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In this small, normalized village

In this small and normalized town, a bill has not been accepted for being written entirely in Basque.

In this small and normalized village, many children in Navarre have to travel thousands of miles to learn their language.

In this small and standardized village, Basque public television has been banned from broadcasting in part of its sphere of speech.

In this small and normalized village, torture has been a common practice and the complainant is arrested.

In this small and standardised country we have the highest police ratio in the European Union, six agents per thousand inhabitants. Of these, 35% are not police in the area.

In this small, normalized village, journalists are fined for doing their work.

In this small, normalized village, we women are second-class citizens, we have no place in the public space, we are paid less for the same work, we suffer continuous contempt and we are beaten, assaulted and killed.

In this small and normalized village, this “normalization” can only make sense to follow the norm, the normalization implied by the mechanisms of political assimilation: on the one hand, to approve the norms of the state through acculturation and the loss of idiosyncrasies; and, on the other, to convince capitalism and the patriarchy that it is natural, natural, unalterable, norm

Every week we make 8.8 rounds around the world to see the family and friends who are imprisoned in this small and normalized village, as well as endangering life on the roads, it costs 109,221.70 euros.

In this small and standardised village we have seen how our flag has been placed in front of the flag of the Islamic State, in Eurovision, along with the ban on displaying it.

In this small, normalized village, people are held back by the views expressed on social media.

In this small and normalized village, educational reform is imposed on us, despite the opposition of the educational community, society and the majority of politics.

In this small, normalised people we often hear xenophobic speeches from politicians, every time it is understood that those who come to work for a dignified life come from public subsidies and to live in laziness.

In this small, normalised people judge citizens by their political ideas and, in support of their support, some politicians cannot be candidates because a court denies them that right.

In this small, normalized country, workers' rights are canceled by decree; workers leave us without the support of collective bargaining, unfair contracts are increased and multinationals make massive layoffs to increase profits.

In this small and normalized village, this “normalization” can only make sense to follow the norm, the normalization implied by the mechanisms of political assimilation: on the one hand, the acceptance of state norms by acculturation and loss of idiosyncrasies; and, on the other, the conviction that capitalism and patriarchy is natural, natural, unalterable, norm. However, understood in parameters of normality, it should not be too skillful to realize that the situation of Euskal Herria is far from political normalization. There is no political normalization because the individual and collective freedoms of individuals and peoples are trampled underfoot, which as people and as people systematically deny us our rights. There is no political normalization under an undemocratic state. However, we are told that the situation we are experiencing is political normalisation, and within that so-called normalisation the oppression we are experiencing is normalised.

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