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The initiative VITAMINS FOR THE GALICIAN aims to all the people who speak the Galician language
and all those who love it. Therefore, it wants to get to the immense majority of the Galician
population.
I want to contribute to make that Galicia’s own language gets a social status of normality.
It worries me the situation of our language, and seen the depletion of its use, I manifest
that nowadays its future it’s not assured.
In the 20th Century the Galician language was spoken with spontaneity and normality,
but in the last decades scientific studies, and even a simple observation, show the decrease
on its use.
I appeal to all Galician citizens, those who live here and the ones abroad, because the
presence of Galician, its extension, its normalization, depend on the will of the social politics
and on the positive attitudes and actions taken on its benefit.
I affirm that cultural enjoyment is a basic need, after the rights to food, housing, sanity
and education. But I assume philosopher Eduardo Lorenzo’s quote, saying that culture is
not a goal itself and that’s why we defend a dedicated culture for joy.
Culture does not exist in abstract, it’s linked to the territory, to the human community
that inhabited and inhabits the determined zone of the planet where it develops. Because
universality comes from the local, the next door, the close.
Galician is not an obstacle to communicate with a public conscious and wide. That’s
why we want to reinforce the media in Galician with the effective creation of a Galician
space of communication as a defense platform of the common identity. An space that promotes
new ways for the presence of the Galician language and culture in Europe and in the
world and, first of all, in Galicia.
Galician needs vitamins. The campaign requests urgently everybody’s cooperation. It wants
to make clear the need of support, means, aids and help for the Galician. It aims to
implicate several entities and sensitize people, the community, to revitalize the tongue and
guarantee its intergenerational transmission.
Galician needs many vitamins. The country needs desperately to count on media that use
our language, also in the urban contexts, where it shows more weakness.
Vitamins for the Galician aims to make visible the media in Galician, a good part of them
of local scope. We also search for ways of funding that guarantee its sustainability
and the decent work of its employees.
Galicia wants proximity information in Galician, mass media that in the 21st Century spread
and prestige the language, loudspeakers that show our vision of the world, knock on the
consciences and make visible the sensitivity and creativity existing in the Galician society.