Monday, March 4, 2013

“Indignez-Vous!”

        
“Ninety-three years old. The last leg of my journey. The end is in sight. I am lucky to be able to seize the time I have left to reflect on my lifelong commitment to politics: the Resistance and the program designed sixty-six years ago by the National Council of the Resistance.”

 

father of Stéphane Hessel




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“Indignez-Vous!”..

NEW YORK TIMES EUROPE STEPHANE HESSELL AUTHOR<Click ~Stéphane Hessel, a hero of the French Resistance who, more than 60 years later as a nonagenarian, marshaled the same defiant spirit in a manifesto that inspired social protesters in Europe and the United States and became an international publishing phenomenon, died on Tuesday in Paris. He was 95 .. It became a popular stocking-stuffer gift at Christmas from left-leaning parents to their children, and it was taken up as a rallying cry by protesters across Europe responding to the economic crisis. Young Spanish activists called themselves “indignados.” 





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