(Presented by Vanessa, Jette, Susan and Sasha, with Roger as narrator)
Narrator: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood and sisterhood. Everyone is entitled to these rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, politics, property or origin.
1st V, (female): I am Puerto Rican, Inuit, Roman Catholic (Americas)
2nd V, (female): I am White, Protestant, Scandinavian, Rich (Europe)
3rd V, (male): I am a Female, Jew, Arab, Chinese (Asia)
4th V, (male): I am Black African Black Peasant, Poor (Africa)All Voices: We are from every corner of the earth!
Narrator: Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.
1st V: I want to be able to settle down,
2nd V: have a little house,
3rd V: see my children grow up strong and healthy...
4th V: do some fishing,
Narrator: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude, nor be subjected to torture, or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment...
1st V: I don't want to be owned, or sold, for my labour or my body. I'm my own woman...
4th V: ...and man. I don't want to be beaten, or ridiculed, or taken against my will, not ever. Not in this corner...All Voices: ...or in any corner of the earth.
Narrator: Everyone has the right to recognition as a person, and to be equal, before the law; entitled to equal protection under the law; and to a fair and public hearing; to be innocent until proven guilty...no arbitrary arrest, detention or exile...
3rd V: I don't want one law for the rich...and one for me. I don't want to be thrown in jail...and have them lose the key.
Narrator: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with family, home, or correspondence, nor to attacks upon honour and reputation...
2nd V: I want my bank and medical records safe from the eyes of another...No spying computers.
Narrator: All men and women of full age have the right to marry, but only with full consent of both; and the right to found a family, and to share equally rights and responsibilities in the marriage.
4th V: I want my wife to feel worthy of being her own person.
1st V: I don't want to wed the boy my tribe's picked out for me...And if my marriage flounders, I want my share of property.
Narrator: Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state - to leave any country, including one's own, and to return to one's own country; to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. Everyone has the right to a nationality.
2nd V: My country is not always right, neither is it always wrong. But I've the right to say it's mine - to say where I belong!
Narrator: Everyone has the right to own property, and no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of property. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion and to change religion or belief; and to manifest these in teaching, practice, worship, and observance..
3rd V: Cathedral or temple, or hall without pews...
4th V: I want to find God in the ways that I choose!
1st V: ...in this corner
2nd V: and in this...All Voices: ...and in every corner of this earth.
Narrator: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; to receive and impart information and ideas, through any medium and regardless of frontiers...
2nd V: This is London calling...this is Geneva...this is Radio Free Europe
4th V: and Africa
3rd V: and Asia
1st V: and the Americas......stand by...in thisAll Voices: and in every corner of the earth...
Narrator: Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, but no one may be compelled to belong to any organization.
3rd V: Get your membership cards here!
4th V: Sign me up!
1st V: Sign me up too!
2nd V: Sorry, I'm not interested.
3rd V: Don't let them break up our will and spirit...not here,All Voices: not anywhere on earth.
Narrator: Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his/her country, the right of equal access to public service. The will of the people shall speak; suffrage shall be universal and equal, elections held by free and secret vote.
1st V: Elections shouldn't be a joke.
2nd V: The wisdom here is sound; the governments are supposed to be for the people-
3rd V: and not the other way around!
4th V: Justice is all that we want, your charity is a sin!
Narrator: Every member of society has the right to social security...the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work, the right to equal work;
All Voices: Amen.
Narrator: The right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay;
All Voices: Everywhere on earth!
Narrator: The right to a standard of living adequate for health and well-being, including food, clothing, housing and medical care, social services, and security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other circumstances beyond control
1st V: In my community!
2nd V: Beyond political rhetoric!
3rd V: In my country!
4th V: In the world!
Narrator: And the right to form and join trade unions for the protection of one's interests.
All Voices: Everywhere on earth!
Narrator: Everyone has the right to free education...Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality. Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth herein can be fully realized - AND, everyone has duties to the community in which the free and full development of personality is made possible.
All Voices: Amen! ……. Let it be!