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paradise. the heat seems so a place, a proud history and tradition, the spots book lines of picturesque sights conflict to simmering many catalan's ones. the region to become independent . the in 2017 cattle lands held a referendum on independence from spain. the spanish government trying to prevent it at all costs. ever since then, tensions have been running high. catalonia will never be its own country. the region is deeply divided around half the popular ation. don't think

independence is a good idea. the say that you can't impose independence with only 50 percent approval. it'd be a disaster. spain's government prevented independence in 2017, including by using force the. but other than that i'm, we can never forgive them and like, how could it come to this mix for testimony in the every 2 years. the old bull fighting a read an entire ago now plays close to the biggest competition of cash deals for human towns. booth the only thing is banned in catalonia. now the stadium celebrates the regions traditional schools. side i have 2 boys to to jot a is a strong support for of independence. she and her girlfriends have travel here from the city for those to take part in the events.

we used for the 1st time with the tower builders, from sales. we proud about team b that then by defense to come along. that's kind of so then hospitality for you and i'll be helping to build the foundation. i don't know how, but i'll do it on the competitive inspect changes seeing if a triumphant and prosperous catalonia, the official ent and the be so tournaments region during the fascist dictatorship, under general franco. the song was outlook for almost 40 years until 1975. that struggle for recognition resonates each time its sung. the push for independence has grown out of a conviction that catalans have been fighting in vain for the freedom. for centuries, the the

media united by the feeling that they oppose to be spanish against the will at events like these. finally katelyn spoken, the language plays a major role in the self image of this would be nation. the, even the speech they come to play is charged with political significance. the human talis, which can only grow in teammates worked together symbolically powerful competitors need coverage, is they vine to create the tool as talent. the best teams can create

up to 10 levels of human architecture. the this particular castille competition is taking place on a significant date. it's the 1st of october 2020 to exactly 5 years after the referendum. that support is fail, so nearly secure the independence, the magazine, a counseling nation seemed within reach the . ready in 2017 the castle and regional governments took a risky gamble. it scheduled a referendum to let the people decide whether they wanted to lead spain. the

madrid's reaction was swift labeling the referendum is unconstitutional and sending police to prevent the voting from taking place across spain. supporters of national unity called for a crack town on the independence movements the the police used fools to keep motors away from folding stations. monta ro, c k is spain's youngest, low. macon and a storage separatist. she's been fighting for cattle and independent since childhood. the so the referendum brings up painful memories. valencia and they got done on this was violence committed against the other lines and against democracy. it was also class violence,

isn't this in human violence on that i then they treated us as if we were being violent when all we wanted to do was vote in years and we can't possibly forgive them for that. but what sort of an, in, like, have to this day, the government planes and we were violence and what this is to them. violence means wanting to go and vote, and somebody meanwhile that they think they'd send their police with the tons to put down on demonstrations, isn't violent, that it doesn't make any sense. then they got some big dislike latrete. so physician, the counselor and government when to have about 90 percent of both is up to to secede from spain. not the results was skewed because there was virtually no participation from opponents of independence opinion. who suggested that only positive capital ends were in favor of a separate states even so catalonia is regional president colors preach, demona declared independence. because he didn't, that was natalie. that the summation as president of catalonia shared by announced

the result of the referendum to you and to our citizens. that ends with the mandate of the people, catalonia will become an independent republic. but just seconds later, the applause don't. you remember the just allowing me that i'll go back to the government and i propose that parliament suspend the consequences of this declaration of independence and then then begin immediately in dialogue next week and putting them without which there can be no conciliatory solution. instead of pushing ahead to cancel and government closed for dialogue, the response was anything but conciliatory. the spanish government in prisons, katelyn politicians and activists, and imposed direct route on the autonomous region. tweets demona slit the country the

the city of boston, luna is a tourist magnet, the northeastern spain, among the luxury yachts and the high rise hotels. a small fishing industry still exists. douglas, the romeo bronco and david b o catalog. but once odd and supporters of the independents movements in the beginning, we took part in all the demonstrations on the 11th of september. catalonia is national holiday. the chicken we were always their heart and soul familiar. we took our families sing along, did everything you'd expect to go to? i don't know. of course, we were always peaceful. it was every year on the 11th of september, we were out on the streets demonstrating

augustine, romeo polanko is especially disappointed that the cattle land governments quickly withdrew the independence declaration in 2017 like many cattle and he feels betrayed by the regions political leaders, the politicians back down. no, i don't know if it was out of cowardice or because they had a sense of what was coming good. but they must have known beforehand and they were going to be punished. that when i, they'd already gone so far as the people were celebrating in the streets, they should have gone through with it. and the consequences would have been the same and they would have been punished. but at least the people would have been given something to keep the illusion going. yes, they would have felt that they had succeeded. the fact that the politicians just gave up is why many people walked away disappointed.

