This is the best video I’ve seen so far on the conflict between Catalonia and Spain, and it’s in english! Perfectly summarized.

SPAIN’S SECRET CONFLICT from Jordi SF on Vimeo.

Matthew Tree’s articles have helped more than I’ll ever be able to thank him to find ways of explaining Catalonia to people from other countries. Being English born and, as he describes himself in the book, an adopted Catalan (I’d say he’s just as Catalan as you can be) has given him a unique point of view, which combined with curiosity to learn about the country where he lives and a strong sense of justice have produced this book as a result.
Matthew has lived in Catalonia for 24 years and …

I found this through NacioDigital (Link in Catalan). At the Spanish Parliament this afternoon Ricardo Tarno, an irated member of Spanish party PP walked up to José Bono, the president of the Spanish Parliament, shouting that was “intolerable” to speak Catalan there and urging Bono to stop Catalan deputy Joan Tardà as he tried to speak in Catalan part of his speech when discussing a law proposal to allow languages other than Castillian (Spanish) in the Spanish Parliament. José Bono afterwards reminded Joan Tardà cynically that “if you want Catalan …

Through the excellent blog Syniadau (on building an independent Wales) I found this BBC slideshow about the knowledge of the African continent through the centuries. The documentary shows first a very interesting Catalan map from the 14th century which is used to show the knowledge of Africa at the time. The audio on the BBC slideshow correctly mentions the origin of the map as being from the Catalan State.
Spanish historians have always instead preferred to use the Spanish-Castillian term Crown of Aragon for the same entity so as not …

No, unfortunately I haven’t been to Minnesota but rather a group of students from that university currently studying exchange programmes in Rome were interested in the Catalan pro independence movement as part of an organised visit to Barcelona and requested a lecture on the issue which finally took place on February the 17th.
I love doing this type of lectures, last year I had loads of fun in México and the UK doing similar ones, but this has also showed me that it doesn’t matter how much effort Catalans put into …