Speech of Marco Pannella
Tonight, at midnight, I’ll start my Satyagraha , with a hunger strike, to celebrate in this way, and to give body, face, hand, voice to the solemn “International non violent day” declared by the UN.
It’s no accident that this day is totally ignored from all the italian Institutions and political party Regime, ex – republican and ex-democratic, that oppress us. Spes contra spem. To be hope, if you don’t have it!
As declared, my Radical nonviolent initiative will have two objectives:

1. The Justice and the Italian jail, direct social , moral, institutional Shoa’s re-statement. Re-statement , formally too, of an horrible truth, literally dazzling, totally blind. It has been (and still there’s a risk of it) the historical leading of a bestial instinct, murderous and suicide, of the human specie. Today, in a new worldwide contest, science and conscience will say to us that we’re still living it as an incredible event, impossible: a successful nightmare, from which it would be impossible to awake the mankind, the international community.

2. The inquiry of knowledge about a horrible, “unbelievable” historical truth, hided and refused, firstly – today – in and from our “western”, “civilized”, “human rights based” free country.
It’s no accident that this day has been ignored from all the Institutions and the political parties ex-republican and ex-democratic, that oppress us.

It happened that , the 18th of March, Bush and Blair litterally sparked off the war just because free and peace wouldn’t exploded in Iraq; with the exile, by then accepted by Saddam.
Today we unfortunately have to strive for help - as Nonviolent Radical Party transnational and transparty –Obama, the flag, the honor, the American people to exit from the choice to protract the lie empire of Bush, lie that is historical, civil, moral and that today damages all the living people : it’s firstly an injury to those republicans who have voted for him and that more than others – therefore – have been victims of a profane betrayal that caused and still do it the massacre of millions people among Americans and the others.
For that, the Italian Commission’s goal to throw light on the truth about those facts, is firstly to help Government and Italian Parliament, the international Courts, all the people of goodwill to make one’s contribution so that the truth asserts itself and cleanses us.
I’m frightened that this Satyagraha, this hunger strike will be the harder and longer of all I’ve done, if I’m able to sustain it especially morally. For that I’ve wanted to choose this afflictions, that will worth for many who will feel it, so that they’ll can feed on it and choose again to be hope, even where it would seem no possible to have it.
Spes contra spem

Translation: Elisa Corrà