Last November, as in other places in Euskal Herria, we also launched the BAM dynamic to unite and make powerful speakers from the urban area Baiona-Angelu - Biarritz. We didn't invent anything new. All we have done is to bring the experience that has been created in the Egia district of Donostia and that has been developed in Lasarte-Oria. But we certainly had our own teachings and achievements. Bilana, like dynamics, must be collective. That is what we are working on. What I am going to say here is only intermediate personal reflections.

I believe that the first teaching is consistent. Many of the people we have worked in the organization have experienced BAM as collective self-therapy. Despite the fact that we are Euskaltzales who are working intensively in the Basque world, we have discovered that fortunate people live mainly in French. The struggle has begun within ourselves.

Just as the personal is political, by taking the leap from the individual to the collective we have not only changed our language habits, but we have put in place the capacity to adapt our environment. In these times when fatality and despair tend to be overcome, it is not unimportant to move from the tip of your fingers to the transformative power that is in your hands.

Finally, I have made it clear to myself that the impossible is done again with effort: in a difficult territory, without money, without time, without roadmaps and denying the help of all the institutions we have achieved something. To do this, we have mobilized basic resources: participative, horizontal, egalitarian, plural, auzolana, value...

Of course, let us not be fooled, the BAM dynamic has not been the starting point of a fundamental linguistic revolution. There have been limits, sometimes frustrations, even defeats. The prefect! But from the moment they are identified, they allow us to design the next steps.

What BAM has not achieved, Euskaraldia will be able to bring (longer duration, more territorial coverage, more mobilization of resources). But throughout the whole of Ipar Euskal Herria, citizenship, the world of social culture and institutions will have to work together to do so, because on that scale one will not be able to achieve anything without the others. The first step can be to recognize this interdependence, reclaim the desire to advance together out of cultural difference and assume a function for each one.

In this phase of the restructuring of language policy, Euskaraldia can be a good opportunity to invent a new form of collaboration, as we have a lot to learn from each other. We must open the door to innovation and experimentation decisively, paths that have never been taken. We already have work. But the reasons for being quick and optimistic don't have them, we all have to win!