Agenda of Outrage

Vote for Freedom: Vote for Catalan Independence


In 1979, before the hostile backdrop of the latter years of Franco’s dictatorship, large sectors of Catalan society thought that the contemporary statute would be a useful tool in the commencement of the process of self-governance, clamored for from the Assemblea de Catalunya, the popular multi-party organization of the day. Now, almost three decades later, we Catalans once again find ourselves at the edge of a referendum to ratify the text of a new statute, but today’s political situation is much different from that of thirty years ago. Never before has a referendum been put before us to approve a statute while a previous one was still in effect. For this reason, we now have a historical opportunity, and an inescapable duty, and our strength and maturity will allow us to take on new challenges that will lead us to a future of freedom.
We, the undersigned, diverse in age, condition, and ideology, demand that all citizens of Catalonia exercise their right to self-determination , and that they make a test plebiscite out of the referendum regarding the Statute: a test plebiscite for the Independence of Catalonia.
During the next vote on the Statute, we will be placing a paper with the legend ”I vote for Catalan Independence” into the official voting envelopes, and casting them into the ballot boxes.
We know that this explicit demand will bring our political agenda to the forefront: our right freely and independently to decide, without outside interference, the future of the Nation of Catalonia, and that it will become a point of reference for all the territories of the Nation of Catalonia.
For Democracy and for Freedom: Vote for Catalan Independence!

Vote for Freedom:



Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 12:00 noon.
Auditorium, Col·legi de Periodistes de Catalunya
Rambla de Catalunya, 10 – Barcelona
Public presentation of the Manifesto for the “Vote for Freedom: Vote for Catalan Independence” campaign, to demand that Catalans, as a people, use their vote to turn the Referendum to reform the “Estatut” into a test plebiscite for the independence of Catalonia. In name of the organizers of this campaign,

Agustí Soler
Joan Grau
Marc Belzunces
Xavier Borràs
Enric Borràs

info@votaindependencia.org
www.votaindependencia.org
Telephone: 667976517

All You Fascists
There's nothing new about what's happening today.
Freedom is not a physical state; it's like Happiness: it is a path to follow, an Ithaca whose existence is justified by our will to attain it.
Freedom is the natural state of man. Only if one is truly and deeply free is life worth living, and yours is the misfortune that you are not allowed to live your sex, your nationality, your beliefs, then it is worth it to you to devote your life to that freedom.


All you fascists are fighting a losing battle, because there will always be truly free people, like songwriter Woody Guthrie, who, with his Machine that Kills Fascists, said:

Right to decide Tenin el dret a decidir
Josep Solano

Tomorrow Saturday a manifestation is celebrated in Barcelona that touches a raw nerve to the contradictions of the democracies: the right to decide. On September 30th of the last year the Parliament of Catalonia approved a proposal of reform of fundamental law which must govern the life of the citizens of Catalonia. This proposal was voted by 90% of the parliament, that is, by the immense majority of Catalan citizens. In spite of the promise of the Spanish Government president, Jose Luís Rodriguez Zapatero, to approve in the Spanish Parliament the proposal approved in the Parliament of Catalonia, has not been thus and this Statute has been enormously cut in the parliamentary proceedings in Madrid.

A group of organizations and people of the Catalan civil society, with country conscience and a deep democratic respect organized a unitary platform - to which our media adhered with a lot of conviction and enthusiastic form- with the objective that did not stand out what the representation of the Catalonia people had emanated. And to defend that, tomorrow thousands of Catalans will go out demanding that Catalonia can decide freely on its future.

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights proclaimed on the year 1966, and took effect ten years later, proclaims in its article 1 that "All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development". If a nation without State as Catalonia cannot decide on its fundamental norm, What kind of autonomy sustains itself? If the Catalans do not have right to decide on their future, Who must do it by them? .

The Catalans, like all the countries and nations of the world, want (we want) to decide on our future without no type of protectorate, without no type of disturbing interventions, without be the bureaucrats of Madrid who take the word to the Catalan people and its representatives.

Eurotribune 02/17/06

The Franco’s language
The leader of the Spanish Popular Party, Mariano Rajoy, affirmed yesterday with solemnity in Barcelona that "it is doing with the Castilian what at the time of Franco it was done with the Catalan". The affirmation done by Rajoy has been responded of forceful way by the totality of the Catalan political class: from Catalan prime minister, Josep Bargalló, who affirmed that "it was radically false" until the leader of the opposition, Artur Mas, that described as "disgusting" the attitude of the conservative. All it, a strategy that only goes directed to urge on the hatred of the Spanish State against Catalonia.In Catalonia, the two coofficial languages are the Castilian - being the only official language in all the Estate- and the Catalan of being the own language of the country, along with the aranese variant of the Occitan in the Valley of Aran. In spite of being an imposed foreign language militarily, legally and politically, the Castilian in Catalonia never has been persecuted, on the contrary: the State has dictated more of a hundred of laws at democratic time where it eliminated and it vetoed the Catalan language in many legal scopes and public. Not for too many days, our readers will remember, we informed the
arrest of a man by the Spanish police for the simple fact to speak their Catalan language (something too habitual in the Spanish police bodies). But it is not necessary know a lot of history to see like, indeed, the only language that still is persecuted in Europe continues being the Catalan, is only necessary to verify some aspects of the daily life in Barcelona: 99% of consumption products are labeled only and exclusively in the language of Franco; the immense majority of the press that is published and received in Catalonia is in the language of Franco; almost all the films project in the language of Franco; the justice administration practically only works in the language of Franco; the majority of the media are done in the language of Franco; in the Spanish Parliament just can be spoken the Franco’s language; the administrations of the State respond that "they do not understand" if does not go in the language of Franco and hundreds of legal normative dispositions could be enumerated that leave in clear disadvantage the Catalan language favoring the language of Franc.To say that the Castilian in Catalonia is like the Catalan at the time of Franco is a revisionist attitude like which somebody try to do before the Nazi holocaust denying the barbarism of Hitler. These declarations leave to Mr. Rajoy in a stumbling block very difficult to leave to international level if it is not with a formal excuse. Europe would have to reprobate attitudes and declarations of these types and not only in these scopes. To force to rectify to Rajoy is not to put itself in favour of the Catalans, but on side to the truth.

Eurotribune digital newpapers 02/15/06