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Why #CataloniaRise
@fem_historia Thread [EN] ⬇

[1] Catalunya developed and published the first international maritime law book 🌐
[2] The ✍ #CatalanParliament and the Catalan constitution were some of the oldest in Europe 🇪🇺
[3] According to UNESCO, the Catalan peasants made the first modern social #revolution in human history ✊
[4] At the Reapers' war, catalan people rised arms again and proclamed the Catalan Republic
[5] An economy based on production and international trade vs. colonism and tax collection 📈
[6] The Catalan people fought to defend their social, economic and political model but sadly all Catalan rights, institutions and freedoms were abolished ❌
[7] Imposition and abuses increased and colonies started to fight for their independence as well such as the Netherlands, Portugal and more recently Cuba and the Filipines
[8] In the 19th century private Catalan citizens invested their own capital to construct a railway network to better connect industry with the harbours 🚉🛤
[9] In 1931 the Catalan people massively voted for a pro-independence political party ☑
[10] The president of FC Barcelona was shut dead, Gaudí was beaten and jailed for speaking in Catalan, the President of Catalunya Lluís Companys sentenced to death
[11] Catalunya insists on investment to connect with Europe 🚈🚢🛫
[12] Today 80% of the Catalan people agrees the best way to decide the future relation between Catalunya and Spain is through 👍 political negotiation followed by a referendum
[13] Instead, persecutions on democratically elected politicians, violence against citizens and heavy attacks on freedom and expression 🗣
[14] Help #Catalonia 🔸 Save Europe. (More on @fem_historia)
#Democracy #HumanRights
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