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Subject: [Leica] Barcelona Demonstration for Freedom Political Prisoners
From: gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 05:58:28 +0000
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A good series documenting a sad event Lluis - well done. I have snt you a 
private email.

Gerry

Gerry Walden
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> On 12 Nov 2017, at 23:14, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Lluis for your excellent photos which give a flavour of the 
> pro-Catalan independence fervour in Spain, and also for helping me to 
> learn a bit of Catalan - very much a mix of Spanish and French, so I can 
> almost understand it - probably a bit better than Mr. Rajoy and the EU :-) 
> I like the slogan "I am from a country where fear is called sanity" and 
> being Irish, we all love a good slogan.
> 
> Sadly, slogans are not very effective, but action is. The only trouble 
> with action is it can lead to trouble and lost lives, and those lost lives 
> can be young people we care for deeply who get caught up in actions led by 
> power seeking uncaring hotheads who make a shield for their own balls from 
> easily manipulated youth.
> 
> A war-less, border-less Europe living through seventy years of peace 
> probably doesn't need problems in Spain. In fact, they certainly don't. 
> Sure, haven't we enough problems with delusional Britannia trying to waive 
> the rules, living on fading memories, and trying restart the British 
> Empire? It's bad timing and poor politicking by both the Catalan and 
> Spanish to pick a time to split and to muscularly respond, and it seems 
> almost disregarded by its politicians the obvious fact that if Catalunya 
> leaves Spain, it leaves the EU. It seems to be poor judgement by 
> Puigdemont. If you're going to start a fight, always make sure you've got 
> the higher ground.
> 
> Anyway, Lluis, keep sending the pictures.
> 
> Douglas
> 
> 
> On 12/11/2017 21:33, Lluis Ripoll wrote:
>> On my Blog, all the images with Leica Monochrom and Summicron Collapsible
>> 
>> <https://lluisripollphotography.wordpress.com/2017/11/12/manifestacio-llibertat-presos-politics-demonstration-freedom-political-prisoners-barcelona-nov-11th-2017/>
>> 
>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome
>> 
>> Saludos cordiales
>> Lluis
>> 
>> 
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