The Catalan Committees for Defence of the Republic (CDR) have announced an additional protest as they prepare their response to the verdicts from the Supreme Court in the case against pro-independence leaders, namely, a sixth March for Liberty. This sixth route will start from Castelldefels and end, like the others, in Barcelona, but will only take one day, not three.
The five marches originally announced are to leave from the cities of Girona, Vic, Berga, Tàrrega and Tarragona. The idea is to "block the country", based on the assumption the defendants in the case will be found guilty and given long prison sentences.
💪 Enfortim les #MarxesXLlibertat!
— CDR Catalunya (@CDRCatOficial) 10 d’octubre de 2019
🆕 La #6aColumna, amb sortida des de #Castelldefels el tercer dia de marxes, s'afegeix al bloqueig de país.
👣 Nosaltres #EstemPreparades, i tu?#ComençaLaRevolta#CDRenXarxa pic.twitter.com/rTIJ9HvlMu
The protests, the CDRs say, have been inspired by other marches of great importance, like the 1963 March on Washington, famous for Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, and Gandhi's Salt March. They "aim to empower the public and put together a massive and non-violent response as a country which again fills the country's streets."