The current political and economic context is turning our society upside down. Our great republican principles are being undermined, and in the field of culture this is expressed not only by the questioning of its funding but also, and this is more serious, by the questioning of the values it conveys: freedom of creation and expression, equality of cultures and equality before culture, fraternity between artists and citizens of all origins.
Faced with a Minister of State who claims that "a multicultural society is a society where tensions flare up", faced with the extreme right appropriating "home-grown" music, and faced with those who only see music and culture through an economic prism, it is more necessary than ever to speak out and take action to resist. The first will be to assert that the diversity of cultural expression is an asset, a necessity even, in this poisonous climate; that more than ever, it is important to bring people to see and listen to world music, from here and elsewhere.
