The Washington Post
Analysis | Could Scotland become the next Catalonia?
· A revived Scottish independence movement may be compelled to play the same game of brinkmanship as their counterparts in Catalonia. · Shared by 8, including Josep M. Ganyet
EL PAÍS
El Consejo de Europa urge a España a reforzar el uso de las lenguas cooficiales
8 min · · Las trabas que persisten en los juzgados, en la escuela y en la sanidad comprometen el cumplimiento del convenio europeo de protección de idiomas minoritarios · Shared by 8, including 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Josep M. Ganyet
eldiariodelaeducacion.com
https://eldiariodelaeducacion.com/blog/2017/06/13/…
· Shared by 5, including Josep M. Ganyet
nuvol.com
La gamificació de la revolta
4 min · · Tsunami Democràtic o la independència com a videojoc · Shared by 7, including Josep M. Ganyet
The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
Tech is powering the future of civil disobedience
4 min · · People across the world are demonstrating their discontent in increasingly creative and disruptive ways. The past year has seen schoolchildren across the world join the Fridays for Future strikes,… · Shared by 10, including Josep M. Ganyet, TNW Top Stories
twitter.com
Isidor Marí on Twitter
6 min · · “Es sencillo 1. Una amplísima mayoría parlamentaria en Catalunya se cansó de ver erosionadas sus competencias, abusivas sus balanzas fiscales con la excusa de la solidaridad, restrictivas su… · Shared by 5, including Josep M. Ganyet
National Geographic
Why Spain’s wealthiest region wants independence
3 min · · Catalonia has its own cultural identity and a robust separatist movement, despite crackdowns from Madrid. · Shared by 21, including Ramon Tremosa 🎗🌹, John Tasioulas, Josep M. Ganyet
El Confidencial
La posibilidad de la autodeterminación
5 min · · Antes quiero dejar claro que no entro en si el procés es lo más adecuado, si estoy a favor o no de una postura determinada o de si detrás de todo el problema no se esconden otros · Shared by 10, including Josep M. Ganyet, AntonioMaestre
fordhamobserver.com
The Catalan Crisis Was Born in Madrid
4 min · · Last April, I wrote a piece on Spain’s general elections in which I stated that the elections would produce no winners, only losers, as a result of the lack of dialogue and will to reach agreements.… · Shared by 8, including Ramon Tremosa 🎗🌹, Josep M. Ganyet, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛
diario16.com
Un disgusto
3 min · · Sé que voy a dar un disgusto a más de uno, pero las cosas son la que son. Todas las Instituciones del Estado se han lanzado en tromba contra una pequeña · Shared by 8, including 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Josep M. Ganyet
asia.nikkei.com
From Hong Kong to the NBA, how China is losing the media war
12+ min · · HONG KONG -- All through the sweltering summer recess, Michael, 23, and Stella, 19, have gone together to protest on the streets of Hong Kong. Occupying the city's main thoroughfares, setting up… · Shared by 8, including Josep M. Ganyet, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛
lihkg.com
LIHKG
· Hello, freedom fighters from Catalunya.
I am one of your kind from Hong Kong.
Watching your tsunami rises, I would like to share something about our protests.
Please note that, as you know, we have not won yet. And I believe Catalonia and Hong Kong are very different in nature, so these info are only for references.
Headless movement
DO NOT LET ANY POLITICIANS LEAD YOUR MOVEMENT, no matter how much you love him/her.
DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM, MAKE THEM LISTEN TO YOU AND DO WHAT YOU WANT.
They can assist, but don't give him the rights of stopping the movement!
Organizing
In earlier times, we organized our protests through a forum called "LIHKG". We threw ideas in that forum, set the date and details through voting.
Now, since we have gone guerilla and underground, and "LIHKG" has been infiltrated with provocators and spies, it becomes harder to organize publicly.
On Telegram, we have our public channels focusing on some further details:
1. Create and distribute promotional arts and posters for the upcoming protests.
2. Certified Scouts Channel: Scouts equipped with binoculars and good mobile network, reporting real-time police movements (with photos as proofs).
