tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37888290400435627982011-11-18T11:17:58.921+01:00News about the Catalan independence movement in EnglishJordi Vàzquezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03187705119272013386noreply@blogger.comBlogger1201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3788829040043562798.post-10241145836245831612011-11-18T11:17:00.002+01:002011-11-18T11:17:58.953+01:00

Spanish members of the European Parliament vilified a Catalan congressman last Wednesday, November, 16th for speaking in English. Ramon Tremosa, a member of the Catalan centrist party CiU was speaking in English concerning an amendment, when two PSOE congresspeople began to shout: “In Spanish, in Spanish, you speak better in Spanish.” PSOE will be the ruling party until the upcoming November 20th

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"Would you prefer to have a black, gay, or Catalan son?". That was the question asked of a participant on a TV show on Spanish TV on October 18th. In the original, the question was: "Si tuvieras un hijo, qué preferirías: que fuera homosexual, que fuera negro o que fuera catalán?" which translated means "If you had a son, which would you prefer: that he were gay, black, or that he were Catalan?"

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A former member of Spanish the nationalist party Partido Popular, Juan José García Mora, placed a Republican Spanish flag (forbidden since the restoration of democracy) at the entrance fence of the Masquefa’s local council, where he lives. He waited, hidden in his car, for a reaction. As two Catalan young men (one of them a former local councilor), took it away the terrorist hit them with his car

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Photo: ACN Three Spanish Fascists have been detained on October 12th to desecrate the 123rd Catalan President Lluís Companys memorial. Companys was executed by the Spanish Fascist regime on October, 15th 1939. He was shooted while crying “Per Catalunya” (For Catalonia). The unionists could not wait until October 15th and they acted on October 12th which is the Spanish Day. In fact it is usually

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In 2009, the village of Arenys de Munt erected a monument in remembrance of the beginning of the democratic process towards independence. It was in this village that a popular referendum was organized asking the people whether they would like to see an independent Catalonia. What is more democratic than a referendum? The results were clear: 96% in favor of independence. This local referendum

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From August 26 to September 5, New York holds the 2011 World Police & Fire Games (WPFG),—the second largest multi-sport event in the world, surpassed only by the Summer Olympics—with the participation of police and firefighters teams from all over the world. During one of the events, the Catalan team built a human castle—a Catalan tradition recently recognized as inmaterial world heritage—and

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The Football Spanish Royal Federation (RFEF) has forbidden all the flags which are not the Spanish one at the time of collecting an eventual trophy. From now the sportsmen of the combined state of football cannot carry any flag except the Spanish one. Last July 31st the sub19 Spanish team won the European Football Cup. The Spanish coach, Ginés Meléndez snatched the Asturian flag to one of his

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Francisco Franco was the Spanish nationalist dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975. Spain is still a haven for fascists. For instance, Franco continues being the honorific mayor of València. An honor that he shares, on the other hand, with another fascist from Spain, Rincón of Arellano. Both of them are well known by their hate against the Catalans. The Valencian consistory distinguished him

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First it was a joke. If last year about a million Catalan people demonstrated to defend self-government...why not to demonstrate this year for independence?. Social networks were the only way to convoke people because autonomist parties were against a new demonstration. So the people convoked the people, without parties. First by facebook, then by e-mail and twitter and finally some parties (

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The Catalan company Moritz has given a bottle of beer to each member of the European Parliament. The reason is to protest the recent EP's vote to maintain the rule that all labeling must be in at least one official EU language. Catalan is no official in the European Union besides it is spoken by more people than some official languages. In Catalonia, the rule means Catalan-only labels may not be

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The pharaonic railway of High-Speed Train between Albacete and Cuenca has costed an enormous effort and has lasted 6 months in operation. The railway has just nine daily travelers when the forecast, proper of stupid people, was of 2.190 people. In fact, both zones, as many others of Castilla, have no inhabitants to justify a railway of such characteristics. The travel of every person costs

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SPAIN'S SECRET CONFLICT from Jordi SF on Vimeo.

