CDR Dublin

Catalans in Dublin have come together to defend Catalonia's Referendum of 01/10/17, Catalonia as a Republic, & condemn political persecution in Spain. We believe in democracy, human rights (including the right to self-determination) & non-violent resistance. Visca Catalunya!

Avuí plorem la pèrdua del nostre company i amic, Ferran Miquel Benaiges. T'estimem molt Ferran. Sempre al cor. marfanta.com/2023/01/18/mor…

✅ Minoritized languages are also global languages. Circle of talks with @vpartal 🗓 9th March #Belfast @Queens_Belfast 4.30pm 🗓 10th March #Cork @UCC 6pm 🗓 11th March #Dublin @TheTeachersClub 7pm #Catalan #Gaelic #Language #Languages

Saturday 11th of September join us for "La Diada" in Dublin. We will be in Merrion square from 1pm. Hope to see you there!

To the Spanish authorities, Mr. Cuixart is a dangerous criminal [..] Yet to his supporters, and in the eyes of many foreign countries, he is a political prisoner sitting in the heart of Europe. nytimes.com/2021/05/04/wor…

Derry welcomes President of Junts per Catalunya Carles Puigdemont addressing the Council’s Governance & Strategic Planning Committee today giving an overview on the Catalan conflict. #Catalonia

Councillors at GSP today agreed to reaffirm Council’s corporate position regarding Catalonia & to write to the EU, the UK and Irish Govts & the United Nations to end their silence & complicity with the Spanish Govt’s violence repression and denial of democratic rights.

Three Catalan MEPs are facing the waiver of their parliamentary immunity, as Spain is repressing them for defending the democratic right to self-determination If you care about human rights, copy, paste, tweet this message & #DefendCataloniaSaveEU int.assemblea.cat/defendcataloni…

Protests erupted all over Spain, complete with police violence against people demanding their freedoms. One of the judges responsible for Hasél's conviction, Nicolás Poveda, was an active member and candidate in the 1970s for the fascist Falange Party.

"Rappers were prosecuted and convicted by Spanish courts for the crime of singing against the monarchy and allegedly inciting violence and praising terrorism -a charge that has become commonplace in Spain and is used to harass and imprison critics of the regime"

"Several Spanish activists have been persecuted and sent to jail for voicing their opinion. Activists [..] outside of Spain have been illegally spied on by the Spanish secret service. Artists cannot breathe without fearing repercussions" newsweek.com/spain-eus-bigg…

The speaker of the Catalan parliament is facing a criminal lawsuit for allowing a debate of self-determination and against the Spanish monarchy in 2019. Prosecuted for a debate. Spain 2021. Democracy? catalannews.com/politics/item/…

The poll, however, is a devastating blow to hard-line Spanish nationalism. Spain’s two centre-right parties, the Partido Popular and Ciudadanos, plunged from 40 seats (of 135) to nine. irishtimes.com/opinion/editor…

Catalan pro-independence parties took more than 50 per cent of the vote for the first time, winning 74 of the 135 seats in the regional parliament, an increase of four seats from the 2017 election. newstatesman.com/world/europe/2…

In 1981 Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero, a member of Spain’s civil guard paramilitary police force, led a failed coup d'etat in the Spanish parliament. Indeed, he wore a silly hat too. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The Belgian justice system has once again refused to extradite the former Catalan Minister of Culture, Lluís Puig, in connection with the October 2017 referendum. The judge considered that the Supreme Court was not competent to send the euro warrant.. ara.cat/en/Belgium-ref…

Orwell denounced Stalin’s Russia but it was the only great power willing to aid the Spanish republic when the French, British and Americans shamefully stood aside, while Hitler and Mussolini gave Franco copious help.

The book’s opening brilliantly captures the idealism that pertained on the left in the early stages of the Spanish civil war in Barcelona, where Orwell had arrived in December 1936 to fight for the Spanish republic against the fascist rebellion irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

Of course, the police and judiciary took advantage of this situation to show his fascist behavior: "Vólkhov" is the name they used for this operation. In the Vólkhov battle, Spain's Blue Division fought alongside Nazis against the Red Army 👇👇 ara.cat/en/Fresh-Spani…

The judge incredibly affirms that Russia offered 10,000 troops to help Catalonia to achieve independence. The Russian embassy in Madrid reacted with irony, saying the information was incorrect: they offered one million troops instead of 10k 🤣🤣 english.vilaweb.cat/noticies/russi…

Yesterday 21 pro-independence business people were detained by Spain's Guardia Civil, the arbitrary detentions continue. Some of them charged to conspire with Russia against Spain, it looks like judges are running out of ideas to charge Catalans politico.eu/article/russia…