Linguistic freedom and radical policies
- The CAV’s PP has launched the “Linguistic Freedom” campaign against the Basque Use Decree. In addition to the numerous statements of recent times, two videos are the main supports of the ‘Castellanist’ party to attack the Basque Country. Of course, in Álava and in Vitoria-Gasteiz in particular, the tax risks suffered by the protagonist, Lorea.
In the first video, Lorea has not realized that the City Hall is going to cut water in its construction, as the notification note is in Basque; in the second, Lorea cannot present his company to the municipal competition for the same reason.
The step representing the oppressor. A measure in favour of the equality of minoridation presented as imposition. Scrupulous lie on its basis. Once again, and for freedom, of course. Before the Basque decree of use, the “linguistic freedom” to communicate in Spanish; before the Eskolae program, the freedom of parents to choose the education of sons and daughters; before the referendum of self-determination, the freedom of Spaniards to avoid it; before the complaints of sexual abuse, to express the desire for freedom of men...
I hear more and more voices proposing to create alliances with other people to deal with the oppression of the Basque Country or to deepen existing ones. For example, on International Human Rights Day in December, the Observatory on Linguistic Rights, together with other actors, carried out the campaign: “I want to live without racism, from feminism, from sexual diversity and in Euskera.” I am not particularly immersed in the field of Basque cultural activity, I do not know if this is a general trend, but I am interested in the way. In this sense, Vitoria-Gasteiz has to feed on his own experience. The Basque cultural activity has historically been one of the ‘bottom’ and is used to proposing or accepting alliances. The course is valid for the entire Basque Country, in any case.
Next week the weekly ARGIA will publish an interesting article. Australian anthropologist Gerald Roche proposes to develop radical policies to revitalize minority languages. Creating alliances with other oppressions and struggles, positioning themselves in favor of new worlds other than capitalism or developing “direct action” activities, among others. Betting on small or minority languages is, in itself, an attitude contrary to the current model of society. Delving deeper into these radical policies is compatible with other types of initiatives in favor of the Basque country.
In the meantime, the most radical policies against linguistic freedoms are those on the right.