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On Monday 13 of June of current year 2011 in the afternoon it is foreseen to go to the city of London in order to deliver to the Westminster Parliament the set of accessions achieved during our three months campaign All to Westminster, the case of the catalans.It is foreseen a proposal including flight, transport and hotel and, additionally, several turistic and cultural activities will be

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Last May 22nd local councils were renewed in Catalonia. Catalan independence movement, in political terms, is highly divided. There were many lists from many parties: Esquerra, Reagrupament, CUP, Solidaritat, Identitat,... It supposed a set back for the independence voters. In spite of this there were elected 1.568 local councillors from independentist parties. Most of them (1.384) from ERC. CUP

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The Catalan edition of Wikipedia arrived on Wednesday to 300,000 items. The growth of the Catalan Wikipedia continues steadily. O March 2010 passed 250,000 articles, in September 2009 exceeded 200,000 articles, and in January 2010 reached the number one position worldwide in quality. Amid all this the British Museum was awarded two prizes for a couple of articles. It is just in the 13th

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Jordi Pujol was the president of the autonomous government of Catalonia 23 years. He represented (represents) the Catalonians who want an entente with Spain but maintaining their Catalonian identity. His coalition CiU has always defended self-government in spite of independence. But things have changed…You can read (in French) his new opinions in this "Le Figaro" interview. For instance:"Bridges

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Catalan nationalism obtained a significant increment of vote, seats and even number of parties in the parliamentary elections held yesterday. On the contrary, Spanish allegiance parties globally got the worst results ever since the reestablishment of the Catalan Parliament. Convergència i Unió (center-right moderate Catalan nationalists) will then form government despite it didn't reach an

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Catalonians will decide next Sunday their autonomous Parliament. Finally there will be four independentist options: Esquerra (ERC), Reagrupament (Rcat), Solidaritat (SI) and Des de Baix. Esquerra is a moderate left party who has governed last 7 years with the Spanish nationalist PSOE. The improvements for Catalonia have been almost zero so the historic party will have a strong fail. Reagrupament

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More than 1.500 supporters of the SI in the 1st Convention. In the first National Convention of the Catalan Solidarity for Independence, held on October 24th in the Congress Palace of Catalonia. The Election Manifesto of the coalition was passed with 894 votes in favor, 2 blank and none against it. Out of the passed amendments one is referred to the replacement of the word espoli for espoliació (

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Up to 5730 people have finally participated in the historic Lipdub for Independence. It was  was recorded on Sunday at Vic (Osona), so the bulk interpretation of 'Flame', the Valencian band Obrint Pas (Opening Step): The lipdub get a certificate of World Records Academy as the most followed lipdub. You can follow this at Nació Digital.

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On September 26, five political parties met in Donibane Lohizune (French Basque country) to discuss the proposed land reform the French government. The parties issued a joint statement where they observe that the government's response is global even meeting different scenarios. The proposals, they say, tend to go back on decentralization and local democracy using the excuse of simplifying and

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Thousands of Valencian people demonstrated on October 9th in defense of their roots, the culture and social cuts against the Spanish government. Called by various organizations and parties led by the capital Acció Cultural del País Valencià (ACPV), Valencian Country Cultural Action resorted to 15,000 people according to the organization. The march commemorated the entry of Aragon and the Catalan

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Harvard professor Obama can now apply his theories of democracy on Catalonia. The Catalan independence star, here on July 10, is taken from the Cuban flag, whose independence leader was the Catalan José Martí. Anthropology professor Susan M. DiGiacomo has written to former Constitutional Law professor Obama about the scandalous disrespect for democracy by Spanish nationalists and their corrupt

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Next October 1st, the Agència Catalana de Notícies (ACN) will present its English news service, the Catalan News Agency (CNA). ACN’s director Saül Gordillo says that the CNA aims to publish main news stories from Catalonia for an international audience. “The CNA wants to inform people from abroad about Catalonia, but from a Catalan point of view, so that foreign media do not only have the

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A former minister of the Catalan regional government has announced it will support the new coalition SCI. Carles Solà was born in Xàtiva, Valencian Country on 1945.He awarded a PhD degree in Chemistry, he has carried out research in Biochemical Engineering with 130 publications, having tutored 22 doctoral theses. Solà was Rector of a Catalan University (UAB). He also was president of the

