Provocative street poster initiative aims to remind public of “origin of Spanish institutions” on 81st anniversary of fascist dictator’s coup. Several large cities in Catalonia woke up this morning to find their streets filled with posters showing dictator Francisco Franco’s face on a black background, with the following phrase in Spanish: “Don’t vote. On October…
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Prosecuting Catalan Leaders ‘Can Only Fuel’ Independence
MEP Tremosa tells Catalan News that ‘in Brussels it’s very difficult to justify denying not only a referendum but also political dialogue’ Prosecuting pro-independence leaders is counter-productive for Spain. At least this is what Catalan Liberal MEP, Ramon Tremosa, who is in favor of independence, argued in an interview with Catalan News. “I don’t see…
It’s Not Up To Spain to Decide!
International professors taking part in a seminar on self-determination in Barcelona on Thursday rejected the Spanish government’s attitude towards Catalonia’s demand to decide its political future. Moreover, the academics claimed that self-determination is not only something to be granted to colonies, but is a right for any people who wishes to exercise it. The experts…
Spain Sends Civil Guard to Seize Documents Relating to Independence Announcement
The JxSí pro-independence party is “outraged” by the order to send the Spanish Civil Guard police into the National Theater of Catalonia (TNC in Catalan) on Thursday to seize documents relating to the event held last week to present the referendum bill. On his Twitter account, party president, Jordi Turull, called the visit by the…
‘The Spanish Can’t Stop Us’ – Catalan Vote to Trigger UDI
And so the game is on. The devolved autonomous Catalan Government have announced their intention to hold a vote on independence for Catalunya which will – if successful – be a trigger for a Unilateral Declaration of Independence. A website with full details has also been launched leaving no-one with any excuse for not knowing…
IndyRef2 Catalunya
Puigdemont to call for a referendum in September 2017 if Spain doesn’t allow Catalans to vote It’s either referendum or referendum’, he stated before the Parliament during the first phase of the vote of confidence Catalan President, Carles Puigdemont, emphasised the Government’s will to culminate Catalonia’s pro-independence by holding a binding referendum. ‘It’s either referendum…
Accord for Scotland and Catalonia to Become Independent Simultaneously
Mark McNaught Scots and Catalans are already independent in spirit, now we must work together to reclaim our sovereignty and become independent in fact. The similarities between the political situations in Scotland and Catalonia are striking. Both lost their sovereignty at nearly the same historical moment. Scotland got scammed out of their government in 1707…
The Stream Will Never Die – episode 8
http://tvL.ink/podcasts/008.mp3 Episode 8 of our podcast “The Stream Will Never Die” is now available. You can listen to the podcast in a number of ways: Download or stream directly: http://tvL.ink/podcasts/008.mp3 Subscribe via iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-stream-will-never-die/id1057533893 Use the RSS feed to subscribe in other podcast applications: http://independencelive.net/podcasts/rss.xml In this week’s episode, Gavin and Gerry introduce three clips…
The Stream Will Never Die: episode 2
Episode 2 of our podcast is now available We have published a second episode of our podcast, The Stream Will Never Die, featuring audio highlights from six of our recent livestreams with commentary from Gavin Taylor and Gerry Mulvenna. http://independencelive.net/media/002.mp3 This episode features highlights from the Carmichael hearing, the Andrew Stoddart demo, Yanis Varoufakis, Simon Harris…
The Stream Will Never Die: the Independence Live podcast
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new venture, which is a regular podcast, presenting selected audio clips from our livestreams, with lots of scope to offer other features as this project develops. Subscribe on other software with the feed URL: http://independencelive.net/podcasts/rss.xml http://independencelive.net/media/001.mp3 Our first episode features highlights from: Juliet Swann on Holyrood voting…