Sweet triumphs
In our crew, at earlier ages, we often said we were used to losing. We were immersed in a multitude of small and big conflicts, almost always with reason and imagination, but most of the time we lost. Imagine! We were on the anti-Guggenheim platform with the slogan Guk ein. And the gaztetxe we occupy today is a nursing home. As a friend said... “Even if we lose ourselves we do so well and learn so much... win we have to be more of a Laostia!”
There have always been those around them who think it is not worth fighting. “Also to lose? What a need!” But sharing illusions, satisfaction with small achievements, sharing failures, healing wounds… That enriches us, after all, that is what fills us with the backpack.
Anti-dispersion, for example, has reached half of his life. How many initiatives? I remember 800 people on a hunger strike in Arantzazu. Given the size of our people, it is amazing! For a week so many people, so significant in fasting -- we were nowhere. In televisions, in radios and in newspapers -- zero, except the usual ones.
We have continued to demand, at least as long as they are standing, that the Basque country be officially provided in the prisons. And suddenly get it!
But until we get big wins, we've also been trained to look for slits. To solve one of the consequences of the dispersion, about 60 professors taught Euskera classes, taking the prisoners individually, by letter, some phone call, maybe some visit… The results were huge, personal (both for inmates and outsiders) and academic. We managed to introduce the Basque country through the walls. Our demand was then directed towards the official status of these studies. It would bring great benefits for the students and was also entirely fair.
But when we were in it, one of the great victories came! Dispersion ends! We don't have a habit and we struggled to believe everyone. We ask that classes be taught in person and in groups. And yes, not official studies, but first hand, with the possibility of “knowing” and touching the students! “Paw, will you have to get used to winning?”
We have continued to demand, at least as long as they are standing, that the Basque country be officially provided in the prisons. And suddenly get it!
A bittersweet victory. Because when we meet the students and now we want them even more, the door has closed. Now we want Euskaltegis. Some end inside, others during the visit and others work together. We will continue on the altar, because now we know that winning is more laostia.
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