José Luis Sampedro Foreword to the book Indignaos, Stéphane Hessel.
I too was born in 1917. Yo también estoy indignado. También viví una guerra. También soporté una dictadura. Al igual que a Stéphane Hessel, me escandaliza e indigna la situación de Palestina y la bárbara invasión de Irak.
Podría aportar más detalles, pero la edad y la época bastan para mostrar que nuestras vivencias han sucedido en el mismo mundo. Hablamos en la misma onda. Comparto sus ideas y me hace feliz poder presentar en España el llamamiento de este brillante héroe de la Resistencia francesa, posteriormente 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? How do we warn? The world turns as every day. We live in a democracy, the welfare state of our great Western civilization.
There is no war, no occupation. This is Europe, the cradle of cultures. Yes, that is the setting and decor. But we are really a democracy? Really under that name govern the peoples of many countries? Or does time have evolved differently? Currently in Europe and beyond, financiers, perpetrators indisputable of the crisis, have already saved the corner and continue their lives as no great loss.
Instead, their victims have not got the job 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 good times, it was rectified. But now, the guilt of the financial sector in this great crisis not only has not led to it, not even raised the suppression of mechanisms and high risk operations.
not eliminate tax havens and are undertaken major reforms of the system. 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 most highest levels of government. Banks privatized care first of their dividends, and the soaring salaries of their leaders, but not of general interest
INDIGNAOS!, Hessel told the youth, 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 places geostrategic 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, the progress of the 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 XXI 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 World War II. 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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