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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/in-catalonias-wild-card-bid-to-secede-from-spain-youth-want-a-big-voice/2017/09/29/e5f0c8ac-a2d7-11e7-b573-8ec86cdfe1ed_story.html
BARCELONA — In a mass demonstration of youth and enthusiasm, thousands of students marched down the Gran Via here Thursday afternoon, presenting the well-scrubbed face of a separatist movement hoping to sever the Catalonia region from Spain.
The rally, the largest in recent memory, featured throngs of university and high school students draped in Catalan flags and protected by cadres of sympathetic firefighters in yellow helmets.
The young people took selfies, smoked a little marijuana and plastered signposts with posters featuring cartoon characters.
The atmosphere was festive, raucous, contagious — with folk songs from a generation ago. When elderly supporters came out on their balconies to bang pots and pans in support, the students stopped to honor them with chants: “No revolutions without the grandmothers!”
But the situation is growing serious.
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BARCELONA — In a mass demonstration of youth and enthusiasm, thousands of students marched down the Gran Via here Thursday afternoon, presenting the well-scrubbed face of a separatist movement hoping to sever the Catalonia region from Spain.
The rally, the largest in recent memory, featured throngs of university and high school students draped in Catalan flags and protected by cadres of sympathetic firefighters in yellow helmets.
The young people took selfies, smoked a little marijuana and plastered signposts with posters featuring cartoon characters.
The atmosphere was festive, raucous, contagious — with folk songs from a generation ago. When elderly supporters came out on their balconies to bang pots and pans in support, the students stopped to honor them with chants: “No revolutions without the grandmothers!”
But the situation is growing serious.
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