France: ERA AT THE FRONT LINE IN THE MARCH FOR THE FRENCH LANGUAGE
(AGENPARL) – Rome, 20th June –
“To celebrate the annivesary of the birth of General De Gaulle’s resistance movement against the Nazi occupation and the then-newly-born Nazi collaborationist government, l’Avenir de Langue Française and other associations that work to promote the French language, organized a demonstration in Paris, demanding that the French Goverment unite the first French-speaking general states and defend linguistic democracy. Over a thousand people from different countries, including the former Interior Minister Jean pierre Chevenement, participated in the event. The demonstration started from the Panthéon, the symbolic place where many great French are buried, such as Jean Moulin, De Gaulle’s lifelong friend and relentless French resistance organizer, who was brutally tortured and killed by the Nazis.”
Lapo Orlandi, ERA’s treasurer, after closing a series of speeches, launched the demonstration, celebrating Jean Moulin’s resistance which “becomes a linguistic one in the moment when fascism and collaboration is also linguistic.” He also reminded that “those who fight against linguistic occupation should also aim for linguistic democracy, just as Spinelli and Rossi did 70 years ago with the Ventotene Manifesto, written on the border line that divides the Federal and Democratic Europe that we live in, though democracy is not necessarily always applied. This is why we need a public, non-ethnic and democratic language, Esperanto, to put all the languages back on the same democratic level. It is the Radical Party’s twentieth year in promoting this effort, as well as marking the 60th day of Marco Pannella’s hunger strike, carried out in the name of a more democratic Italy with improved prisons that are expected in civilized countries. During the national Assembly organized by ERA Onlus, Marco Pannella spoke about “linguistic democracy, against the English-speaking occupation in Italy and in the world, against Berlusconi’s and Gelmini’s collaborationist policies. Fortunately, Italy’s citizens have had it up to here with certain puppet politicians, in the same way French citizens lost their faith in Vichy’s puppet state,” ERA’s note read.
AgenParl, Agenzia Parlamentare