José Luis Sampedro Foreword to the book Indignaos, Stéphane Hessel.
I too was born in 1917. I too am outraged. also lived a war. He also endured a dictatorship. Like Stéphane Hessel, shocked and outraged me the situation in Palestine and the barbaric invasion of Iraq. Could provide details, but age and time are sufficient to show that our experiences have happened in same world. We talk on the same wavelength. Share your ideas and I am happy in Spain to present the appeal of this brilliant French Resistance hero, then an active diplomatic interest in many missions, always in favor of peace and justice.
INDIGNAOS! A cry, a clarion call to stop street traffic and forced to look up to those gathered in the square. As the siren announcing the proximity of those bombers: a warning to remain vigilant. At first surprising. What? What nos alertan? El mundo gira como cada día. Vivimos en democracia, en el estado de bienestar de nuestra maravillosa civilización occidental.
Aquí no hay guerra, no hay ocupación. Esto es Europa, cuna de culturas. Sí, ése es el escenario y su decorado. Pero ¿de verdad estamos en una democracia? ¿De verdad bajo ese nombre gobiernan los pueblos de muchos países? ¿O hace tiempo que se ha evolucionado de otro modo? Actualmente en Europa y fuera de ella, los financieros, culpables indiscutibles de la crisis, han salvado ya el bache y prosiguen su vida as usual without major losses. Instead, their victims have not recovered the jobs or income level.
The author of this book recalls how the first economic programs in France after World War II included the nationalization of banks, although later, in times of boom, it was rectified. But now, the guilt of the financial sector in this great crisis has not only led to it, not even raised the suppression of mechanisms and high risk operations. Not eliminate tax havens or rush important system reforms. Financiers have just endured the consequences of their misdeeds.
other words, money and their owners have more power than governments. As Hessel says, "the power of money has never been so big, brash, selfish with everyone from their own servants to the highest echelons of the state. Banks privatized care first of their dividends, and the soaring salaries of their leaders, but not the general interest " INDIGNAOS!, Hessel told the young, because of the outrage comes the willingness to compromise with history. Born of indignation Resistance against Nazism and outrage has to come out today against the dictatorship of the markets.
We must resist the race for the money to control our lives. Hessel recognizes that a young man of his time was indignant and resist clearer, though not easier, for the invasion of the country by fascist troops is increasingly clear that the dictatorship of international financial architecture. Nazism was defeated by the indignation of many, but the danger totalitarian in its many variants has not disappeared. Or in areas as gross as the concentration camps (Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib), walls, fences, preemptive strikes and "fighting terrorism" in geostrategic locations, or other much more sophisticated and as the misnamed technified financial globalization.
INDIGNAOS!, Repeat Hessel youth. I remember the achievements of the second half of the twentieth century in the field of human rights, the introduction of Social Security, advances welfare state, while they said the current setbacks. The brutal attacks of 11-S in New York and the disastrous U.S. actions in response to them, are making the opposite way. A road in the first decade of this century is traveling at an alarming rate.
Hence Hessel alert young people. With his cry is saying: "Guys, be careful, we fought for what you have now for you to defend, maintain and improve it, do not let him rob you."
INDIGNAOS! Fight to save the democratic achievements based on ethical values, justice and freedom promised after the painful lesson of the Second World War. To distinguish between public opinion and media opinion, not to succumb to the propaganda hoax. "The media are owned by wealthy people," says Hessel. And I add: who is the wealthy people? Those who have taken over what belongs to everyone. And as everyone is our right and our duty to recover the service of our freedom. It is not always easy to tell who actually sent or how to defend against the abuse.
Now is not taking up arms against the invader or derail a train. Terrorism is not the right way against totalitarianism today's more sophisticated than that of Nazi bombers. Today it is not collapsing under the destructive hurricane of "always more" voracious consumerism and the entertainment media as we apply the cuts.
INDIGNAOS!, Without violence. Hessel leads us to the peaceful uprising evoking figures like Mandela or Martin Luther King. I would add the example of Gandhi, murdered precisely in 1948, the year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, whose wording was a participant himself Hessel. As Raimon sang against the dictatorship: Say NO. Nega. Act. For starters, INDIGNAOS!
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