This past week has given us two very different and opposing photographs between them: on the one hand the photograph that came from the Spanish state, that of the violent aggression in response to the declaration of the EPPK and the commitment expressed in Durango by former prisoners with the solution process.

As is well known, the response of the state hasn't been other than:

• The arrest of eight members of the mediators of the EPPK.
• The raid of the offices of various lawyers of Basque political prisoners.
• The banning of the demonstration that the Tantaz Tanta initiative had called for in Bilbao in favour of human rights, solution and peace.

With this ban the Spanish state has tried to erase by force a demand that in a palpable way, the majority of Basque society has made their own, the requirement, the demand for the end of dispersion.

But they haven't taken into account that violence and imposition are useless when they confront determination and popular will.

The other photograph is that which came this Saturday on the streets of Bilbao, a gigantic popular mobilization. An unprecedented mobilization that responded to the call that, taking into account the majority social demand, brought about the Basque social and trade union majority.

Under the slogan "Human Rights, Solution, Peace" an authentic multitude flooded the streets of Bilbao in a demonstration that questions everyone and that gives everyone something to think about.

From SORTU we think that this has been an absolutely significant week on the path that this country has to take.

Once more it has become clear what is the only offer that the Spanish state has for the Basque Country. Their only offer is imposition and denial.

From the Spanish state we can only hope for IMPOSITION and DENIAL. YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER.

Therefore the only way to guarantee our rights as people and as a country is to set out on our own path. The photograph this Saturday in Bilbao, clearly shows us that we have the base and more than enough strength to set out on and walk on this path.

From SORTU we want to insist on the call that we make to the political and social forces, as well as to all of the citizens of this country, so that we set forth together on the path that brings us the full exercise of the rights that as a people and a country belong to us.

The 130,000 people who demonstrated this Saturday show us that by uniting forces this country is unstoppable. The challenge, from here on, is for that this mobilization not to be a one time event but the beginning of working together that this country needs.