Compelled to rebellion

The moment has come for the citizenship, who has progressively become aware of the threats that are looming over mankind, to react, to take action against a global plutocratic governance (G6, G7, G8, G20) that has led the world as a whole to a situation of progressive deterioration of the habitability of the planet -with a few irreversible processes for the first time in history- and an irreducible social gap and military and weapon expenses of more than 4,000 million dollars, while thousand million people are still dying from hunger and extreme poverty...

Different institutions and responsible persons have been alerting since many years ago how urgent it is every day to cope, with all our knowledge and available media, with the terrible ecological and socio-political threats. I never get tired of repeating it: since the 70s of last century, the UNESCO and Club of Rome already alerted how urgent it was to look for new paradigms of economic growth and development. There was no reaction.

In 1992, in Rio de Janeiro, in a big “Summit of the Earth” an excellent document was drafted —the 2021 Agenda — in order to redirect these sombre trends… Nothing happened. The G7, led by George Bush senior, disregarded the document as has been the usual behaviour of US Republican Party when confronted with multilateralism, with the anxious appeals.

We don’t give up our change projects. On the contrary, spurred by the scientific community, alI Summits of the Earth was prepared in Johannesburg, in 2002, followed by a Declaration and Action Program on a Peace Culture (1999) and the Charter of the Earth  (2000). The Milenium Development Objetives  were approved with very high expectations… Nothing happened. On this occasion it was President Bush Junior who not only rejected the proposals of joint action... but who decided one year later to invade Irak, based on trickery and false information.

And what did Europe do? She remained silent. And what did the remaining 192 countries do? They remained silent. With the veto of the five victors of the Second World War, the United Nations could not apply Roosevelt’s splendid design. We had to wait for Barack Obama to arrive to the White House -I insist on this occasion because it was a cause of great hope- and to sign on the shiny autumn of 2015, the Paris Agreements on Climate Change and, two months later, the Resolution of United Nations General Assembly on the 2030 Agenda and the SDO “to transform the world” It was a short period because only a few months later, the uncanny Republican President Donald Trump said with arrogance the same day he was nominated that he would not respect the Agreements on Climate Change nor the 2030 Agenda.

At that time I thought there would be an immediate reaction from the European Union, who cannot have a quantitative influence but can have a qualitative one over the events at a global scale. But there was silence... Why? Because requesting unanimity to approve important decisions is equal to the veto. Unanimity is the antithesis of democracy. With the abominable and intolerable invasion of Ukraine by Putin it has become clear that the prominence in the dialogue with Russia does not correspond to the European Union but rather to the NATO, a military organization whose aim is to put into practice the North Atlantic Treaty.

In the USA, President Biden tries to set some order in the social, military, economic and legal situation which is becoming more confusing every day due to the interference of  the “conservative” Supreme Court -we should have never accepted the difference made between “conservative” and “progressive” judges, which is a total incoherence from all points of views- and an accommodating follower of the ex-president Trump, that not only concerns the federal level, what a nonsense!, but rather the worldwide sphere as was the case of the recent decision on climate change.

Pandemics, war, economic crisis, habitability on the Earth put in jeopardy... And we, “the peoples” -who only recently acknowledged the equal dignity and can, at last!, express ourselves and participate to put into practice the democratic multilateralism-remain distracted. I like to quote Soledad Gallego’s wise saying when she refers to the “massive distraction” that is brought about by the media and digital power interfering with our lives...

It is precisely now that it would be more dangerous to still confuse education with training. Education is “directing our own life” according to the excellent definition of Francisco Giner de los Ríos, to be “free and responsible” according to article 1 of the Constitutive Charter of the UNESCO. We must, without further delay, listen to the voices that are asking for a citizen mobilization, who believe that the democratic multilateralism can count, now at last, with us, the peoples, as quoted at the beginning of the Charter of United Nations: “We the peoples,... are determined to save future generations from the scourge of war".

Now, yes, “the peoples” can finally express themselves freely. Now yes, equal in dignity, they may ask the cooperation of the citizens who are conscious of the effective fulfilment of their intergenerational duties: now yes, they can feel “compelled to the supreme recourse to rebellion”, as established in the third paragraph of the Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Now hope is possible again. Only thus can we imagine -with great popular clamours- the swift transition from a culture of imposition, dominion and war to a culture of encounter, dialogue, mediation, conciliation and peace, from a plutocratic supremacism (military, financial, energetic, digital, media dominion) to the quick adoption, within the duly reformed United Nations, of a Universal Declaration of Democracy,

Compelled to rebellion! We must be many to start this essential transformation from force to word, from bellum to verbum, from a culture of confrontation to a culture of understanding.

Against the globalization of indifference and ignorance, let’s bet for democratic multilateralism.

Compelled to rebellion!