CATALONIA -- ANC proposes multiple events on September 11th, including massive "V for Victory" demonstration in Barcelona - VilaWeb

ANC proposes multiple events on September 11th, including massive "V for Victory" demonstration in Barcelona - VilaWeb

ANC proposes multiple events on September 11th, including massive "V for Victory" demonstration in Barcelona

In the morning there will be demonstrations in front of all of the city government buildings in Catalonia

"This year we will find ourselves on the most important streets in
the country: on Diagonal and on Gran Via, meeting in the Plaça de les
Glòries," announced Ferran Civit as he described the huge demonstration
that the ANC has proposed for next September 11th, Catalonia's National
Day. The idea is that from the sky the huge demonstration will make the V
sign for Victory. "A V for Via [Way], Voluntat [Will], and for Victoria
[Victory]," proclaimed the ANC. The demonstration will be the
centerpiece of Catalonia's National Day, or Diada, in the afternoon, but
the mobilization will already have begun in the morning, with
demonstrations in front of every one of the 947 town and city government
buildings across Catalonia, where the local authorities will be asked
to commit their resources to making the November 9th referendum
possible.

"There is no street big enough to hold Catalonia's
soul," said the historian and member of the national board, Víctor
Cucurull, to a quiet, expectant crowd in Tarraco Arena, where the group
held its annual general meeting. During the annual meeting, the group
unanimously approved the road map to independence.

"We are calling everyone to gather on the morning of September 11th
in front of the town and city halls. We're going to the main squares,"
said Cucurull. "We will invite the municipal governments to sign the
agreement in support of the convocation that the government will have to
make. We will also ask them to give us polling places, ballot boxes,
and municipal services in order to hold the referendum," he added.

The morning of September 11th will also be the final day of
collecting signatures for the Sign up to Vote for Independence campaign
and all the authorities and local groups will bring the collected votes
and the government commitment to the referendum to the Parliament of
Catalonia in Barcelona. "Before leaving for Barcelona, we'll take a
picture. To see who is there and who is not," challenged Cucurull.

After September 11th
The mobilizations, however,
will not be over on September 11th because "we have to continue the
mobilization until November 9th" in order to win a "resounding Yes-Yes
vote", said Montserrat Rossell, another member of the board. From
September 12th to November 7th, the ANC will present daily events from
17:14 (5:14pm) until 20:14 (8:14pm) each evening. 17:14 is a symbolic
time since it marks the year Barcelona fell to the Bourbons three
hundred years ago.

The announcement of the mobilization on next September 11th was the
climax of a long morning in the old Tarragona arena. The more than 7000
attendees at the annual meeting made the walls resound with cries of
independence, clearly satisfied that this well-guarded secret had
finally been revealed: the proposal for the next Catalan National Day.
Òmnium Cultural and the Association of Municipalities for Independence
joined the ANC in the meeting, and offered their support for and
commitment to make the referendum possible.

  

 

A woman holds up a V for Victory at ANC annual meeting. Photo: Liz Castro