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The party lead by Doctor Joan Carretero is doing a strong effort to be visible. Some days there are ten meetings in several localities to explain the independence benefits. Reagrupament Independentista (Independentist Rally) will be the name of the electoral platform. About twenty electoral offices have been open last weeks to support their list. On eleventh September Reagrupament was one of the

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Around 21 hours on Saturday 09.18.2010, during the presentation of the Catalan Solidarity Independence in Cervera (Segarra), unidentified individuals burned a Catalan Starry flag (cpopularlu called “estelada”), approximately ten feet. It hunged from the main facade of the Gran Teatre de La Passió de Cervera, the theather were the meeting took place. A number of firefighters personed immediately

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On September 12th was held the first gathering for Independence in Arenys de Munt. It celebrated the anniversary holding the first consultation on the independence of Catalonia. Since then there have been about 400 consultations with over 50,000 volunteers. Last three consultations were celebrated on September 11th with a 87-95 % of yes. The congregation met a crowd of three thousand in the

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September eleven is the Catalan national day. It evokes the last day of Catalan freedom before to be defeated by French and Spanish armies on 1714. The night before torchlights marched through forty villages. In Berga there were three hundred people, in Vilafranca the march was followed by 2.000 and three thousand lighted Manresa or Vic. Demonstrations for independence were convoked the days

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Every September tenth, at night, are held at various Catalan locations torchlight marches. It is a symbolic event the night before the national day: the eleventh of September. That day, in 1714, Barcelona surrendered to the Spanish invasion that turned the war of succession. Since then, Catalonia lost its rights and institutions. All in all, on 2003 at Vilafranca del Penedès was held the first

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Catalan Solidarity for Independence (SCI) has chosen its candidate.  It has been done with primary elections. The movement was founded with the intention of creating a grand coalition Catalan independence. The response of the existing parties has been negative and SCI decided to launch a new electoral list. The primary elections have been an historical step in Catalan democracy history, SCI

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Catalan sheepdogs (gossos d’atura) are the dogs which help sheperds in the work of bringing cattle. They are used all over the Pyrenees (Aragonese, Basque, Catalan and Occitan parts). Every year an international competition is organized in eight rounds. The fifth round was played yesterday in Castellar de N’Hug. The last one will be held in Felanitx (Mallorca’s island). Castellar de N’Hug is a

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Roger Jorro i Costa, from Barcelona, has been charged with 'riotous assembly' by the British police. The 28-year-old Catalan man has appeared in court in Belfast accused of attempting to murder a policewoman during the Twelth July rioting in Ardoyne, Belfast. The PSNI had issued a photograph of a man investigators wanted to question in connection with an incident in which a policewoman suffered

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On September 12 will be held at Arenys de Munt a big meeting (Aplec in Catalan) “for independence”. It will be a festive event coinciding with the first anniversary of the first consultation on independence from Spain organized by civil society. It was on 13thj September 2009. The organizers invite all promoters of consultations on the independence of the Principality to participate, and all the

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From August 16th to August 24th Prada de Conflent will host the Catalan Summer University. Prada is a village under French administration but a Catalan one. It is placed in Northern Catalonia. Catalan Summer University (UCE) arises from the festivities organized in 1968 in Prada along the Catalan Youth Cultural Group and the Group of Catalan Studies Roussillon, after May 1968. From this

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The ghjurnate di Corti are a gathering of national movements throughout the world. This weekend was celebrated the 29th edition. It is a meeting point by national liberation movements. This year there were delegations of Ireland (Sinn Féin), Catalan Countries (Catalan Solidarity for Independence, State Catalan, Catalan Committee of Internationalist Solidarity), Euskal Herria (Construction of

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The next letter has been sent by 28 intellectuals from 6 states to 'The Economist' for its tendentious treatment about the question: Sir, We strongly disagree with your treatment of the Catalan Parliament's decision to prohibit bullfighting in Catalonia ("The land of the ban", July 29th 2010). We find the title itself tendentious, and several other phrases appearing in the article (for example,

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"Now yes", abolition is a fact On July 28th, 2010 the Catalan Parliament outlawed Spanish tradition of bullfighting until death. The result of 68 in favour, 55 against the prohibition, 9 abstentions. A popular petition collected 180.000 signatures to outlaw bullfighting on the grounds that it was cruelty to animals. Many people hates this Spanish tradition for its cruelty against the animals.

