Shaping the Future: Dreams, Equality, and Solidarity

1. Designing the Future

For a project to truly anticipate the future, it needs to go beyond our current reality. It's about harnessing our imagination and dreams. Designing the future is a collective effort that encompasses people, their shared dreams, and aspirations. It's about renewing possibilities for creating a world that embodies the values of equality, justice, and solidarity.

2. Another World Is Possible (World Social Forum)

Jules Verne dreamed of traveling to the moon, something he imagined in his book *From the Earth to the Moon*. 64 years after his death, this dream became a reality. Charles Chaplin, a genius of cinema and humor, was a street child, but he dreamed of a career in cinema, and his wish was granted; the Royal Academy of Cinema awarded him an Oscar in 1972.

The World Social Forum emerged in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Thousands of people from around the globe participated, expressing their disagreement with realities such as war, injustice, violence, human suffering, and hunger. In the face of these realities, they adopted a hopeful dream: "Another world is possible."

3. Galeano

Eduardo Galeano envisioned a world where:

• Street children will not be treated as if they were trash.
• Children will play in reforested streets.
• The world's deserts and the deserts of the soul will be reforested.
• We will not be at war against the poor, but against poverty.
• Justice and liberty will be inseparable sisters, joined back-to-back.
• We will be compatriots and contemporaries of all who have a desire for justice and beauty, no matter where they were born or where they have lived, without borders or maps.

4. The Right to Equality

All human beings are born with the same dignity and therefore deserve the same consideration and respect. The right to equality was recognized by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789 and confirmed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations in 1948. All human beings are born free and equal in rights, freedom, and dignity. We must behave fraternally with each other, forming a single human family and an Earth community with a common destiny.

To ensure that a person can be autonomous, the solidarity of all is required.

5. The Right to Difference (Tortosa)

Tortosa affirms that freedom is different from uniformity. Not all must be equal and identical. Uniformity is not democratic. In a democracy, you can be yourself and different from others, without imposing discrimination. Ethical principles dictate that every human being is born with dignity and equality. Every human is unique and unrepeatable and has a right to be respected.

6. Men and Women

"Machismo" is an arrogant attitude of men towards women. Women's rights were recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in 1979. The United Nations proclaimed the International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and in 1993, the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women.