lordoftheunderworld: no-passaran: doublediscourse: useless-catalanfacts: 03/October/2017. Catalonia

lordoftheunderworld: no-passaran: doublediscourse: useless-catalanfacts: 03/October/2017. Catalonia today.If you follow this blog or have been paying attention to the news, you will know that the Spanish military police tried to stop the Catalan independence referendum by using violence against the voters, including throwing elder people down the stairs and jumping over them, shooting rubber bullets (which are illegal in Catalonia btw) at voters and even at nurses trying to help wounded people reach an ambulance, getting clothes off girls and throwing them to the floor naked while laughing, graing women by their hair and dragging them out f the voting center while kicking them, etc. Over 800 Catalan people were hurt for trying to vote.Today, to protest police brutality carried out and defended by the Spanish government, there has been an “aturada de país” which means we stopped the country. Practically all businesses have closed, and about 60 highways have been cut (including the border with France) by citizens playing chess or cards in the middle of the road. The economy is stopped and thousands of people are protesting on the streets. Many people also used the day to go bring flowers to the schools that were violently assaulted by the Spanish police. I admit I don’t know much about this situation, but don’t anyone fucking try to compare it to the southern states ceceding during the Civil War. I’ve already seen that sentiment crop up on this site.The difference, if you’re so asinine to not see them, is that the southern states forcefully ceceded, while Spain put it up for a vote to ‘allow’ Catalan to cecede, apparently they thought the majority vote would be not to. @doublediscourse Spain didn’t put it up for a vote, and they didn’t because they knew that yes to independence would win.Catalans were so fed up with Spain treating us like second class citizens that we organised the biggest peaceful demonstrations in Europe’s history for 4 years in a row and independentist parties won the absolute majority of seats in the Catalan parliament. And Catalonia organised the referendum, trying to pact it with Spain but Spain didn’t want to at all, so we had to go forward alone. The reason why this doesn’t have anything to do with the southern states is because Catalonia was already a country for centuries, until we got invaded, and have been discriminated against since. Catalonia is trying to decolonise itself, but Spain is forcing us to stay in order to keep their privileges over us.I think it’s important for foreigners to understand that Catalonia is not “a piece of Spain trying to separate”, Catalonia is an entirely different nation that just happens to be occupied by Spain. Different language, different traditions, different history, different mindset, different needs. Different country.There’s a reason why people who want the southern states to be separate are usually the conservatives, and the ones who want Catalan independence are the leftists and liberals. This also applies to the Valencian Country, but sadly there are too many fascists here now, and we can’t do the same they’re doing in Catalonia, at least not yet. There was a demonstration today in València, and a woman told us that: that we were not Catalonia, that we were never going to do anything, that she was tired of us, that we should go to Catalonia, that Spain is a democracy… And we know that is not true, and now the world knows it too. -- source link

More pics about