Moments of the World March

Well, my name is Danilo Monteverde. I am a humanist from here, Santiago de Chile. The World March for me meant from less to more. At first it was a very weird thing, a thing that did not resonate with me. I felt it very naive, it is true. But with time I saw that it gained in strengthen, it gained in shape, and in content. And that filled me much more, resonated much more with me. And even more now that it has arrived to Chile. To be here in Villa Grimaldi. This does really have content. It is not any March. I has a lot of weight. When I would see the imagines of other countries, of Bolivia, when I would see in the United States thousands of people in the street, I mean, something impressive. I would think well, something is being sowed here. Humanism itself is one way or another, in different ways. When I would see people like that [makes three-finger humanist hand gesture meaning "peace, force and joy"] , with their hand in the pictures, superintendents for instance, that would mean for me that the March and humanism were being a reference for others, it was influencing and penning towards others. For me the importance of the March for the world is that it is relevant, it is grain of sand that this collective is giving towards the construction of a humanist social revolution, a revolution that is militantly nonviolent. And that is where we are headed. This has it ancestors in many other movements. We are not the only ones but we are the heirs. And that is the future, to project ourselves in that direction, to connect with old generations and new generations, to create that bridge between Chile. Latin America, the world without excluding any one. And I feel that here we lived a great ceremony full of emotion, on the topic of human rights and the topic of how from memory and from not-forgetting you project yourself to the future with joy, without resentment, but firmly. And that is active nonviolence. That is peace and nonviolence. That is all.