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Produced by the Pirates of Donostia

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I’m very proud to see so many happy people this night.

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Congratulations Pirates!

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For those who don’t know, this is Ska.

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If we had been asked in that August of 2003

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where do you think you'll be in 10 years time

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We wouldn't have known what to answer

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But nowadays the answer is clear

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It's right here in front of me

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Row over and over, we've taken Donostia!

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Congratulations to everyone!

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Be Pirates

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We're pirates because they've left us out of the official programme for the Aste Nagusia

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because they have condemned us to get the treasure by ourselves,

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we were kicked out of the Aste Nagusia

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But we have come back to stay!

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Be Pirates and take Donostia!

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Why Pirates?

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Because we needed a person who was a rebel

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because we needed a person related to the sea

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that is, with Donostia

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whose place would be the bay

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and where it would express itself

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And the pirates have those characteristics

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The image of the pirates has always been negative

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but it has a huge symbolic meaning for me

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it is a role created among the people against those stereotypes and obligations

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Or a way of changing things a little bit.

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I think that it' a reasonable fight

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A great initiative starts to escape the control

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of those charged with organising Aste Nagusia 2003

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it starts from a very simple question

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What's going on in this city

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that the Aste Nagusia or Big Week festival in August is the way they are?

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The Aste Nagusia we know today

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wasn't called 'Aste Nagusia' in Basque, it was only called 'Semana Grande' in Spanish

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and there weren't many activities

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the most important ones, as always, the fireworks at night

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For us the Aste Nagusia was something just to see

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we had a sandwich, went for a walk... there were some parades and concerts and that was all.

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that was our party.

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It was a totally commercial model

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really, that was the way the Aste Nagusia was created in the XIX century, in the 1880th

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Jose Arana, from the town called Eskoriatza, created this event

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he came to live to Donostia when he was very young

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from Donostia he went on a trip to Madrid

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there he won the lottery and he returned to Donosti a rich man

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that's why he started to organize the bullfights and concerts

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a logical continuation of this business model

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More or less at the same time, Donostia was becoming quite famous

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Mostly, because Maria Cristina ,the Queen of spain, selected the beach of Kontxa as her holiday destination

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After Maria Cristina, many aristrocrats from Madrid also came to Donostia and the surrounding area.

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this way, the Aste Nagusia was created in August

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I think that at the beginning it was organized in July

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but, the businessmen and Josu Arana realized that

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it would be better for business if the festival was organized in August

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And well, we have to say it loud and clear, to do that

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other festivities that were cellebrated in the center and the Old Town of Donostia were sent to the outskirts.

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so that that kind of mcommercial festival would have free space.

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They have reproduced that model year-after-year, decade-after-decade

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during Franco's times that logic of celebrating expanded more and more,

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Franco died, and every municipal government since

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have maintained the exact some model.

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That model has been what certain powers have used

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to portray a specific image they wanted to relate with the city

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and in the last few years it was very clear when more and more private businesses

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were taking part in the organization of the Aste Nagusia.

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And that is why we began conversations with the CAT (The Municipal Tourist Office)

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and the city hall

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And we created what is called the Popular Commission of the Festivities.

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'Jai Herrikoi Batzordea', in Basque.

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That way, with these conversations we wanted to convey our intentions.

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In Donostia nobody thought that the people could enjoy or actively participate in the fiestas (festival)

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everything was very measured and designed by the municipal authority

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and they would decide what kind of Festival would be done.

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The people were mere spectator of the party.

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The people were mere spectators of the party.

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people have tried to open new paths towards popular participation in the party.

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They have tried to organize txoznas (Basque popular bars, related to social movements)

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they have organized alternative programmes to rival the oficial programme imposed by the City Hall

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from the 'Transition' to now.. and not to mention Franco's times

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all these attempts were sistematicaly blocked by the municipal government

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and of course, it is controlled by the right of the city.

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Since then, they have tried to eliminate any trace of popular party

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We had a bad beginning in 1983, when Alkain was the mayor;

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we put a temporary bar, a "txozna" in the Boulevard, and he sent some local policemen to take it away

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In the following years, 1984, 1885 and 1986, we continued talking to the city council

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and we kept moving forward

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I have good memories from the 1986,when we came to an agreement with Labaien

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he gave us all the permits for the concertsthat we used to organise in the port;

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we got 4,000-5,000 people to be at the concerts,

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something inconceivable at that time, a great number

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And that is when our decline began,

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when the city council saw that we were taking shape

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and that we were, in some way, overshadowing the official programme,

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they saw the risk

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they said that our alternative proposal covered the official programme.

