Public places
The summer environment is severely prolonged, as a spill before climate warming. But what does that matter? ! It is nice to do domestic tourism in our country without tourists. Sun, beach, mountain, friendly excursions, October fairs… In this autumn that smells of summer, I want to bring to the neighboring lines some angry that lived last winter.
I love carnival. Shells, liberations, masks. Zirtzilak, joaldunak, musikariak, bolantak, xuriak, beltzak… Oh, Pitxu, oh! Not only because they are a living form of expression of our culture. I even want you for the subversion. The so-called Antton Lukuk catharsis. Take a place and take the floor to throw everything upside down, without conditions or diplomas. What a pleasure! However, in recent months there have been numerous attacks on Basque culture that have gone silently, both on the left and on the right (bon, to the truth, especially on the right).
There are still elected officials who want to reduce space to popular culture. Public space is ours. Let us occupy!
In a French district and a gas station in a coastal city of Lapurdi, an Euskalfobo banned the parade of Olentzero, Mari Domingi, donkeys and children, claiming bad weather. A few kilometers later, they sent the police to find out if the shells circulating in the houses were not the luckiest in the previous weeks. In this other village the San Pantzar lawsuit was authorized, but its burning was profoundly prohibited by the litigation, as no firefighter was present to avoid accidents (the villages were sent to check that the ban was applied). Going beyond the coast, so as not to politicize too much the lawsuit in that city of Lapurdi, the elected officials write the text and the city officials act as actors (only in French, of course! ). And I also remember how the processaries of this bourgeois city wanted to bill the plaza for the singers who met once a month. “We normally rent this space for seminars, events or stealing,” said the tourist office agent. But being there, we can’t and the city loses money.”
These examples would be laudable if they were not framed in the attack on all the Basque people. If scraped, we would surely find eleven other examples, but none in summer: it is important to highlight the postcard of the culture that lives in the public square, namely!
On the 19th of COVID-19 the exterior terraces spread, which are maintained. Meanwhile, there are still elected officials who want to reduce space to popular culture. Public space is ours. Let us occupy!
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