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Three key personalities from several parties have launched a call to form a Catalan Solidarity for Independence with two aims: 1) To submit a single candidacy in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Catalonia with the common goal of proclaiming the independence and subjecting it to a referendum at the next term (2010-2014). 2) To establish the Government of Catalonia to organize all the

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For the first time a camping for the language will be held on the island of Menorca, the Balearic island where Catalan is more deeply rooted. For over a decade Youth of Mallorca for the Language have made this fun and vindicative activity. This year the is that the camp has moved to the island of Menorca. The musical programm is headed by Valencian band Obrint Pas. The activity takes place on 3

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International press has covered with great interest the biggest demonstration ever held in Catalonia. Under the slogan “We’re a nation. We decide” the march was full of separatists flags. More of them are now in the windows of many homes. Certainly the demo was to defend a greater autonomy but the Spanish opposition to accept it transformed the rally in a giant independentist show. Here are

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One milion and half people, an extraordinary crowd crossed Barcelona’s streets on July 10th. Their slogan was clear: “Som una nació, nosaltres decidim”. (“We are a nation. We decide”). Never such a biggest demonstration was held in Catalonia. Autonomist and independentists marched together but Catalan flags with a star (used to claim a Catalan state) were clearly more than Catalan flags. Never so

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Aire Nou de Baó has held nine editions of "Identi'CAT". It is a festival in the village of Baó, Northern Catalonia, under French administration. Singes in Catalan language, as well as popular traditions as human castles, fire feasts and several concerts were in the programm. The festival  lasted for four days. This year edition was dedicated to the gipsy culture wich is particularly strong ion

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As a clear answer to the cutting of the self-government statute by an Spanish tribunal, Òmnium Cultural has convoked a demonstration in Barcelona next July 10th. It will be a show of strength of the Catalan people. All the Catalan parties have supported it from the monarchists of the Carlist Party to Marxists of EUiA. A 90 % of the Catalan parliament also supports it. Only extreme unionists are

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The Aplec de la Plana is an organization totally independent, not tied to any political party or implied, to any other association, nonprofit, volunteer base that works with a strong youth and amateur nature. Even so, within a unitary act, they have gathered around this project, most organizations prefer our territory here in the Plana Baixa (Low Plain) an extremely important region of the

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On July 3 it will be held in Barcelona "Republicat." It is a festival organized by the Barcelona section of Repulican Left of Catalonia before ERC nowadays “Esquerra”. There are alot of activities: puppets, zip, inflatables, painting workshop for children, tuners, heck, dance, cricket, a chat called "Self-determination is democracy" and a meeting where Joan Puigcercós will be the speaker. The

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A Spanish court has considered that the new Statute of Autonomy is not legal. It has been done by a narrow margin of votes and after several maneuvers removing the vote of some of its members with different arguments. Only six people have decided that the law adopted by the Spanish parliament, the Catalan parliament, the Spanish senate and the entire Catalan people,is just not legal. All of them

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On Tuesday 22th June 2010 Cultural Action presented a total of 85 boxes containing 651,650 signatures in the Electoral Board. Thus it exceeds 30% of the minimum half a milion signatures required by entering the pending bill to boost popular initiative “Television without Frontiers”. Territorial distribution of  signatures delivered has been: Catalan Countries: Valencian Country ..............

