The Solidarity Committees of Galiza present
THE WASLALA
3 portraits by alberte pagán
Then they told the police
that the island had been taken
by "the Waslala". They don't call us Northerners,
but "the Waslala".
It doesn't matter which party wins the elections:
we must be ready to confront them.
We must be ready.
They may take the women away,
but the men must stay on this island,
we must resist and take care of what we've got.
Hey, how deep should we make the holes?
We organized ourselves
in a gerrilla-like way.
We went to a place...
...there was a well, but the water was unhealthy.
We went to a place called Malacatoya.
We stayed there for... around two months.
But we didn't like it, it was full of mosquitoes.
Then other groups arrived.
I entered the island with the third group.
...we had problems...
...these were underground activities...
...we had problems, illnesses, cholera...
...they thought that was the land we wanted to occupy...
but it wasn't. We didn't like it, it was full of mosquitoes...
This can't be so easily mended.
I don't know what to say.
I can't condemn the Party.
But sometimes there are what we call "hares"
inside the Party.
I don't know what to say.
I can't condemn the Party.
But sometimes there are what we call "hares"
inside the Party...
This can't be so easily mended.