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One Million March in Barcelona to Demand Independence for Catalonia

HeadlineSep 12, 2017

In international news, in Barcelona, 1 million people poured into the streets on Monday to demand independence for Catalonia. The march increases pressure on Spain ahead of an independence referendum on Catalan independence on October 1. This is protester Eva Soltiger.

Eva Soltiger: “We have come for another year to fight for what we believe in, for our interests. We are a people with our own identity and language. What we cannot have is the oppression we have been experiencing so far. And we want to be able to have a democratic and peaceful vote.”

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