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Cycling 300 km for the Catalan language. Miquel Català has begun to turn the bike on Sunday 20th. He will cross about 300 kilometers separating Paris and Brussels. He has with him 32,000 signatures in favor of the Catalan language to be official in the EU. He will deliver them to the Catalan MEPs at the Flemish capital. Català started the race at in the morning from the headquarters of the

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The fifth wave of consultations about Catalonia’s independence obtained a 15.7% stake (14.2% of the census broadened). This is the lowest of those made so far. Before this wave, the average participation was 23.5%. This decline of almost eight points was motivated by the failure who have had the consultations in the area of Baix Llobregat. In this country the average participation was 9.1%, It

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Half a million Catalan people could vote in the fourth wave of consultations for independence to be held tomorrow. On June 20th 46 municipalities may express if they want or not to be in a new independent state. With this fith wave will already have 508 municipalities that have expressed their desire democratically about dependency or independence. In the 48 municipalities wich will vote on

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Tens of thousands of demonstrators demonstrated on Saturday 12th in the city of Barcelona to demand the right of self determination. They were 50,000 according to the organization, but the police said they were no more than five thousandUnder the slogan 'Self-determination is democracy", the demonstration has been called by the Platform for the Right to Decide (PDD, Plataforma pel Dret a Decidir)

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The council of the Northen Catalonia capital, Perpinyà, unanimously approved a charter which recognizes the Catalan as co-official language of the city, along with the French. The charter is covered in several international texts in the French constitution and wants to ensure the survival and transmission of Catalan in the Catalan northern territory which is under French administration. This is

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In August 1960 a group of intellectuals and politicians from Catalonia, València and the Balearic Islands made a journey boat to the city of Alghero, where they were received by their brothers in the Sardinian town. L’Alguer, as it is named in Catalan language, is the only Catalan-speaking language in the Italian state. That trip, known as ”Lo viatge del Retrobament” (the travel of Reunion), was

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Catalan TV, TV3, will broadcast today a documentary titled “Goodbye, Spain?”. It is a 90-minute documentary that compares the Catalan national situation with other similar cases. The other nations without state are like Scotland, Greenland and Quebec. It will be released by TV3 quarter to ten in the evening, the prime strip. Given the recent polls Catalan independentism is not just a minority

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The consultation on the independence of Catalonia in Sabadell was organized on May 30. The Platform for Self-determination has registered a participation of 14.5%, with a total of 24,370 votes over a total of 173,426 who were eligible to vote. Sabadell also exceeds the 8.2% stake that was collected on April 25, Lleida, which until now was the largest town (114,000 inhabitants) which had organized

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The concert was played last Saturday in Mataró. It brought together more than 1,500 people and it was part of a campaign by CUP (Candidatura d’Unitat Popular). The campaign is called ‘Sí’ (‘Yes' in Catalan) to ask Mataró’s people to vote yes for independence in the referendum. Mataró decides, the association wich is behind the referendum has said that it has collected over 8,000 votes in advance.

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The Catalan language wikipedia advances the version in Finnish language and amounts the 14th place worldwide with over 235,000 items. The Catalan one is the first non-state language in the Wikipedias classification. The Catalan edition of Wikipedia has surpassed the number of articles in Finnish edition, which has allowed to position itself in the 14th position in world ranking for this category

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Hundreds of people (4.000 was the figure given by the organization) gathered on May 8th in Geneva (Switzerland) at the United Nations headquarters to claim an independent Catalan state. Promoters of the demonstration consider the "peaceful conflict" in Catalonia and Spain is aware that Spain, in his opinion, violates and endorses the international commitments that recognize the right of peoples

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A manifesto will be presented on Monday May, 17th calling for the independence drive to “work together (...) with the aim to establish a Catalan state”. It is signed by several gold medals from the government, like doctor Moisès Broggi, actress Montserrat Carulla, Cross of St. George as Heribert Barrera (former Parliament president) or former FC Barcelona president Agustí Montal, musician Antoni

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On Monday, May 3rd, its was presented at a press conference the agenda of the XXVI Meeting of Majorca’s Schools in Catalan language. It was celebrated in Petra on Saturday, May 8th, coinciding with the end of Correllengua. It is organized by the youth association Joves de Mallorca per la Llengua as well as the Obra Cultural Balear (OCB). The conference was attended by Rosa Barceló, Director of

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Regal FC Barcelona is the 2010 Euroleague champion.  The Catalan team downed Olympiakos 86-68 in the final at the Paris-Bercy. This is the second Euroleague crown, being the first one the 2003 edition which was played in Barcelona. Juan Carlos Navarro, the only remaining player from Barcelona’s 2003 winning squad, was named Final Four Most Value Player. Joan Carles Navarro got with 21 points.

