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On 12 October this year will be the "Decolonization Day" by the hand of ARGIA

  • The fact that an independent media in Euskera celebrates the century is not a cough of the goat. The main celebration will be held on 12 October in the Old Part of Donostia, taking the street. What better day to make a popular party and deliver by putting the sovereignties into practice in the Basque Country? We're not going to stay looking at that goat that so many media outlets are going to turn into news on that day that we call "Columbus Day."
Urriaren 12an Donostian egingo dugun Nortasun Agiri Arrotzen Txapelketa V.a izango da. Irudian, Ondarroan egin zen ARGIA Egunean Oier lekeitiarra errekorra jartzen (40 metro). Argazkia: Dani Blanco.

The festival is aimed at all Euskaltzales of the Basque Country: ARGIA People celebrate that the media has reached 100 years thanks to the contribution of all and all, and that the Basques who are not yet partners can get to know ARGIA through the festival, a means that helps us decolonize the readers through their small and informative sovereignty.

The day shall be free and participatory. All events will be free of charge and the citizens will be in charge of putting the parties, not "the consumers", he added. An example of this is the full programme. Detail of the program on the poster:

The youngest will meet the biologist Iñaki Sanz de Urgull and the CARTOONIST Eñaut Aiertzaguena. The Xapoketan card game you've taken with ARGIA can be purchased in the same place.

At noon, the older adults will take a historical tour around "decolonization", guided by historian Urko Apaolaza and provoked by the bertsolaris Miren Artetxe and BEÑAT Gaztelumendi.

At 13:00 we will all meet in the Plaza de la Constitución to dance to the popular soka-dantza. Details Itsaso Zubiria explains the details in the Weekly Community section. And here's the video tutorial to learn the dance steps:

In the afternoon, among other things, we will be at the Alien Identification Documents Launch Championship. Then, with the sounds and the pandero of the Alkorta brothers, we will take a tour through the streets of the Casco Viejo. From 20:30 a.m. we will be able to enjoy in the Plaza de la Trinidad an open-air concert.

To the party

We will bring together the Basque community and celebrate our feast. As the festivities strengthen who we are, at ARGIA we have taken the opportunity to consciously decide the party we want to celebrate before going to the plaza, to help overcome the conquests we all live in in different areas of life.

It will be carried out taking into account the territoriality of Euskalduna and Euskal Herria and will promote the occupation of the plaza by different bodies (age, gender, skin, characteristics...). We will enjoy the content chosen with great pleasure and with all political intention: an example of this will be the music that will be heard throughout the day, and in addition to the acts that we have mentioned so far in the report, the recital Poor that Aimar Uribesalgo will offer on the table and that addresses with a great deal of humor the current problems in poetry.

There will also be activities for the youngest throughout the day: in the morning Urgull in Zomorro bila, in the afternoon in St. Lucia in the Plaza de San Telmo at 17:00 hours with the clowns Txirri, Mirri and Txiribiton.

The festival will not favor consumption: for all events to be free and free, ARGIA has sought the support of public institutions and companies, so it will not be based on consumerism to meet expenses. For example, thanks to the Komunonak house we will have at hand a manger of eight sources to drink water from the city. Water is a public good that must be preserved. The food we will do in the Plaza de la Trinidad will also be popular: ARGIA will put tables, chairs and a barrel of cider Saizar, and each of us will take the food from home or from the accommodations in the area.

An intense concert agenda, in the Plaza de la Trinidad and open to all audiences.

To maintain food sovereignty and to free ourselves from the hands of the multinationals that are the basis of current colonialism, we will serve indigenous drinks in the txosna (Pagoa and Otalbo beers, Besa wines, refreshing Korrikolari, Bio-K juice...).

And of course, all those citizens who want to drive independent journalism will have the opportunity to do their bit, become partners in ARGIA, as well as to buy books, t-shirts, bags and games that we have recently published.

We face Columbus Day from the day before, awakening the Basque zombies: Projection of the trilogy of films "Napardeath" (2 hours in total) in the Plaza de la Trinidad.
"It rains calmly."

If the body asks us for more infrastructure than we would like, we are reassured: if the tent rains we guarantee the shelter (if the time is good, we prefer the outdoors). And the Plaza de la Trinidad has beautiful public bathrooms.

On 12 October this year it will be totally different. We see ourselves on the street!


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