Catalunya Lliure / Free Catalonia
Literalment, no?
Entre un milió i mig i dos milions de catalans hem omplert fins al capdamunt el centre de Barcelona. Una fita històrica, imprescindible, cap a assolir la Independència tants anys, i segles, somiada com un miratge impossible. Ara l’impossible per fi es dibuixa com a possible!
Enguany, la manifestació de l’Onze de Setembre ha estat molt especial. Sense cap mena de dubte, marcarà un abans i un després, tot i que de fet només es un graó més per arribar a Ithaca. En els darrers temps, n’hem vist d’altres, com la consulta d’Arenys de Munt, la resta de consultes per la independència, o la pròpia manifestació del 10J de 2010.
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I did a visual joke with the flag and the parking sign. This flag, the Estelada, it's the pro-independence flag of Catalonia, and the parking sigh says "free" in catalan (lliure).
The demostration for the independence of Catalonia of September the 11th (National Day in Catalonia) in 2012 would be a clear milestone in our path towards a Catalan nation free from spanish rule (and french too in Northern Catalonia). This day, between a milion and half and two milions of catalans have demanded our own state in Europe. In the last years there have been a lot more milestones, like the 2010 july demonstration, the independence consultations all arround Catalonia, and the fact that for the first time, more than 50% of Catalans would vote YES on an Independence referendum.
The 9/11 has a tragic sense way longer in Catalonia than in the USA. Much before than 2001, in 1714, we were completely defeated by the spanish and french armies, and the last Catalan free govenrment surrended. In September the 11th, 1714, Barcelona had been besieged for almost a year, and the final assault was launched towards the destroyed walls. But the people of Barcelona, and the scant remains of the army of Catalonia resisted the much superior forces, all day, even refusing them to almost the walls. But further resistance would only lead to a bloodbath. Catalonia was striped of its government, laws and even language. So September the 11th it’s our National Day. But we don’t celebrate, we remember the fallen and the lost freedom. And now we see that soon (maybe just in a couple of years) we could finally change our National Day to another one (who knows which), a Day of Independence!
Visca Catalunya Lliure! Free Catalonia!
www.freecatalonia.com/fc/main.asp
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_separatism
Catalunya Lliure / Free Catalonia
Literalment, no?
Entre un milió i mig i dos milions de catalans hem omplert fins al capdamunt el centre de Barcelona. Una fita històrica, imprescindible, cap a assolir la Independència tants anys, i segles, somiada com un miratge impossible. Ara l’impossible per fi es dibuixa com a possible!
Enguany, la manifestació de l’Onze de Setembre ha estat molt especial. Sense cap mena de dubte, marcarà un abans i un després, tot i que de fet només es un graó més per arribar a Ithaca. En els darrers temps, n’hem vist d’altres, com la consulta d’Arenys de Munt, la resta de consultes per la independència, o la pròpia manifestació del 10J de 2010.
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I did a visual joke with the flag and the parking sign. This flag, the Estelada, it's the pro-independence flag of Catalonia, and the parking sigh says "free" in catalan (lliure).
The demostration for the independence of Catalonia of September the 11th (National Day in Catalonia) in 2012 would be a clear milestone in our path towards a Catalan nation free from spanish rule (and french too in Northern Catalonia). This day, between a milion and half and two milions of catalans have demanded our own state in Europe. In the last years there have been a lot more milestones, like the 2010 july demonstration, the independence consultations all arround Catalonia, and the fact that for the first time, more than 50% of Catalans would vote YES on an Independence referendum.
The 9/11 has a tragic sense way longer in Catalonia than in the USA. Much before than 2001, in 1714, we were completely defeated by the spanish and french armies, and the last Catalan free govenrment surrended. In September the 11th, 1714, Barcelona had been besieged for almost a year, and the final assault was launched towards the destroyed walls. But the people of Barcelona, and the scant remains of the army of Catalonia resisted the much superior forces, all day, even refusing them to almost the walls. But further resistance would only lead to a bloodbath. Catalonia was striped of its government, laws and even language. So September the 11th it’s our National Day. But we don’t celebrate, we remember the fallen and the lost freedom. And now we see that soon (maybe just in a couple of years) we could finally change our National Day to another one (who knows which), a Day of Independence!
Visca Catalunya Lliure! Free Catalonia!
www.freecatalonia.com/fc/main.asp
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_separatism