CATALONIA -- Impressive casserole protest in favour of the 9-N | News from Catalonia - VilaWeb
Last night the sound of saucepans rang out in many towns of Catalonia as a spontaneous reaction to the suspension by the Spanish Constitutional Court of the voting on 9 November.
The event was first called in the afternoon via Twitter and Whatsapp
and aroused an enormous protest around the country. At ten in the
evening an enormous number of people beat saucepans and other
instruments from their balconies in a peal that was particularly intense
in Barcelona.
Everything points to the protest being repeated this evening and more
and more people will add to it until the independence vote planned for 9
November.
The casserole protest became popular in Catalonia when the citizens
protested against the Spanish intervention in the Iraq war in 2003.
Later, in the spring of 2011, they were once more used as a sign of
support to the ‘Indignats’ movement (15-M) of protest against the
economic cutbacks. In Latin America this form of demonstration is used
very commonly; in fact the first time saucepans were beaten in protest
was in the early seventies in Chile.
