Acertado comentario de Iñaki Gabilondo sobre el alcance real de las protestas, mientras los polÃticos siguen soltando sandeces sin saber realmente de qué va todo esto.
Cristina, after listening how some guests of a public radio station were making fun of recent demonstrations at Spain, phoned them to ask for respect for demonstrators. Her speech really moved me, so I'm transcribing it here in english to share it with the rest of the world (corrections are welcome):
Hello, good morning. I'm talking to the public radio, isn't it? The radio which represents all of us, the one we are paying with our taxes. I think that it's really deplorable that we have to be listening in a public radio station, now that we are inmersed in the election campaign, how both main political parties of Spain act as preschoolers, having a fight. I have yet to listen any proposal from them so we have a better, fairer, more well-balanced, more equitable society for everybody.
I'm 46 years old, and I was at the Madrid demonstration last sunday, and I have something to tell you. There were a lot of young person, but we were of all ages and all classes. Antisystem people? Yes, of course. Politicians, bankers and all of those supporting those measures that are actually cutting all the rights that took our parents and our grandparents blood, sweat and tears to attain; our politicians who we have voted, that are obviously steered by the hands of the capital that also steer the media, those are the ones turning our young people, our sons into antisystem people; because they are leaving them out of the system, the system where we all would like to live in a fair and decent way. We all would like to have a home, to have a job, and have a peace and quiet life, so we can watch our sons and our grandsons growing. And they are cutting that future.
So please, if you, who are working at the public radio station, whose salaries are paid with all our taxes, when you have people in the gathering as those you had today, who said "this kind of youth we have" (you can listen again the gathering, and you'll notice it), this kind of youth we have is going to really surprise us. Because Spain is different, really: Spain bears, bears, bears, but there comes a time when you say enough, and that time has come. And now it is no more indignation time, no. Now it is reaction time. They have thrown them out of the Puerta del Sol, but there we are, supporting them. And we don't need any political parties or economical parties, we don't need all of that, we are more than enough. Our parents educated us in dignity, they told us to never stop following our dreams. So there we are, we are not antisystem people, we are not a handful of brainless people: those are all of us demanding a better world.
That's the only thing I wanted to tell you.
Thanks a lot, Cristina, wherever you are, for giving voice to our thoughts and feelings. I hope the time for that better world has come. It's time for the revolution.