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And then, they started to ban it again

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But the worst moment and the hardest was the year 1988,

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when Albistur was the mayor;they set the objective not to let us the port

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they didn't let us be there;they told us that we couldn't set up anything there

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we thought that they would change their mind at the last moment, as they did other times,

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and when we came to set up our "txozna" and our place,

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just there, under that building,

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it was where we found the tremendous surprise

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about 40 local policemen showed up there, with their dogs, ball guns, helmets and shields,

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something we had never seen

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the local police equipped as riot police

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and when we started to set up everything

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they charged against us and a great fight began here, in Portaletas

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many people were injured, some women were hit by the balls

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other young people had their forehead and nose broken by the truncheon blows

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and it is said that some local policemen were also injured;

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it was a tremendous fight, after all;

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in fact, Donostia had never seen such a confrontation between the citizens and the police

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That led, of course, to the following repression,

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where 12 members of the commission were threatened

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to go to jail for 16 months, but, finally, the judge rejected it

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at least we resisted there that day; we managed to set up the "txozna"

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we managed to carry out our programme

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but, in the end, it happened what we thought

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At dawn, the 'Beltzak' came (the riot squad of the Ertzaina),I think it was their first intervention in Donostia

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they came in many vans, dressed totally as riot police,

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and we were not in a position to face them;it was neither our objective.

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they took away all the material we had, and they confiscated it

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The following days, we made some kinds of leaps,

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we used to set up the "txozna" at the Boulevard at six o'clock in the evening,

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and we used to last ther until 2-3 o'clock in the morning.

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when we dismantle the everithing, to avoid losing it

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and, in this way, we used to assemble and dismantle everything everyday.

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It was an exhaustion for us,

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but we managed to keep firm our flag.

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Besides, we saw that the city council not only was willing to ban it,

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but also to attack the citizens,

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and that it would be difficult to overcome that situation.

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That situation led us almost to the nothingness

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to those few things that the city council used to organise

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and although the citizens used to organise themselves for other fields, they gave in as far as the Aste Nagusia was concerned

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due to all those happenings.

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Some years passed, and I don't remember exactly when,

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but I think it was in 1990 or 1992, there was a sort of resurrection.

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New people came to join us, with new purposes.

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These people tried to keep and revive

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the spirit of the Aste Nagusia and Herriko Jai Batzordea,by means of the "koadrilak" (groups of friends).

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They got some results, and they were there for some years,

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until we got in some way to this moment.

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The party is important, so that the people can break the routine,

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the daily routine, the work, everything that anyone does in an ordinary day.

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During the week , we have only some standard relationships, normalized relationships

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The party breaks the monotony

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the party breaks the way to understand life in a ritual way

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the party is important, specially, as a counterweight to that standardisation

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the political and economic power have standardized our lifestyle

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the party is that necessary counterweight and that mental hygiene of the people,

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so that the people can scape from the everyday life and understand that life has something more

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That we can meet each other and talk calmly, without so many regulations.

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What we are watching now is as important as "basque pelota" for the basque people

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this is the Fandango, the famous Fandango

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in the 90s there were some other attempts

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It is truth that, by then, the relationship between the city council and the party comission was not really good

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and there are two elements; I will talk specially about two of them

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on the one hand the bar tenders, which is a sector of the Old Part who felt that dissatisfaction

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I guess it is because as bartenders it has an influence on them

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but also because they were part of the popular movements

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and they wanted the party in Donosti to be popular and with its own identity.

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That is why they started to do little things like preparing lunches, games between groups of friends...

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When the bartenders started organising activities, the young people were not at the organisation yet.

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We started to organise activities on the street Ikatz.

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We were told that each bar had to organise a game:

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the game of four people walking on two skis, to take an egg in the air and games like that...

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We organised the "Euskal Bizikleta" (Basque Bicycle) with children's bikes.

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I remember it was something that we created the bartenders in the bars,

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and then, little by little the teamwork of some gaztetxes (occupied social centers) and the Gazte Asanblada (the youth assembly) resulted in the creation of the Pirates.

