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Catalans For Yes +CatalansForYes
Supporting Scottish & Catalan Independence
 Joined November 2017    catalansforyes.wordpress.com
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Last Thursday the Spanish justice decided to imprison 8 Catalan ministers for defending Catalan independence and democracy. That is why we ask you to print these posters at home and hook them in the streets of your towns and cities to support Catalan political prisoners. When you do it, take a picture and send it […]
Few, if any, commentators have seen fit to discuss the wider issue and the underlying morality from first principles. The instant reaction in all quarters has been to back Spain over the plucky little Catalans. The principle of national self-determination was laid down by Woodrow Wilson after the First World War and accepted by the […]
On Monday pro-independence parties unveiled Catalonia’s legal transitoriness law in Parliament. The bill aims to regulate the transition from Spain’s legal framework to an independent Catalonia’s, and would be enacted after a Yes victory on October 1st. The key aspects of the law are: 1. Form of the state: the law defines Catalonia as a “democratic, social […]
EXACTLY one week before the Scottish independence referendum, central Barcelona witnessed what was probably the biggest political demonstration ever seen in Europe. On Catalan National Day, September 11, 2014, around two million people turned the city into a seething ocean of red and yellow – interspersed with a fair few blue-and-white saltires – to proclaim […]
Catalan president has called a referendum on independence to be held on 1 October. This referendum has the support of a parliamentary and social majority in Catalonia, and a fervent opposition from the central government in Madrid, which claims that the vote is unconstitutional and undemocratic. In recent months we have seen how Spanish justice barred […]
When? On October 1st. Where? The referendum will take place in the national territory of Catalonia. The question: “Do you want Catalonia to be an independent country in the form of a Republic?; it will be written in the 3 official languages of Catalonia: Catalan, Spanish and Occitan Aranese. Why? The referendum will be held because there is a […]
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Valls vibrates with the Catalan national anthem and demands the release of political prisoners. Impressive!
Last night Berga's main square vibrated with the Catalan national anthem!
Wonderful!
🎥 Ben Emmerson, English lawyer expert in human rights and international law:

"The political repression that Spain is currently engaging is a backslide towards fascism."
Good morning Dublin! 🎗️

#FreeCatalanPoliticalPrisoners
Blatant dive from Tory MP Douglas Ross in the Scottish Cup final 😂😂😂
This is the moment in which the USA Perpignan rugby team (French Catalonia) qualifies for the Top 14 French league.
Congrats, Usap Officiel!
Great seeing so many Catalan flags at the #AUOB march in Glasgow. 🎗❤
Aerial view of Saturday's 8km human chain to one of the peaks of the mountain of Montserrat to demand the release of political prisoners. Proud of this country.
This happened yesterday in the final of the Copa del Rey in Madrid, Spain. In 2018.
It is illegal to wear a yellow scarf. A scarf.
Barça fans whistle against the Spanish anthem in the King's Cup final in Madrid. Impressive.

#FreeCatalanPoliticalPrisoners
The moment in which a Spanish police officer forces a Barça fan to throw a yellow shirt in the trash before entering the Wanda Metropolitano stadium in Madrid.

#HelpCatalonia
Aerial images of the demonstration in Barcelona for the freedom of political prisoners. Awesome.
Crowds gathered outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court sing in support of Catalan minister Clara Ponsatí. Lovely! #solidarity
Scotland flag - the saltire Made In Scotland. For Scotland.
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