We who live in the countryside are the land, the border, the slopes, the peaks, the streams and the sea. And everything that can enter them, everyone that can enter, also makes us. That is, without them, we are not. That is why we are making words from Joseba Sarrionandia: “It hardly leaves his native land where it has roots.”

Fatigue needs a lot, enormous, to leave someone to their homeland, their place in the world. In rural areas exile is not new, our ancestors suffered, and since then the moth has not ceased. The future was there – it is – on the other hand, in 11% of the territory, where roads and railways start and end.

Believing that there was nothing here and that everything was in the urban area, this death and there life. A pandemic showed us that our value, that those who do us are not only elements for enjoyment, but are essential respiratory spaces. Our work was more basic than ever, because there was no access to food from the outside, pressure from an entire society made the ban on fairs last only two days. We fear that the wind has taken all of them.

There is no more than taking journals from authorities of different administrations to read that the proper location of energy macro-projects, and others, is rural, among other things, because we live few people and, therefore, the impact it will have on society is small, therefore acceptable. It is the field of slaughter. Sacrificial territories. Of the sacrificial people. We are talking about ourselves in official papers. And of you, you live in urban space.

Because the two areas are necessarily complementary – another thing is the power relationship that has been built. The ones we see when you open the window, whether you're conscious or not, are also part of you. Without knowing the existence of these valleys or mountain helmets. Moreover, maybe some of the dishes you have in the kitchen have been created here and pass through our hands, whether animals or vegetables.

Will we have bread if we cover the fields with solar panels? If you cover cereal planting or herbal curing for the winter, will it be for the animals here to eat? If not, why milk and meat? If you can't plant beet between the solar panels, isn't there sugar?

The changes inherent in windmill facilities and high-voltage lines – explosions, land movements, the disappearance of springs… – how will they affect mountain farming?

The motto "0km" complies with the announcements, everything is local – almost everything is ecological or – but reality shows us that, as in some canning boats, you have to read the small letter and that the kilometres often start counting in the port of Bilbao.

How, if not, to understand that administrations have such an interest in concluding trade agreements with countries on the other side of any ocean? From here export technology, machine tools and trains, in exchange for bringing local food at price.

Sovereignty is understood as an emergency concept to use bubbles swollen by markets after they erupt. They have emptied sovereignty and used it with convenience, until it becomes a nonsense. Examples are subsidies to synthetic meat production laboratories and institutional support. Of these, hydroponic greenhouses. Examples are the planned macro-projects.

It is difficult to understand the concept of sovereignty in its entirety when it comes from the hand of the Brazilian multinational Biotech Foods, which has a close relationship with Bolsonaro, to create meat in a laboratory in San Sebastián. It is even more difficult when all technology and knowledge is in the hands of private capital, and very serious if we consider that it has received public money from CAPV, state and European Union funds.

Similar to tomatoes. In this case, the multinational Hispalus –Araba s.l. Registered as Tuesta, when it receives public subsidies for the construction of 20 hectares of greenhouse, which in principle will be five. Tomatoes will now be sold in Eroski and then in France.

As far as industrial electrical installations are concerned, the other is all the money and institutional protection. Ad hoc laws and regulations aimed at the economic security of energy multinationals. All for the benefit of the Spanish Electricity Network and the electricity oligopoly quoted in the IBEX 35.

In the face of the situation, anyone would say that they want us to be expelled from here, that they do not want to testify to the attempt at energy colonialism being made in the territory, nor a country that defends the land.

We also get questions, which can be simple for some, but essential for all people, to know what our place in the world is.

Who stays if what the window shows us is black in the villages and mountains? Who will look at the horizon that will remain behind the barrotes of the summits? If we have to put into the hands of the multinationals the food, the natural and cultural heritage of this country, what are we for? What are these hands for? Why, the knowledge transmitted from generation to generation?

What is the point of the land that makes us and the horizon, the slopes and the peaks, the streams and the sea?

Although it is difficult to breathe hope from here, we have no more. Our place in the world is this, we have no more. It is what the poet said in his heart: “It is hard to leave his land of origin who has its roots.”

That is why we joined the day of the mobilization organized by EH Bizirik on 13 April in Azpeitia.