At midday we sat on the fronton of Usurbil to have a peaceful conversation with colleagues, friends, collaborators, subscribers and readers. To achieve this, we asked for help from Asisko Urmeneta, and before we were drawing through words and images. Ready to throw a fire arrow, which could be a woman in the form of a mythological character. Protection. Force. Life. Fire. Light.

And they started counting each of our four members, each of the elements of the image, one by one. The arrow to the fire, first said Lander Arbelaitz. In this way, they represented the media based on the Basque language, recalling the contributions to the Basque language media in the Basque Country: From the role of Argia in the creation of Euskaldunon Egunkaria, to the eleven documents and materials in Basque that are offered today on the web. But the fire arrow was also made into smaller pieces, and Nora Barroso looked at the tip. Independence of light, sovereignty. But how do you shoot an arrow without an arc? How does the Light open without subscribers? How to make a Light independent without financial support? No collaborators, no readers? And the bigger and stronger the arc, the stronger the fire shooter will be, “All of us who make light are shooters,” said Estitxu Eizagirre.

Urmeneta drew the woman with the horse body, solid base, and put the twenty-six workers of today in the skeleton. However, when talking about the structure of the company, the key word was horizontality. Equal pay and transparency. And that has to do with how we live work and how we reconcile life with work, because we want to work on value-based work. And those values are the elements that we want to burn when we launch the arrow, and all the Argiazale want those values to be the starting point.

Iraitz Agirre opened the way for debate in small groups and left the commitment to spread Argia in the hands of everyone, each from his own place.

We asked the reader three things: What is your relationship with Argia? What are the favorite sections and what do you miss? What can be done in the neighborhoods, towns, to bring the Light closer and spread? And it opened the discussion. Divided into groups of five or six, we had the opportunity to comment on the ideas and points of view of each worker, collaborator, reader, etc. The proposals and opinions expressed were taken up in detail, and then the dynamizers of each table explained to all attendees the themes, options and proposals that were discussed. We will take them very seriously. Thank you, therefore, as we said at the time, to all of you who participated.