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From 1 to May 8 it is developed the fourth week for the Catalan language in the North. The event is organizad by the Angelets de la Terra (Little angels of the earth). It is named by a Catalan guerrilla of the seventh century which resisted French occupation. Events Hill take place in four villages of Roussillon: Elna, Perpinyà, Rivesaltes and Salses. These acts expose the creation Catalan music,

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In a statement, the Acció Cultural del País Valencià said: "The demonstration on April 24 that toured the streets of Valencia was the most massive mobilization of last year in Valencia. 50,000 people lined the streets in a festive and fun event involving all trade unions, progressive parties and the main cultural and social associations and organizations. The success of the event confirms the

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In Països Catalans.tv you can see and hear 20 television channels and in països-catalans.fm you can hear 52 radio stations across the Catalan nation. What the policy has divided the network will join it again. With this motivation were born both webs, encompassing all television and radio stations that broadcast in Catalonia. For instance, you might hear from a single web programming Arrels Ràdio

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More than half a million Catalans have already voted in any of the fourth waves of questions about the independence of Catalonia that were held in 13.09.2009 (only Arenys de Munt included), 13.12.2009, 28.02.2010 or the last one on 25.04.2010. Over 90% has voted for the "Yes" to independence. This represents approximately 22% of citizens who were entitled to vote, about 2.3 million, which are

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The fourth wave of referendums on independence in catalonia will take place on the 25th April 2010. More than 200 towns are currently organizing their referendum, and 1.5 million of citizens will be eligible voters. Large cities such as Girona, Lleida, Reus and Manresa are included. The capital of the country, Barcelona, has just created its local committee to organize the referendum, which will

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A civic demonstration will take place in València city on April 24th under the slogan “Enough is enough”. This date remembers the defeat on 1707 which supposed the end of the local freedoms (own language, own laws…). A civic movement formed by cultural and social organizations is under the demonstration. It is formed, for instance, by Acció Cultural del País Valencià (Valencian Country Cultural

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Catalan national movement faces a weekend of fierce resistance and mobilizations in front of the forced Spanishisation. The first date is April 23, St. George or Sant Jordi. This festivity is held in Catalonia, both under the Spanish government as to who is in France as a holiday special. St. George is the patron shared between England and Catalonia. The two nations that allied faced, France and

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On April 17th, the sanctuary of Lluc (Mallorca) hosted the launch of Correllengua 2010. It will travel for three weeks around the streets of the island. Obra Cultural Balear (OCB) and Joves de Mallorca per la Llengua are at the forefront of this running march for the Catalan language. The flame of the language came back to be present on the island after three years of absence and accompanied by a

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Once again the prestigious British newspaper "The Guardian" looks to Catalan independentism. This time the paper analizes the position of well-known Barça's president, Joan Laporta as well as Reagrupament Independentista. The later is a new association founded with the aim to promote an alliance of separatist people to obtain a Catalan state. Reagrupament has not ideological walls inside, it

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Finally on March 28 Northern Catalonia received the first digital TV signal in Catalan language. Four channels will be received by the Catalan region nowadays included in the French state. It has been achieved after a long campaign from Northern Catalonia to do not lose the Southern Catalonia channels. It has been a great success because it has not lost the two channels but it wins two more.

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CONSEU (Conference of Stateless Nations of Europe) and Udalbiltza, assembly of Basque municipalities, have organized this weekend the International Conference called "Self-determination and diversity in the twenty-first century. Peoples' rights within the framework of human rights". Among the speakers there were three Catalan people: - Aureli Argemí a veteran activist for the rights of stateless

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There will be no Catalanist regional councillor at last. While the lists supported by ERC and CDC were defeated at the first round, the second one was won by the Frêche list. Frêche is a racist person who has been expelled from the Socialist Party by his racial comments against Jews, Catalans and Muslims. In spite of these Frêche is well appreciated by the French voters who are the majority in

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On Sunday 21st Reagrupament (Rally) convened its second national assembly in Barcelona. More than a thousand people were present. They confirmed the current borrad, lead by Joan Carretero, with 90% of the vote and was approved a roadmap called “Organizing our future free". This document was griten by 653 Rally members months befote the assembly. Reagrupament presented a Constitution for Catalonia

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The European Commission approved on Wednesday 24.03.2010 a plan to subsidize with € 12 million dubbing and subtitling of films in Catalan. The plan is in line with European Union rules allowing government aid for the promotion of multilingualism and cultural diversity. According to figures from the Spanish authorities, is doubling every year about 800 films in less than 25 Spanish and Catalan.