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It was a group of young people, really imaginative, and with new ideas,

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who had this feeling of mediocrity of the Aste Nagusia and this impossibility of orgainising a real party

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and who wanted to change all that.

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That is when, these two elements united and this is the result: Piratak.

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There is not Aste Nagusia without the donostiarrak (the inhabitants of Donostia).

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It is impossible to hide the memory of a city and it's desire to party.

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The treasure of this party is obvious and the desire to recover that treasure has gained strenth again.

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Let's do the boarding all together!

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Let's do the Aste Nagusia together! Long live the Pirates!

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Therefore, we needed a main activity, and that was 'The Boarding', without any doubt.

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And we went out to sea.

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We took the sea as the field of work and battle, for two main reasons:

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On the one hand, because we saw that if we wanted to change the party in Donosti

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we would need an element which we, the Donostiarrak, had relationship with,

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and we saw, clearly, that if something makes Donostia different, that is the sea.

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So, it was clear for us that everything that we organised, would be completely related to the sea.

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And, on the other hand, we realised that there was a bureaucratic vacuum in the administration with regard to the sea.

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specially, between the competences of the city council, the basque government and other public administrations

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and yes, we used that vacuum to develop our project

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That is why we suggested the boarding

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The boarding had a clear logic:

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we needed an activity that would join the party and the demands,

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that would be built over three main bases:

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The first one was the disobedience; we, as citizens, shouldn't ask permission to take part in out party.

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Therefore, it was a strong decisicion to celebrate that activity without asking for permission.

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The second one was the humour.

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We saw that the imagination had to be linked to the humour, in order to spread our message

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and in order to break that severity that transmitted the Aste Nagusia at that moment

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And the third one, of course, the participation.

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It had to be an event where as many people as possible could participate

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It started with that humbleness.

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That first year, only around 10, 15 or 20 rafts gathered, I don't remember exactly how many

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I remember that I was there

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It had an attraction, it was a success.

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We got it right, we had guessed right what the people really wanted

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"Drop anchor, down the bow..."

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Pirates are nice people.

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At the beginning, I remember that the first year the local police was waiting for them to arrest them

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I remember that when we finished the first boarding at the beach of La Concha

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the local police came to us, asking for documentation.

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We told them that we didn't have any documentation,

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and, next, they told us that we couldn't leave the remains of the rafts there.

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And, in the end, we held a meeting just there, and we decided to leave the rafts, in front of the city hall as a protest.

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We had many problems to carry that out,

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because from the city council and from the CAT they raised a huge number of obstacles and problems.

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But, little by little, when the Gazte Asanblada (Youth assembly) took charge of that work,

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that is when, with a good organisation, we succeeded in bringing forward this activity,

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"Local bosses and tyrants rowing in the galleys"

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The Pirates' flag on the mast of the city hall..."

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At first, this movement started as something very informal; we were a group of friends.

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The second year, there was an ebolution, the third year a growth.

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We can say that when the fifth year came we gained recognition.

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The party was established completely.

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The party carried on, year after year, and what we organised had more and more success.

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And we realised that the donostiarras,

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and the citizens that take part in the program Pirates,

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need an image, an image to identify with.

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In 2007, we presented for the first time the character "Ezkila Kapitaina" (the captain Ezkila)

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In order to creat Ezkila Kapitaina, first of all, we looked back in history,

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we analised and read the history of Donostia,

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and we realised that some centuries ago

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Donostia was an important pirate port or, at least, an important corsair port.

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We started to become interested in characters, and we discovered among the characters, a pirate known as "Campanario"

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With a clumsy playword, we turned spanish word "Campanario" into the basque word "Ezkila"

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and that is how "Ezkila Kapitaina" became the main image and icon of the Pirates of Donostia

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And an image that year after year gets more famous.

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Congratulations!

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Congratulations one more time, as we said on saturday, for having boarded Donostia.

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Congratulations for all the work.

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This kind of iniciative requires an almos professional organisation.

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It starts in January; we make an evaluation of last year and we propose new ideas for the next year.

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We talk, we reach some agreements and we consider them.

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The security is also essential, and that’s why we work together with Cruz Roja and the firemens.

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“The flag of the villaje fiestas waves next to the seagulls”

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“The wooden leg dancing through the streets”

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“The flag of the villaje fiestas waves next to the seagulls”

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“The wooden leg dancing through the streets”

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And then when we arrive at the beach, there are people picking up everything until it gets dark.

