In this post you can find embedded a the two videos (with English subtitles) that show Joan Laporta’s (the president of FC Barcelona) political speech last March the 21st at Reagrupament’s meeting.
It is a brave and nice speech that talks about why we need the independence for Catalonia as soon as possible and how that will improve all Catalan citizens’ prosperity and well being. Hope you enjoy it.

SOS Sagrada Família
This March 20, at 7:30 p.m., before the “Nativity” façade of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família Temple, between its bordering streets, Carrer Mallorca and Carrer Provença, there will be a candle-light protest vigil to make Catalans (especially Barcelonans) aware of the brutal attack about to befall Gaudí’s masterpiece: the high-speed train (known by its French acronym “TGV”, for Train à Grande Vitesse), will be routed so that it passes a mere 75 centimeters from the building’s foundations. Tomorrow’s grassroots act of protest will consist of the lighting of over 20,000 …

“Organizing our free future” is the name of Reagrupament’s political program (in catalan). It details in 130 pages how Reagrupament wants the future Catalan State to be and has been written by 650 associates in an unprecedented initiative in Catalan politics. I feel extremely proud of being able to say that I have contributed to it as well. Reagrupament’s main target is to achieve a majority of deputies in the Catalan Parliament and declare independence.
The document details things such as the language policies, Catalan and Occitan (spoken in the Aran …

Seems like the map of Europe will continue changing in the next few years. This is nothing new, it has been in constant change over the 20th century when dozens of the current established countries like Norway, Iceland, Finland, Slovakia or more recently Montenegro or Kosova have achieved their own state.
The UN acknowledges the right to self determination for all the nations in the world and in a European Union where only states have a voice and in a globalisation context in which we live it has become an …

It is currently not possible to fly directly to 23 countries thanks to bilateral agreements that establish Madrid as the priority airport in Spain and explicitly block the possibility of flying to Barcelona. Even though Barcelona complies with all the requirements to become an intercontinental hub thanks to its privileged location in Europe and the Mediterranean.
I was always amazed at how airports of cities such as Manchester fly directly to every corner in the world and wondered why we couldn’t do that from Barcelona, how was that possible? how …