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archive article 2006 on the Forat neighbourhood of Barcelona
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78839
How "Catalonia a nation" means "Spain becomes a Federation"
archive article 2005
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/72240
last article
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/106333
As of time this comment is submitted 14h52 local time - 39 injuries resulting from Spanis police or paramilitary activity have been treated by the hospitals. 3 are serious. proscribed ordinance throughout Europe, (plastic bullets) have been used.
All the most prominent Catalan political office holders have now voted or "not voted" albeit not always in the originally predicted place. Something all quantum about this illegal referendum that was obviously never going to happen because Spain is all legal and stuff and friendly.
The Catalans or Katalanders as I called them many times over the years) have it is reported formed orderly queues. Those of you who studied module one on this kind of thing know that orderly queues are vital to pacifist resistance stuff.
Here are some photos of interest. All my posts today are really meant as updates to the news reports on the referendum.
The comment feature of indymedia ireland is not working with great speed, so I trust the understanding of the editorial crew. These articles are all relevant today.
History does not get made, begin or end on any one day.
Tomorrow much fewer of the people who live in Catalonia be they franchised or not will feel Spanish than today.
... it might even be possible that more people feel Catalan.
Spanish police take ballot papers by force and of course the votes cast within this morning -
paramilitary Guardia Civil manhandle a civil rights activist & pacifist who had mobilised to protect the voting process.
volunteers administer first aid in the aftermath of a paramilitary Guardia Civil attack on a voting centre.
We can clearly see all of us in video how as a young woman, a pacifist civil rights protester standing in the way of a Spanish national police officer has not only her fingers broken but at the same time her breast groped.
Barcelona city government is thankfully in the hands of a popularly elected new alliance of leftist and ecological activists who hail from decades of anarchist community political campaign work. Our mayor Ada Colau voted "in blank" yesterday & yesterday evening offered free legal support to everyone who experienced violence at the hands of the Spanish police and paramilitary Guardia Civil drafted into our city in the last week. Today official complaints and investigations have been launched by our city into the multiple sexual assaults made by Spanish law enforcement officers yesterday amidst the extraordinary brutalisation of an entire society and clear criminalisation of two political opinions :- the independence of Catalonia and the estabilishment of a Republic.
One Catalan man´s reaction to the entry by the Guardia Civil with axes and sledgehammers to his voting centre was a simple heart atack.
Fortunately next to him was a qualified member of the ambulance service. Unfortuanately and disgracefully, that ambulance man was beaten to a pulp whilst attempting to adminster CPR.
The elderly man died. The ambulance man went to hospital along with more than 800 others.
Members of the Catalan fire fighter service had formed a cordon to protect the ballot boxes, in the hope that those in the uniform of either Spain´s national police force or Spain´s paramilitary Guardia Civil would respect their peers in emergency response.
http://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20171002/431742168....html
More than ten Catalan fire fighters were seriously injured yesterday.
OF the votes cast and those which could be counted (because Spain´s violence focussed on seizing ballot boxes) 90% said yes.
Quite understandably by mid day voters were intimidated and no longer made their way to electoral centres. The positive emotions of which I wrote and reported in the early ours of the morning had given way to the near despair of such a crushing repression.
Belgium and Slovenia were the first of the EU states to condemn this state violence because their citizens were assaulted and brutalised.
Tomorrow we expect response to the call for a general strike of 24 hours
Tomorrow we expect that the Catalan parliament take the next step in this process and remaining true to its legitimate and democratic mandate make a unilateral declaration of independence.
Yesterday afternoon the Catalan president Mr Puigdemont told an intimidated electorate to use the ballot paper copies I illustrated to indymedia readers and approach any open electoral centre. estimates at serious injuries had by then crossed 500.