
We want human rights because…
No human being is illegal,
No human being is a minority,
No human being is undocumented
Everyone has a story to tell, a history to be made, a dream to fulfill, a life to live to the fullest, to the deepest end of time
Everyone has the right to grow old, live gently, love openly, work passionately
We want a world where our families…
Can live together free from fear and borders
Have human rights that are untouchable
Have poetry, bread, laughter, horizons, dreams that can’t be stopped
Can have children every year, every season, because there are schools, childcare centers, homes with heat, jobs with living wages, nutritious meals, healthcare, choices to be made, options to be created, and nobody goes to war
Are led by single mothers, single fathers, teen mothers, teen fathers, queers, lesbians, gays, transgenders, and everyone praises them because they take care of the present and the future.
We want a world where our communities…
Can live, love, labor, stand still or walk freely without fear of tomorrow
Are part of a living community of communities
Respect the natural world and her seasons
Remember our ancestors everyday, because we are ancestors-to-be
Respect the elders, the newborn and young with equal portions of energy, wisdom and hope
Listen equally to women and men, to elders and youth and make no decisions that will harm the newborn, the infirm, the disabled, the unemployed, the dreamers or the ancestors
We want a world where our leaders…
Have no more say than the poorest and certainly don’t earn more than four times than a farmworker
Don’t have to have a university degree, be a lawyer or speak English
Listen and don’t impose
Consult and don’t confuse the people
Dialogue and dream together with those nobody wants
Live and work with those they purport to lead
Understand that everyone is a leader
Build organizations and movements where everyone is a leader
Set up the chairs and sweep the floors after the meeting
Know that only communities and peoples can have visions
We want a world where justice means…
That women don’t have to confront tanks with stones to demand bread and peace
Children don’t have to work, but have all the time to study, learn, dream and play
Our elders are not abandoned in the shadows
Borders are mutually agreed upon and interdependent or they don’t exist
We want a world where no borders means…
People have the right to a home, health, education, land, healthy community, place, the natural world, music, poetry, peace, justice, languages, colors, art, love, family, solitude, sunsets, silence and bustle
Military leaders cannot send our sons and daughters to war because we resolve our differences through dialogue and sharing resources.
Hunger is an exhibit in the museum of antiquities
We can talk through the night in each other’s pleasure and love and wake up early to go to work, study, worship, or play because tomorrow will come without worries or fears.
Passports will be stamped: she/he knows his/her human rights and is free to enter.
We want a movement where human rights…
Are the highest form of politics, of strategy, of being
Are the language of everyday meetings and conversations
Are on every agenda, on every tongue
Are not a on a long list along with civil rights, racial justice, environmental justice, social justice, l/g/b/t rights, women’s rights, children’s rights…
Are the passwords of community, brotherhood/sisterhood
Let us dream that this world of injustices cannot last long and that another world is possible only if we organize and fight for a new day
We want a world of human rights…
Because everyone is important in the movement, in the community, in the family, in the relationship of struggle and justice
Because dreaming in color is the only thing possible or desirable when we go to bed alone or together
Because sorrow must end and anguish becomes impossible
Because everyone deserves hope and certainty
Because it IS the world that can’t be stopped
Because everything is possible when everyone has human rights
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