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INPRIMATU
From Elosu to Zizurkil, Free Mountains of Gipuzkoa
  • One year after the first meeting in Zumarraga. Most of us did not know each other and yet we were able to imagine and feed together, each from their people, what would happen in Elosu. Communication, buses, posters, schedules, exhibition, what to say, pintxos, food, music...
Ainhoa Gil Ugartemendia Josebe Blanco Alvarez Gaizka Otamendi Izeta Xabier Odriozola Soraluze 2023ko urriaren 11

Elosu's didn't end in Elosu. The words, irritation and emotions surrounding the wind turbine that we formed in that large prairie have brought us here to say that the network that we then cushioned has not dissolved. Moreover, as the windmill made up of people expanded out of the grass, our network has also expanded.

Let us not think, however, that the network has spread spontaneously, as you have extended its stirrups. The ghosts and solidarity of the energy macro-projects have opened the Montes de Gipuzkoa in Libre, and as in Gipuzkoa, in the rest of the territories.

For a year we have learned a great deal and we have taken over every single strand of the network, because it is clear to us that without it we will be even more unprotected from this electric tsunami.

The fibre of helplessness offers our network at least four strands: we have no knowledge; despite time, we are distressed; what to say about money; and the laws and standards are of others. The raw material that the lack of protection offers our network is strong. We only have our support. Some had the threat before, they had to soak up before in that strange sea of laws and norms, and move on to tidal orders that set deadlines for claims and bureaucracies.

In order for the network to be possible, we also need yarns that open up along it and that are complicated to keep each other. We have learned from the threats that exist in each people. The failure of the neighbour has given us attention and his joy has given us strength to move forward. In addition to the legal steps we have been sharing month by month, we have found a space to talk about the concerns, the concern and the tiredness that this one we live causes. Because, as in other struggles, from the beginning we realized we got into one of those ultra trail: hard and long. And as in these cases, here too gives you the impossibility and you need someone to pull out while you're resting, or someone to pick up and drain your tears.

"We know that our struggle is just and necessary for young people and their descendants to have a future."

A strong net-edge rope that gives stability and strength, gives us the conviction that we are defending the land and the future of our children. We know that we are doing well, with all our shortcomings, that our struggle is just as necessary for young people and their descendants to have a future.

This society has no right to continue to nurture an economic system in which the lives of children and young people are impossible. It is becoming increasingly clear that the aim of these macro-projects is not to care for nature and life, but to care for the interests of multinationals, investment funds and other sharks.

They want us to believe that with the industrialization of the sea, mountains and fields we can live better, be happier. However, they do not tell us that without them you cannot eat, you cannot breathe, you are not happy, you cannot live. They don't tell us that we need those who live in all these ecosystems, who are our protection, that we're not going to live well if they all disappear. That is, interdependence is the rule of life.

This year that we have spent together, in the groups that form Free Mountains of Gipuzkoa, despite the impediments that persist, we feel that we have something to celebrate, although the road has not been very sweet, and that we have something to offer to our society. That is why we want to invite you to Zizurkil on 22 October. At the Bertsos session at noon, we want to open a window with a broad landscape, an opportunity to reflect on the energy here and there, with breadth and tranquility. The next lunch, etc., will create a new atmosphere, also nice, and we will gain strength to be here next year.