new campaign / movements #FreeTheFuture, for the 99,99%
from
Bernardo Gutiérrez
on Jul 04, 2020 05:27 PM
Hello people
I am writing to share the campaign / movement #LiberteOFuturo /
#FreeTheFuture, which from Brazil to the world, is launched tomorrow, in
which I am collaborating. Seeing the body - imaginative - political
blockade of collective action during the coronavirus pandemic,
#FreeTheFuture aims to unleash a torrent of visions of the future, to apply
in the present. We want a world for 99.99%. Because we want a world for
humans and their future generations, and also for all non-human beings that
inhabit the Earth.
Tomorrow, Sunday 5th at 18.00 h (Brazilian time) a wonderful video will be
released, all the graphic material and the videos that have already been
received. People are being encouraged to record videos on one of the five
fields: Antidotes, Consumption, Democracy, Climate Emergency and
Insurrection (civil disobedience).
Here you graphic
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VyoQS35NgFGnGzss2L9fcawqSJ85c0Da>
material
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VyoQS35NgFGnGzss2L9fcawqSJ85c0Da>(Portuguese
and English, if any Spanish-speaking and French-Speaker person wants to
help in adapting the material, it would be wonderful).
Here profiles on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/liberteofuturo/>,,
Instagram (PT <https://www.instagram.com/liberteofuturo/>and EN
<https://www.instagram.com/free.the.future/>) y Twitter
<https://twitter.com/LiberteOFuturo>
Here invitation to collaborate in English
Five proposals for postponing the end of the world
Many people say the world won’t be the same after the
pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus. It won’t be. But it might be even
worse.
Today, more material wealth lies in the hands of only 2,153 billionaires
than in the hands of 60% of the planet’s other 7,790,000,000 human
inhabitants. These billionaires represent such an insignificant fraction of
the global population that they become invisible when their number is
expressed in a percentage. Yet the inequality they produce is brutally
visible.
We want a world for the 99.99%.
We cannot accept the return of a normalcy that despoils nature and condemns
billions to poverty and bodily exhaustion. We cannot permit the continued
destruction of the Amazon, ever closer to the tipping point. We must use
the current suspension of economic activities to go back to imagining a
future where we can live and where we want to. We are experiencing physical
isolation, not social isolation. Ideas need to circulate. When we imagine
the future, we begin to create it.
Why have we launched this movement? Because we want a world for human
beings and future generations—and for all the non-human beings who inhabit
the Earth. We must join forces around this urgent need. If we don’t act, we
will be left with nothing but a hostile future on a planet devoured by
capitalism and by a climate crisis provoked by a mode of production
incompatible with life. The destruction of nature—the nature from which
most humans have tragically cut themselves off—will ignite more pandemics
and is already overheating the planet. We have launched this movement
because we don’t want to be slaughtered like cattle. Whether in rural areas
or in cities, we want to live like the forest—standing tall—and we want to
fight.
HOW IT WORKS:
Inspired by the thinkers Ailton Krenak, Achille Mbembe, Bruno Latour,
Eliane Brum, Grada Kilomba, and Paul Preciado, we invite you to come up
with five proposals for postponing the end of the world and imagining
possibilities for our post-pandemic future. We believe questions are as
important as answers. To help with this exercise of the imagination, we are
offering five suggestions of our own. These are meant to prompt you to
devise your own questions and then reply to them.
1. Antidotes against the end of the world: Imagine how you want to
live. (Dare! Dream, create, defy your own imagination.)
2. Democracy: Propose public policies and legislative and normative
changes that will reduce racial, gender, and class inequalities and take
democracy beyond the mere act of voting every election. (Dare! And be
objective.)
3. Consumption: Suggest ways of eliminating the consumption habits that
enslave our species and others as well. (Dare! And be specific.)
4. Climate emergency: Suggest actions to stop the destruction of nature
and guarantee the continuity of all forms of life on the planet. (Dare! And
be a fighter.)
5. Insurrection: Define the best form of civil disobedience for
creating the future in which you want to live! (Dare!)
These proposals should be recorded on a one-minute video, filmed
horizontally. At the beginning of the video, state your name and the city
and country you live in. Post your video to social media with the
hashtag #freethefuture
or send it in via WhatsApp +55 (11) 975579830. All videos will be collected
on an open digital platform. The material will not belong to any one
individual, but to all of us collectively. You can share it, analyze it,
and act.
We realize it can be hard to ask ourselves what we want and expose our
thoughts to the world. It is indeed hard to try to change the world. But
when you start, you’ll realize the very act of imagining—alone or with your
group of friends, community, collective, organization, or business—is
already changing you. The act of imagining is a powerful force. If you
don’t want to start with the proposed topics, ask yourself just one
question:
What future do you want to free?
Do not give up. To give up fighting for the future, at this historical
moment, may mean giving up on the present.
The future is here and now; it might not be here next year.
Ailton Krenak
I want my future back with all its wellsprings of possibilities.
Achille Mbembe
Beyond just keeping ourselves alive, how can we disobey the producers of
death and create a future where we are able to exist with all others?
Eliane Brum
Everything depends on our ability to resist a return to the pre-pandemic
order. Through its person-to-person transmission, which each of us can
interrupt or facilitate, the virus has taught us an invaluable lesson: no
system is capable of resisting the viral force of political action.
Bruno Latour
It seems to me there is nothing more urgent than starting to create a new
language. A vocabulary in which we can all meet, within the human condition.
Grada Kilomba
Since the virus mutates, if we want to resist submission, we too will have
to mutate.
Paul Preciado
WHO WE ARE:
We are the 99.99%. We are a movement to free the future. And in movement we
grow every day. There is no authorship, there is no one capturing anything.
We invite everyone to contribute with a critical, dynamic reflection on the
post-pandemic moment and another possible world. Within this network, we
are river and street, imagination and reality; we are human beings and more
than human beings. The way the world spun before the coronavirus crisis was
a catastrophe foretold. We face one of our last chances to change the
course now pushing us quickly to the cliff, a course that has already
ushered in the age of pandemics.
ENGAGEMENT:
1.
Post about the #freethefuture movement on social media.
2.
Record your video and share it.
3.
Record your video, share it, and plan actions for the future.
4.
Record your video, share it, plan actions for the future, and act in the
present.
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