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[3 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]
Crida per una sola candidatura que declari la independència de Catalunya

Us faig arribar un manifest signat per 17 membres de Reagrupament de l’estranger, agrupats a la Vegueria d’Exteriors, en representació dels 74 membres de la Vegueria i que expressa el nostre posicionament en referència als esdeveniments produïts darrerament a l’escena política independentista.
Els catalans residents a l’estranger, reagrupats o simpatitzants a favor de la independència, reunits dins de la Vegueria d’Exteriors, volem manifestar la nostra perplexitat a la fragmentació produïda en les darreres setmanes en torn a la candidatura unitària i transversal que proclami la independència al Parlament de Catalunya.
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[30 Jul 2010 | 12 Comments | ]
Això és Solidaritat?

Primer de tot vull deixar clar que sóc associat a Reagrupament i des d’aquest punt de vista parlo avui.
Des d’aquestes línies jo mateix vaig donar la benvinguda fa una setmana i mitja a en Laporta, en Bertran i en Tena. Me n’alegro que s’hagin adonat que la millor manera d’aconseguir la independència és la declaració d’independència. Si finalment tots arribem a la mateixa conclusió tothom és benvingut.
A la seva presentació com a Solidaritat Catalana per la Independència aquests senyors van dir que ells no tenien cap tipus d’ambició personal per …

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[28 Jul 2010 | 7 Comments | ]
No more bullfighting in Catalonia

Catalan Parliament has finally approved to ban bullfighting in Catalonia. This decision has attracted much foreign media attention and surprise for its supposed meaning coming from a country which is now inside the Spanish state. Even though it was popular in Catalonia many decades ago and Barcelona even had at one point 3 bullfighting rings those have progressively closed as people lost interest and now there’s only one left open. Nowadays bullfighting “shows” in Barcelona are practically only attended by tourists brought in for the show from nearby towns, mistakenly …

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[27 Jul 2010 | 28 Comments | ]
Spanish tantrums and the Streisand effect

An excellent example of the Streisand effect, when someone tries to hide information but the internet amplifies it. The Spanish and their love for censorship have achieved just the opposite to what they originally intended with an interview from the public Irish TV (RTE) to a Catalan girl in Barcelona right after the World Cup final. The girl in question says “I hate Spain, I am Catalan not Spanish. Spanish people is idiot”. . (Correction) The Spanish embassy in Dublin have sent an official letter of complaint to RTE regarding …

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[26 Jul 2010 | One Comment | ]
Welsh and Scottish deputies express their support for Catalonia at the Houses of Parliament

Here I copy the motion nine deputies from the Welsh party Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party presented at the Houses of Parliament in London on July the 14th.
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509 CATALAN STATUTE OF AUTONOMY 14:7:10
Hywel Williams
Mr Elfyn Llwyd
Jonathan Edwards
Pete Wishart
Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil
Mr Mike Weir
* 9
Caroline Lucas Stewart Hosie Dr Eilidh Whiteford
That this House notes that more than one million people attended the 10 July 2010 protest in Barcelona in favour of proper powers for Catalonia; welcomes the continuing debate over the constitution of Catalonia; believes Catalonia …