catalonia arisen among spain's most economically strong regions, contributing a faith that they can only count support that's lead st purchased to believe that the region would be better off on its own boss. it's also while in catalonia is so vital to spain, it seems implausible, that madrid would add the ground to independence to the catalans. spain will never allow us to be in favor of independence. they won't even let us hold a referendum because the results still scares them. they'll argue that support for independence has dropped in the polls. but they'll still be afraid of a referendum. the

motto ro, c k is on her way to test as you test to you own, in spanish, 200 kilometers south west of barcelona. the, the city using the valencia region outside cavaloni is political voters despite the base capital. and he's also spoken to you. in fact, it's been an official language for years. rosie k has come to demonstration in favor of preserving the language. under the dictates of franco speaking, katelyn in public was forbidden. even place names and other proper nouns which translated into spanish. but since 1979 katelyn has being recognized as an official language, once again, separate is defined a would be nation by its linguistic food is. that means they also lay claim to valencia and the valley, eric islands, when capital and dialects has spoken to been coming together to demonstrate the

sort of pardon to that it shows that the costs were defending, isn't the cause of just a few people. and that we can achieve something if we organized the with regular demonstrations activists trying to keep the dream of an independent type of lonia alliance. the people claim the independence movement is the windows. but you can't quite say that looking at what we see here in custody you, it's often harder to get people here excited about the cause as opposed to in

barcelona or places like you don't in roman is michel independence activists also get support from outside the region from cattle and politicians living in exile, the satera dupel east towards china has come to friends to meet with katelyn ex president collis points to moment who leads the next island. belgian for the activist points to monty's the legitimate president of a free castle, lonia. she still has faith in him and his views on independence, the persistence of her life. the movement comes from below. and we have to maintain that unless that's one of its strength. and it makes us resilience that we've had

5 last 2 years without democracy during which we face state repression and ceaseless attacks. we mean, we wouldn't have survived that if we weren't a grassroots civic movement based on free will and popular engagement from one very grateful to the president on a policy that for me, he's the president we should have today. i don't know if i'll ever see a free of had to know any of my so they just shut off, but i'll keep sizing until the end non stop if things don't see now. but you know, whole people in capital and you'll see it that way. about the costs of them wants to remain punch in spain. the

it's the 12th of october, spain's national holiday in the middle of the capital and capital barcelona people with spanish flags through the streets among the catalans who clearly oppose independence. many of the banners being carried are those at the right wing populist party adults seems capacities bounding in 2013. it's made the most of castle and independence. an ideal issue for the national risk to rail against votes is the 3rd largest policy in spanish parliament. even in catalonia executed nearly 8 percent of the voting regional elections, fun. yeah. catalonia will never become its own country. long live spain, the opponents of independence unc just demonstrating on catalonia is streets and

squares. they're also taking methods into their own hands. this is time to go, 130 kilometers west of bounce alone under cover of darkness. and t, independence activists are on the move, the brake hold themselves cleaning brigades. the, the s to a lot of the capital in independence flag is ubiquitous around many towns and villages. they want to change this guy. i mean the assessor was the cleaning, the gates are groups of citizens. i'm who of their own for you will have decided to come together and clean up on public spaces. and most of the, we don't hang symbols of our ideology in the north today. we don't try to impose or ideology on anyone else. but it's true that we're trying to clean up public places

like school buildings, that playgrounds and the city halls, land posts and so on. i tell them in stores, federal less the, particularly in the countryside. separatism has strong supports around here. opponents of independence can expect to be greeted with hostility. okay, moment of appointment when we come up to the balconies are of a car drives by they might consult us or throw things at us or trying to attack us . that's happened a couple of times and it was an issue and it's like, i used to think it's a street has to be democrats. it has to belong to everyone. everyone's free to display whatever symbols they want in their house, the public streets. so it should be free of that. in fact, the flag with the white star has been banned in public places since 2018. but in

many places it remains ending in protest against spain. when the last part of the field is when the illegals low took place on october, the 1st 2017, i realized that i couldn't sit on the sofa and watch them take my country away and obviously stay now. they wanted to create a division that didn't exist. so i told myself i had to do something. i asked friends, hey, what can we do to stop these crazy people in the, in the square, but the town whole, the police are waiting. but that doesn't to, to the activists that they want to remove the independence flag from the town homes balcony. they feel that they're in the rise above the police stopped and

stays on the town hall. going to take that sofa. you know, you're not listening to me in the system, the status of the. needless to say, it's an independent supply and the supreme court has clearly said that this flag is a political symbol just like the yellow ribbon. the city hall is a public facility that we all pay for it, though it's not allowed to carry political symbolism. police take the details box. the activists don't face serious consequences. the self proclaimed cleaning brigade since its mission was successful. he took down most of the independence flags in the village the these groups, lita is p law study in those in a secret location outside bonsa. lona, she receives the spoils of a night's mission. this is one of dozens of warehouses across catalonia, with, for the last 5 years, opponents of independence. that still will be objects. they seize flags, ribbons,