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The prestigious French newspaper includes an article about Joan Laporta. The paper describes the Barça’s president in friendly words and explains his patriotic feelings far from the Spanish press attacks. “Le Monde” doesn't know if Laporta is the “Catalan Kennedy” or the “Catalan Berlusconi” yet but it is sure that he will be involved in politics this year to defend the right of Catalonia to

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On Sunday Independentist Rally (Reagrupament Independentista) will held its second assembly under the slogan "The second impulse." The association was founded the past year with the intention to form a candidature for Catalan independence, without distinction between political colours (left/right). Its sole purpose is to proclaim the independence of Catalonia. Since then; more than 3,000 people

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As it was explained recently the French regional elections took place last March 14th. The most important thing is that the turnout was extremely low. The abstention was almost 53 %. Two of the lists with Catalanist candidates are now over because it is necessary to obtain a 10 % to be in the second round. The results were not good for the Catalanists lists and only Unitat Catalana allied with

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A recent article in “The New York Times” explains the reasons why Catalan language should be in the Catalan cinemas too. Nowadays only 3 % of the movies are doubled in Catalan; the rest are only in Spanish. The article says that Catalan language “is heard just about everywhere except in the movies” and defines the language as the “Catalonian soul”. Spain’s obsession to wound the language is

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On March 14th will be held the French regional elections. A portion of Catalonia is under French administration since 1.659 when it was conquered by French armies. Nowadays this region, called Northern Catalonia, is part of a French region called Langedoc-Roussillon. This is mainly Occitan speaking and only one fifth of the region is Catalan. Under this scenario Catalan parties are unable to

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On March 3rd the Catalan separatism won a landmark. In Sabadell was performed a meeting clearly derived from the unitary experience of the popular consultation on independence. Vilaweb collected it fully in a video and made a summary too. It was also screened a short film of what could be an independent Catalonia. Curtmetratge Acte d'Estat (Sabadell, 03/03/2010) from directe!cat on Vimeo.

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The rupturist separatism, that it does not recognize any legitimacy in Spain, has always been difficult to be strong in regions of the West of the Catalonia’s Principality. If we except some local villages and a continued presence in the city of Lleida its continuity has been fragile. In the past there were, especially in the capital, interesting experiences as Ateneu Independentista de Ponent or

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Seventy seven villages celebrated on 28th February the third wave of referendums about Catalonia’s independence. The census was biggest than the Spanish one because it included people from 16 to 18 years who could not vote in official elections. It also included migrant people without Spanish nationality but who live and work in Catalonia. The turnout was 21 % of the people who could vote. It

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The campaign for the February 28  independence consultations ended with an emotional ceremony at the Castle of Cardona. A particularly symbolic act, moreover, because it was the last Catalan town to be reduced by the Spanish and French troops on September 18, 1714. The ceremony was attended  the promoters of referendums. A torches march from the castle to the Cardona's village, a famous village

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The Foreign Minister of Scotland between 2007 and 2009, Linda Fabiani, defended the legitimate right of Scots and Catalans to decide freely on their independence. This Fabiani told the conference she gave in Torroella in the framework of a conference on the future of stateless nations and the case of Scotland. The former minister admitted that she was "horrified by the hatred and resentment" that

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Finally, a taste of the Pompeu Fabra’s great work has been published in English too. “The architect of Modern Catalan” is a book of Fabra’s selected writings by Joan Costa Carreras (Pompeu Fabra’s University). Pompeu Fabra (1868-1948), as has been said in “Free Catalonia” is renowned as the person who reformed and codified the Catalan language, giving it the condition of a normativised language

