In the first days of the state of alarm a group of plastic and visual artists: the García-Alix brothers Mariana Laín Carlos Baonza Fernández Arrias Juan Luis de No Javier Pagola and others promoted the SAVE IT campaign through a manifesto PUBLIC which has been joined by several hundred painters photographers and sculptors who have contributed their works of denunciation expressing the idea that an image is worth a thousand words. Many of us will have received images through the networks that without knowing it are part of this initiative.
Even if it were only for the quality of the works it is worth entering the page to see them. In other professional sectors responses are being cooked up for the defense of the public whose dismantling has been left bare in the air in this pandemic and CXB Directory privatizations have seen the shame of their uselessness in providing answers for which they are not intended but to produce added value to its owners. Among the white tides and other public service sectors there is a consensus to give everything to save lives and preserve what is essential but when the opportunity allows there will be an outburst in their defense and many citizens will be with them. But defending that: health research minimum vital income involves expenses and taxes.
We all know that in the wake of this crisis those who will pay the most will be the usual ones. But we also know that depending on who and how it is governed the pockets of those who have the most will be touched somewhat little or not at all. And these are precisely the ones who are already putting on the bandage before they have the wound. Freedom! Freedom! Clan-Clan-Clan! It is heard in some of the most exclusive areas of cities. Many big-eyed citizens watch how they claim what they seem to believe they do not have. “Freedom” is a cry that was a cry in the anti-Franco struggle and it disconcerts us to hear it in their mouths. But at the end of the day it is not new. "Spain. “A Great and Free” read the sign on the chicken's shield during the dictatorship. If we prefer something closer: the “freedom of religion” that they demand at every timid step of every attempt to make education secular.