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There is hope when you look around and you find that a lot is happening, the younger generation is moving and they are creating new ways of looking to the future. This is the time of year when we start applauding at graduation ceremonies and congratulating parents for their children’s success. There is a double acknowledgement every time that happens. On one hand, is the recognition of the parents’ hard work along with large doses of influence on the lives of their children. On the other hand, is also the hard work of graduates, but improved by the many challenges they pose to the established order. There is a blended history of creativeness from the younger and experience from the older. Locally I see young people involved in the community in new ways, trying to organize change by connecting directly to the root and listening before acting. Cases like the dreamers, and now Cosecha, a new movement in the country to get driving licenses for undocumented people, is an example of new vision and hands on action. Beyond the fact of getting or not getting a drivers’ license, is the fact that bringing people together to comment on their situation leads to new organizing patterns that break the old model of ‘let’s protest and wait for an answer’. By getting together they are also creating alternative ways to gather resources and putting their talents together to accomplish things. They are looking at ways of creating alternative ways of working, establishing co-ops and finding new ways of working in sustainable economy. Also, there is this national wave of new legislators and now even a new presidential candidate who embodies the vision of a younger generation tired of the old structures and willing to change, even though it may look hard for everyone and safer to continue with the ‘same old thing’. The use of alternative media to reach, speak directly to people and gather them in big or small meetings to reach consensus is something that older generations can watch, and join in, but only the younger ones master the use and applications of modern technology. So, this season, when you applaud at one of those graduating ceremonies, pause and think how you are witnessing a ‘change of guard’, and how prepared the graduates are to tackle the task ahead. They will probably make mistakes, and even demolish sometimes things that were worth saving, but above all, they are questioning and challenging and acting on the ‘old way of doing things.’ The country is more than ready for a generation that knows more about bilingual, bicultural, biracial, binational people. They know more about LBGT agenda and inclusion. They have known about too many wars and lack of money for social expenditure. They are witnessing how western style economy is wrecking the water, the animals, the crops and the planet in general. To all these they are finding answers that are more viable and human for all. We may look with certain reservation to the future, thinking that too much change cannot be good. We may even question how others rebel against laws and rules. We may even think that we have already reached an important degree of evolution that highlights ‘our’ democracy, and how legislation and control take place, but that is how we have reached this place of insanity and chaos. We had our say; now it is time to listen and join hands with the stronger, new people who are moving forward. There is hope!
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