Esperanzah

6.200.000 of unemployment people around the country, more than 600.000 in Catalonia, and more than 6000 in El Prat de Llobregat. Millions of people without a job in the world, or in the precarious employment that does not guarantee neither worker’s health nor minimum income that would allow them to live with dignity. Is this the world that we want? In this crazy world, that we have built, where the inequalities are growing at the same rate as the income accounts of many banks and international companies, we have to retake the fight for the right to a worthy work as a redistributive element and social justice. The work can’t be a lottery or something to trade with. Its fair redistribution is an opportunity to face the financial, economic and ecologic crisis that is plaguing the planet. There is need to distribute the work for better living and so everybody can cover their basic needs, the work must be distributed so everybody can work. Esperanzah! is based in the social economic models in which the risk are shared to allow generating positive and numerous impacts in the social, environmental and economic areas. The 80% of the Esperanzah!’s festival budget is set aside for paying the musician’s wages, artists, technicians, and indirect workers, being in itself an element of redistribution, as the most that is paid is going to generate jobs. Short-term, but that is what is like in the show business. On the basis of these principles, just in case of generating benefits, these will be shared to improve the salaries of the people that work in the festival; to improve also the conditions of our providers; among social, environmental or cultural entities; and to create a contingency fund which is deposited in the ethical and solidarity finance. If a festival can do it, then maybe we can do it in other places.