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There are around 200 people in the organization, and without this collaborative work, “Abordaia” wouldn’t exist.

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We threw the stone,

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And we saw that from the first moment the citizens support the initiative we propose.

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And in that momento we thought:

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What can we do to recover the spaces that the city council and so on had taken away from the citizens?

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And some years later we created “Irrikitaldia”

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An event were we parody the attitudes or obstacles that the council or the mayor

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has put during the whole year.

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What do you think about this year’s programme?

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Odon! Odon! (Ex - mayor of Donostia Odon Elorza)

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Well Pirates, ten years ago Jon Tronbon called me to create a song in favour of The Pirates

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because The Pirates wanted to invigorate Donostia.

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I collaborated there, and who would have told us that the victory is ours!

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The victory is for the Pirates! Donostia is ours’!

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“Give it to me once”

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"give it to me twice..."

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"Give it to me three times..."

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"Give it to me four times..."

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Thank you Donostiako Piratak!

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The Basque Country is crazy, real crazy.

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During the last few years music has been another field for The Pirates to make themselves noticeable.

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In the beginning The Pirates made musical offerings at Trinitate Square

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the goal was to cover the expenses of the Aste Nagusia

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During the 3-4 years I worked with The Pirates my responsability had everything to do with the economy section

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Y would like to say that at least during those years the model of management that The Pirates had was one of self-management and empowerment

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We needed a susteinable model of management, both theoretically and in practice

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and that is the way we did it.

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We didn't ask for money and we didn´t get any from the public institutions or from anywhere else

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and we needed to be consistent with our way of thinking as well.

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We launched this model of management from the start and not one of the initiatives has brought any money

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we haven´t made a profit but we haven't lost any money either.

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We have been consistent and we have proved self-management is possible.

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In the beginning one-day concerts were organised

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Later at Trinitate Square organising two-days concerts became possible.

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Every time we have organised concerts we have made a bet

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making room for local bands in the schedule of concerts

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and at the same time we have always tried to bring the most popular Basque bands.

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I remember how the stage barely fitted at Trinitate Square

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but it was very well organised and a lot of people came.

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We had our doubts before coming to Donostia, we didn't know what kind of atmosphere there would be

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and it was surprising for us because the atmosphere was great

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Those years we used to obtain permission to use the Trinitate Square for a few days

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but different initiatives are carried out at the different squat houses in Donostia

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for example at Letaman, Kortxoenea and previously at Ametsenea

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In the end we decided that, taking our principles into account, the events organised by The Pirates.

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and the festivities had to be for free

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Having obtained "La Flamenka" area has been very important to introduce the totality

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of the events and the different kinds of music in the same space.

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We see that this area needs a pirate name

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a pirate name that finds its roots in the history of Donostia

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and out of a sudden there it is "La Flamenka" name.

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La Flamenka was a XVIIIth century tavern located on Pueyo Street, current Fermin Kalbeton.

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To give the opportunity to play before 2.000 or 3.000 people to the groups that are just starting, it’s incredible to me.

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Anyway, that help has to be given to the local groups, that impulse.

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Besides, as it has been seen this year in La Flamenka,

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It has been possible to combine different types of environments and to address to a lot of types of public.

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The years go by and the activities we organize have more and more successful.

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And it came a time when not even the Coucil could ignore us.

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They get in contact with us and we find ourselves in a position where we can do our proper requests.

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We started to send requests for an space for the fiestas to the City Council,

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And in the beginning, it was the plaza Trinidad, then it was formed the area known as La Flamenka in the port of Donostia.

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What does that space offer?

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Apart from spaciousness and centrality, it permits us, in an indirect way,

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To increase the age and gender margin to which it is directed our purpose.

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We fullfilled a whole week programe step by step.

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but it came a time when we decided that we had to reach to the whole population,

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And we proposed activities for children and adults.

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Some years ago we started with the Day of the Romeria, in the mountain Ugull.

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This offers a very beautiful familiar plan.

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Year by year, the program has been enlarging.

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After that, the Day of the Adults came, so that they could also take part.

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We agree with the thoughts of the Piratak.

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to make popular fiestas, and what does this mean?

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To be Basque and to have the biggest amount of participants.

