Friday 25 May marked nine weeks since Marta Rovira left Spain and went into exile on 23rd March, 2018 to avoid the Spanish Supreme Court Summons to face charges of rebellion.
Hundreds of people converged on La Plaça de la Catedral in Vic, the city of her birth. Marta Rovira, has been General Secretary of Esquerra Republicana (ERC, Republican Left of Catalonia) since 2011 and a member of the Catalan Parliament since 2012.
Tributes were made by Elisenda Paluzie, President of the ANC and Marcel Mauri, Deputy leader of Omnium Cultural. Roger Torrent, President of the Catalan Parliament accompanied by former member of Parliament Carles Mundó paid tribute to Marta and in a rousing speech said,
“We will not move one millimetre and will not weaken until the prisoners are free and the exiles return.”
The most anticipated act of the evening was when Marta Rovira appeared in a video recorded in Switzerland, from where she thanked the organisers of the event stating that it gave her a lot of strength to go forward.
...which recalls a quotation by Ai Weiwei 21 June 2012, The Guardian
Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. They can delay that freedom but they can't stop it.
Photo of Marta Rovira by Raulpresseguer - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63944311
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Hundreds of people converged on La Plaça de la Catedral in Vic, the city of her birth. Marta Rovira, has been General Secretary of Esquerra Republicana (ERC, Republican Left of Catalonia) since 2011 and a member of the Catalan Parliament since 2012.
Tributes were made by Elisenda Paluzie, President of the ANC and Marcel Mauri, Deputy leader of Omnium Cultural. Roger Torrent, President of the Catalan Parliament accompanied by former member of Parliament Carles Mundó paid tribute to Marta and in a rousing speech said,
“We will not move one millimetre and will not weaken until the prisoners are free and the exiles return.”
The most anticipated act of the evening was when Marta Rovira appeared in a video recorded in Switzerland, from where she thanked the organisers of the event stating that it gave her a lot of strength to go forward.
...which recalls a quotation by Ai Weiwei 21 June 2012, The Guardian
Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. They can delay that freedom but they can't stop it.
Photo of Marta Rovira by Raulpresseguer - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63944311
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