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  • 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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    www.bernardogutierrez.net