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We share that feeling and take sides in that.

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We thought that calling it the Folks Day was more adequate than calling it the Adults Day.

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There is no reason to think that the dance is for the older ones, in fact, normally is for the youngest ones.

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Neither the singing, because young people also sing.

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And we thought that Day of the Adults was not adequate

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That it was a very archaic concept and we proposed to call it the Folk’s Day.

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Now that it’s called like this, what do we understand as the Folk’s Day?

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The Folk is the knowledge of the popular culture; I think it’s a German word

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but nowadays everyone knows each other,

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And that’s the knowledge of the customs and the way of being of each village.

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We have always sang in Santa Agueda’s eve and in the nativity in December,

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Also the Basque dances; we have always moved in that circle.

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But we stayed there, always in our circle and between ourselves.

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We saw that Donostia lacked something, and Piratak has fullfilled that gap.

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We also have our own space now. In our case dancing and singing.

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I think that we should fullfill this space with young people, because most of us are adults that day.

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Another days we participate together with the young ones and I think that it’s a very rewarding experience.

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Since then, the Big Week has been very different.

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And finally, the program for the children, so that they start being Piratak since they are young.

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Rich people don’t love us because we are free and rebels.

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We love our mischievous Basque Piratak,

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Because they are imaginative, happy and because they make initiatives independently.

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What are children taught since they are small?

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To learn to make do by themselves, to learn to do things by themselves. Imagination, values

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When they grow up, the children become teenagers.

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And when they are young, they are denied from all those values so many times. That’s why we love our Piratak.

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Because they are brave and inventive. That’s why we also feel Pirates.

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We love doing things by ourselves.

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Like this one, I don’t know how to describe it; it’s a movement of a lot of passion,

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People function with that same passion.

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For example, some months ago,there were floods in the neighborhood Martutene and considering this fact,

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We received hundreds of mails in our web saying that from Piratak we should organize brigade or something like that,

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To go to Martutene neighborhood to help.

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We immediately got in contact with the city council.

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The city council already had one protocol for these cases,

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And I think that the work done there had good consequences for those affected and personally for us

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Since then, there have been a lot of changes inside the movement,

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And one of the changes is that the Captain Ezkila from now on, will have an assistant; Matti.

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The figure of that assistant, will always be fulfilled by one movement, one person,

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Or someone that in our opinion provides something to the city, with the aim of acclaiming that support.

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Good night Piratak!

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On behalf of Matti and the inhabitants of Martutene, thank you very much Piratak.

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Thank you all for this tribute.

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To having created the character called Matti, and to feel that they have thought of us have moved us a lot.

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In november, after those floods, to feel that in those hard moments, we weren’t alone,

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You gave us strength and courage to overcome those terrible moments.

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Go on. Long live Donostiako Piratak!

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Long live the popular fiestas of Donostia!

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I was working in a bar and Barela phoned me.

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I’m going to tell you the truth, I got goose bumps. I didn’t expect it.

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You can’t expect someone to tell you “we are going to help you, without even knowing you”.

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As I didn’t know Barela nor anyone of Piratak, I didn’t know anyone.

506
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And suddenly, they pone you saying they want to help you.

507
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:40,000
Cleaning country houses, in anything, with 300 people you have ever met.

508
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,000
I tell you the truth, I have goose bumps.

509
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:44,000
Look, it still happens to me.

510
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:52,000
Things change within years, and as years go by, the ones that were young have become in adults,

511
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,000
We have been learning.

512
00:54:54,000 --> 00:55:01,000
A movement like this, has made us know about stages, to know about music groups,

513
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:07,000
About electricity, about security plans and about things like that.

514
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:13,000
I think that has provided a lot to us as persons.

515
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:21,000
We always think about what a person can provide to a movement like this,

516
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:25,000
But we don’t think about what receives that person in return.

517
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:29,000
I think that it’s a bidirectional enrichment

518
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:33,000
I gave a lot to the group in its moment,

519
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:39,000
But looking to the past, the memories I have is that the group gave a lot to me.

520
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:47,000
The second aspect to highlight is the participation concept,

521
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,000
altough sometimes we use different words,

522
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,000
we’re always talking about the participation,

523
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:56,000
But to put it into practice is not that easy.

524
00:55:56,000 --> 00:56:06,000
And I think that the Pirate movement has really been the complete materialization of this concept.

