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The Eye
1 September 2014 2.00 h

Gràcia, Barcelona,. germà capdevila

'V' for vote, 'V' for victory

The Cata­lan Na­tional As­sem­bly (As­sem­blea Na­cional Cata­lana or ANC), a grass-roots, pro-in­de­pen­dence civil or­gan­i­sa­tion, and Òmnium Cul­tural, a non-profit as­so­ci­a­tion pro­mot­ing Cata­lan lan­guage and cul­ture, were both be­hind the mass in­de­pen­dence demon­stra­tions of 2012 (which saw a mil­lion peo­ple com­ing out on the streets of Barcelona) and 2013 (with 1.5 mil­lion peo­ple hold­ing hands in a 600 km-long human chain). This Sep­tem­ber 11, they are back with a new pro­posal: to form a gi­gan­tic 'V' with hun­dreds of thou­sands of peo­ple unit­ing two main av­enues in Barcelona. In this photo, we see a re­hearsal car­ried out a few weeks ago in Barcelona's Gràcia neigh­bour­hood to make ad­just­ments to the chore­og­ra­phy and tim­ing of the mass demon­stra­tion sched­uled for this year's Na­tional Day, or Diada. Once again, the every­day peo­ple of Cat­alo­nia will put pres­sure on their po­lit­i­cal rep­re­sen­ta­tives to move the process to­wards the No­vem­ber 9 ref­er­en­dum for­ward. Once again, the world will be able to see that the peo­ple of Cat­alo­nia want to vote on their fu­ture and that such a de­sire de­serves vic­tory.

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