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Farewell Spain? Catalan independence march sends huge shockwave.

Up to 2 million people marched for Catalan independence in Barcelona on September 11.

On the Catalan National Day, Spanish politics suffered a huge shock: up to 2,000,000 people ― more than a quarter of the population of Catalonia ― marched through the streets of Barcelona shouting one word, “independència”.
It was a moment when countless Catalans (those from the four provinces that make up Catalonia in Spain's north-east) discovered that others felt the way they did ― it is time to drop Spain for a state of our own.
This was a different Catalan National Day, which remembers the 1714 fall of a besieged Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Besides the usual ceremonies, a march behind the banner “Catalonia, A New European State” had been organised by two new nationalist networks, the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) and the Association of Municipalities for Independence (AMI).
Attendance on the day exceeded all expectations and planning capacity. This was the largest march in Catalan history. It was bigger than the 1977 march for autonomy, the vast 2003 protests against the Iraq War and the million-plus 2010 protest against the ruling of the Spanish Constitutional Court that sections of the 2006 Catalan Statute of Autonomy were unconstitutional.
Central Barcelona froze solid as all Catalonia came to town ― from remote Pyrenean villages to the towns along the river Ebro.
Mobile phone networks collapsed completely. Families with accents odd to Barcelona ears marched behind their placards.
Delegations arrived from other parts of the historic Catalan Lands ― València, the Balearic Islands, the eastern strip of Aragon and the Roussillon area of southernmost France. Delegations from the Basque Country waved their red, white and green national flags in solidarity.
Social sectors and institutions rushed to identify with the cause. Barcelona Football Club announced that the strip of its B team would now be the yellow and red stripes of the official Catalan flag. There were “Police for Independence”, “Pensioners for Independence”, and “Teachers for Independence”.
The Barcelona Stock Exchange building, prime candidate for attack at any protest, was draped in a huge protective "estelada" (the Catalan independentist flag).
The main union confederations, the Workers Commissions and the General Union of Labour, demanded "fewer cuts and self-government". The banner of an anarchist collective read “Catalans, your main enemy is at home” ― referring to Catalonia’s political and economic establishment.
However, hardly any other slogan had a chance against the incessant chant of “in-de-pen-dèn-cia”.

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The feeling against the Spanish state was reflected in placards in other languages, including Spanish: “Spain, your robbery is genocide”, “Your hatred is our goodbye”, “Farewell, Spain”, “Catalonia is not Spain” and “Yes we Cat!”.
Then there was the singing ―of “The Reapers”, the national anthem, and of classics of the protest movement against the Franco dictatorship.
With half the demonstration still to reach its destination in Ciutadella Park, the final act of the day began. In 20 different languages, non-Catalan residents expressed their support for the nation’s right to self-determination.
The most moving moment came when one speaker read (in Spanish translation) the “Ode to Spain” of Catalan poet Joan Maragall. This powerful denunciation of the slaughter of Catalan sailors in the 1898 Spanish-Cuban war ends with the cry: “Spain, farewell!”.

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