and signs, claiming places to be put of the non existent, katelyn republic. put in the system, the difference between them and is that we have to act as secret at night. whereas they put the flags back up with the help of the city council and public money into the in the p lot. very in those 1st joined the brigade because she didn't go into bound to pressure from the separatists. you don't know. it was sure harassment you had to agree completely with their ideas. you were forced to become more and more committed to independence, a yellow scarf here, yellow under pencil, their yellow socks, and on and on it. i don't like anything yellow anymore. and it used to be my favorite color. i don't know if i'm even gone through and then they said to me that i didn't understand that it was a matter of feeling. but you can govern a state with feelings whether or not we need

a clear legal system or feelings. and what if i feel differently tomorrow, the feelings, what rubbish, the condo, since you have somebody and thoughts and even though know every opponent of independence, he's on the political right past. the separatist movement has pre defined deal. bogeyman sustains fine, right? politicians. they're exploding. the issue for their own and in mid treat the 20th of november, the finishes to fall on hate policy. monks be anniversary of the death of its found the fall on hey was the only policy during franco's dictatorship. these days it's small and hasn't had a like total success boss. it's still legal and allowed to hold public gatherings. today we come in late our founder, jose antonio, playing with the van on the 1st anniversary of his assassination. he said that our

electrics were good as the 1st means of communication. the dublin justice and the fatherland were in danger. there was no argumentation except that a fist and pistols. every decent spanish person should be against all the separate discomfort. i want to destroy spain, secret, national unity recently the government in mid trade has been reaching out to capital ends passing a little bit could see separatist leaders guessing length and sentences. but that's outraged the right. well the separate to say it doesn't go far enough. they are insisting on a referendum a made these heated debates about the future of catalonia motor of voice as risk. getting drowned down here in boston, lona office towed on ventura. ruiz is beginning his day. as i said,

i said that i moved to barcelona as a student us. i mean, it was a time when my whole world opened up the time of freedom of meeting new people and of studying at university of us. and uh, let's do this. oh don't ventura, ruiz leaves in public sick, a former working class neighborhood in the center of the city. okay. yeah. you have a lot more that lots of different people live here. yeah. so many of them are local, something like that, but there were also lots of democrats. yeah. when i'm getting them in, in dc. so you might see a separate his flag on the 2nd floor and the spanish flag on the 3rd floor. i think the people co exist here and they know how to get along with each other home congested and i don't know the identifying strongly as capital in the divisiveness in his homeland worries. and that'd be the same law for me in the day independence was unilaterally declared, was a painful thing. maybe i could see that things were moving more and more quickly in a direction that would only cause problem is. that's the problem. i know the

separatists derisively refer to people like ventura as a key. this dentist, people without the position i think it was a difficult time, especially for people like me for neither for nor against independence. one. 0 okay . and i didn't think it was the right time or the right and that, that's part of mass. nobody explained to us what it would mean to be independent, then say that the capital in leadership never formulated a concrete plan for a pos to independence off a capital loan. he is economic, well political future for supporters of independence. vague promises of freedom were enough when it gets heavy. yeah, the only thing we knew for sure was that there would be an economic price to say that i'm not going to. and the truth is that people of my generations had already been through a lot of crises in the, the, the so i felt that it was time to focus on other things. and we'll buy at

a time when europe has done away with its borders. so i'm wondering when we all have the same currency, is that the moment to create smaller, closed off territories and that is an experience. and yet was that doesn't mean we don't have to fight for our identity. our language and our traditions. i don't know . i don't know. no, sir. i live in that as you know, but i mean, for me, the issue of independence was never really important interesting when it was, but for others, it was an ex essential needs. it's in their blood came for the us. they don't want to be part of spain. they can't be part of the span. that's the root of the problem . but the, i guess, as these people don't understand, the catalonia is as much mine as theirs. we live, they have to convince me as someone who's between the yes and the know to see. let me see, let's get the majority votes for independence, then i'll fight. fortunately. i mean, i'll help to achieve it. the problem is that it won't be that easy to that you can

to cheap independence if you only have the support of 50 percent of the population that i thought that would be a disaster until i get and said on this has the good summer solstice into tyranny's mountains on ventura release has come back to his fine village to celebrate in mounts and communities. the sole source is celebrated with the nice of file. the tradition dates back to pagan times. when people believe the fire, i would drive away demons under frank, over the ritual was banned. and like so many of the cattle and traditions disappeared. the winter time was abused because they were running down the because you have,

you had known that since childhood was not my early childhood for a long time. it was last year so we couldn't do it. it was forbidden, it should never have been outlawed. but it's come back and today it's spectacular. we got to do this like that without the photo and ventura release. the ninety's also about the hope for reconciliation, savings, but on. so yes, i do have hope, and i hope that cottle on society will understand that whatever we want to achieve, we can only do it together and enjoy the in this region of rich history and tradition. the future hangs in the balance. bridging the divide between those who support and those who oppose independence is a major challenge. one will have huge implications, both for capital lonia and all of spain, the the

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