525
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:13,000
In addition, in a way that is adequate, sustainable and possible.

526
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:22,000
To be honest, Piratak for me means a lot of things.

527
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,000
I don’t know how to explain it.

528
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:28,000
I was 15 or 16 when I first took part in the games…

529
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:33,000
With te people of the neighbourhood. They phoned me and told “come to the games”, I went and we were there during the Big Week.

530
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:35,000
It was just participating in some of the initiatives of Piratak.

531
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:39,000
When I was 15 or 16, one day in the Old Town they told me:

532
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:43,000
“Onintza, there is a meeting of cuadrillas,come.”

533
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,000
And I went, without knowing very well what for.

534
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:50,000
We met in the society Kresala, and there started my experience as Pirate.

535
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:56,000
At first, from that meeting, preparing some games and so years have gone by.

536
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:59,000
We have been doing more things each time, and for me, the Piratak mean a lot of things at the same time.

537
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:02,000
Since it was my first experience in a movement like this.

538
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:07,000
I passed from being in my world with 15 years, to in a sudden discover a completely different world.

539
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:12,000
I have met a lot of people since I participate in Piratak,

540
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:18,000
And I have had a lot of experiences that in another way I couldn’t have lived.

541
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:26,000
And it has been a start for me to discover that if you insist in something, things turn out well.

542
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:29,000
In Piratak, we saw that our job produced results.

543
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:34,000
And I think that, in the long run, that has helped me in so many other projects.

544
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:50,000
We’ve always said that it’s an equalitarian, participative movement from the town.

545
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:56,000
Although we don’t say it very much, it’s noticeable that it’s a very humane movement.

546
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:03,000
It has made a space for itself in such a difficult city as Donostia

547
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:16,000
We have managed to support such an uncouth and different initiative in Donostia, some people call it the “unrivalled setting”

548
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:22,000
To be Pirate is to have little sleep and a lot of dreams.

549
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:32,000
Piratak has been one of the few breaths of fresh air that we have had in the last 10 years.

550
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:41,000
That in a subterranean way, they started to undermine the logic that the power was imposing in the fiesta donostiarra.

551
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:50,000
They have broken and shown that the popular need to have participative fiesta is something that stays in force,

552
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:55,000
and what’s more, due to the whole process of the privatization of the street, and to commercialization of the fiesta,

553
00:58:55,000 --> 00:59:03,000
It hasn’t lost supporters.

554
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:12,000
It has managed to break that logic and today the fiestas are a part of everyone.

555
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:24,000
I think that from the perspective of the euskera and the Basque culture,

556
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:31,000
The most significant change that Donostia has had in the last years, has been the organization of Piratak in basque.

557
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,000
I mean, that “Piratak” work in “euskera”.

558
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:41,000
“Piratak” has helped a lot in the normalization of the “euskara” in Donostia. That’s the biggest change.

559
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:53,000
It’s something positive, popular and encouraging,

560
00:59:53,000 --> 01:00:02,000
And that’s why, the participants of that time are very happy that the objectives are been managed.

561
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:08,000
And the spirit remains. That’s the most positive thing for us.

562
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,000
We’ve achieved that aim

563
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:15,000
The aim was to have an alternative and participative Big Week.

564
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:20,000
We were always saying that the Big Week was a shit.

565
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:29,000
And step by step and with people’s effort we’ve managed to have the Big Week we wanted.

566
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:46,000
It has been a great experience having seen grow from inside.

567
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:49,000
Thanks to the work done, the Big Week has changed.

568
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:54,000
Without that, everything would remain the same: see the fireworks and eat an ice-cream.

569
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:06,000
We can say that Piratak has grown from the void…, well, from the void or from everything,

570
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:16,000
because, in the end, the imagination of the youngest ones and the job of so many people, all that has been for “Piratak”.

571
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:19,000
And all the movement started from there.

572
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:08,000
In my opinion, to be Pirate or to want to be a Pirate is wanting to do something for Donotis’ fiestas.

573
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:14,000
and as I usually take photos in the concerts, I contacted them

574
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:19,000
And I’m very proud of having participated in something like this.

575
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:22,000
I don’t know, there’s nothing left to say.

