Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC) - Irlanda / Irlanda per la Independència de Catalunya
- El 24 d'abril del 2010 vam organitzar la consulta a Irlanda i el resultat va ser: Independència! - Cada any convoquem els catalans residents a Irlanda durant la Diada NAcional - Ara, mes que mai seguim al peu del canó per la llibertat de Catalunya des d'Irlanda! Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC) - Irlanda
La plataforma “Irlanda per la Independència de Catalunya” - ANC (Assemblea Nacional Catalana) Irlanda, el nostre objectiu és ajudar a Catalunya a aconseguir la independència.
18h. 12-11-2016 GPO, O'Connell Street, Dublin Ens reunirem davant del GPO per defensar a les nostres institucions i representants públics democràticament escollits. Porteu estelades i/o pancartes si us plau.
Hem entrat en una nova fase del camí de la construcció de la República Catalana, una fase clau en la qual cadascú de nosaltres serà més imprescindible que mai.
Arriba el moment de demostrar que som un país unit i a punt per defensar amb fermesa la democràcia i les nostres institucions.
Fem-ho per demostrar que la Catalunya Exterior també és un clam per la justícia i la democràcia!!
14h. Sunday 11-09-16 GPO (General Post Office), O’Connell St. Lower, Dublin 1. Tomàs and Oscar will play for us a couple of well know Catalan pieces (El Cant dels Ocells and Els Segadors) and some other classical pieces to bring up the spirit for the Catalan Nacional Day.
Human Towers by Castellers d'Irlanda. 15:15h. We'll go to The Dubliners pub (23 Westmoreland St. Dublin) to watch the Catalan Nacional Day march on TV3 —Catalan Public Television. This year the demonstration will take place in five locations in Catalonia at once: Lleida, Berga, Salt, Tarragona and Barcelona. For the past five years, Catalan Nacional Day has been characterised by setting up huge, peaceful and festive demonstrations.
14h. diumenge 11-09-16 GPO (General Post Office), O’Connell St. Lower, Dublin 1. En Tomàs i l'Oscar interpretaran per a nosaltres un parell de peces catalanes molt conegudes (El Cant dels Ocells i Els Segadors) i algunes altres peces clàssiques perquè aparegui l'esperit de la Diada Nacional de Catalunya. Castells amb els Castellers d'Irlanda. 15:15h. Anirem al pub The Dubliners (23 Westmoreland St. Dublin) per veure la retransmissió de La Diada per la televisió pública de Catalunya TV3. Aquest any, la manifestació es durà a terme alhora en cinc indrets de Catalunya: Lleida, Berga, Salt, Tarragona i Barcelona. Durant els últims cinc anys, La Diada s'ha caracteritzat per la participació multitudinària amb un ambient afable i festiu.
The talk that Vicent Partal gave last Tuesday (February 25th) in the Teacher’s Club in Dublin was a resounding success with larger turnout than expected. The event was organised by both the Irish branch of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) and the Catalan Council of Ireland.
Vicent started the talk by covering the chain of events that, over the last 9 years, have led to the current situation in Catalonia whereby a large majority is in favour of self-determination followed by the announcement by the Catalan government of a referendum on the matter on November 9th 2014.
He explained how the starting point of the current wave of support for the secessionist movement dates back to 2005 when a new autonomy charter was drafted by the Catalan Parliament with the backing of all but 15 MPs out of a total of 135. This new charter was then severely cut back by the Parliament in Madrid, subsequently approved by that Parliament into Spanish law and signed by the King into law. It was then put to referendum in Catalonia and despite the cutbacks it was accepted by a majority of the people in Catalonia. Some of the cutbacks were significant, such as changing article 1 that stated that Catalonia was a nation to read that it was an autonomous region of Spain. Apparently this was not enough. The 15 MPs that had been against the new charter from the outset, all members of the Partido Popular, the right/far right party now in power in Madrid, with the backing of the party as a whole, decided to challenge the new autonomy charter in the Constitutional Court, the highest court in the land. This court, consisting of a handful of politically appointed judges decided that the fundamentals of the new charter were unconstitutional. This represented an unprecedented situation in Spain whereby a law approved by two Parliaments, signed by the King and approved by the people in a referendum was overturned by a highly politicised court (it has to be added that some of the judges in that court were serving well beyond their term of service due to a deadlock between the two main Spanish political parties, that had been fighting each other over the appointments of those judges for years).
On Sunday 01st
of September 2013 the Catalan community living in Ireland
(ANC Ireland and the Catalan
Council of Ireland)
organised a successful Human Chain in support of independence of Catalonia. The Dublin
human chain coincided with more than 100 similar other events
taking place world wide and a massive one that will take place in Catalonia
next September 11th.
It has been a
very successful event with more than 300 attendees, exceeding by far the
organisers expectations with people from all nationalities and ages gathered in
front of the Dublin’s
General Post Office (GPO), O’Connell
Street. As an act of friendliness and gratitude
towards their adopted country, Catalans welcomed
other Irish who wished to join in and be a part of the “human chain” today. Among them many of themthe member of Dáil
Éireann, Seán Crowe, TD for the constituency of Dublin South West.
The organisers have chosen the General Post
Office (GPO) in Dublin
to hold the event as the building is a symbol of Irish independence and freedom,
for its historic relevance. The people who gathered together, sang several
songs of freedom together with the Catalan national anthem and chanting
independence songs. The event was conducted in a festive yet civilised
atmosphere and passers by showed great interest and congratulated the
organisers. This event has been video recorded and subsequently will be shown
throughout most of the national media in Catalonia.
The Catalan
community in Ireland gives
its full support to independence for Catalonia
and today united its hands peacefully showing support to Catalonia and its desire for independence.
Today’s event was also useful to explain to Irish citizens and tourists why the
people of Catalonia want their independence from
Spain
as soon as possible.
Currently, the Catalan government is not allowed to hold a
referendum of independence or decide any relevant issues as it is subordinated
to the Spanish government and does not have full power of decision. Catalans
want to participate democratically in a referendum for independence. This
referendum could show then, that Catalonia
is mature enough to govern itself with its own voice in the European Union and
the United Nations.
However, as a referendum is not allowed by the Spanish government,
the social movement “Catalan National Assembly” http://catalanassembly.org/ who last 11th September
mobilised around one and a half million people during a peaceful rally
in Barcelona as a show of solidarity with the Catalan Government and in support
of the proposed Referendum, are organizing a “human chain” of over 400,000
persons holding hands that will peacefully stretch along the entire country
from north to south (about 400
Km) on 11 September 2013, Catalonia’s national day. More
than 200 foreign journalists have requested to be able to cover the Catalan Way,
creating a much higher international interest than for last year’s huge rally.
Like
the Catalan Community in Ireland
completed today, many Catalan communities abroad are also participating in this
serene symbolic gesture creating their own “human chains” in more than 100
cities around the globe. New York, Paris, London, Buenos Aires, Edinburgh, Hong
Kong, Beijing, Bangkok, Los Angeles, Boston, Rome, Miami, Frankfurt, Vancouver
… and many more !!! Such as a similar event thatwill
also be held here in Cork
next week:
·Cork Saturday, 7th of
September at 17h pm Grand Parade, in front of Cork City Library
The ANC Ireland wants to say to all those who attended the event and the ones who have shown interest in this rather unusual representation of good will where many people peacefully holded
hands for a minute or two to symbolise their support of a nation’s democratic
right to decide its future by means of a Referendum.”
For more pictures and videos, please visit:http://via.liffey.cat/
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