CATALONIA ----- Spain wants revenge. But arresting Catalan leaders only gives us strength

CATALONIA

Spain wants revenge. But arresting Catalan leaders only gives us strength

Madrid’s aggressive, unconstitutional attempts to crush Catalonia’s pro-independence spirit will in fact be counterproductive

Jordi Solé, Josep-Maria Terricabras and Ramon Tremosa

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/02/spain-arresting-catalan-leaders-madrid-independence?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copia_al_porta-retalls

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CATALONIA ---- Catalan ‘martyrs’ keep their cool

Jordi Cuixart

Catalan ‘martyrs’ keep their cool

'For a man sentenced to nine years in prison for a political crime, Jordi Cuixart, one of the figureheads of Catalonia’s separatist movement, seems in remarkably good spirits.

When I visited him yesterday in the Lledoners penitentiary centre, about 40 miles from Barcelona, he launched into an animated speech about the benefits of yoga, pottery and meditation for maintaining a positive frame of mind.

“If ever I’m feeling a bit down, I remember how many of the world’s political prisoners are forced to endure much worse conditions than us,” he told me through a telephone on the other side of a glass screen.

“We can’t complain, even if we are here despite being innocent of any crime.” '

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/catalan-martyrs-keep-their-cool-fzqqklmj3

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CATALONIA ----- “Catalonia has no king!”

CATALONIA

Spain’s king deeply ofended many Catalans in 2017 when he took sides, spoke against Catalan democrats and made clear that he agreed with the Spanish police violence exerted over voters. For this and many more reasons, Catalonia has no king.

'Thousands of demonstrators banged on kitchen pots and chanted “Catalonia has no king!” on Monday to protest a visit by the Spanish royal family to the capital of the region that has been hit by weeks of separatist demonstrations.'

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-election-king-protests-idUSKBN1XE1WO

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CATALONIA ------ The misinformation campaign against #Catalonia

The misinformation campaign against #Catalonia 

 'The dissemination of #misinformation surrounding the plight of the Catalan people, propagated by the Spanish press and government, has been relentless and jarring...

In a dystopian fashion, Spanish national media coverage has increasingly become the willing handmaiden of both corporate greed and political power-mongering. While the flagrantly fictive quality of the Spanish press’s reporting has most recently come to light with the coverage of the Catalan movement, the corruption that mars journalism in Spain runs deep.'

https://thepolitic.org/homage-to-orwell-the-misinformation-campaign-against-catalonia/

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CATALONIA ---- PUIGDEMONT,THIRD ATTEMT

“Spanish deep state, which is clocking up failure after failure as long as the exiled leader goes on travelling freely around most of the countries of Europe, being interviewed by leading world publications and having international agencies, such as Bloomberg, constantly refer to him as "the Catalan president in exile." Because Spain's foreign ministry, with Josep Borrell at its head and a budget of hundreds of thousands of euros at the service of Global Spain, has failed to install a convincing narrative of its own in international public opinion. This week, for example, four international publications - US magazine Time, UK newspaper The Times, Russia's Komsomolskaya Pravda and the Swiss daily Blick - have all published Puigdemont interviews or opinion articles.”

https://www.elnacional.cat/en/editorial/jose-antich-puigdemont-third-attempt_435897_102.html

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CATALONIA ---- Spain’s reckoning with its past shows Francoism is far from dead

Spain’s reckoning with its past shows Francoism is far from dead

Reburial of dictator’s remains has raised questions about the legacy of his regime

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/spain-s-reckoning-with-its-past-shows-francoism-is-far-from-dead-1.4061491

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CATALONIA --- THE CATALAN REVOLT

CATALONIA

Spain’s illegitimate use of force and the judiciary; Catalans’ legitimate self-defence

On Monday, 23 September, three weeks before the sentences of twelve Catalan civil and political leaders tried for rebellion, sedition and embezzlement were to be announced, 500 Civil Guard officers raided the homes and premises of nine Catalan pro-independentist activists in Operation Judas. Two were released the same day despite all nine being charged with terrorism offences. The other seven were transported to Civil Guard headquarters in Madrid, Tres Cantos, for questioning.

https://barbaryfigs.com/2019/10/28/the-catalan-revolt/

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CATALONIA --- Jordi Cuixart Interview in the IrishTimes

CATALONIA

Jordi Cuixart

Interview in the IrishTimes : "Prison has lost its effectiveness as a coercive tool, is a platform to denounce the violation of #HumanRights in #Spain"

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/prison-a-necessary-step-for-independence-says-jailed-catalan-leader-1.4066155?mode=amp&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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CATALONIA --- VIDEO ----- The Spanish political police serves the State's terrorism narrative in Catalonia, and the campaign is working.

CATALONIA

https://www.facebook.com/445044512255119/posts/2513096738783209/

⬛️⬜️  Two videos better understood side by side. 

The Spanish political police serves the State's terrorism narrative in Catalonia, and the campaign is working.

"They are the ones that are violent", "Kill them".

A Spanish hate campaign against all things Catalan.

#StandUpForCatalonia

CATALONIA ----- 'Spain levels with China and Russia censoring content in Microsoft's platform'

CATALONIA

'Spain levels with China and Russia censoring content in Microsoft's platform' 

https://english.vilaweb.cat/noticies/spain-blocks-catalan-protest-platform-in-github/

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CATALONIA ----- Spain takes the fight against independence online

CATALONIA

📎 | Spain's acting government to pass a new decree preventing "digital republic" in Catalonia, says Pedro Sánchez

https://www.catalannews.com/politics/item/spain-takes-the-fight-against-independence-online

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CATALONIA ----- "Blood was literally flying from the hits the boys were getting, to the point of staining the walls", sources from the interviewers who have visited the prisons in recent days say.'

CATALONIA

'Testimony from a number of young women coincides on them being handcuffed behind their backs, on their knees facing a wall in that headquarters during moments of high tension, especially on the Friday when the news arrived one police officer was seriously ill. They also describe "very hard" scenes of their fellow prisoners being hit. "Blood was literally flying from the hits the boys were getting, to the point of staining the walls", sources from the interviewers who have visited the prisons in recent days say.'

https://www.elnacional.cat/en/news/arrested-catalan-protesters-police-blood-flying_436383_102.html

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CATALONIA ----- ME TOO

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' "I took part in the protests in Barcelona on 20th September 2017 and then I voted in the Catalan independence referendum on 1st October 2017, and since the Supreme Court considers that these actions are equivalent to a crime of sedition, I too am guilty." That is, in brief, the essence of the content of the self-incriminating confession that hundreds of people have been presenting this Monday at courts all over Catalonia. A campaign promoted by the pro-independence civil group Òmnium Cultural as a gesture of solidarity with the nine Catalan politicians and social leaders sentenced to 9-13 years of jail. A kind of "me too", Catalan independence style.'

https://www.elnacional.cat/en/politics/catalan-me-too-confess-sedition_435633_102.html

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CATALONIA ----- THE REAL SPAIN

Surely you have heard about the 'this is the real Spain' campaign with which the Spanish government intends cover its already indistinguishable state from a dictatorship. Your marketing campaign trying to make up your regression to fascism is pathetic, but marketing is powerful and it may seem that its abuses, repression and are characteristic of a 'model democracy' (sic). On this website we contrast marketing with facts.

Each of the statements on this website is backed by news published in the media contrasted and that can be consulted at the moment.

Because even if we are living in times where the truth is being diluted, reality remains stubborn and verifiable. Because this is the TRULY REAL Spain, the 21st century one. And the facts prove it. 

https://www.thisistherealrealspain.com/?i=2

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