream the same, organizes, fights, and conquers. If everything was created, everything can be modified. We raise our common collage and continue: a living artwork, in motion, signed with earth in our hands, music in the air, and eyes turned toward the children.