576
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:26,000
In the beginning, 10 years ago, the ones that started in communication works,

577
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:29,000
started with tools Like posters, handwork,

578
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:33,000
and nowadays technology has developed

579
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:40,000
and we use social networks, applications, photo galleries, videos…

580
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:48,000
Anyway, our job is to broadcast the movements’ values to the biggest amount of people, in the most possible positive way.

581
01:02:56,000 --> 01:03:01,000
I think that, in a daily basis, for the Basque Country, for Donostia,

582
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:05,000
in the same way that we are fighting for different lifestyles and people

583
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:09,000
It has to be done also in the fiestas and that’s what we want.

584
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:16,000
Also Sara was a Pirate since she was young, I think that even before she was born.

585
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:20,000
And she participated in the Big Week (Aste nagusia) last year.

586
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:27,000
In the “Abordaia Txikia”, and in the tailbacks, of course. The Irrikitaldi and the Abordaia, are to me for the moment.

587
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:35,000
But it’s clear what to be a Pirate means, that’s why they are Pirates.

588
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:45,000
(improvised verse) “Be Pirate and put the sails against the wind”

589
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:55,000
“Be Pirate and cross different seas”

590
01:03:55,000 --> 01:04:04,000
“Be Pirate and face the tides”

591
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:13,000
“Be pirate, never stop, don’t weigh the anchor ”

592
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:23,000
“Be Pirate and board a whole city”

593
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:26,000
Production, realization and edition:

594
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:36,000
Cameras

595
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:53,000
Participants

596
01:06:56,000 --> 01:07:16,000
To be a Pirate!

597
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:19,000
We left the port in a foggy day

598
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:21,000
Flags of hundreds of colors fluttering in the masts

599
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:23,000
Even though there are storms and rocks

600
01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:26,000
We’ve been boarding Donostia since then

601
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:28,000
Let’s be mischievous; let’s be Pirates

602
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:31,000
Singing to the dawn with a patch in the eye

603
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:33,000
With the sails hoisted encouraging team work.

604
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:37,000
We carry the map of a new world in our hearts.

605
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:40,000
Let’s be Pirates!

606
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:47,000
We have hoisted the sails, we have joined our forces

607
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:52,000
Join us and let’s leave all ties behind.

608
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:57,000
We have hoisted the sails, we have joined our forces

609
01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:03,000
Join us and let’s leave all ties behind

610
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:12,000
Ten! We’ve joined our forces. Let’s get the map of a new world.

611
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:23,000
Ten! We’ve joined our forces. Let’s get the map of a new world.

612
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:44,000
Come and let’s explore new seas

613
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:46,000
Come and hung your flag in the mast

614
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:49,000
Come to this equalitarian Basque boat

615
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:51,000
After ten years, we’re more every day

616
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:54,000
Let’s be mischievous; let’s be Pirates

617
01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:56,000
Singing to the dawn with a patch in the eye

618
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:59,000
The sails hoisted encouraging team work.

619
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:03,000
We have the map of a new world in our hearts.

620
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:06,000
Let’s be Pirates!

621
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:14,000
Thank you very much Pirates!

622
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:20,000
Because thanks to you Donosti is no more Ñoñosti, its Donostia!

623
01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:23,000
Thank you very much!

624
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:28,000
Join us and let’s leave all ties behind

625
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:38,000
Ten! We’ve joined our forces. Let’s get the map of a new world.

626
01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:48,000
Ten! We’ve joined our forces. Let’s get the map of a new world.

627
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:18,000
We have hoisted the sails, we have joined our forces

628
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:23,000
Join us and let’s leave all ties behind.

629
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:28,000
We have hoisted the sails, we have joined our forces

630
01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:33,000
Join us and lets join our forces

631
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:42,000
The map of a new world

632
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:46,000
Lets join our forces

633
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:49,000
The map of a new world

634
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:54,000
To everyone we have forgotten, to everyone that have uploaded the images and sounds we have used.

635
01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:57,000
To everyone that in a way or another have helped us,

636
01:10:57,000 --> 01:11:00,000
to those who have had patience with this long job,

637
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:01,000
To the strenght of the fury

638
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:03,000
To the friends of the bar Ilargi

639
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:05,000
To Eli, Joseba, to those Pirates that are not with us

640
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:07,000
Thanks to you, everything is possible in Donostia

641
01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:14,000
Donostiako Piratak. 2013. Donostia. Euskal Herria.

642
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:32,000