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Producing, consuming and voting


02 July 2020 - 09:17

We produce and consume and will vote in summer with masks, gloves or scammers. Let's show them our anger, our impatience and our anger. Let's put life at the center of the polls.

They've summed up our lives to three actions. Our activity has been limited to the functions that we are able to perform: produce, consume, vote. They have had three great responsibilities. Since the state of emergency came into force, the concerns of our authorities have been focused on work. The message conveyed was clear: the work cannot be stopped, the factories must remain open, to this end they have used all the means at their disposal. After two months, employees who have been working at home have been forced to return to their offices. When summer approaches, the order has been given to open the schools with the microphone in hand in the public media. We hear muttering and reproach ourselves as lazy. He who was going and coming in the official car scolded us. They say our lives aren't worth, so they use them; now they're confined, then they're disassembled, and we don't complain, because we don't have the right.

“Although they have wanted to cover all the tons of garbage from Zaldibar, we will not forget the death toll in the residences of Bizkaia”

Under the guise of the virus, the violation of rights has been constant. The right to information has also been systematically violated. In fact, only messages from the authorities have been disseminated through the public media. They have used the public resources of all citizens as they wish. The Basques do not have the right to receive information in our language. It is disappointing to see the hearings of advisors and health officials; for them, they have shown us more than ever that Euskera is a second-class, without any embarrassment or complexity. For important and urgent questions, in Spanish. We have become accustomed to receiving messages only in Spanish. But we always complain. We are not machines, we are people, but when we enter the world of possession, we disappear as people and become mere numbers.

We are numbers for our rulers; numbers that can perform certain functions, numbers that they can consume. We've gone to work to collect the money. Now they are going to tell us that we are going to spend everything, that it is our right and that we have to strengthen the economy. We say and do.

Living is not producing or having things, it's much more. When it comes to saying that life has to be at the center, we're not talking about what we have, we're about what we are. Living is not having, it is being. These are times of looking inwards, of thinking and acting on what we are and want to be. Many initiatives have been launched, which have put life at the centre, in an auzolan and which are based on solidarity. Our current challenge will be not to waste all of this. We have to believe that in the 21st century, street mobilizations are going to change our society and our future. But we have a party if our rulers don't correctly distinguish street messages.

We produce and consume and will vote in summer with masks, gloves or scammers. Let's show them our anger, our impatience and our anger. Let's put life at the center of the polls. And you'll think that people are stupid, they appeared to us without a mask giving orders. We may be infected with the virus, but not with them. Our rulers are not worthy of our respect; we are not cutting buffets and they are not kings of the world. For them we are numbers, we also have the ability to keep them. Despite the fact that all the tons of garbage from Zaldibar have been covered, we will not forget the death toll in the residences of Bizkaia. As we learned as a little boy that two plus two are four, it's clear who are responsible for those numbers.

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