Labor Day Poster

This past year, we witnessed an unprecedented, unsettling yet enlightening period unravelling before our eyes that significantly changed the world as we know it.

Through restrictions and prohibitions, and with an imperative shift in the use of technology, this new era has its own characteristics and limits, imposing certain behaviours and excluding others. The future of work however, will not be the same for everyone. 

The arts, the economy and press freedom have been severely impacted. Freedom of speech and certain views were oppressed and as a consequence, a rigid and indisputable perception of how we should behave, prevailed.

Nevertheless, it is our duty to remember, all freedoms must be claimed, even in the face of adversity, even by breaking imposed regimes and overturning oppressors. 

I believe human labor must follow certain standards, starting from a fair reward and ultimately honoring the worker. It should be individually accessed and tailored to a person’s needs and abilities. It is not profit that makes labor “sacred” but individuality.

Writing this in a country that counts numerous blows to its democracy, I can say the landscape of labor was and remains unfair for many, with plenty of room for abusive and irregular work relations. This can only lead to a society of inequality, fueling hatred and division. 

What we need is action, to repel the concealment of the truth, to battle silence and inertia. To overturn, any passive state that requires surrendering our rights without question, doubt or reserve.

To overturn the belief that the privileged can and should decide what is good for the general public, without ever really being part of it. 

The battles we come to fight, however, are not only collective, but personal. Change, requires a series of internal processes and for the desire to search for the truth that in turn leads to the maturity of ideas and the refinement of one’s perspective.

We owe ourselves and future generational alike, to trust our instincts, believe in the voice that shines a light on our true needs, and aim for collective prosperity.