democlassy

on the street - canvassers have had alternate nights, now go head to head.
No have bigger signs, but Yes bigger crowds.
The sound system battle was epic. Kids with stickers on their faces run up opposite sides of the streets shouting Yes and No at each other. It's written in chalks along the streets in scrawly handwriting. A guy in a mobility scooter plays guitar while another from the AfroCaribbeans for Indy group dances about.
Yes stickers up on windows - including one I know that was handmade from a deceased parent's handwritten 'YES'.
A Catalan journalist I met shows me pictures of the 2 million plus marches there and the regular Marxist / anarchist riots. Rubber bullets meet bodies, anguish, riot gear, smoke. Is this all we do? Put up a sticker? he asks. Aye, I say. It's radical enough for us to think we have the right to an opinion at all.