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Firstly was the village of Arenys de Munt on September 13th. Secondly 167 other Catalan villages with county capitals as Berga and Vic on December 13th. All of them have voted about Catalan seccession from Spain. The results? About 95 % of people voted for independence. The turnout was about 30 % but reached more than the 50 % in many places. On February 28th a third wave of villages will

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Interest in Catalonia's independence is growing. As a major proofe Euwonews channel broadcasts the next report : "Catalonia is a major economic engine within Spain. However, many Catalans are tired of the taxes they hand over to Madrid. It is a region with a proud histroy and language and calls for independence are growing louder. Is Catalonia serious about a split from Spain?" An interesting

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The Danish newspaper Politiken recently published an article about the Catalonia’s language policy. The paper exposed it as a radical nationalist action against Spanish language. Emma Collective, in another excellent answer now in Danish language, explains why to defend a minor language is not to attack a major one. Nowadays cinema (the cinema law is the origin of the article) is 97 % in Spanish

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Toni Strubell i Trueta is a well known researcher as well as a leading member of the Dignity Commission which fights for the return of documents stolen from the Catalan people by the Spanish fascists at the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Strubell, member of the association Reagrupament too, has wrote a letter to the international newspapers to explain the continuity between present Spain

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On 1968 it was commemorated the first century of the Pompeu Fabra’s born. Fabra was the man who codified the Catalan language. He is buried in Prada de Conflent, Northern Catalonia in the French state. As an homage as well as an allegiance a flame was started in his grave. Since then, every year, this flame is renovated in the Catalan sacred mountain, Montserrat. Montserrat is for the Catalans

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Expolangues is the World most important saloon about languages. Every year it receives a language as an honour guest. This year the language chosen is Catalan. This is the first time that a non-state language is the guest one. The small state of Andorra is the only one where Catalan is the first language. In the Spanish state it is partially official while in the French and Italian it is not.

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Catalan language is spoken outside the limits of the Catalonia autonomous community. One of the regions where the language is spoken is Aragon. Once a confederated kingdom with the Catalan one, today Aragon is highly hispanicized. In spite of this Aragon preserves its own language, Aragonese, only spoken by about five thousand people. Today is enforced the Aragon languages' law approved last

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The Deutsch language newspaper “Tanges Anzeiger” from Switzerland surprised us with a note questioning the new Catalan cinema law proposal. The law, proposed by the government, and still to be approved establishes half of the films in Catalan language. Nowadays the proportion is far from equality:  97 % in Spanish and 3 % in Catalan. Some members of the Emma Collective answered the article with

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The autonomous government of the Valencian Country is ruled by the Spanish Popular Party. Three years ago this government decided to act severely against the TV’s reception of the neighbour autonomy: Catalonia. It tried to cut the reception. In spite of these, Catalan autonomy receives well the Valencian TV which is partially in Valencian. Catalan autonomous channels are fully in Catalan

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The Succession war was used by Castille to transform the Spanish kingdoms in a centralist structure. It reversed the federal basis where every country had their own institutions. Catalan countries, allied with Britain, fought fiercely against the Franco-Spanish alliance to preserve their own constitutions and parliaments. One of the sadest chapters of this war was in Vila-real (Valencian

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“La nostra terra” (Our land) was a cultural magazine published in Mallorca from January 1928 to May 1936. The domains of art, literature and science were reviewed in almost a hundred issues. Cultural personalities as Picasso collaborated as well as there were translations of works from Gorki or other writers of the moment. Studies about Kierkegaard, Le Corbusier, Stravinsky, Bartók shows the

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The Irish newspaper "An Phoblacht" (The Republic) talks about the Catalan referendums celebrated last December. It includes the opinion of Lluís Sales i Favà, a CUP ( Candidatura d'Unitat Popular, Popular Unity Candidature) member, about the process. The Irish paper opinion is that the referendums are steps in the way towards a Catalan national referendum. Link : http://www.anphoblacht.com/news

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In its haste to pass judgment not only on the Catalans’ actions but also on their alleged shady motives, The Economist has found it convenient to mix up two unrelated issues (“Of bulls and ballots”, January 7th 2010), omitting in the process a few facts that we believe should be emphasized. On the tiresome matter of bullfights, we are forced to point out first of all that, contrary to what is

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