Today..., from the 1999 annual report of CEDEPCA
Today... what we see, hear feel, experience...
...is being alone in a crowd, without community
...is being fed up, confused, numb, harried, all at once.
...is consuming religious goods. Spiritual tourists procuring forgiveness and hope from the merchants of salvation is to be excluded. To live on the periphery of humanity is to experience the violence born of exclusion. And if you are a woman, if you are black, if you are indigenous, your exclusion is multiplied.
Today we declare the end of this millennium is not the end of history.
We declare: to be is not to have.
We declare: from solitude we can build solidarity.
We declare: to have the right to dream. No one, nothing, can take this from us.