You can also just stay at home and if you hear police siren, report.
3. Set up regional "Lennon Walls" in different parts of the city, which
- explain why we protest and justify our action.
- effectively motivate people who were not into the discussions (e.g. elderly)
- promote and distribute said posters information about the next protests
4. Other information, e.g. signals for attack and retreat, logistic systems, escape plan.
Promotion
Through "Lennon Walls", we distribute informations that people wont see on TV.
The main goal is to break the impressions of us being "crazy rioters", but actual people with dreams and hopes.
VERY IMPORTANT: "AirDrop" on iPhone is a great tool to spread the promotional articles, try to do it in the main stations and hubs.
If you want people to support your actions, educate them with proofs and facts.
We run our protest like a business or election campaign: You want to sell your product, make a good impression with overwhelming amount of promtions to justify your actions.
Minimum Equipment
- Helmet
- Safety glasses (At least ANSI Z97)
- Gas Mask for Tear Gas (With at least A1 Cartridges + P2/P3 Filters)
On the Field
- When you are doing something "special", wear gloves and make sure someone is blocking the news cameras and CCTVs. Same as when you are gearing-up.
- Lock your phone with passwords, NO fingerprint scans.
- Make roadblock to slow down police vehicles.
- Set roadblocks with city bikes. They are heavy and hard to clear out.
- Do not make too many fires as roadblocks. Fires don't do a good impression, and to be honest, not very useful comparing with a pile of stuff on the road.
- Take a spanner with you and detach some infrastructures on the street (like sidewalk fences) for roadblocks.
- Always check the scouts channel.
- Do not panic.
- Everyone please wear similar clothing. Put some masks on. Not just the radical protesters, EVERYONE.
Infiltrators
- Do not aggressively look for infiltrators while protesting. Because that's what they want: make you lose trust to each other.
Fighting
- Hit their joints, not the head.
- Jab, not slash.
- Run if you are outnumbered. You are not Rambo.
Retreat
- Change your clothes in somewhere without CCTVs before back home.
- If better, throw away the clothes.
- Use coins for public transportation.
IMPORTANT
- Peaceful and Radical Protests are two sides of the same coin. You fail when you lose one.
- Whatever happens, even if you don't support what others are doing, before everything is clear, don't draw the line and say "they are not with us", or "those are provocateurs".
In-fighting means the start of the collapse of the movement, and that's what the they want.
Hong Kong is NOT China.
Catalonia is NOT Spain.
Wish you all good luck and all the best! · Shared by 7, including 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Josep M. Ganyet
catalanrepression.github.io
Catalan Repression
9 min · · Això que vaig a explicar ara, es de gran sensibilitat per una persona a qui li tinc molta estima Desobediencia civil pacífica del #EuskalTsunamia en #Bilbo en solidaridad con #Catalunya. Policía nac · Shared by 7, including Oriol Farré, Josep M. Ganyet, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛
WIRED UK
Catalonia has created a new kind of online activism. Everyone should pay attention
8 min · · A pro-independence group is leveraging social media and peer-to-peer technology to orchestrate massive protests. The catch? No one knows who runs it · Shared by 127, including Thomas Power, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Ayala Sherbow, Josep M. Ganyet
BBC News (World)
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
8 min · · Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change. · Shared by 66, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Arin Basu, Eric Holthaus, Joshua Walker, Enrique Dans, Daniel Pink, Josep M. Ganyet, Jennifer Ouellette, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Esther Schindler, Julia Kaganskiy 🇺🇦
desdelamediterrania.cat
Catalans antirelativistes a la Barcelona dels anys 20
6 min · · Aquest article tanca la trilogia d’articles que des d’aquest blog hem dedicat a commemorar el norantè aniversari de la visita d’Albert Einstein a Catalunya. Si en el primer article contextualitzàve… · Shared by 7, including Josep M. Ganyet